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This is spot on.

Cool! French writer Georges Perec used this pattern to structure his novel Life: a user’s manual. The book follows the lives of people in a block of flats and moves from one to the other using the Knight’s tour.

If there is like 12gr left, I’ll adjust my recipe a bit and make smaller cup. Especially if the coffee is very bold or funky.

Otherwise I’ll mix it with beans that are similar. I usually have four or five bags open.

Parts of it, but much of it is metal. Feels a lot sturdier than an Encore. I have owned both.

I have an older commandate, which is pretty fantastic and an Ode 2 for when I’m lazy or want to brew bigger batches. Also great.

At some point I have also owned a hario skerton, which was shit, a baratza encore and later on a baratza virtuoso, which were both decent. Then I had a Mahlkonig Vario W (in the us that’s also baratza, I think), which was really good, but a bit of a bitch maintenance-wise. That was also the only one that died on me. Except the skerton, but that one never really lived in the first place.

The bypass thing is real. It doesn’t matter all that much but it makes a difference. That’s why most geeks will also tell you to pour on the grounds, never on the paper.

You should check out the tricolate brewer. Full-immersion, but designed to have no bypass. And it makes surprisingly good coffee. I was dubious at first, but it is kind of neat.

It’s projecting. And delusion.

First words are also often ‘mam’ ‘mum’ and a bit later ‘da’ or ‘pa’, not because babies love their parents, but because those are the easiest sounds to mimic.

So we adopted those sounds/words to mean mother and father. Not the other way around. We are really good at finding arguments to fit our view and narrative.

Don’t know what kind of pseudo-statistics lie at the basis of this but, as a Belgian, I don’t think Brussels would make the top 5 of best cities to bike in Belgium, let alone take first place.

Cycling-wise it is still decades behind most Flemish cities, despite laudable and hard-fought recent victories over the car-brained mentality.

I think the writer meant to say 'gone rogue' instead of 'AWOL'. Just poor writing skills.

It’s the fermentation process. You’ll find it more in natural processed coffees or honey processed. Even more so with anaerobic fermentation or yeast based fermentation.

What you’re looking for is washed coffee, or commodity coffee with no mention of the processing. Or dark roasts, as the taste of heavily roasted coffee will negate a lot of the taste that is inherent to the bean and the processing. A bit like a well-done steak.

Find an Italian place. Or an old mom and pop shop. Or you can always lick some of the burnt tires that you find along the highway if you really miss the taste of that robusta shot. /s

To each their own. No need to crap on what other people like.

This is only useful in the unlikely event that the stolen bike turns up somewhere. Just like engraving, it won’t prevent a single theft. Better to buy an airtag and two decent locks.