Hey coffee fedi, my aeropress has died again (plunger shrank, is weeping gross oil 🙃) and I kinda don’t want to keep making coffee in plastic, even when I’m traveling.
Does anyone have better, ideally non-plastic travel press recs from personal experience? Search results are hard to trust and I can find little french presses but they are so goopy and messy. (And I love you, pour over people, but I cannot deal with all that on the road.)
Today is going to be a busy day. After all the news yesterday, reorganization happening now due to the layoffs and such, I now have 3 meetings for the day.
One at 11am EST, one at 12pm EST and one at 1pm EST.
Had someone express shock that I use and grind #coffee beans this week, and can't determine if that's because I have failed to conform to the (wasteful) consumer K-cup, because I'm doing something "hard", or they are just showing symptoms of an aging brain.
#Costa#Coffee another price increase on the lattes? #Latte costs are now £3.45 £3.75, £4.10. Beyond a joke I used to visit 3-4 times a week. No more at those prices.
I guess as a company they don’t care. But I wanted to vent a little spleen!
Rick and I have been informally tracking new Aeropress #coffee making failure modes, and it's occurred to me these could be in hundreds groups like HTTP response codes.
Designed by a retired Stanford engineering instructor, #Aeropress is really simple: filter holder, filter, chamber, plunger, funnel, stirrer. But it's amazing how frequently caffeine underflow errors lead to process failures.
One of our recent ones was Rick's: putting the funnel in the cup instead of on the chamber.
Please allow me to introduce myself. #Moby-Dick is the novelistic soundtrack of my life. The rest is #Dylan. #Dogs, #coffee, #books (especially #19th-century US lit) make me very happy. I write, think, and talk a lot about dementia, most recently a book with Dr. Bruce Miller of UCSF, Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain (Johns Hopkins, 2021).
The memories of summer, at the cottage, watching the critters in the yard, having a morning coffee.
The sun so hot after sunrise, the deck is too warm, so I moved it out a bit into the breeze this year. Replace the floor with patio stones. I'm looking forward to sitting on those new patio stones next summer, and doing this again.
I'd be sitting here and suddenly a duck would appear beside me, or a skunk!