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I love making coffee in my moka pot and if I travel for work, I can bring it with me and try beans from new places. The sound of the espresso bubbling inside is weirdly centering. Morning routines work! I make a pretty decent flat white. If I'm feeling absolutely insane? affogato for dessert. World's my oyster.
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Great option for your morning coffee. It only makes one mug or two espresso but its strong n tastes good. I like to use bustello with mine but am gonna try some portuguese coffee with it soon. A little cinnamon n frothed milk. Mmm
Mar 1, 2024
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I have been using Lavazza “Perfetto Roast” grounds in a moka pot for almost a decade now. I take a bag of coffee and the pot with me wherever I travel. It is better than any other coffee I have ever had. I never get coffee out. Which is a cost saver but also I get 6 bags every 2 months on an Amazon subscription that is also discounted. I think just generally that by the age of 30 everyone needs their coffee situation figured out.
Jan 20, 2024
I think the key to a good moka pot coffee is minimizing time on the stove element:
- Preheat the stove burner
- Boil water before putting it in the pot
- Extract with the lid open so you can pull the pot immediately when it’s done
- If you wanna be a freak about it you can weigh your beans and water (I never bother)
But if the issue is you are unhappy with your espresso quality, I think it might be worth it to dial in your grind (I like a ~22s extraction but this is all preference). The way I think about espresso is that weight of beans/volume of water/extraction time remain consistent while grind can vary to hit those parameters. This is what was working for me on one of those big Faema beasts tho so ymmv.
HOWEVER I personally cannot be bothered with most of this unless I am getting paid. I french press or steep my shit most days and it’s perfectly nice
Aug 23, 2024
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I valued the idea of being low maintenance and chill for so long and I don't know if it's been living in LA and or being around more rich people but I realized recently that it is all a lie. every single person that is effortlessly “just being themselves” is lying. They are getting acupuncture and lymphatic drainage and taking pilates and yoga 3 times a week and getting facials and layering $90 serums and creams on top of their face and going to erewhon 80 times a day to get probiotic water that does not exist. they are a project. and guess what? so am I! sometimes it's nice.
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so nice finishing something or having a friend finish something and then swapping that book. sharing things with your loved ones? making memories tactile? it's nice! (some that I've given or received that I've loved as of late: why fish don't exist - lulu miller, clarice lispector - an apprenticeship, how to do nothing - jenny odell, stay true - hua hsu)
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The world's tough place. There's lots of movies I want to see and because of the dumbest corporate reasons, lots of times they're unavailable or only available to buy on a streaming service. At that point I'd rather just get a blu-ray (s/o walmart dot com and the kino lorber sale...) but if I can't find one, or if it's $50, I'll straight up just see if it's avail to watch on youtube or through the internet archive and a lot of times it is. The quality might not be great, but that's okay. It's important to not get what you want sometimes in life. (Elaine May's A New Leaf, Scorsese's Kundun, Todd Solondz' Happiness, Akira Kuroswa's Dreams, Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Sleuth etc. etc.)
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