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Cake day: June 28th, 2023

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  • Thanks! No Asian markets in my town… Don’t love being so reliant on Amazon 🙃 Anyway, I looked up the Korean morning coffee and I guess it has an egg yolk, pinch of salt, pine nuts, and a couple drops of sesame oil. And you either leave the yolk intact and have it like a prairie oyster at the end of your cup, or you stir it in as a kind of creamer. I don’t have pine nuts, but I tried both methods without them this morning - prairie oysters are not my favorite… And then you have an egg aftertaste instead of a coffee one. Mixing the egg made the drink very rich, which made me imagine strong chocolate notes. Feels a lot like breakfast in a cup, which I think is by design. Probably adds a good amount of nutrition. But I don’t think it improves upon plain black coffee. Kinda just a different drink. Fun to try, I’ll try it again after I pick up some pine nuts.

    I’m excited for the Vietnamese egg coffe - I watched a couple videos and it looks super fun


  • It’s called a BruTrek and is a local product for me. I was hesitant to pick it up in case it was garbage but at least at my level, it’s been great. They seem like coffee nerds and the packaging convinced me. My wife has a fancy electric grinder for her espresso and we compared the two (as best as we could) and I don’t think there was any difference that could have been more than my pouring inconsistency. Years from now I might experiment with grinders that are known to be excellent though 😁



  • Haven’t tried roasting but I feel like I’ll want to someday. The little research I’ve done says it’s complicated. Or at least can be complicated. If I ever have enough land, I want to grow some coffee plants and process them completely myself.

    I also haven’t tried an aeropress but have been thinking about it. I’ve wondered if it’s actually a good camping solution, and I know people love them





  • I might not be the best person to answer this as I’ve never used a drip machine - but waste-wise, my pour over setup still uses a paper filter every cup. There are metal filters you can buy but the result isn’t the same (more oils and small particles). You can use a reusable cloth filter and from what I hear they are great but high maintenance to avoid them smelling like laundry that sat in the washer too long.

    I’ll just explain why I like pour over. First, I’ll say that it’s a bit hard and requires a good amount of knowledge. I’d recommend watching some Youtube videos before trying it out. James Hoffman has a good pour over tutorial.

    I like it because of how tactile it is. Weigh and grind the beans while the kettle boils, rinse the filter, pour a bloom, swirl, do the rest of your pouring, swirl again. Lot’s of aromas. To me, way more fun than making tea.

    The second reason I like it is how much control you have with the result. There are so many variables to tweak, and with practice you can do pretty well to get the best out of a bean. This is also a negative because without a bunch of knowledge and practice you can’t get very good cups. Or you get super inconsistent results.

    So just depends what you’re looking for. Do you want to put in more work for your coffee? Then 100% try pour over. Will it 100% be better than your machine makes? Definitely not, at least without some work and knowledge - but with those it probably will be better.







  • Same. Once, a family member told me that I’d been super blessed my whole life but because I left the church it was all gonna come crashing down. Anyway, now whenever I get a work promotion or anything, I give them the mental middle finger. So now I feel like the general success of my life is important to prove them wrong. Fortunately, I’m super fortunate in life so it’s been easy so for (knock on wood)