Los Angeles/OC/San Diego 🌈

[bitter kestrel]

And yet tomorrow will be my first time at Ondo 😅 . Deep-valley-life tradeoffs ...

[mellow sonnet]

make sure you take a spoon home as a souvenir

[bitter kestrel]

Ummmm, I may have a spoon obsession, especially if they are real cute and tiny. Cafes should do like Granville and just offer the spoons for an upcharge.

[desert stirrup]

Guys

I just tried post brew dropper style remineralization

I kinda dig it

Fuck

[earnest robin]

3 coffees?

[desert stirrup]

The line that I thought I’d never cross

I have crossed

[bitter kestrel]

It me 6 months ago. The attraction fades over time.

[mellow sonnet]

Yeah well fuck water remin pre-brew

That's for cafes

Postbrew is the way

[earnest robin]

my coworker pays $300 for one hour lesson for airplane

[bitter kestrel]

Ohhh, didn't register the "post-brew"

[earnest robin]

for 30 mins it sounds expensive

[bitter kestrel]

Next ya gotta try hazelnut Snickers drops

[earnest robin]

can we bring our souvenirs at the meetup

[vivid violet]

plane i think is cheaper than heli

[desert stirrup]

Before I had a 250ml jar and every few weeks when I run out of water I just add 45g to my new 3 gallon jugs. Supah easy

[mellow sonnet]

Heli is more expensive? I thought it was cheaper bc less licensing and everything required

[desert stirrup]

Now I gotta add 3-5 drops a cup

I’m still formulating my mind on the workflow

[vivid violet]

insurance is more

[mellow sonnet]

Add 1-2 drops, taste, add another 1-2

[desert stirrup]

So many extra steps

[earnest robin]

crash rates on helis are higher than planes

[desert stirrup]

RIP Kobe

[mellow sonnet]

I was under impression plane more expensive bc u have to coordinate runway access

Heli just have a pad

And if ur rich just have private pad

Can't have private runway

[vivid violet]

i'm talking mainly about the 30 min lesson 😅

[desert stirrup]

I will say it’s nice to adjust coffee on the fly. Compared to pre brew min, I’m not stuck accepting this shot is just a tad bit too sour for me

[earnest robin]

then you are not rich enough

[mellow sonnet]

[vivid violet]

or live in boonies enough

[boreal solar]

One of my wife’s coworkers owns plane along with some friends docked in the upland airport. It’s sort of cool.

[vivid violet]

i own a couple planes too. mostly paper,

[mellow sonnet]

Damn some 6yo just got 4.06 average at speedcubing competition

[vivid violet]

"takin out the A4 for a flight now"

[mellow sonnet]

Oh 4.06 best solve

https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/persons/2025LIAN01

Back in my day it was max park and now it's children winning

[lone pier]

one for business
one for fun
one for hydration

[civic crest]

this guy coffees

[bitter kestrel]

I have all the mins for pre, so I'd be grateful for a recipe you like. I'm so cheap, I rarely dump a brew. So this could be perfect for me.

[crude citrus]

Show and tell of all the spoons you’ve ||stolen|| bought

[bitter kestrel]

Rehearsal S02 had me convinced that ||I could fly 737s as a hobby.|| I'd rather go down at great speed and height than in the physics abomination that is a heli.

[vivid violet]

you're against cutting a hole in the air currents which are keeping you aloft ? psshhhht

[cedar otter]

Mmmmmm Mate Matiwos slaps so hard

[earnest robin]

i learnt that you if you wanna fly with someone they cannot pay you if you don't have commercial license which is way more complicated

[earnest robin]

I want to steal ||buy|| from the meetup

[tight gorge]

ive never dumped a brew

[bitter kestrel]

My partner, who wants milk+vanilla in every drink, has no idea how many bad shots I've up-cycled 🤫

[desert stirrup]

I'm currently using some mineral concentrates made by someone else on the Decent team. He was doing some testing and needed people to taste them. If you're ready to dive deep here are his google sheets:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FXHO8cKcH5fmxyr_mFow8VGQnaoAA36OeuMwPhhdC40/edit?gid=0#gid=0
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Vm07yCvY7J1NCYsAK5FaaKn7W0HO7HAwCE0bjrQ2QBg/edit?gid=0#gid=0
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dU1Dx_KdGDZWtbQS4Q8RnI9QnLpDdtMg11umFWD_FVU/edit?gid=0#gid=0

I would recommend Laurentide or Nordic if you decide to follow these recipes. Those are the ones I tried today. I plan to try the others with Ondo chocolate roast when I pick some up tomorrow. I doubt I'll dig it given I mostly drink light roasts but this is why I opted to beta test! To try something new :).

God I hate how it autochanges the ":)" to an emoji so much!!!!

[earnest robin]

😄

embrace them

or just use ))))

[desert stirrup]

oh damn there's a setting to change that

sick

:)

GG EZ

[earnest robin]

that's cheating

[desert stirrup]

Also Gemini just shat the bed for me

[earnest robin]

(⁠╯⁠°⁠□⁠°⁠）⁠╯⁠︵⁠ ⁠┻⁠━⁠┻

[desert stirrup]

I wish there was a way to turn that off for my Google searches

[bitter kestrel]

Thanks! Eyes glazing as he reads. Stark reminder that he went to art school.

[earnest robin]

call 911, it has a stroke

[desert stirrup]

Yeah man, I'm an engineer and even I'm hella daunted by this excel sheet

I would recommend this: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SRY9sn1NiWYfOms7knH__j_Iw-OwW6vU2JpWjA4P3jY/edit?gid=1238625780#gid=1238625780

Then check out #water-table for help

[desert stirrup]

Dawgg I'm about to call 911 because it's a crime you change your profile pic to such odd things like every other day

I miss the days when I saw "Mike" and next to it was a dog pfp

Now every time I see "Mike" it's a toss up on if I'll need to bleach my eyes

The child one had me creeped out for the longest

[earnest robin]

you cripped out of ai kids?

im in existential crisis for my pfp

[desert stirrup]

Dawgg I'm creeped out with real ||kids||

[earnest robin]

1.6 fertility rate

anyway, kids are fun 😄

[desert stirrup]

yeah I would like to have like 3 kiddos at least but right now I'm trying to figure out my life + poodle. Not my life + lady friend + 3 or more doggos

[cedar otter]

Almost 2 hrs to drive 28 miles…

[earnest robin]

my car tells me that my average speed since I reset it a year ago is 15mph

[bitter kestrel]

Helicopter in the shop or something?

[surreal pivot]

I won’t be able to make it but I appreciate this!

[earnest robin]

Literally the same time if you cycled

[desert stirrup]

Honestly if cycle and take the metro I'm sure it'll take the same amount of time but be waaaaaaaay less stressful

There's a guy on YT who's in LA and recently sold his car to start living car free. His videos have been quite interesting

https://www.youtube.com/@CarFreeChronicles

[drowsy knot]

I can walk there faster, lol

[civic crest]

best time is prob leave between 9-10 am

[earnest robin]

Then I'll have to order from secret unemployment menu

[civic crest]

you're in the office daily now?

[boreal solar]

It’s faster for me to drive from the IE

[bitter kestrel]

This is basically me ... and then promptly got hit by a car. But I do highly recommend the little-known LADOT express buses.

[boreal solar]

Huh

[dull adder]

Don't name where you are, just drop the photo. Or call it mandarin 2.

Also the words ||wife|| and ||kid|| aren't allowed so put them in spoilers or w***e

Sorry I should have told you

These are the rules @desert stirrup have imposed on us

[dull adder]

Can you please bring these to the meet?

[bitter kestrel]

Is this a server rule or a "I don't want to hear about your perfect life" rule? As a queer DINK, I have always been fearful of both ||wife|| and ||kids||.

[dull adder]

Specifically a rule in this chat

Avocado has no authority. Do with that what you will

[earnest robin]

yes, corporate evil lords want us to use their office space

at least they have free food 😄

[earnest robin]

what about job and work?

[dull adder]

Were those banned too?

[earnest robin]

well, that was bad

[surreal pivot]

Lmao that was foul 😭

[short condor]

New batch?

[short condor]

I try to never sink a shot, I keep a bottle in the fridge for a few days and just add to it and make iced americanos or iced red eyes or jet fuel

[bitter kestrel]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who does this. I always feel like Howard Hughes with his piss bottles.

[bitter kestrel]

And can I buy spoonfuls of your chems? I only have the standard minerals. Is ordering these how one gets on a watchlist?

[dull adder]

You can just have some

I'll bring my droppers and v1 beta. So long as avo brings the v2

[dull adder]

I do wonder if it raised any eyebrows. The Decent employee was mass mailing little packets of white powder

[buoyant marlin]

I've been watching these hah. Love seeing more people try the car-free lifestyle.

[tight gorge]

dawg just admit it, you dont want to frame mogg everyone there

[desert stirrup]

Yes absolutely! I have enough for 2-3 more sets or refills.

If I do stick with post brew mineralizing I think I’ll just cave and go hardcore geek by making Collin’s recipes

God damn they’re so fussy

But after two shots, I must admit. I kinda likey

[desert stirrup]

You’ll fit right in then bucko

[desert stirrup]

Dude when I was measuring them out it felt like drug work

Hovering over a small scale, slowly measuring mysterious white powder before mixing it in a dark amber dropper bottle with another precisely measure liquid

Sounds and looks kinda shady if no context was given

How you gonna tell me I’m not measuring out a dose of cocaine rn?????

[bitter kestrel]

Took years for my friends to believe that my multiple gram scales were for 1) coffee and 2) ice cream emulsifier measuring.

[mellow sonnet]

My pharmacist asked me the same thing when I said I wanted the calibration weights they were about to throw out 💀

[desert stirrup]

Damn I love that you’re an ice cream nerd too

I strive to have space for a those pro consumer gelato machines

[vivid violet]

Ninja ?

[bitter kestrel]

Had to find more obsessions after cocktails and beer stopped agreeing with me in my 30s. Classic story.

[desert stirrup]

Heh?????

Don’t disrespect me like that Rory

Ninja???

Puh

[bitter kestrel]

Haven’t pulled that trigger yet. Just a spinning frozen core kind of enthusiast

[vivid violet]

it actually spins pretty damn good, fluffy ice cream.

https://www.amazon.com/Ninja-NC299AMZ-Milkshakes-One-Touch-Container/dp/B09QV24FFZ?th=1

[desert stirrup]

Sorry I’m Gen Z

Can’t relate

But I also don’t drink

[tight gorge]

Ninja creami too loud

[desert stirrup]

So I can relate

[desert stirrup]

Get yo ninja ass outta here

If you aren’t dropping $5k+ on an ice cream machine, I don’t wanna hear it

[vivid violet]

yeah it is SUPER loud.

i used a friend's, up in Seattle.

wow, what model Ninja costs $5k+

[tight gorge]

Too loud for too long for me to want to use it

[desert stirrup]

@bitter kestrel and I are on a different level from you ice cream plebeians

[bitter kestrel]

They starting to get fancy bit by bit. It’s all about the ICEE maker for me

[vivid violet]

usually i make my ice cream with salt and ice cubes, and two ziplock bags

🤌

[vivid violet]

that one is pretty nice too. friends made margaritas

(and icees for their ||kids||)

[cedar otter]

I have the original pacojet and ninja creami and pacojet is 4 times louder

I have to leave the room

I bought a used one thinking I would do affogatos at the shop

Now it’s an expensive trader joe’s lunch bag stand

[vivid violet]

who else is becoming a curling expert again (every 4 yrs)

damn i love that sport. it's so crazy.

[desert stirrup]

I call jokingly call that sport “High Stakes Janitoring”

[vivid violet]

they're trying to mop, but it's just making things wetter

[mellow sonnet]

Who here re watches how they make the curling stones every 4 years because of Olympics

[vivid violet]

straight from the purest Scottish highland cows

[mellow sonnet]

I watched curling in like 2010 or something and then every time after that I just go watch how they cut the stones

[short condor]

No one’s using ohaus scales to cut their product?!? What is this amateur hour!

[vivid violet]

i think you misspelled Oahu

[mellow sonnet]

U know healthcare is honestly crazy dumb

Our hospital policy is +/-10% dosage

Is considered ok

[short condor]

Ah the aina how I miss she

[mellow sonnet]

Dose by weight and if ur 700mg we can just round up to 750mg and give u a premix? Ok we rounding u up bc that's within margin

[vivid violet]

uhhh, that's not drug dependent ??

that seems like an insane margin

[cedar otter]

In Korea they use Ohaus navigator series at their shops

For portafilters

they have this hover to tare function that's super useful when on bar

[lone pier]

man i convinced my gf to split it with me and used it like 4 times

really good get back on it

[mellow sonnet]

It's hospital policy

[vivid violet]

friend up in Seattle harvested pine needles from his trees, and made a really awesome conifer spruce ice cream

[mellow sonnet]

But also the people who don't round meds is so annoying 💀 I have a patient on 210mg vfend and the vials are 200mg each

[short condor]

😮 I wanna play wit dis

[tight gorge]

when I was proteinmaxxing it was great, low cal post meal dessert

[lone pier]

i’d try it! have you seen the guy on instagram/tiktok that makes ice cream out of every tree?

[vivid violet]

haha, yeah, that's who inspired my friend to try it out.

tasty !

[short condor]

I do wanna try that the videos make it look so good

[tight gorge]

I wonder if they sell the jambajuice vitamix lid for these

[vivid violet]

yeah, that would make it a lot better (soundproofed)

[lone pier]

yeah this is why i bought it too i just got lazy about it. we bought a freezer this week though so seems like a good time to try again

[vivid violet]

you are willing to compromise on some of the freezer space for non-coffee ? wow.

[lone pier]

hahaha man the thing is we have a second fridge in our garage that we were using for freezer space already

[vivid violet]

2nd coffee fridge

[vivid violet]

what would you get to, daily ? something like 70g protein per day ?

[lone pier]

and yeah once i took up an interest in coffee most of that space went to beans lol

but now we have a sick second freezer!!!

[tight gorge]

this things appears to work quite wel but $80

[vivid violet]

looks like a normal $7 kitchen trash can would do the same

[mellow sonnet]

I miss my blendtec blender... I had the one w the plastic noise cover

[tight gorge]

moar, 1x body weight

cant be getting mogged by the local chad

[mellow sonnet]

• 7$ trashcan

[tight gorge]

yeah very familiar with MLV

[tight gorge]

although my actual new neighbor is a total chad so I got work to do lol

[civic crest]

That’s why you got the home gym

[weary chasm]

Is this heavy traffic or something

[cedar otter]

not sure. FSD for the win tho

[glossy sail]

Kind of wish gout brought higher tier options tbh

[cedar otter]

how not to send in a resume

RESUME 🙂

they don't even qualify

[bitter kestrel]

Does that mean I don’t have the job?

[cedar otter]

sorry

[bitter kestrel]

Sending a CV over instead with a headshot

[neon scaffold]

RESUME 🙂

[vivid violet]

you had no other contact with this person ?

was a cold resume emailing ?

baller

🫳 🎤

[earnest robin]

Nudes

[earnest robin]

Maybe the latte art will be more complex than the first thing you learn

[low mantle]

I put the Ninja in my laundry room so I can closed the door when it runs. We got the swirl for Christmas and my family is out of control. I’m making 2 qt batches to keep up.

[crude citrus]

Ondo posted on their story that they’re hiring

[solid ferry]

What if it’s just a language barrier?

[short condor]

Now I’m pissed again for all the wrong reasons. Why..just why the fuck does James van der beek have a go fund me that’s already raised 2 million god damn dollars.

[bitter kestrel]

Cuz health care costs in USA 🤷🏻‍♂️. He was selling off his belongings to pay for treatment, apparently. But yeah, also, would these donors be likely to give to non-celebrity in need? Prob not

[short condor]

Health care is shit to pay for that’s for sure but I know people that have been on chemo for and treatments for the last year and it’s not bankrupting them. The residuals that man would have we have been pretty solid, 6 kids can definetely do a number on you but what we the plan if you survived and became treatable? Just be broke and potentially homeless and all the articles are pretty copy and paste but to say you’re that broke and have no plan for the family once you’re gone just seems crazy to me.

[bitter kestrel]

Probably a mix of exaggerated claims and really bad financial planning. Most celebs are terrible at finances, and he made all his money while young. Prob had shitty contracts, too.

[dull adder]

Reducing a pacojet down to just "an ice cream machine" 😔

[mellow sonnet]

@crude citrus spotted

Tagged the wrong person my b

[crude citrus]

Hopefully my employer doesn’t follow gout & co

[mellow sonnet]

they gotta follow them on xhs

[tight gorge]

Sey renjifo typica quite nice this morning

[cedar otter]

Nice Kihara porcelain

[desert stirrup]

Oh I wasn't talking pacojet, I was talking about the Lello Musso or another prosumer gelato machine

I would never recommend anyone get a pacojet. That stuff is stupid loud, stupid expensive, and quite niche. I think Chris Young did a video on the ninja creami vs pacojet saying for home it's almost pointless to get a pacojet. I've also seen chefs use the creami nearly identically to the pacojet in home kitchens! I haven't tried it myself but making savory vegetable purees does seem very possible in the creami

[tight gorge]

Homie spent all night watching creami videos

Meanwhile I spent all night rigging the best sound isolation solution for the creami

[desert stirrup]

HAHAHAHA

I love how early you are up

[boreal solar]

Ninja creami is great. I’ve had one for a few years. I love it for making healthier froyo and fruit sherbet for the kiddo using canned fruit.

Also good for protein ice cream

It’s actually not as loud as it seems. It feels super loud when next to it but we tested and you can’t hear it in the kiddos room with the door shut across the house.

[tight gorge]

bru its very loud by any objective measure

[boreal solar]

Oh I agree it’s loud. I was just surprised we couldn’t hear it.

Meaning it doesn’t carry as much.

[cedar otter]

Not early for parents

[boreal solar]

It’s only like a 1800sqf house. Granted it’s two stories and her room is upstairs.

[cedar otter]

U ever been punched in the face at 6am by your kid?

[boreal solar]

Yes.

Or kicked in the groin.

Or she’ll just scream in my face “wake up!!”

[cedar otter]

Lmao

[earnest robin]

Maybe he is Vatio user

[cedar otter]

Sette 270

[short condor]

Glad I don’t deal with that but I do have a dog that’s learned how to open doors and make it feel like a 5am home invasion 🤩

[tight gorge]

what if I told you that they typed this with a big grin on their face

[desert stirrup]

Yeah I think it's far more loud than my vitamix at full blast man

At the same time, I don't think there's a way around it

You're milling a solid block of ice + matter extremely finely

I just don't think there's anyway to do that silently :/

[short condor]

Small grin, how’d the soundproofing turn out ?

[mellow sonnet]

u can just buy the vitamix w the commercial plastic noise cover thing

[solid ferry]

tbh creami is the niche one. Paco's been 🐐 d for a long time, just in a different context. Creami and all the others woudn't exist without Paco. They aren't the same at all to me, but I agree that Paco at home is like EK at home

also Ondoman, if your paco is just sitting idle, feel free to let me borrow it for an indefinite amount of time 😂

[bitter kestrel]

I'm gonna start adding "-steen" to all mango tasting notes, despite having no idea what the difference is. Instantly coolest guy at the cupping ... or most hated?

[desert stirrup]

That shit is mega goofy tho

[analog onyx]

I have these if you haven’t found any yet. I’m in SD

[vivid violet]

mangosteen might be the tastiest fruit.. ever.

you can get them around May thru July-ish timeframe in VN fruit stores like Ut Trai Cay Fresh Fruits..

or, they also carry it here at this CN grocery Global Fresh Market

when picking, make sure when you squeeze it lightly, it should give gently, not be rock hard.

[desert stirrup]

Oof that’s on the opposite side of the state I’m going however your kindness does not go unnoticed Sire Solaire of Astora

Thank you for your graciousness

Praise the sun!

[bitter kestrel]

Didn’t know it was a completely different fruit! So I guess I won’t be dropping that tasting note quite yet. Looks more mild? Oh, I be squeezing, fo sho. Thanks!

[vivid violet]

it.. is.. incredible. my fav was mango (from my grandparents' yard), but this is even better.

[cedar otter]

Isn’t mangosteen more related to lychee than mango

[mellow sonnet]

Mangosteen just looks like a pokemon berry

[vivid violet]

yeah, makes sense. it has a sweetness and floral flavor a bit like lychee

[tight gorge]

Younger + hot dog + dog

Blessed

[short condor]

Where dog from

Both dogs just for fun

[tight gorge]

Walts

It’s aight, but need it to handle this 10% beer

Is this guy dripper mogging me?

[cedar otter]

Whodat

[tight gorge]

Rando sey reposted

Gotta be on high alert at all times

He’s prob in this server though lol

[earnest robin]

Triple?

[tight gorge]

Yeah, cult classic only releases around these two weeks of the year

[cedar otter]

well if u need that dripper lmk

will be arriving at the shops next week

[tight gorge]

How much?

Also next time you order lmk if the larger carafe is in stock again

[cedar otter]

the 600ml jug?

[cedar otter]

$53

the larger jug is in stock at Artesia

or were u asking for the same one you bought before?

[tight gorge]

Yeah

[cedar otter]

ahh ok cool. Will order few when they're back in stock

[bitter kestrel]

AI is sentient and opening a cafe in WeHo “for community.”

[weary chasm]

business first!

[vivid violet]

truly #belssed [sic]

thanks to @left kite , I picked up some beetus at Sidecar

[tight gorge]

bru, brown sugar one is lit

[vivid violet]

that's the Saigon cinnamon crumble on the left, french toast, then some sort of dingle berry on the right

Saigon one looked goooood

[tight gorge]

I used to say dingle berry all the time lol

yeah saigon is coo, I like it

[vivid violet]

so I should go back for the brown sugar one..

[tight gorge]

yeah, sooo good. glad I found one I liked adter they took away the choco one

[civic crest]

Butter and salt is my fave

[tight gorge]

I lied, butter salt is the one I was thinking of

dank

[left kite]

The french toast one was nice for a one time its so good

[boreal solar]

Chado service was nice. Seemed friendly. I was a little disappointed to pay $180 for dinner for two and be given what felt like store bought pastries though. Tea was also not up to par with what I get in Europe. But that’s the expected. I did appreciate the free gift and atmosphere though. It was nice overall.

[vivid violet]

crap dude, sorry to hear. it used to be SO good for afternoon tea, and the half sandwich half soup.

their teas for purchase are still pretty good..

[boreal solar]

The tea was fine. We had a nice time. Don’t get me wrong. The pastries, mouse etc also tasted good. It was just sort of expecting more.

I might just be picky too. I’ve never done a tea service in the US.

[vivid violet]

it's likely slid a bit..

[boreal solar]

Probably inflation too.

I am sort of curious about the new nanas green tea that seems to be opening down the street though.

[short condor]

What’s a good place for steak frites in LA, don’t mind driving all over the place either.

[bitter kestrel]

I’m a big fan of chain Zinque, especially for this specific dish. And they’re on inKind, so that can really make it quite cheap

[mellow sonnet]

Might be in the market for a nice carafe soon

The cafec ones are good but ugly imo

Just need one that doesn't dribble after pouring

[boreal solar]

I’m a kinto Stan. Love the showroom.

[mellow sonnet]

I low-key wanted the origami decanter but the clear one sold out

I was using the kinto but don't want amber color anymore prob want clear

[boreal solar]

You could just get the clear kinto.

[mellow sonnet]

Oh they have a clear version of the sepia?

Idk why I assumed it was only amber color

[weary chasm]

This is funny

https://makerworld.com/en/models/2386147-xbloom-studio-mini-rfid-recipe-keychain-edition#profileId-2613415

[boreal solar]

Yeah. I have two of their servers in clear.

[cedar otter]

I had really good one at backbone few weeks ago

[dull adder]

The clear Kinto carafe was also like $15

https://kinto-usa.com/collections/coffeeware/products/27576

[cedar otter]

We have them for sale at ondo

[dull adder]

For $15? 😅

[cedar otter]

No

$13.50

[dull adder]

I'd much rather have saved half the money and got clear

Oh well not like a $27 carafe is breaking the bank

[short condor]

What size you looking for?

[short condor]

Worth the money ?

[cedar otter]

Yeah pretty good

Anyone remember L’Assiete on Melrose?

They had steak frites. Steak cooked in sous vide and duck fat fries iirc

What was clever about them was they would only bring half your order out

And then towards the end they ask you if they should bring out the rest or pack them for to go

So it doesn’t get too cold

[civic crest]

New coco ichibanya loyalty program

[tight gorge]

What spicy level though

[dull adder]

2 because I don't want to pay for more

[tight gorge]

Can’t even feel 2

[dull adder]

Same

[tight gorge]

but paying for spicyness is lame

Butttt I can’t find another curry spot that actually makes them spicy

[dull adder]

Exactly. It's like 10 cents but it's the principle

[boreal solar]

I just read about them on Reddit the other day. Unfortunately I missed out. They were supposedly one of the better options in LA.

[cedar otter]

Original spoons for loyalty card awards

takes notes

[boreal solar]

Ondo roasts for loyalty card rewards. Good way to burn off excess inventory 😂

[cedar otter]

I might do loyalty card perks for beans

[vivid violet]

i'm there for it

beans beans beans.. beans on Van Nuys..

[boreal solar]

When you run out in 2028 anyway

[cedar otter]

5th bag = free pourover or SOE
10th bag = free pourover/SOE
15th bag = free Ondo beans

Is that too stingy

[boreal solar]

I’d do a dollar value to include drinks. 🤷‍♂️

[cedar otter]

Or maybe get rid of the 10th and make free beans the 10th reward

[cedar otter]

Like up to x dollars per drink?

[boreal solar]

So an expensive pour over yields more

[dull adder]

How could free rewards be stingy?

[cedar otter]

Haha iono

People complain

[boreal solar]

Look at klatches and you’ll see

It’s like 1c value per $1.00 spent.

[cedar otter]

1% reward

I can do what Play does and mark up bags by $4-5 per bag

And offer free drinks w/ every bag

[boreal solar]

Please don’t.

[cedar otter]

🤣 i mean people think they are getting a deal right

[boreal solar]

Augies used to do a Sunday special where they did a free drip with a bean purchase on sundays.

Drip is pretty unpopular and low cost/high waste so something like that could work

[cedar otter]

Yeah I can def do drip and flash brew

[bitter kestrel]

How many bags for this bb spoon? 😍 (did not steal)

[dull adder]

Those are like $6pp from Loveramics

I have a set

[cedar otter]

pre or post tariff?

I remember thinking DAMN loveramics is expensive now when I was ordering for Artesia

[dull adder]

2021 I think

They've been expensive

[cedar otter]

$8 now hah

[bitter kestrel]

Oooh, and I can get non-gold. Nice. When I'm rich, you can be my personal shopper.

[civic crest]

I just get 2 these days. I used to be 4

[vivid violet]

used to really crank the President Thai spice level, but also now i prefer more mellow 😅

[surreal pivot]

I might be in for one depending on the filter situation… which ones work with it?

[cedar otter]

I use the xbloom ones

You can also buy the orea flats or sibarist flats too

You will also need a negotiator for that

And I can throw one of these for you

Unreleased Orea product for folding the flats

[surreal pivot]

Oh great I have plenty of x bloom filters

[earnest robin]

Do you use them in your cafe?

[buoyant marlin]

Figures they'd release metal a month after I caved and picked up a plastic one haha.

I got the flat filters with it but haven't tried them yet, been using xBloom filters.

[desert stirrup]

$53 for the steel orea beats $100 from roguewave

Plus more support for Ondo! 🥳

[cedar otter]

The drippers? Or the filter folder?

[earnest robin]

Holders

[cedar otter]

I gave mine away but I use it when I negotiate filters

[buoyant marlin]

@cedar otter Are you going to get any more of the silver gritholders?

[cedar otter]

Lol I only got blacks bc that’s all ppl ask for

But of course the one time I don’t order silver someone asks for one 🤣

[short condor]

I would disagree with high waist, most places don’t serve it past a certain time but I often look for a good batch brew for a cup when I don’t want something nicer but find it hard to come by.

Now I wanna see the collection of tiny spoons from people.

Vote on whose spoon is the coolest and maybe get a prize 🏆

[mellow sonnet]

Here's my spoon I dug up from last year's fire. My sister stole this spoon from a restaurant I will not name

[vivid violet]

from that smoothie place next to Ondo ?

sweet, dude.

[mellow sonnet]

It should be safe to use but I'm scared to use it

[short condor]

I read that sentence too fast and read “the spoon I used to dig up my sister..”

Derp leading the polls with 🔥🥄

[vivid violet]

any way to test for stuff ? or, is it stainless ?

i understand the potential worry, those fire temps got up pretty high, and who knows what was swirling..

[cedar otter]

You can probably sandblast and polish it

[buoyant marlin]

Haha figures. No worries, I can wait for a future restock or finally get off my butt and print one.

[bitter kestrel]

Highlights of my collection. (Cupping spoon in middle is just to compare scale.) Could def use a gold, round-headed one. 🤔

[bronze mural]

This is what I got for Valentine’s day - my wife knows me too well 😄 Wishing you all a good day!

[bitter kestrel]

Wait, we’re supposed to get really nice expensive gifts for VD?

[short condor]

Definetely dig the strange second to last one 👌

[short condor]

I always forget other countries write their dates differently and was like how the hell is this roasted in the future 🤦‍♂️

[bitter kestrel]

It’s aluminum, and I was dumb and put it in dishwasher, hence the fucked up coloring. Ondo EH actually has a paddle spoon like this. I like them for gently stirring bed in PO with less risk of tearing the filter. Although silicone on far left is best for that task.

[eternal birch]

last night dinner with fiancee's friend who is a wife with a kid

[mellow sonnet]

is this the annual reminder that im single

[vivid violet]

you deserve someone amazing, not some random scrubs

(other than the ones you wear)

[boreal solar]

I’d buy a shadow box from Michael’s and stain it/ put some glass in front of it. Make a cool little wall art piece with a backstory

[drowsy knot]

My ||wife|| loves to bake so I got her some really nice flours from Grist & Toll in Pasadena. Printed out little sheets highlighting each one, folded them into tulips and made her a bouquet of flours 😂

She got me a manifesto of the attention liberation movement so I guess we know each other pretty well at this point’

[tough locust]

Took some friends on a lil crawl last night

[vivid violet]

the best date

https://www.kkinstagram.com/reel/DUu3rWyjGAQ/

[tight gorge]

Mini kabob chicken wrap slaps

No surprise

[mellow sonnet]

i should brew more lerida today i guess

[short condor]

Because of this I’m think I’m gonna go get Sincerely Syria now

[eternal birch]

double decent

[bronze mural]

Where is this??

[eternal birch]

DAK on tap

[eternal birch]

SF 🙁

[bronze mural]

Nice! What’s the place called?

It kind of reminds me of Proud Mary’s in Portland.

[eternal birch]

best

[eternal birch]

HI NRG

its really good

[solid ferry]

Did you say hi to Airworks?

[opal junco]

i know that reference!

[eternal birch]

is this by airworks?

[solid ferry]

If you were just at Hi NRG, Airworks was also there earlier today. They're just visiting

but they're based out of Seattle

[earnest robin]

Does anyone have insights about Providence St Johns hospital vs UCLA.
We had our first kid at UCLA and it was 3/5 experience

[eternal birch]

ahh yeah idk if I'd recognize him

still here though

was busy eating so couldnt give a proper response

but the espresso is excellent, got it with coconut water

[lone pier]

date week food dump. had a good time but now i’m broke and fat 🤣

(holy saints in pasadena, hanks, jitlada)

[tight gorge]

Never been, local chain, but have that viral shawarma wrap so gotta try it

Entirely new employees at loquat since I last came. 3 Latinos tho 👀

[bitter kestrel]

Yet they just couldn’t close on 1/30 …

[bitter kestrel]

Love the caramelized onion Hanks 🥯. They still need to hire a coffee consultant for their batch, though.

[lone pier]

didn’t even realize they had coffee lol

[bitter kestrel]

They don’t push it, but figured it must be decent. Tried it a few times and always over-extracted. Luckily Lynx opened a block away (in SO). Would love to see Hank’s improve it and then offer a refill deal with mug purchase or combo with bagel. Not always wanting to go to two locations.

[tight gorge]

Teaching the spro guy how to dial was not a good sign. But spro was coo for a boomer shot.

[bitter kestrel]

We all gotta learn sometime/where. Better that than just posting a ratio/recipe with no power to tweak.

[tight gorge]

Yeah, but I would have expected loquat to hire experienced baristas. But perhaps job market from the employer side is rough for quality baristas.

[earnest robin]

Maybe they have bad pay

[bitter kestrel]

Perhaps at the rate they are paying, yes. Otherwise, I’ve only seen very picky job listings. And always cheaper to hire green and train on job. And maybe they hire on looks first, like so many others. 🫠

[tight gorge]

Yeah they all looked cool and hip so there’s that

[bitter kestrel]

Can’t really blame them for where their shops are. But I’m prob not going back after my first experience.

[eternal birch]

in a very chinese era in my life

[lone pier]

what happened 👀

[bitter kestrel]

Nothing dramatic. Just I came in all gushing and excited to try them and got indifferent staff who handed me an iced Americano (when I ordered it hot — although they never actually asked). Tasted like water. And this was afternoon, so super slow. Also just felt awkward in their HP shop, as there's no comfortable place to wait for your drink. Got scolded for accidentally standing in employees only section even though it just looked like a customer counter with no sign/rope. I'm overly sensitive sometimes, though. Edit: this was technically Kumquat. Should I not be equating?

[lone pier]

valid yeah that blows

[short condor]

The other thing to think about is just because they have a year or two somewhere else doesn’t mean they were the best place. Some places hire as a barista and end up running register or just being an opener or closer or part time to just have part time. Plus unless you’re reaching out to the previous employer you don’t know if they were fired or not and previous employers can legally only say so much much In Cali.

[bitter kestrel]

Exactly. Love a shop, like Ondo, that makes it very clear the type of experience they're looking for. But so many listings are like, "5 years of working at a coffee shop required. $17/hr."

[short condor]

That is a bit rough but the guys there are pretty open to remaking most anything just gotta let em know. I was confused at first because I couldn’t think of an employee area in loquat but kumquat makes sense. Back in the day pre Covid it was a sit down area there and there were chairs and tables inside.

[earnest robin]

Are there jobs in the food industry paying less than McDonald's?

I have been in loquat before COVID and it felt very local takeout spot

It was good but nothing to rave about

[short condor]

Getting to the new loquat in time before they close is annoying as hell though. I hate that they’re open for a whopping 4 hours. Wth is the point of that, an hour prep before open and close on top of that.

I do miss the days when I would see shops open till like 7 but I understand it cost more to remain open during those times than revenue that comes in.

[compact hound]

Ngl when i went to try this I was expecting to be underwhelmed but it’s a hit

[earnest robin]

Is it the one near Altwatet named QUAT?

[compact hound]

Yuh

[cedar otter]

They have lq in silver lake

[short condor]

Nah that’s just quat the new loquat is silverlake

[lunar fjord]

are these prices in TYOOL 2026?

the heck

[short condor]

Meant to ask where is it from ?

[earnest robin]

Is echo Park still a homeless encampment?

I have never been there in a long time

[bitter kestrel]

Saw lots of this in Portugal recently due to tradition of all-day coffee drinking (I assume). What drives me nuts is a shop open later than 3pm not giving a crap about their decaf. But that's my personal hill to die on.

[short condor]

I think most people in this group are anti coffee past 6, I’m pulling shots at 9 cupping out of boredom 🤩

[short condor]

That mango sticky rice looks soooo good right now 🤤

[tight gorge]

It’s so well balanced. The smokiness of the chicken thigh and the spicy sauce

[earnest robin]

Every time I tried ordering it they told me they are out of meat

It was a couple years ago though

[civic crest]

My friend had theirs at St. John’s he said it was good

[short condor]

Where’s it from?

[eternal birch]

SF chinese food crazy

1 lb of char siu is $13

[tight gorge]

I ain’t no hanky dawg. Mini kabob

[short condor]

Oh that’s my bad I thought you were saying that’s what it was haha a mini kebab

[eternal birch]

not my fault the resto burns down after I visit

[tight gorge]

You should def try. Their kabobs are also lit.

[mellow sonnet]

Mini kabob the best

[tight gorge]

Yeah I need to find new superlatives since we have the 🐐 police lurking here

[mellow sonnet]

https://www.kkinstagram.com/reel/DUpzxG4jGSN/

I'm getting spoon stealing reels now

[bitter kestrel]

Lol. Now I wanna see one with a metal detector at the door.

[weary chasm]

So traffic today

Is this the valentine day effect

[mellow sonnet]

bruh 2k people signed up for the LA Bakery walk

[boreal solar]

Also delicious.

I haven’t found Chinese food I like in LA and usually end up at panda instead. 😢

[eternal birch]

gotta get into SGV and even then SGV isnt that cantonese like SF is

[desert stirrup]

Ondo gold cupping spoon!

[solid ferry]

this is wild to me

[cedar otter]

I met someone who is running the coffee program at Noma

[solid ferry]

how is she IRL?

[cedar otter]

Says @ornate ingot recommended Ondo

Uhhh it was a dude? Japanese person

Maybe he’s just a barista

[solid ferry]

oh okay

[cedar otter]

Yeah he skipped past the coferments and processed stuff and got the sey brundi

[solid ferry]

I gues there are always different levels of "running the program"

[mellow sonnet]

whens the ondo x noma collab coffee

[cedar otter]

Asked him if he’s Japanese and he was like yeah so we conversed in Japanese

Asked him if he was doing coffee in Japan before and he said he was at Kurasu

[cedar otter]

He did buy like $85 worth of beans and filters and tipped 20%

one being Ondo’s Mate Matiwos

[mellow sonnet]

if courage x noma can happen then all we need is ondo farmed coffee and then we can get ondo x noma

ondo microlot DRD washed

[eternal birch]

time to buy land in panama

[cedar otter]

I’ll ask him

Oh yeah they must be staying close by if they’re doing the popup at courage and the coffee guy is coming here to get coffee

[solid ferry]

silver lake right

[mellow sonnet]

u gotta leak it early to us so we can beat the unemployed LA residents to line up

[solid ferry]

Ah Tsubasa - head barista. I was thinking of Carolyne who is creative director/roaster

ops vs program type shi

[crude citrus]

What kind of Chinese food are you looking for?

[boreal solar]

Partial to northern regions.

[mellow sonnet]

tasty noodle house? in the same plaza as 99 ranch

in chino hills

&dimsum next to smart and finals or something

both of the owners there speak shanghai dialect

[crude citrus]

That place was pretty good. Only been a couple of times

[mellow sonnet]

i actually have no idea whats northern or chinese other than when my dad orders in shanghainese

i think rays duck house next to the old toys r us is also northern but their food is too oily imo and not a fan

[crude citrus]

When the Chinese place starts serving kimchi

[cedar otter]

Far East China

[eternal birch]

i think when most ppl say northern china they mean beijing/shanghai

but there's like xian and harbin food

[solid ferry]

I love Chinese food

[cedar otter]

This is Korean Chinese food

[solid ferry]

In Korea it’s just Chinese food 😂

[cedar otter]

Are u in Korea?

[solid ferry]

Nope. Just old pics

[short condor]

I like won kok in Chinatown for most things aside from their dim sum, I thinks it’s mid but they have my favorite ginger scallion chicken

[desert stirrup]

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1954742371780117/?mibextid=wwXIfr

$50 for a EKG is crazyyyyyy

[crude citrus]

I thought you were talking about one of these

[mellow sonnet]

50$ electrocardiogram

[civic crest]

only my second time, first time was take out. Thanks @compact hound

[earnest robin]

I remember going there 6 years ago randomly

It was good

I need to revisit

[civic crest]

Yeah was good. Tofu roll good too

[mellow sonnet]

New labels

[cedar otter]

I can finally release more coffee

[lone pier]

looks so good

[compact hound]

Canonball was great

Temperature of the dishes ✅
Pacing ✅
Service ✅

No complaints

Celery salad, hanger, chicken (not pictured) were my favorite bites

[weary chasm]

valentines date???

[cedar otter]

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[bitter kestrel]

I like it, but where’s the 🐊 ?

[crude citrus]

Same green as hydrangea?

Or if this is a trade secret please feel free to answer this at the meetup

[tough locust]

Shourai BBQ

[short condor]

What was the carrot dish?

[cedar otter]

Yer

[crude citrus]

I can’t even tell if I’m being pushed a real product or a scam anymore

[weary chasm]

looks like AI Slop

-107F is pretty cold

[earnest robin]

,ask -107F to C

[gusty cypress]

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[earnest robin]

Yes, it's cold

,ask liquid nitrogen boiling temperature

[gusty cypress]

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[earnest robin]

,ask dry ice temperature

[gusty cypress]

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[earnest robin]

,ask co2 boiling temperature

[gusty cypress]

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[earnest robin]

It's probably dry ice then

[bronze mural]

Where did you go in Portugal? Porto?

[mellow sonnet]

im pretty sure dry ice would make the the coffee shatter instead of grind

like it wouldnt grind it would be more fragile and just break

[crude citrus]

,ask where is Hanky eating

[gusty cypress]

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[mellow sonnet]

,ask what is the best way to process coffee

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[mellow sonnet]

oh it gave nutrition info instead

[tough locust]

taste your never taste. yum

[civic crest]

How was this?

[tough locust]

really good! baseline for these pop up bbq guys is pretty high these days (way better than back in my day). it was fun have bbq with atypical sides like curry rice and yakisoba

[short condor]

Forgot the about the spoons again

[tough locust]

possibly the only group of people that would appreciate this spoon from a course at ki

[glossy sail]

Just send me a message if youre gonna be in the SGV. I'll point you to specific restaurants for specific dishes lol.

[bitter kestrel]

Some of those look like they’re used for a lobotomy

[glossy sail]

Freeze grinding is a necessary technique in certain chem/biochem applications. I've done it.

Depends on application though.

[crude citrus]

Yea but the “Taste your never taste” is a bit sus

[glossy sail]

lol that I don't know about

[bitter kestrel]

Porto, Lisbon & Cascais. Residency appt 🤞🏻. You been? Tried lots of shops if you ever need recs.

[short condor]

And…coffee

Stuff can do two things

[glossy sail]

But I will say, freeze grinding does help retain some molecules that might not get retained otherwise. So it probably does influence taste.

Seems costly to do though

Kinda wanna try it now lol

[short condor]

With as much as much as we talk about food I feel like this meet up might need to have just as high of a bar for food as it does coffee

[cedar otter]

A big secret of Ondo 1 (even though people look down on us using the xBloom) is freezing all the beans + using cold bloom on xbloom

[mellow sonnet]

cold bloom 👀

[cedar otter]

like yes, we know that it's not the best way to brew the coffee

but it does what I program to do every time

[mellow sonnet]

ive been so close to buying double kettle for cold bloom

[glossy sail]

Fuck it, I should rig a system to extract coffee using CO2 at its triple point.

[mellow sonnet]

big pressure controlled chamber

[glossy sail]

I just installed one at Amgen

But they ain't using it for coffee extraction lol

[cedar otter]

Is Amgen the one in cerritos or la palma

I think my friend used to work there

[glossy sail]

Yea it's controlled at 100 bar.

[glossy sail]

Main campus in thousand oaks

[cedar otter]

ohh nvm

that's where Jack used to work at

[glossy sail]

Yea

[cedar otter]

where he used to fight cancer

[bronze mural]

Yes! We loved Porto - pretty sure we want to buy a place there at some point so we can stay for months at a time. I spent a lot of time at So Coffee Roasters - absolutely love their staff and roastery

[cedar otter]

now he fights customers who want lattes

[glossy sail]

Iono, as of right now, cancer is winning

Easier to take down latte drinkers

[eternal birch]

finally going to coro tomorrow

excited

[cedar otter]

lol

[bitter kestrel]

SO had nice atmosphere. Calma was prob my fav at their new location. They had several flight options, which you rarely see in states.

[bitter kestrel]

My PO was lovely. I was impressed by xBloom use. Consistency > theater

[cedar otter]

We'll probably debut hand brews at Ondo 1 in a few months

Maybe only the competition style pours

[crude citrus]

Didn’t someone do that at WBC? Froze it with LN2. Miki I think

[compact hound]

Carrots w/ burrata & chickpeas served with a side of grilled sourdough

Carrots were underseasoned a little and too much finishing oil mixed with the burrata made it a bit too rich for me

Was my least favorite bite of the night

[vivid violet]

shout-out to @ornate ingot in this vid @ ~ 9:35 in:

https://youtu.be/igyVVBSm2Cw?t=579&si=jQFXNZxMqjBeOr4M

[solid ferry]

say hi to the nighthawk for me pls. 🤗

Also, there should be a bunch of coffee 🤓 there in the next hour. Finally, probably already on your agenda, but Masterpiece is a convenient next stop

[bitter kestrel]

Love CoRo! Mainly because I have an addiction to endless variety. I do wish they had large displays of what’s seasonal/slow bar, but that’s a critique of most multi-roasters (except Ondo).

[mellow sonnet]

I was going to say I thought stingray was Australian

That's mantaray coffee

[earnest robin]

When is our meetup

Can someone pin it

[bitter kestrel]

And un-pin previous one because I keep getting confused

[bitter kestrel]

And someone should tell Delta that it’s the name of mega-roaster in Portugal.

[mellow sonnet]

Mar 1?

Or e keeping 7

[crude citrus]

March 7

Let me ping an admin to pin the new one

[mellow sonnet]

Yay ty

[opal junco]

Re ca phe is popping off today, lots of folks in new year's outfits too. Wanted to say hi to the owners but they're so swamped lol

[glossy sail]

dang

[bitter kestrel]

Just realized LNY is same day as Mardi Gras/Carnival.

[tight gorge]

Anytime I go during the weekend it’s poppin off

Gotta retry this institution

[earnest robin]

I went on weekdays

[mellow sonnet]

Should try kaju

Kaju is king

[eternal birch]

only spro on slow bar when I went

[eternal birch]

on my list, im up somewhat frequently so I'll get to it

BCD on Western is unmatched tbh

[vivid violet]

which kaju location ?

[mellow sonnet]

I like the garden grove one

The Buena park ones are meh

I think it's just bc I went to GG one the most tho

[drowsy knot]

Properly valuing consistency is business gold imo

[tight gorge]

Yeah sloth mentioned it, but friends coming from Ventura so felt f up to make them drive down there

[vivid violet]

for others.. this one:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/CQZzip5L6nHteCKT9

[compact hound]

Thoughts

[tight gorge]

Baseline good, gets rid of the itch

I’m no expert in this type of food though

Idk rok was hype like this

They also have mcintosh

[solid ferry]

big mcdonalds bag sitting on top of the maxxxed out macbook pro energy

[mellow sonnet]

Rok having McIntosh as their sound system is wild to me too tbh

Their lighting is too sterile and needs work but their sound is good

They need more stuff on the wall tho there's too much echo

[short condor]

1.5 hrs ain’t too bad traffic depending

@cedar otter did you mention something about getting in the new ss orea’s this week or did I imagine that?

[cedar otter]

Yup

Coming Tuesday/Wed

[short condor]

Awesome sauce 🤙

[earnest robin]

Any ideas for a rainy day off?

[eternal birch]

noodle soup

coffee

doomscrolling

https://www.kkinstagram.com/p/DUtzf04EsVK/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

oh wow torotea oc

[bitter kestrel]

You got A-List? Movie marathon

[cedar otter]

These scales have seen some shit

[bitter kestrel]

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-smash-gif-26014115

“Normal use”

[earnest robin]

Ceramic cups will do that

[civic crest]

coffee shop got no time to use the pad

[civic crest]

Hot pot

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTQz28nD_Us/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

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The reason we need marriage counseling 😆
#movementcoffee #marriage #coffee

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[bitter kestrel]

Wonder if their coffee is as good as their IG content. I’m near Stowe a lot. 🤔

[tight gorge]

What takes you there? I went to that area a few years ago for fall foiliage. Very cute but quite remote

[bitter kestrel]

My sister lives nearby in Essex (Burlington area). Remote to us city folk, but a vibrant ski town by Vermont standards.

[tight gorge]

Fair, I drove all around the area. Surprisingly good food, really enjoyed our time there

I recall my coffee at a rando shop in hardwick was good for what it was, so perhaps movement is not just coal

[tough locust]

vermont is awesome. great beer, food, and nature

[bitter kestrel]

There’s a lot of good coffee there, despite ubiquity of Green Mountain 🤢.

[short condor]

Museums are always good on rainy days

[glossy sail]

stay home and clean up for LNY lol.

[drowsy knot]

I would say ROAST! but the specific timing of your post suggests you may have other plans ;)

[eternal birch]

https://loquatsf.com/

lol wtf

[cedar otter]

Oh yeah they were there before loquat la

[eternal birch]

I've never somehow noticed

debating where to go now

[desert stirrup]

POG

[cedar otter]

Coffee? Hedge?

[eternal birch]

its raining and thats in mission

think I just go to this yemeni place, driving is a pain

[compact hound]

Literally doing this too

[glossy sail]

this rain ...

[earnest robin]

You were cleaning up your house

[glossy sail]

oh i still am haha

[civic crest]

i had originally planned to wash my car today but saw it was going to rain all week so i just parked it outside lol

[cedar otter]

@glossy sail how's your experience w/ p80 + mizen

[glossy sail]

its been great so far. drinking a lerida off it at this moment, good clarity, great sweetness but maybe thats the lerida pulling its weight. i havent actually A/B tested with my EG1 ULF.

@compact hound @mellow sonnet @crude citrus also tried the stock p80 - maybe they have some thoughts

[cedar otter]

I might swap my EG-1 with it

[glossy sail]

tbf i have only used it for PO, so not sure how it performs on spro

[cedar otter]

EG-1 workflow is just...

yeah for PO

we already use the 01 for spro anyway

[glossy sail]

awful for commercial purposes

[mellow sonnet]

pcs will save ur grinder from stalling during cold starts

[cedar otter]

there's definitely "oh hey they have that telescope grinder" bit

from the custies

[glossy sail]

p80 workflow even crazier

with the autogrind/autopurge/autooff

[mellow sonnet]

how about ozik all, and then u dont need to purge the coferments just use diff grinders

[glossy sail]

i just want to get the platofrm to remove their cup and use a shaker

[cedar otter]

what about autogrind? lol

[cedar otter]

I can buy 2 P80s for the price of 1 EG-1

that's my TheAll

[mellow sonnet]

[cedar otter]

[mellow sonnet]

u can buy 3 p80 for the price i think

[earnest robin]

Leave telescopes for home users who insist on getting LMLM

[glossy sail]

how else am i suppose to view the finer details of the dawns solar flares as i sip my panamanian gesha?

in that sense EG-1 is space saving lol

[mellow sonnet]

i bought some hydrangea for a friend of a friend and he said it was too light...he hasnt even opened the sey i gave too

[earnest robin]

Take it back

[glossy sail]

buy prodigal

adn exhcnage

lol

[mellow sonnet]

they in london

i figured some US roasters to give just be sey and hydrangea

[earnest robin]

Prodicoal sticker was removed?

[mellow sonnet]

prodicoal isnt coal anymore tho

[cedar otter]

most uk roasters are coal

[compact hound]

Shibal

[cedar otter]

씨-발

[earnest robin]

That soup is just for one?

Looks like 4-5 portions

[compact hound]

I just saw steven yeun

[cedar otter]

congrats you really are a Korean American now

[compact hound]

Asked for a pic but he declined

He was chill about it doe

He was with his kid

[glossy sail]

lol that reminds me - i saw john cho many years back with his kid too

[glossy sail]

i liked him in minari

[vivid violet]

ah cool , so you just took a pic with his kid ? nice

[cedar otter]

Same lol he sat at the next table at a pizza spot

It was like on a Sunday and he looked super tired

[civic crest]

he was on one of my virgin atlantic flights to the bay area back in the day lol

[drowsy knot]

john’s a nice dude. Kids went to the same elementary school and karate classes

[cedar otter]

haha I figured he was in silverlake. Saw him at tomato pie

[drowsy knot]

It’s a who’s who just walking to trader joes 😂

[compact hound]

I’ve seen david choe in silverlake too

I’ve only seen korean celebs

[glossy sail]

HOW many of us have ran into John CHo?

lol circle seems small now

[compact hound]

Never ran into john cho

[cedar otter]

I saw David Choe at South Pasadena farmer’s market. He was with his baby

[compact hound]

Brews were good but was more focused on the coffees themselves rather than the cup quality

Kinda forgot that p80 was used

[compact hound]

LNY loading

[earnest robin]

At first I thought "why is he making dolma"

[turbid herald]

Am I too late in the game to add my name to the next meetup?

[glossy sail]

No. Poll was just for date selection.

[left inlet]

I hope you will have the P80 Mizen in during the meetup. I would love to try the mizen 80mm as I am considering buying one, but want to try it first. I'm also very interested in both ULF and LU; all of them sound interesting for different kinds of spro.

[neon scaffold]

perry how do we know what equipment we should actually bring from our list (or just bring it all yolo)

it looks like im the only one with the robot if anyone wants id b happy to bring it so ppl can try it out

[crude citrus]

It’s kinda a free for all though I’ll usually review the list a few days before the event to see if there’s duplicates and call it out

[neon scaffold]

last question, is it frowned upon to bring a friend who's into coffee but not in the disc? i wanna be respectful

[crude citrus]

Nope it’s not that exclusive. Please free feel to invite them

[cedar otter]

I would ask Jack to come but I think he’ll be in Thailand

[crude citrus]

Thanks for checking though! Feel free to ask questions whenever

@bitter kestrel we should be good on the easy up. I’ve got a 10x30

We will need power stations though

I’ll be setting up the 10x30 in the back where there’s no plugs

[vivid violet]

would love to see Jack at one of them, thanks Bryan.

[vivid violet]

so considerate of you. glad your friend can join.

I hear stuff in the garage is extra cool to play with.

[neon scaffold]

im psyched for the meetup i wanna make sure to contribute not take away

[vivid violet]

they're really nice.

hopefully someone can bring name tags and pens, I found that helped a lot at the last few ones.

I'd bring it, but sadly I'll be missing y'all.

[crude citrus]

Thanks for the reminder lol

[weary chasm]

When you put a name, do you put your handle or your real name. Lol

[vivid violet]

wanted to gently remind. dunno if everyone appreciates it as much as me.

I feel like I can never remember names 😂

[vivid violet]

both

[crude citrus]

Whatever you want people to call you that day

There will be a limit on the number of Allen Trans

[mellow sonnet]

I already claimed an Allen tran

[glossy sail]

Bro.

[mellow sonnet]

[cedar otter]

Lol got in touch with Weekenders Coffee

I know it wasn’t yalls fav @glossy sail @crude citrus

My english inquiry email got ignored but I wrote them another email in Japanese and heard back the same day

[crude citrus]

Japan be like that

[short condor]

He hangs around Atwater all the time, goes to the Sunday market most weekends. He tries to stay pretty normal, I bumped into him like 4 times in a week and thought he had to think I was a stalker but lucky he came to the places I was leaving.

[short condor]

Just add an n for every new iteration

[cedar otter]

Allen tra(n+1)

[boreal solar]

People are usually pretty cool. They even listen to my autistic old man rants.

[bitter kestrel]

Me at every coffee event: “No, never heard of that/him/her … what does that [acronym] mean again? … oh, that [amazing new] shop is 1.5 hours from me.”

[eternal birch]

were we lacking in kettles and scales last meetup?

[mellow sonnet]

Why is world of coffee registration asking so many things about where I work in the coffee industry smh

Hanky forgot how to spell mandarin2 👀

[eternal birch]

am dumb like that srry

[mellow sonnet]

Ah nice

[desert stirrup]

I plan to bring name tags!

Line 1: Discord Name

Line 2: Real Name

Also I’ve been spamming the refresh button for the Ondo site but still haven’t seen the SS Orea O1

Please tell me it didn’t already sell out @cedar otter

[cedar otter]

I haven't received the goods lol chill

[earnest robin]

Is this your office?

[weary chasm]

If it's the same shape as a 01, it's pretty small

I guess you're expecting it since it's kalita wave 155 size

[mellow sonnet]

im curious what a 20g d27 brew tastes like

[solid ferry]

lmk!

[cedar otter]

Can you even fit 20g?

I can do the test rn lol

[mellow sonnet]

It "fits"

[bitter kestrel]

To sell data to vendors, of course. I tried getting tix last night with SCA membership and POS site just couldn’t handle it. What are they doing with all that $$ in Irvine 🤔

[mellow sonnet]

I think I could daily this lmao

Yeah the site was so ass

I was trying to do it in bed

But I either don't bother or I redo on my computer

I already asked for the days off from work tho smh

I guess I can fuck around on those days

[cedar otter]

they already started bugging me w/ promos

[cedar otter]

come hang at our airbnb

we got one from thurs-sun

lol

[mellow sonnet]

lol i should still drive to SD

i have places bookmarked i want to see

but might as well skip the event bc the site so ass

[cedar otter]

I never been to rikka fika but I bet they will be just so packed during woc

[solid ferry]

Don't know if Memli will have anything open, but that's where I'd try to go

Also curious about Little While

[bitter kestrel]

Discounts and savings? 👀

[earnest robin]

Orea is so expensive

[weary chasm]

I guess expensive is... Relative.

I remember the April dripper was $40 or so...

Expensive relative to hario v60 plastic, yes.

Relative to other hype dripper.. Same price.

[crude citrus]

Sounds like you need a clawdbot

[weary chasm]

Open claw now right?

[mellow sonnet]

rest in peace claw

[crude citrus]

I can’t keep up

[cedar otter]

is it?

[mellow sonnet]

founder got poached to openAI

[bitter kestrel]

Yeahhh. I’m planning on just printing one with PP.

[mellow sonnet]

im ngl my brain is so cooked that drippers under 100 are ok

[cedar otter]

Compared to like Plastic Hario V60 yeah it's more expensive lol but there are so many drippers that are so expensive

I think around $50 is not bad

You gotta understand it's a small market and small production. Most plastic manufacturing doesn't make sense for smaller runs

[mellow sonnet]

this d27 brew is so sharp

[cedar otter]

I think that's why their metal ones are only $8 higher

[weary chasm]

Hario neo is $25. But I think that's because hario is just so big

[mellow sonnet]

well they own all their glass manufactering

[glossy sail]

Basically.

[mellow sonnet]

it becomes the office when all the baristas know you

[earnest robin]

$50 for piece of plastic while let's say Hario Neo has more complex geometry, more materials and costs half of that

[mellow sonnet]

well molding plastic is expensive

and economies of scale

[bitter kestrel]

I understand and appreciate the pricing 100%. Just can’t buy ‘em all. There is far worse price gouging in the coffee gadget world. I’ll just tip the slim margins to an Ondo barista instead.

[desert stirrup]

Yeah I will admit that is something I am wary about. At the same time, 99% of the time I'm brewing 1 cup for myself

I also have a mad suspicion I will be DMing you in 2-3 months to chat about a way I can sell you the dripper

All roads lead back to the V60

also @cedar otter if you use a Stagg at home this seems like a hella useful print

https://makerworld.com/en/models/1828728-fellow-stagg-ekg-riser-v2#profileId-1952522

I highly recommend you to scale the stand part by 1%-2%. With tolerances on Fellow products, filament, printers, and slicer settings, the design is just too tight. I printed this while I slept and just spent like 2 hours trying to make my base fit. I gave up trying to save the print and now am printing a 1.37% scaled up version (gets me 2.5mm extra clearance)

Tsk tsk tsk

This is why drop in designs are almost always poor designs

rookie design mistake

Always opt for slide in entry and err on a larger tolerance. A little wiggle is far better than a failed product

I'll send pics here later tonight when it's finished printing!

[mellow sonnet]

isnt there an alu one somewhere online

if i get a brewista i prob would get bases so that the overall counter looks more uniform w same size bases

[desert stirrup]

I don't think Fellow has metal bases for their kettles

[earnest robin]

There are wooden ones in AliExpress

[desert stirrup]

I tried to buy a brewista last year, shit was fucking hard

idk why

I think they were moving or something that affected their logistics

yeah their website is still down!!

[mellow sonnet]

i emailed them asking to buy the yearn tour collab w the variable flow restrictor and they told me that it wasnt their product 💀

[desert stirrup]

oh wait nvm, maybe the domain just changed

[mellow sonnet]

i could buy it from china and ship it but its diff plug smh

[crude citrus]

What would be nice is some kind of centering device when putting the stagg kettle onto its base

[desert stirrup]

Do you miss the hole that often?

[earnest robin]

Centering in what axis

[desert stirrup]

Also

There is a lot of self control happening to not make a dirty joke

[crude citrus]

All?

[crude citrus]

Daily

[earnest robin]

You have kids

[crude citrus]

Kid

[earnest robin]

Ah, makes sense now

[desert stirrup]

Both of you should be banned to the shadow realm for lack of censorship

[earnest robin]

You can plug one of the holes

On the base

[desert stirrup]

wtf are we even talking about now

[crude citrus]

Are we still talking about the stagg

[desert stirrup]

HAHAHA

I think so???

[desert stirrup]

Maybe make the base heavily magnetic? I think then then bottom of the kettle also needs magnets

[crude citrus]

Someone should make a kettle with a magnetic base and induction heating

[desert stirrup]

It's an interesting problem which I think only Fellow can really solve

[desert stirrup]

That can't work due to induction

[crude citrus]

Don’t put the magnet where the induction element is

[desert stirrup]

Induction heating is due to magnets causing resistance in an object that then creates heat. Adding another magnet on top of that would create massive torsion

[crude citrus]

Idk apple has a magnetic charging cord

Make it like that