Los Angeles/OC/San Diego 🌈

[short condor]

I’d particle size distribution as well but it depends on what burrs you’re also running

[mellow sonnet]

Oil went from 90 to 120 to 85 and now it's 90 again. What a shitfest of a market

[tight gorge]

loco coo, but pollo campero peruvian chicken is fuego

[glossy sail]

on that note, whats the best lomo saltado in LA?

[tight gorge]

uff. none that I have liked

[glossy sail]

same

best one I had was in Peru, but it feels like any of hte lomo saltados in LA i can do better at home lol

[tight gorge]

for me SF, also sold Peruvian chinese food which was cool

[left kite]

I really like Mario's Peruvian near west hollywood

[tight gorge]

all the peruvians ordered the chinese food

[glossy sail]

chifa is just great comfort food though lol

[tight gorge]

from the pics it shows potential. Sufficiently saucey

[short condor]

I still think the silver dip is one of the crazier ones of the year

[tight gorge]

the thing with lomo its so pricey that it feels bad when it sucks

[cedar otter]

Prolly Marios

[left kite]

they have a bottle of the aji verde on each table so you can adjust to what you like 🙂‍↕️

[vivid violet]

its not Peruvian Chinese, just regular Peruvian..

but have you tried the places in Glendale, off of Brand ?

• Lola's Peruvian
• Natalie Peruvian Seafood Restaurant
• Mamita Peruvian Restaurant
• Cariaco To Go

Lola's does pescado saltado for me, which I love a lot more then lomo saltado.

oh, fyi LAbrews, it's because lomo saltado tastes bad

[tight gorge]

mamitas was mid, been hella years though

most recent one I went to was El Dorado Pollos A La Brasa and it was also aight

[short condor]

If you don’t mind almost dying in Glendale Natalie’s is a hidden gem

[glossy sail]

how do you die in glendale?

[short condor]

Cars

[glossy sail]

i feel like i know the answer

you mean drivers of said BMWs

[short condor]

😭

[glossy sail]

lol

[short condor]

As a cyclist I’ve been hit 3 times in Glendale

but it’s a very walkable city albeit it’s like a game frogger

[vivid violet]

oh shit

[compact hound]

You get a payout at least

[short condor]

Of my own pocket to fix my bike

[eternal birch]

at least frogger you need to cross the street to get hit

in glendale they got homing bimmers ready to hit u from the sidewalk

cant wait to be healed and actually eat food

[short condor]

1 g wagon and 2xm series and every one of them ran but the g wagon stopped to make sure i got up atleast

Everyone of em guaranteed scrapped title but that’s just how Glendale rolls, scrapped titles and a mattress store owner

[vivid violet]

oigh, hope mouth heals quickly.

still chipmunk-y ?

my cheeks were pretty puffy after mine

[eternal birch]

going down

think I can eat properly by thursday

chins a bit numb though, nerve might have been damaged a bit

[vivid violet]

take care, buddy

hope healing goes smoothly

taking anything to help it along faster ?

fiancée better be willing to go eat KBBQ after this

[eternal birch]

just tramadol and amox

[vivid violet]

i applied some arnica cream on the outside of my cheeks, which seemed to help reduce the swelling and speed up recovery. It does dissolve clots, tho, so.. use at your own discretion.

It works wonders for healing bruises quickly, if the skin isn't broken.

In the past, i've also taken arnica pills (feels like pseudo-science), in combination with the arnica cream for any bad bruises, and it seemed to help speed up recovery. Now i just keep the arnica cream around for occasional use.

(you can get both at Whole Foods, as well as an Arnica Gel, but i haven't used that)

[buoyant marlin]

Damn sorry to hear that, but glad you're ok and still riding. A lot of positive work in Glendale over the years for walking and biking but I think like everywhere sadly, there's been regression since the pandemic. I've definitely noticed it and it's sadly causes me to walk more than bike locally these days.

[short condor]

There’s a lot of stories that don’t get enough light, I think if I remember right a few months back a teen on skateboard got hit in highland park and passed away. People just don’t pay attention much anymore, I grew up Midwest city streets so I had eyes on everyone but out here it’s not enough, when they don’t keep their eyes on you.

But always greatful that bikes took the damage and not me.

[buoyant marlin]

Yeah BikinginLA has been tirelessly reporting on every incident for years but they get little play on mainstream media.

[bitter kestrel]

Ugh. Sorry. Last time I was hit on bike was by a BMW from Glendale. Jusss sayin.

[glossy sail]

BMWs and Glendale - name a more iconic duo.

[lone pier]

as a peruvian i approve of this list 👍

feel like it's tropey for peruvians to love talking about peruvian food actually lol. glad to see i inherited that trait 😂

feel like mario's fell off for a bit but ive gone a couple of the times over the past few months and it still hits a spot. can definitely tell quality has gone down a little unfortunately but it's a classic for a reason!

bodegon69 in pasadena is pricey but worth a shot if you haven't tried it. i need to give loli farms another try, didn't really like when we went during soft opening but can't really recall why lol

[earnest robin]

Is this pasta sisters?

I think they put a random burrata on top of a pasta dish

[cedar otter]

Yes

[opal junco]

Time to try the SEY burundi

[weary chasm]

Oh where is this

[opal junco]

Suited! Apollo Bagel next door is bangin too, thanks to Sloth for his random comment years ago for the rec

[vivid violet]

looks like there's some traffic to get there from here. only 41 hrs drive..

https://maps.app.goo.gl/7d3pwtcSKV4TALM1A?g_st=ic

[left kite]

Some might say you have to be suited for the drive

[vivid violet]

promote this man

[glossy sail]

There's 8$ gas in California

This is wild

The Chevron by Union station apparently.

[compact hound]

Did i rec suited or apollo LMAO

[opal junco]

Apollo, you mentioned it's Montreal style and that it's similar to another shop that opened locally in LA. It was great lol. And suited is commonly recognized as one of the best shops in NYC, I only went to SEY and some other local small cafes last time but that was at the beginning of my coffee journey when I thought Verve was great

[earnest robin]

I went to suited every day when I stayed at my friend's place near 9/11 memorial

Their milk drinks are also really good, very consistent

[neon scaffold]

I grew up right around there it’s hilarious to me that there are great coffee shops in that neighborhood

[left inlet]

You can also check out Bean & Bean. I would like to check out the main location in Queens where they roast. I've never tried Coffee Project NY, but it's on my list when I go to NYC.

[neon scaffold]

Coffee project is really close to suited, worth checking out imo. They roast darker but still cool stuff and the baristas there are really passionate and friendly

[left inlet]

@neon scaffold I think this is Bean & Bean location I was refering to.

https://share.google/Dv2vGhtfrJEXPoTcN

[dull adder]

I found out recently about the Cannonball Run record, someone did that drive in 25.5 hours

[tight gorge]

yeah, records were getting broken like crazy during covid

pretty crazy coordination too, they have sacrificial lambs that they send to get pulled over by cops so they can speed past them

[dull adder]

Yeah it's wild even with COVID. But that record probably won't be broken until the next global pandemic

They averaged 112mph

[desert stirrup]

Amen brother, a-fucking-men

I’ll learn the lore when I want to move past 64mm

Yo it’s official! The Ozik is in the profile name!

Where is this? How was it?

[desert stirrup]

Oh fuck I’ve never heard of this

[boreal solar]

They do that all the time. The SSP MP burrs are the same way. The older ones are even slightly larger and get stuck in some grinders like the ode and 064s because they’re just large enough to force in but too large to get out.

[bitter kestrel]

I definitely was reading the empty cups as “United” I was blown away by the specialty coffee options in the Admirals Lounge 🤦‍♂️

[cedar otter]

Pasta Sisters. Took the guests from Korea there. They are pretty solid especially for fresh pasta. But nothing like "wow best pasta ever"

[vivid violet]

the fuel cells in those sleeper cars equipped with laser and radar detectors is all insane

[vivid violet]

that is crazy, wow.

[neon scaffold]

I had a great shot of spro from voyager which is right there too

[dull adder]

I'm not a big fan of Cane's either but uh...

That said I'm not sure I entirely agree. I can tell they change out their fry oil frequently. And the chicken is always really juicy and fresh tasting

[boreal solar]

It’s just so bland. Also el pollo loco hasn’t hit the same way for me for the last year. The sides sit for awhile and even the grilled chicken has been a victim of shrinkflation. Getting two tiny legs in a three piece is a downer.

Canes is hot and fresh. I’m cool with that. But I just want spices in my food. It also feels expensive to me.

[dull adder]

Pretty much all chicken places feel expensive to me 😅

[desert stirrup]

SHIT HAS NO FLAVOR

They ride everything on orange colored ranch with black pepper and MSG

[boreal solar]

Even my toddler thinks it’s bland. 😂

[dull adder]

That doesn't make it poor quality

It is bland

[desert stirrup]

I love living in LA cuz cheap hot good food is everywhere!

[boreal solar]

I think that’s a super power in some ways though. My mom for instance thinks pepper is spicy in her old age. She doesn’t want seasoning on anything.

[desert stirrup]

Near me is Dino's chicken. For $15 a half chicken, load of fries, and slaw

2 meals or 1 big ass meal

So good

[boreal solar]

Anyway, let them enjoy them enjoy it. They’re not competing with local. And they’re probably still a step above kfc

The last few times I had kfc it was straight up Kroger chicken counter quality 😂

Unfortunately my mother in law still craves it because boomers love nostalgia.

[desert stirrup]

Ralphs fried chicken ain't too shabby if you can get it fresh!

Price is killah

Aldi fried chicken can have high highs and low lows

It's a gamble every time

[boreal solar]

Aldi is a lowkey gem for cheap high quality cheese.

[bitter kestrel]

Aldi is a gem for everything … except their Cheez-Its

[boreal solar]

Try their simply nature organic cheese puffs. They’re better.

These ones. We buy them for the kiddo.

[dull adder]

At my store we'd like never change the oil 🤢

That's actually how I learned to taste the fryer oil in food

But yeah if they're actually staying on top of that and the food is fresh it's pretty decent. I think Albertsons was the best but those are rare now

[mellow sonnet]

Amex pulled out of their noma sponsorship wow

[tight gorge]

Jus go to campero already

[boreal solar]

Theres a lot of Albertsons out here. Did they start rebranding as Vons in LA county?

We kept both in Ranch

Despite being across the road from one another in some cases

[tight gorge]

Didn’t read the article, David chang or worse?

[boreal solar]

Rancho just got a Vallarta. I’m sort of excited for cheap tacos and masa

[mellow sonnet]

all the ex-noma employees coming out w abuse

didnt expect anything to happen but wow if sponsors are backing out shit might get cancelled

[dull adder]

Near me Albertsons closed and they left the Vons open

Other than that I'm not sure

[dull adder]

Why does a $1500pp pop up need sponsors? Lol

And it's run by a multi millionaire chef

[mellow sonnet]

yeah i wonder how much money they were planning to make if they had sponsors and charged so much

[boreal solar]

I wonder how much they pay the employees.

I didn’t go under guise that I’d prefer to support California and Mexican chefs taco wise. But it’s probably partially influenced by being unemployed.

Like we’re not hurting and my wife’s salary is fine. But $100 tacos probably isn’t a good move right now

[dull adder]

Also I don't want to downplay it at all but the noma abuse website just clings to one quote from Rene which feels weak

[tall frigate]

I'm sure the abuse was real and pervasive

Cooking at that level is hard

I had a friend who worked for Keller and got into a car accident and was tubed at a hospital and missed a shift. He woke up a couple days later with a voicemail from Keller saying he was going to blacklist him from the entire industry for no call no showing, and that his injury wasn't an excuse.

These people are not nice.

[dull adder]

I'm sure it was too
And it's quite ironic that Noma would be featured prominently in The Bear where abuse is a main focus

[tight gorge]

ok you cant leave it just there, what happened after?

[tall frigate]

He wound up being okay from the accident, got discharged a couple days later, never went back to work at the french laundry and transitioned into smaller chef-owner restaurants

I don't know what he's doing now, but I assume no more michelin starred stuff

[vivid violet]

what the F. he was literally in a coma from the accident.

[compact hound]

Surprised you’re not caught up with the noma stuff but you talking about clav the other day

[tall frigate]

I have another friend who worked for Chang at ma peche for a while. She said he was notoriously aggressive with all the female staff. She was certain he offered her a job because she was an attractive young korean cook he met when he visited her culinary school.

I think the truth is that ou don't climb to those heights without being kind of a POS

[compact hound]

Also know someone who worked for chang and said he was a dick

[desert stirrup]

You right! New LA born chain unlocked

What do you guys think of For The Win?

They've expanded so quickly!

[desert stirrup]

I agree! Their pasta dishes are solid but given I live pretty close to both locations I just buy their pasta and hold it in the freezer until needed.

I find Italian food to almost always be over priced and disappointing

Thus is the curse of learning how to cook

[desert stirrup]

Does David Chang abuse his employees?

[tight gorge]

yes, verbally

[eternal birch]

industry norm

but also david chang shitty to other ppl as well

[cedar otter]

used to. I think he's pretty much off the kitchen now

[tight gorge]

cocaine, insults, stress

[cedar otter]

like he's not in the kitchens cooking

he's pretty much a podcaster now

[eternal birch]

I saw him recording at the row

ya

hes mostly media now

[tight gorge]

tldr

[surreal pivot]

I never worked for Chang and I knew he was a dick

[vivid violet]

people are too selfish about boycotting, they just want the tasty food ?

[compact hound]

Rene doing all types of abuse

Ex noma employees speaking out

[mellow sonnet]

it just reminds me of luxury brands getting boycotted for their choice of material, but the people boycotting werent customers to begin with

sure ill "boycott" noma but i couldnt afford it anyways so it really doesnt matter to them if they have my business or not

its nice to see sponsors drop them though because thats finally damage actually being done in a meaningful way

you can still go to luxury fashion houses and buy exotic leather bags just they arent on display from public backlash

[surreal pivot]

I didn’t read all of it but I did see people were getting stabbed with utensils while on shift.

Couldn’t have been me. You stab me and you’re gonna have to explain your puncture wounds too

[tight gorge]

Damn stabbing.

[tall frigate]

Under no circumstances will I (or can I) spend $1500 on the pop up dinner.

[tight gorge]

To then get raw squid tacos

[tall frigate]

This is the part that I think really underscores how pervasive and scary this behavior is.

The fact that nobody shanked him back is wild.

It that’s what working with a tyrant who can ruin your entire career is like.

I never worked in a kitchen at that level but for sure I saw it in surgery.

I accommodated all sorts of heinous shit even though in general I’m not one to back down from a confrontation.

[bitter kestrel]

Can you believe some people pay to be stabbed by a surgeon?!

[mellow sonnet]

ive never heard of a physically abusive surgeon but we def have some verbally questionable ones

i am in a large hospital though so u could prob get away w way more in a smaller one

[tall frigate]

Times are changing. There were definitely a few physically abusive ones still around early in my training. I think they’re mostly gone now, thank god.

[mellow sonnet]

amex and blackbird both dropped noma

noma was on blackbird

[desert stirrup]

New renderings of a blackout Bengle

[desert stirrup]

Yeah I was about to say

[desert stirrup]

I never ate at any of his restaurants or tried his momofuku branded stuff.

He always gave me “Asian man simping for the white elite” vibes

[desert stirrup]

Dude blackbird and Noma had a massive partnership

Blackbird is pretty tight btw

Thanks @cedar otter for linking that here

I’ve used it a couple of times and finally got to do the “pay at table” feature

Shit was so badass

Walk in, order, walk out, auto pay

That’s the future man

No more juggling a server for a check or messing around with signing receipts

I hope this takes off and more places use it like Resy or Open Table

[mellow sonnet]

katsu jin in pasadena not bad. theres a QR for a menu but then u also order and pay on the site. QR is linked to the table so they know who to bring the food out to

[desert stirrup]

It’s pretty neat

[desert stirrup]

Siiiiiick

[mellow sonnet]

just wondering what happens in an AWS outage where the site is down

[desert stirrup]

Hahahaha

Free food!

Or I guess back to paper receipts

[mellow sonnet]

last AWS outage broke all of the toast or cloves POS systems i forgot which

[tight gorge]

Might cancel out my 240v plug to make room for car charger.

[mellow sonnet]

yeah this oil price surge going to stress the market

[tight gorge]

Well more like met be nice

[mellow sonnet]

met nice yes

[surreal pivot]

My friend’s dad was the ucla surgeon who brought a gun into surgery 😂

[tight gorge]

anybody rock a weber kamado?

my initial research is leading me to buying one

[tall frigate]

And I filed a formal complaint against the resident who levied those charges for endangering patients.

The world is small, lol.

[low mantle]

We had an instance where a nuke med tech was intentionally whipping up Hot isotopes so they can tape the syringe under another techs desk.

[surreal pivot]

His house was one of three houses that my mom didn’t let us do sleepovers at. It all makes sense. And yeah world is too small!

[tall frigate]

People be crazy.

[mellow sonnet]

my hospital has a metal detector at the visitor and ED entrance now but employee entrances they dont

[surreal pivot]

Is Dr. Kwong still there? I lost track of the story

[cedar otter]

Yeah they have great perks for employees as well. They get $3 every time they clock into shift

And two of my guys racked up enough referral points to buy Acaia Pearl scales with blackbird points

[tight gorge]

so youre telling me VC free money is back?

[cedar otter]

Free until it isn’t free nomo right

Free lunch with blackbird points rn

[tall frigate]

Don't know. I have to imagine probably not

[mellow sonnet]

unions are great until u want to fire someone

[desert stirrup]

Just add in another 240V plug

You own a house

Do whatever the fuck you want dawgg

[mellow sonnet]

power isnt infinite

[desert stirrup]

ZERO LIMITATIONS

[mellow sonnet]

[tight gorge]

ima leave the cable there so I have the option to plug it back in to the panel in the future

[desert stirrup]

YOOOOOOooooooo

That’s rad

[boreal solar]

I feel a lot of these requests to boycott fall on deaf ears due to the over saturation of boycott requests.

A lot of people get tired of being told what to avoid and take a strong “there is no ethical consumerism under capitalism” approach where they just develop agnostic viewpoints.

[desert stirrup]

Idk man, the sun do be putting out like a billion watts an hour or something

Pretty damn close to infinite

[mellow sonnet]

setting up solar is like 10k and doesnt work without the sun

getting a battery setup to store is another 8k+ depending how much u want to store

and solar is rated for 10 years before replacing

[desert stirrup]

Brother, battery?

Fuck that

Sand

Legit

[boreal solar]

Solar has been great for me in SoCal. But I also got in before SCE changed guidelines.

[desert stirrup]

Dedicate space and money for a few tons of sand

Best damn “battery” man can ask for

Heat up the sand with some energy, then when needed pump water through the sand. The hot sand will then boil the water into steam to turn a turbine

[tight gorge]

LA LA is still on NEM 2.0 so its pretty sweet

[desert stirrup]

Sand batteries are a wild ass concept which have potential in industrial or power generation sectors

[tall frigate]

My body is a sand battery

I go to the beach for 1 day

Boom, perpetual sand in and around my body

Infinite sand storage capacity

[boreal solar]

Being a parent I’ve seen first hand how much sand can be gathered in a toddlers body.

[cedar otter]

Holy fuck

Just dialed in this enigma hops sudan rume from glitch

it's bonkers

[crude citrus]

Where are you going to be serving it?

[cedar otter]

East Holly

Artesia next month prolly

Doing another bar takeover this weekend

it smells like thai green curry

[bronze mural]

Hey guy’s, just got the Orea 01! Can’t wait to try it out. Any suggestions on pour methods or ratios?

Will be brewing light roasts primarily, with beans from Hydrangea and La Cabra

[surreal pivot]

Made the mistake last time of only grabbing 1 bag of glitch

[cedar otter]

I like 15 or 16 grams dose, 240 out

60/60/60/60

30 seconds apart

change the last pour to center if it over extracts

[cedar otter]

I got ambitious and grabbed 7 different coffees so we don't have a TON of retail bags for each variety

but there's more variety

[rough crypt]

when are they going up for sale?

[surreal pivot]

Dropping Saturday?

[cedar otter]

Well yeah starting the sale on Saturday in person

Any leftovers will be posted for shipping after Sunday

[bronze mural]

Thank you so much! In comparison to a V60, do you have to grind a lot more fine?

[glossy sail]

yes, orea can go finer

[dull adder]

I looked into it but went with a ceramic kamado
Imo this one doesn't make much sense.
Fuel = flavor, and you have less fuel usage than even a ceramic kamado which people complain about smoke with.
Also ceramic lasts forever as it can't rust out. Also it's stupid heavy so it's expensive to ship. I don't get what justified Weber to charge the same for a simple steel BBQ.

You also lose compatibility with KJ/BGE accessories, which imo is the main draw of a kamado. It's a jack of all, master of none.

[cedar otter]

For a sec I thought Weber Workshops released another product

[dull adder]

Haha.
I'm still waiting on the Weber x Weber collab

[earnest robin]

I carry a knife with me and only time it was detected was in the random music venue

[dull adder]

Also a lot of cost on ceramic kamados comes from the lifetime warranty. Look at the cheap ceramic brands and they're much cheaper than the name brands but don't offer that warranty

[earnest robin]

Hospitalsndont care

[tight gorge]

do you have an external fan on yours?

[dull adder]

Not yet, I'm waiting on the Combustion Inc one.
That said I've done multiple overnight cooks without issue. Just dial in the temp, watch it for an hour or so to make sure, then go to sleep

[tight gorge]

im too ocd for that, I just wake up hella early. I got an oven that can hold low temps so I will just switch to a warn oven after the first 6-8 hours

Fack, so I guess I do need an offset after all

[dull adder]

If I had more space I'd want offset + Weber kettle + flattop
But the Kamado does all of those well enough for me

[tight gorge]

hmm I do have such space. Initially I was thinking Gas and Argentine brasero. But it feels a kettle format is more versatile than a parilla.

[dull adder]

Don't waste my time with gas 😂

Maybe on a flat top

[tight gorge]

I mean, mid-week cooks I dont want to smoke my clothes out

I had a flat top and didnt use it as often

[vivid violet]

too much energy to heat it all up ?

or a pain to clean ?

[tight gorge]

I can get a flattop to put on top of the gas grill

didnt have many dishes where I neede one

mainly fried rice, large party breakfast cooks, etc

but not a reg thing for me

[dull adder]

I feel like I can get charcoal going fast enough but I get it

Santa Maria grills are also cool 😉😂

[tight gorge]

I like these better

welp this one

you can burn entire wood sticks in the back and cook with embers

but yeah, gas for the normies and a live fire one is prob where I will go. The hybrids grills are cool but the good ones are $$$

[tall frigate]

Don't get an offset

Come over to my house and do 1 cook of your choice on my offset and change your mind immediately

I guess I should ask first: Do you like having to stoke the fire every 15-30 minutes for the entirety of a 14 hour cook?

[tight gorge]

lol, I hear ya. I only smoke until I wrap so maybe 8-10 hours tops. I had a gravity fed grill that I got quite good at so I like that level of simplicity, but I always had the burning feeling in the back of my head that its so much better on an offset.

which one you got 👀

[tall frigate]

It's definitely better on an offset, just only maybe 10% better

I had a reverse flow offset built with a fully insulated firebox a few years ago by a guy who used to be in vegas but has since moved to ID

I think honestly he was way undercharging for what he was building

I'll probably sell it and go back to something simpler. Probably a gravity unit like an assassin

To be honest the cooker I miss most is the pit barrel

Dead simple and made very good food

[tight gorge]

how big, I have a guy in santa fe spring that sells 80 gallon for 2200, insulated fire box too.

[tall frigate]

80 gal. I think I paid $3000 including delivery to my door. $2200 is a great deal.

To be honest I wouldn't buy any of the really expensive ones since people have been making amazing barbecue on garbage propane tanks that leak and are rusty for generations

I almost bought a mill scale but I'm so glad I didn't

[tight gorge]

i mean I have even considered franklins

[tall frigate]

So did I

[tight gorge]

but cooler heads have prevailed

[tall frigate]

I'm sure they're nice, but I think the real secret to barbecue is the actual cook, not the equipment

[tight gorge]

well let me know when you post yours to the b/s channel

it can also roast beans right

[tall frigate]

Definitely. Give that classic smoky flavor.

[boreal solar]

Now I’m curious. Wish it was in Artesia. Boysenberry festival starts this weekend and I could have killed two birds.

[tall frigate]

Dang. King's Roost is now open 7d a week. That makes buying flour so much easier.

[boreal solar]

Is it worth it? I’ve been tempted but it feels so $$$.

[tall frigate]

I like Central Milling and the price winds up being slightly cheaper than if I buy from CM directly

I've been buying from that supply chain for long enough now to remember the days when it started as the LABB group buy and bags were $40 and distributed at cost

Roe definitely makes more than that, now

But He's a nice guy and he keeps the stuff I like on the shelves.

[boreal solar]

I’ve been buying Kirkland organic AP lately after switching from Caputo due to cost. But I sort of miss the texture in my pizza. I really want to try something new. Wife isn’t sold though.

[tall frigate]

Where in LA are you?

Wait, I think I remember you're out in Rancho, right?

[boreal solar]

Yeah. 😂

[tall frigate]

If you're ever here in Pasadena, I'd be happy to give you some CM flour to trial.

I buy in 50 lb bags and kind of rotate flours. I think High Mountain would be best for pizza. I unfortunately just finished a bag and decided to go back to their general purpose bread flour, which is the Artisan Baker's Craft malted.

[desert stirrup]

Who’s taking over Ondo this time?

[tall frigate]

But it's still awfully good for pizza, just perhaps not as strong as caputo red for example

[desert stirrup]

I’ve found 50g bloom + 50g pulses for washed coffees was pretty good but honestly the 1-2-1 recipe that I used on V60 also slapping on this too

[desert stirrup]

Bro yes, this shit slaps but ye also expensive and takes up a load of space

[compact hound]

Krispy kreme right off the conveyor belt is

[desert stirrup]

I have teeth

And like using them for bread products

[boreal solar]

Dude, for our daughter’s birthday party last year we did a Krispy Kreme too good to go for like $6. It was acrually a dozen of fresh donuts. Still warm. I was shocked.

[tall frigate]

And you didn't even invite me. Wow.

[boreal solar]

Eh, by today’s standard they’re not even that sweet compared to a lot of the crap served in local bakeries and restaurants.

The original donut is like 190 calories. Granted a lot of it is sugar. But that puts in perspective how exaggerated their reputation is

[boreal solar]

It was at a petting zoo. Not sure how much you’d enjoy petting the goats and eating pap johns cheese pizzas 😂

[tall frigate]

A lot and a lot

[compact hound]

If i got a fresh dozen for $6 im clearing the dozen myself

[boreal solar]

We got two of them for $6 each. Was a great secondary option with the smaller bakery cake.

[cedar otter]

Glitch

But only their coffee none of the staff

[earnest robin]

High mountain is amazing for pizza. I have been using it with mixed 00 but then after I tried it straight and liked it more

[cedar otter]

And then another takeover next weekend

By another roaster

[mellow sonnet]

Ah yes spectrum increased my annual this month bc I forgot to call them

[short condor]

He just does his show/youtube and films in row dtla that’s where that space is. Seems like he’d be a super big tool.

[weary chasm]

Lemme know if you succeed

I wanna know the flow chart

[mellow sonnet]

I'm just going to try rocket money and see what they will do

[mellow sonnet]

Apparently noma has open reservations now

[cedar otter]

Remember we gotta boycott them now

[mellow sonnet]

I can't afford anyways

Boycott regardless because of price

[glossy sail]

i saw a seating for 1

on like a friday at noon for noma haha

[civic crest]

Is this tragic or what, v60 funnel

[left kite]

Maybe it’ll give the next brew some extra body

[desert stirrup]

My backlog just blew up recently so it is with great remorse for me to state that I will not be at Ondo this Saturday to buy expensive ass beans

[desert stirrup]

YO HE HAS THE WEBER PEPPER MILLS!!!!

I’m envious

I want the black one for black pepper and the white one for white pepper or alligator pepper or Sichuan pepper

Honestly any pepper that isn’t black

[desert stirrup]

Broke boi???

Nah

Boycott boi

[lone pier]

involuntary boycott squad

[desert stirrup]

Head your ass to IKEA Culver City when it opens and get that yellow funnel

Just like the V60, you can also brew with it and win championships 🙃

[mellow sonnet]

New Ikea in Culver

HD buttercup warehouse next to helms bakery becoming an ikea

[earnest robin]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/3KYgbqUqijjQGtDC7

[cedar otter]

You can come and just drink expensive beans

All 7 glitch beans will be on bar

[civic crest]

Yeah I never use the salt. I should just dump it and put my white peppercorns in it

[earnest robin]

Salt mills are so useless

[neon scaffold]

i wish i could drink them all but id just be having a panic attack w/ that much caffeine

[cedar otter]

Come with friends

[neon scaffold]

i have to grab at least 1 bag of something the glitch i had was so good

[cedar otter]

Yeah even the cheapest coffee is pretty good

Solid natty ethiopia

[neon scaffold]

nice. i only have 1 maybe 2 friends who like coffee outside of this disc. ill do my best

if ppl here are coming and wanna do a flight LFG

[dull adder]

Last year I called and asked to cancel. I think it's important to get to their retention department.
Then I just said that Verizon or T-Mobile offer better speeds for cheaper

[mellow sonnet]

Ground 15g

Lost track of my 15g

Did another 15g

Suddenly I have 30g in my catchcup

Found the first 15

💀

[vivid violet]

I pulled a shot recently with a dose where I didn't realize about 1/3 had bridged in the grinder chute..

unintended turbo at trad grind levels. tasted 😬

[mellow sonnet]

This 30:450 tastes wack

[earnest robin]

I tried that, they offered me a bundle with a phone number but refused to just give discount

[bitter kestrel]

Shoulda souped it

[cedar otter]

Shoulda done 30;300 and bypass

[boreal solar]

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1463385505449765/?mibextid=wwXIfr Ondo ice cream?

[crude citrus]

Wen Panama gesha soft serve

[cedar otter]

tbh I wanted to put a soft serve machine at Arteisa

Oh also I already own a Pacojet

it's at home

It's too damn loud to use at the shop during business hours

sounds like a construction zone

[boreal solar]

Is it even louder than the creami?

[lone pier]

nothing is louder than the creami

[boreal solar]

I love mine. But dang does it sound loud. By some miracle you can’t hear it in my daughter’s room with the white noise machine on. I was shocked.

[earnest robin]

Vario enters the chat

[surreal pivot]

The key is actually being prepared to cancel

[neon scaffold]

E z just make a creami room

[cedar otter]

yes

Creami is like a toy guitar w/ speaker attached

Pacojet is a full 100 watt amp w/ 4 speaker cabinet

[frozen blade]

Anyone know of any events happening before world of coffee?

[compact hound]

“Hey wanna come over and check out my creami room?”

[glossy sail]

opening cornhub line im sure

[mellow sonnet]

https://abc7.com/post/fbi-warns-iran-aspired-attack-california-drones-retaliation-war-alert/18703314/

guys stay safe out there 💀

[drowsy knot]

bridging is imo the biggest design issue with the z1. I think they’re amazing in pretty much every way but i always weigh post grinding

[eternal birch]

dang

sandwich shops do not open past 3

[cedar otter]

Dang Rene stepping down from Noma

[mellow sonnet]

Noma is uncanceled? I still can't afford

Tbh if it was 5-700 I would consider it

[boreal solar]

Check for Vietnamese restaurants. I have better luck getting a banh mi.

[desert stirrup]

I completely agree. I really don’t know why they are a product at all

[desert stirrup]

You tempt me! I will be in the area this Saturday for the LA Pi Day Festival

Gotta stuff my face with pie

Glitch then pie!

Ngl, knowing me I’ll most likely still walk out with one bag of glitch

[mellow sonnet]

Wtf is LA pi festival

[desert stirrup]

Bruh

His name

Thomas Fuks

[desert stirrup]

It’s a festival where people bake a load of pies, then more people come and eat the pies

[mellow sonnet]

I turn 26 on pi day

[desert stirrup]

It’s free too!

[desert stirrup]

Well happy early birthday ya old man

[mellow sonnet]

Yeah I'm past my prime

[desert stirrup]

I fear the day I cross the quarter life cycle of a human

[desert stirrup]

If it was around that price I’d easily spend an unemployment check on Noma

Balling out on state money 😎

[mellow sonnet]

Unemployment during covid + covid extra check paid around 23/hr which is funny because min wage is like 18/hr

I know bc I used that money to trade

Thanks covid stimmy checks

[cedar otter]

The buddy who I’m traveling to coffee origin with showed me a screenshot of an open slot on March 25 and he was like damn if we left a week later we could’ve eaten at Noma

I was like yeah maybe YOU could’ve

[surreal pivot]

He’s stepping down but still gonna profit. Standard damage control move

[desert stirrup]

And look where you are now

A home owner without a home

How unfortunate and impressive at the same time

It will be a grand time when you move back in

Hire a cool interior decorator!

[mellow sonnet]

Im too poor to hire someone to tell me I have expensive taste

I already know I like bougie furniture

[cedar otter]

And bougie pleats

Most impressive garb I’ve seen

[boreal solar]

That’s not good enough. You still won’t see me at Noma.

[boreal solar]

Bougie coffee too.

[mellow sonnet]

I need more pleats

Lifestyle inflation goes crazy

That's how u stay poor

I'm def more aware now than before the fire at least

[cedar otter]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVw9LxfCFTG/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

reneredzepinoma

The recent weeks have brought attention and important conversations about our restaurant, industry, and my past leadership.

I have worked to be a better leader and Noma has taken big steps to transform the culture over many years. I recognize these changes do not repair the past. An apology is not enough; I take responsibility for my own actio...

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Lmao the showmanship

He filmed the whole announcement

Who the fk says “yo bring your dslr I’m gonna film the whole team being supportive of my speech”

[eternal birch]

surprisingly no

or i mean

[glossy sail]

dang

[eternal birch]

its banh mi but pho spot banh mi is not good

[glossy sail]

should nominated rene for oscar lol

i like that he says "we win over the guests 1 by 1"

with the cost of dining at noma ... it for sure is 1 by 1

lol

[cedar otter]

Here we go

[compact hound]

Bun bo hue

[cedar otter]

Okay it is pretty spicy

[crude citrus]

I need to know where they serve bun Bo hue salad

[primal laurel]

yeah honestly surprised he's capable of letting Noma continue without him

[cedar otter]

I feel like most executive chefs don't really handle day to day anyway

all the dishes recipes should be figured out by now. the sous chef should be able to handle most of the kitchen operation at this point

he might have another person who's de facto executive chef

[primal laurel]

yikes, that was super uncomfortable to listen to, especially his tone and random inflections. a normal statement would've sufficed..

[primal laurel]

oh for sure, just meant in terms of ego as it's his baby

Instead of the alternative of closing the restaurant doors, like they announced they were doing like 2 years ago now lol

[mellow sonnet]

Just watched his speech

He had at least 3 cameras filming the whole thing

And a lot of B roll

There's no way he's taking it seriously 💀

[desert stirrup]

gives me Maklemore posting a screenshot of his texts with Kendrick after he won the grammy over TPAB vibes

Also is he admitting to the accusations now?

[cedar otter]

he never denied

iirc

he said yah sorry it happened I'll be better

[desert stirrup]

B R U H

and yet he still posts this video

I guess atonement doesn't exist anymore

Just release a screenshot of a letter apologizing for all the weird hitler loving shit or a video about how you're stepping away from the restaurant's day to day and you're dandy

Bring back Hammurabi's Code

Let the employees tie him down then one by one stab him with forks

[shadow torrent]

xx3 hot damn

[shadow torrent]

"stepping down". haven't heard that before

[boreal solar]

Hitler stuff? I thought it was abuse and uncivil working conditions.

[desert stirrup]

Kanye my man

Kanye and Rene

Both are able to give apologies but not change their behavior or atone for this past actions

It's dumb

[boreal solar]

Oh. I was conceptualizing noma 😂

I don’t really follow Kanye. I think someone on here mentioned he’s claiming brain injuries from a car accident when he was younger.

[cedar otter]

he's been claiming a lot of things

[mellow sonnet]

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1476699037409104/

100% authentic AI lelit bianca

[cedar otter]

Wow someone I know went to Noma actually

Posted the photos of the food in his stories

[tight gorge]

andddddd

[cedar otter]

The food looks like he went foraging

Like they all just look like plants

There’s nopal too

[raw oak]

A friend of mine that works at Noma completely wiped his IG bio. Maybe to remove any association? 😬

[cedar otter]

Is he Japanese?

[raw oak]

No, the other guy 😆

[cedar otter]

Oh nvm

He still has noma on his profile

Even shared that reel on his story

[raw oak]

Same. 😬 I kinda want to ask, but I don’t want to pry

[crude citrus]

Can confirm 🥵

[cedar otter]

It's got plenty of sweetness to balance it out tho

[vivid violet]

it's nice that you can sit in the outside area with a pet, and they're cool with it

i thought there was a 2nd location, but now i can't find it. I assume this is the one on Garfield.

[cedar otter]

https://discord.com/channels/726985544038612993/1479757608859471942

@compact hound another P100 super close to you lol

[compact hound]

Haha i saw

Im actually considering parting ways with mine soon

[cedar otter]

Hype

[civic crest]

That used to be mine

[vivid violet]

what did you keep instead ?

[civic crest]

It’s in Santa Anita mall I think

[civic crest]

Mono max 1

[mellow sonnet]

U getting that ozik all in BST?

[compact hound]

Duh, i have to one up the other allen tran

Going to test out an 01 soon and see how i like it

[mellow sonnet]

PCS worth imo

[compact hound]

I’ve tried some other cups in comparison to my p100 and felt like it was constantly getting edged out

[mellow sonnet]

Pcs good

[compact hound]

Plus some minor quirks im not fond of

[mellow sonnet]

Dumb catchcup and fork bad

[compact hound]

Not a bad grinder by any means but I’m not in love with it enough to keep/settle

[mellow sonnet]

I don't mind the forks bc I have hibi forks but the catchcup is bleh regardless

[compact hound]

I lowkey regret not grabbing that new eg-1 that was in OC a couple months ago

[mellow sonnet]

Well coffeechiro has a eg-1 now and knowing him it'll be up for sale in a few months

[rocky mango]

If I were staying by myself for WOC San Diego, is it worth saving the money by booking an AirBNB in Tijuana and relying on the Blue Line to get to the convention center for WOC event?

[mellow sonnet]

Tijuana is cheap for other reasons right now 💀

[civic crest]

@crude citrus @glossy sail picked up two bags lol

[bitter kestrel]

I like your thinking. I would just look into current crossing delays (if any) from staff shortages.

[rocky mango]

Sheinbaum our 🐐
She is our queen 💅

[tight gorge]

No, esp no if you don’t have global entry

[civic crest]

Crash at Ondo Airbnb

[rocky mango]

This is actually really smart. Being former H*******a, this is a viable option
Thanks @cedar otter

[glossy sail]

emperor palpatine "do it"

[glossy sail]

i couldve sold you mine hahah

actually you shouldnt worry

the eg-1 v3 i traded for the ozik is prolly gonna go on sale

that guy just likes swapping gear every week.

[civic crest]

I wanted to go to banh mi hoa phat too today but was already stuffed

[glossy sail]

Oh yea. That's good. Haha

Maybe I'll get that tomorrow

[civic crest]

did Huntington, ipoh kopitium, chicha San Chen, and hong coffee lol

[eternal birch]

just nuked test DB

too conditioned to pressing y/1

single dialog to reset the entire db

[vivid violet]

any easy backups to restore ?

[eternal birch]

just copy over from prod

[vivid violet]

someone did this to the prod DB, back in one of the first startups I worked at

[eternal birch]

I should make a replication

[vivid violet]

if using hosted Postgres, it's super simple

[eternal birch]

its not my project, I just got it handed off so idk how it fully works

mysql

[vivid violet]

yeah same

[eternal birch]

yeah, I wish this company had money for postgres or even mongo

[vivid violet]

is it hosted on some Cloud provider, or you're running your own ?

[eternal birch]

I think prod is on RDS

test is somewhere... idk where it exactly is

I just have the address

[vivid violet]

excellent

makes sense test should be a smaller instance on RDS

[eternal birch]

ya, I should move/confirm them both to RDS and I dont even think I need to replicate in that case

[vivid violet]

yeah, and backups should be a cinch.

should have a run book for testing using a backup to restore

[civic crest]

You Postgres dba?

[vivid violet]

nah, just almost 30 years in tech

and we currently use Postgres for our stuff on GCP

[spiral arrow]

PJ & Friends is back. Today's the first one. 2 more this month and 3 more next. Thursday evening. Collab with local chefs

https://www.pasjoli.com/pjfriends

[buoyant marlin]

Postgres for life 🐘

[vivid violet]

it has been pretty rock solid.

we used to be on ArangoDB for various features..

but having migrated the queries, it's been much faster on Postgres.

[buoyant marlin]

We've been using it for 7-8 years I think at this point and it's been great. I used MySQL yeeeaaaars ago and it was fine but I'd be hard pressed to use anything other than PG these days.

[boreal solar]

I didn’t know you worked with the gaggia classic pro.

[tight gorge]

No it stand for Getting Carlos Paid

[cedar otter]

Need restaurant recs

Will be taking Sang Ho from Center Coffee around LA

for about 1 week

he says he really wants tacos

but I know we can't eat tacos every meal lol

[buoyant marlin]

It's LA, of course you can

Sounds like a good challenge

[left kite]

A new street taco shop every day after dinner

[civic crest]

Ohh this will trigger CSR credit

[civic crest]

We’re using it for our atlassian env

[weary chasm]

Howlin rays? Lol

I wonder what other foodie recs will happen

[cedar otter]

yeah looking forward to seeing everyone's recs haha

[weary chasm]

Mikaya, chubby Cattle ayce style?

Lol

[cedar otter]

I'm compling a google maps list that stems from here to oc then to SD ultimately

since we'll also be driving to WoC together

[weary chasm]

Should be a bunch of mikaya /chubby cattle on the way

[civic crest]

Heritage bbq on the way to sd is worth a stop

[cedar otter]

meh he's coming from Seoul so I don't think he needs kbbq or shabu recs

[weary chasm]

Oh

Gotcha

[civic crest]

Phoholic in OC

[weary chasm]

Pho in little saigon

Lol

Oc & lau

Check out Oc & Lau Restaurant!
https://yelp.to/bqDICpCIDZ

Though. I guess it's just straight butter

This is more a family meal. Iunno. Lobster on top of noodles

Check out Boston Lobster!
https://yelp.to/whsn0CncS7

[civic crest]

Quan mii and Banh Cuon Luu Luuen are on my list to try

[earnest robin]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/wZorgKDj8muJVXtX8 nice bahn mis

@civic crest have you tried it

[weary chasm]

Looks cool

Too far Westside...

[civic crest]

Nah I’ve driven by all the time I’ll try it out

[weary chasm]

This is value town (to me)

Check out Waka Sakura!
https://yelp.to/3pIIIANyZk

[civic crest]

Looks fushiony

[cedar otter]

I think he also eats nice ass sushi in Korea too

lol

[weary chasm]

Lol

[cedar otter]

I need to hit him w/ something LA something America

burgers and tacos

maybe some Italian (pizzeria sei and osteria mozza have been added)

[civic crest]

minikabob

Bavel

So many spots haha

[cedar otter]

too many tbh

Imma just give him a big list and have him pick lol

[civic crest]

I don’t even ask my parents I just take them they’re always like how much does this shit cost lol

[weary chasm]

Quarter Sheets lol

[shadow torrent]

District6 in Mira Mesa has some goddamn good indo-chinese

made me nostalgic

[weary chasm]

As for burgers

[cedar otter]

In n out

[weary chasm]

Hodads in San Diego

Oh. But yeah. In N out works too

[left kite]

Easy street

Moo’s craft bbq (smoke burger is rlly good there too)

Carlos tempura udon

Tsujita

Matiki island bbq in buena park area

[weary chasm]

Check out Willingham's World Champion BBQ!
https://yelp.to/oPuibtxyIL

[left kite]

Could also do langer’s deli

[cedar otter]

true

[weary chasm]

Check out Langer's Delicatessen!
https://yelp.to/0LqeVW8G74

[cedar otter]

jewish deli

[weary chasm]

It's like $30 now. Lol. But I would buy it

[cedar otter]

and then we can walk around macarthur park for the full LA experience

we can prob split #19 + chili cheese fries lol

[weary chasm]

Gonna get the street vendor hot dogs? Lol

Also elote, papusas

[cedar otter]

maybe wurstkuche

[weary chasm]

Tacos El Gordo in san Diego? Lol

Anyhow. I guess it's more about the company than the food.

[boreal solar]

Maybe Salvadoran? I know a lot of solid ones in Rancho. Not sure about LA though.

I imagine that’s less common in Korea

[glossy sail]

well obviously holbox/komal

has to be on the list lol

[compact hound]

Went back to Sonny’s to retry + 2 of my friends wanted to try for the first time

Was way better

Hits way harder when you order there and eat it fresh

Definitely better than apollonias IMO but i need to revisit apollonias and order whole pie fresh for a fair comparison

[tight gorge]

Cheese looks fuego

[lone pier]

anyone have an affordable auto detailing option they’d recommend? just need the inside of my prius shampood and figured i’d ask here before i hit yelp

[surreal pivot]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/uJMTEXPEbw4PV91G7?g_st=ic

Really enjoyed this last time I was down there.

[compact hound]

Do no hot oil if you try it

Doesn’t add anything

[topaz solstice]

I’ll be traveling from Finland and spending some time in LA and SD around WOC, so these recommendations are great, thanks!

[tight gorge]

Yee raw dog only

[surreal pivot]

“No slices” pisses me off 😂

[earnest robin]

There is not as many nice places on Westside

[compact hound]

Curious if there’s any valid reason why they don’t offer slices apart from wanting to guarantee the best experience/taste

[solid ferry]

It's managing volume/customer base. Also, aligns them with NYC pizza culture for "this is a better pizza place than your average good pizza place." That's just my POV and may or may not align with their actual choice/intention 😂

Visually the pie says "our blend of classic and trendy pizza things"

[neon scaffold]

taqueria frontera on cypress ave is ridiculous, esp the pastor tacos and asada molita imo. @desert stirrup can confirm

[eternal birch]

yday

tested my teeth/jaw

still hurts a bit

[cedar otter]

Yee frontera already in the list

[eternal birch]

dama grill, miya miya (idk line situation now), mini kabob?

[compact hound]

I could definitely see that

If no slices means quality stays good then thats worth it IMO

[solid ferry]

Do they still do take out pies?

[compact hound]

Yeah you can order online or in person

[solid ferry]

Then at least that's a step more convenient compared to dine in only

[compact hound]

In person wait time was 25 mins which wasn’t bad considering they had a decent amount of pies before mine

Worth the wait to have it fresh out the oven

[solid ferry]

Yep, I'm a fan of fresh, dine in (anti eat it in the car)

I even do that shit with Round Table 😂

[compact hound]

Not sure how good they are on timing when it comes to online ordering though. First time i went when it was still lowkey i came like 30 mins late because traffic just continued to get worse but one of my pizzas was lukewarm but the other one was hot

[desert stirrup]

Hit up an Armenian or Mediterranean place like Raffi's, Azizam, Skaf's Lebanese Cuisine, House of Mandi, Mini Kabob, Bavel

I think those flavors are a huge juxtaposition if this guy lives in Seoul

Mexican and Mediterranean/Armenian

Maybe Sei or another pizza joint?

[desert stirrup]

I really dig Ozzy's. Have you tried it? I'm curious to see how Sonny's compares

[desert stirrup]

as funny as that would be, I do stand by showing guests the best and worst of the US, California, and LA

So maybe??? The sammiches are damn expensive but tasty at Langers

[compact hound]

New haven vs NY/NJ/BK whatever tf they wanna call it

Havent tried though

[desert stirrup]

but also Daughter's Deli is practically the same thing and in a much better location

[desert stirrup]

Yeah it may be a bit unfair

Man Sonny's will always be middle of the pack for me given how fucking hard it is to get and how little space they have to eat indoors

I hate exclusive take out only spots

Exclusive but I can eat when the food is fresh like Sei I'm down

but Sonny's has like 2 or 3 tables and everyone else is expected to eat in their car or on the street

some hoe shit especially cuz their za is expensive and hard to get

[compact hound]

Getting it is pretty easy now since they don’t really sell out unless it’s a weekend but yeah dining situation not the best.

[eternal birch]

can do both with mid east tacos

[desert stirrup]

Oh ok they stopped only making 30 pies a night?!

sick!!

ok cool I'll give them another shot

My friend snagged a pie a few months back and came over. Shit was mediocre af but like you said, I think it's because it sat in the box for like 20-30 mins like you said in your initial impressions

[solid ferry]

Pizza should be able to sit in the box. It should be good cold after sitting overnight. But quality maxxing is valid too

[cedar otter]

They’ve been “temporarily” closed since January

[eternal birch]

wtf march 4 2027 reopening?

either moving or shutting it up

or fat fingered 67

[surreal pivot]

But even the best NYC pizza spots don’t do that

[solid ferry]

“best” vs best

[surreal pivot]

The managing volume thing makes sense. The aligning with nyc pizza culture, feels like a reach.

The good spots, the best spots, whatever… they don’t do it

[tight gorge]

Corner market expanded and now the sandos are mid

🚩 Retracting my rec until further notice

[compact hound]

Took too long to visit

[tight gorge]

Yeah, pastrami was thinly cut, lacked smoke flavor.

At $20 gonna be a minute before I revisit

[surreal pivot]

Now I want langer’s

Maybe hit daughter’s deli to avoid the MacArthur park experience

[tight gorge]

Nah, OG or bust imo

[surreal pivot]

I’ve never actually been to DD. It’s not the same quality?

[dull adder]

I'm also a fan. And imo it's even more important with shitty food. Costco and Little Caesars become inedible to me when they cool off

I don't want some cold soggy greasy fast food

[desert stirrup]

Amen brother

shit is so messy and cramped in the car

And if the drive home is like 15 mins or greater food tends to be doodoo

[desert stirrup]

kinda like shitty coffee!

[weary chasm]

La vibes

[vivid violet]

gotta keep the grease inside the food, not having it ooze out..

[eternal birch]

普通话 6

[vivid violet]

ดูน่าอร่อย

[eternal birch]

courtesy of @compact hound

[cedar otter]

tbh that does resemble mandarin's drinks pre-cream top ban

[eternal birch]

its not cream its crema dw

[earnest robin]

You are not enjoying in the car?

The first time I heard that from innout drive through when we moved to the US that sounded wild to me

[drowsy knot]

years ago at a starbucks in Monrovia the barista handed me a shot of espresso and said “drink it while it’s hot, it tastes better” 😂

[mellow sonnet]

when it cools u can taste how shit the roast is

[eternal birch]

I've had sbux espresso and its both sour and bitter

[desert stirrup]

In n out might be the exception but even then I prefer to eat on the outdoor tables with the beautiful warm sunny Southern California sun and breeze

Also to everyone, I'm stupid deep into the remineralization game now for both coffee and tea. If you need any sort of minerals or salts I most likely have it. Please send me a message if you need however many grams

[eternal birch]

u got any C₁₇H₂₁NO₄?

5kg

[mellow sonnet]

i use apax on my tea

[tight gorge]

The charm is not there, which is a big part of making the sandos good imo

[dull adder]

While I worked there, there was a belief that shots "died" if they say for 60 seconds and so it was important to incorporate it into a drink or drink it right away.
I was pretty sure that it just cooled down and allowed you to taste how bad it was

[surreal pivot]

Something about that fenty odor wafting in through the front doors

[desert stirrup]

Long story, but nah not rn

[desert stirrup]

How is it?

Also I want to replicate Apax's Jammin

I first need to try it though

I've just heard really good things about Jammin over the rest of their line up

[mellow sonnet]

LF Mass spectrometer to look at jamm

[surreal pivot]

And the looming presence of La Eme

[tight gorge]

purp true la colors coming out rn

nativo

[desert stirrup]

I was just going to look at the ingredients list and try to reverse engineer it via trial and error however if you have access I'm down

[mellow sonnet]

just find a college student w access to the lab

[bronze mural]

Curious to those who’ve used Apax - how does it compare to Lotus?

Preference of one over the other? About the same?

[mellow sonnet]

imo they all achieve the same thing just preference

[compact hound]

Shoutout @eternal birch for dropping off a dozen

[mellow sonnet]

lotus better if u want to learn what minerals do what but apax is better for a one and done imo

[compact hound]

This is my 3rd one

[mellow sonnet]

i need more metabolism 💀

i want to see u do that challenge where u smush all 12 donuts together and eat it as one

[compact hound]

I should’ve done that

Had yogurt w/ blueberries, 3 donuts, and a slice of pizza in 15 minutes in my break

[mellow sonnet]

i feel like the rest of us would get instant high cholesterol and heart burn trying it but u would still be hungry 💀

[compact hound]

I had 6 slices of pizza last night too

And yes i am still hungry but im not trying to fill up on straight donut

[mellow sonnet]

where do those calories g o

[eternal birch]

holy

[weary chasm]

Could also just send it into a water lab and see if you can reverse it that way

[weary chasm]

Joys of youth. I suppose

😂

[mellow sonnet]

I'm unc status I guess

Can't eat that much

[eternal birch]

shii at least ur skinny

cant eat much and I'm fat

[mellow sonnet]

Trump signed a new order to make home ownership easier at the cost of EPA regulations 💀

[trail tiger]

https://krispykremechallenge.com/ 12 doughnuts, 5 miles, under 1 hour

[mellow sonnet]

5niles 1hr is doable

Idk about 13 doughnuts though

[glossy sail]

thats not caffeine ... hmmm

[glossy sail]

either metabolism of the young or ... congrats on growing a tape worm? lol jk

[eternal birch]

easier for boomers?

[mellow sonnet]

He got rid of a lot of regulations in terms of construction and green requirements

Incentive for building new constructions and renovations

Heavily favors the boomers imo but idk shit about real estate market so idk

[glossy sail]

thats expensive just for that. flame AA might be easier lol

[mellow sonnet]

That's why u find a student w lab access

[glossy sail]

or someone who does LCMS for a living cough

any beans rec recently? im almost done with my backlog

[mellow sonnet]

Time to buy saka for that traditional spro

[neon scaffold]

All the scenery I had was awesome & glitch retail will be at ondo on Sat

[mellow sonnet]

My friend's flight got delayed my morning will be free tomorrow

[surreal pivot]

Is it good or is it YouTube influencer shenanigans?

[mellow sonnet]

I'm willing to try

No idea

[surreal pivot]

Eagerly awaiting the review on Derp Patreon

I’ve been meaning to try it but I have to burn through this other boomer spro I have in the cabinet

[mellow sonnet]

I have a fat backlog still

[neon scaffold]

Good mail day

[lone pier]

princess cake or dirt?

i still haven’t tried the princess cake but the dirt sounds interesting too 🤔

[neon scaffold]

princes cake 100%

if u want to get a second go for it but the cake is the star

[surreal pivot]

Every time there is a drop I’m reminded of the feelings of supreme drops from the 2010’s and I don’t even bother

[neon scaffold]

good news is he doesn't make you wait outside his house for 9 hours to get it

[surreal pivot]

I was hunched over in front of the computer without a bot 🤣

[neon scaffold]

lol same, i like concerts a lot and have gotten fast af from that experience

[surreal pivot]

I’ve only gotten heartache from that experience.

It was a nice consolation that Amazon streamed the Kendrick pop out for free though

[neon scaffold]

i was there as well 👀 , i think i''ve just been lucky tbh

being logged in w/ cc info pre-saved and using an actual mouse and going as fast as i can is all i know. probly more advantages if ur really serious (ethernet, etc)

[solid ferry]

You can also try https://caffelusso.com/products/lionshare-espresso-blend

[rough crypt]

anyone gonna be at ondo on Sunday? can't make it out till then but excited for the glitch stuff 🙂

[eternal birch]

maybe

[lone pier]

yeah i was sleeping on it its so good

[shadow torrent]

i wouldn't be mad if a cafe left their shot sitting for a half hour before it was put in a milk drink

[shadow torrent]

which CaCl2 do you have?

my attempts at home have been resulting in my Ca measurements being off by 20% of my target remin

so if yours is a different brand it might be worth exploring

[lone pier]

lol also worked there and was brainwashed into thinking starbucks coffee was the goat, and believed such for yeaaaars

also was told shots degrades over course of a minute or so yeah. took me years to realize roasting to fourth crack isn’t a good thing 🤣

[eternal birch]

american/italian sandwich store recs?

if anyone has any

also crazy license plate, idk how this went through lmao

[vivid violet]

the only sangwich you can get at Roma Market

[eternal birch]

am looking at it, fiancee prefers veggie in sammich

[left kite]

https://yelp.to/CYNp7vXOZV

Godmother sandwich

[eternal birch]

that looks good but SM might be a smidge too far

[vivid violet]

https://tenor.com/view/right-to-jail-jail-parks-and-rec-right-away-fred-armisen-gif-16902115

[eternal birch]

technically a fancy ham and cheese

[lone pier]

have you checked out ferrazzani’s yet?

[eternal birch]

nope, looking at it rn and lgtm

pasta looks good too

[lone pier]

they do this frickin burrata mortadella lemony pesto sandwich thing it’s incredible

[lone pier]

yeah everything there is a banger. it’s a relatively low key spot still

[vivid violet]

ooh nice. had that bookmarked, but don't make it up there that often.

[tight gorge]

Jealous, skipped this drop cu I thought my $500 order was lost in the Canada post mail and I could t stomach another lost package

[tight gorge]

Pretty sure that concert had a wait room no?

[neon scaffold]

happy to share some if theres one u wanna try can make u a bag e z

[neon scaffold]

yes

[glossy sail]

Nice mail day for me too

[tight gorge]

Low key you the most degen of the group

Love to see it

Well after the Ozik not so low key anymore

[compact hound]

LMFAO bro i was reading the bags and had the same thought to myself

Someone gotta do it though

[compact hound]

Bro their dessert menu is stacked today holy

That rhubarb sunday sounds fire

I lowkey wanna go just to have that

[glossy sail]

LOL @crude citrus @mellow sonnet gotta introduce the discord to who I got the ozik from. Haha.

[mellow sonnet]

💀

On that note I know where the versalab went I think

https://www.home-barista.com/buysell/versalab-m4-w-stalt-base-t103249.html

[cedar otter]

that guy is also in here

[glossy sail]

Haha yea

Is he lurking

[crude citrus]

Are those samples or did they miss a 0 in the weight

[tight gorge]

I mean if you here long enough you know of the OC cabal

[glossy sail]

Lol finca sophia would be like 500$ for 300g

[crude citrus]

No longer a cabal. We have one in here with us

[mellow sonnet]

How do I join the cabal

my naut is too poor to join

P100 not special enough to join either

[neon scaffold]

you brew these with a d27 to mess around with dialing or just yolo v60 and get like 2-3 cups?

[mellow sonnet]

3x10g brews 🫡

[crude citrus]

The 60 in v60 means 60g

[mellow sonnet]

Melodrip needs to come out w the metal dripper soon too. Running out of colum filters zzzz

[desert stirrup]

Pure Original Ingredients Calcium... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07532VLYX?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

[desert stirrup]

Place fucking slaps solely cuz of the fresh durum wheat pasta. Only two places in town I know offer fresh southern Italian pasta. This place and a vendor at the SM & Hollywood FM

Sandwiches rock too

[glossy sail]

you working with the dihydrate form? that would be a 32% weight difference vs anhydrous

[shadow torrent]

this is the one i have as well

[shadow torrent]

what form is the white balls?

because that would explain a lot

[glossy sail]

most common forms are anhydrous, dihydrae, and hexahydrate

you would have to check the packaging

[shadow torrent]

I don't think the packaging had info but also i threw it away and vac sealed it to avoid dessication

[glossy sail]

eh yea food safe gets away with not labeling. just guessing its dihydrate

The round pellets sold at homebrew shops are typically anhydrous.

hmm thats what i read

[shadow torrent]

so let's assume it's dihydrate for kicks and that i used molecular weight of anhydrous version for calculation. wouldn't that mean I'd be creating a mineral concentrate with less calcium ions than i assumed?

yeah i just did another calculation assuming dihydrate and it does look like i would have needed more if that were the case. my problem however is the opposite - I'm ending up with more calcium ions than i intended

the simplest reason could be that i somehow added more than was necessary. will need to make another one to confirm that

[boreal solar]

Same. In n out is so much easier dine in or outside. The wait is like an eighth of the time in the drive through line and the food tastes sort of terrible by the time I get it home so it’s better to just eat there anyway.

[surreal pivot]

Glitch tasting good at Mandarin 11

[glossy sail]

thats classic glitch

i think that was my first glitch drink in japan too

risaralda milan

[desert stirrup]

The one we have is anhydrous . I emailed the company because I was also super confused and worried my math was wrong. Also I remember chatting with a few other people at #water-table who had the same brand and they validated that it is anhydrous. That may explain why you are getting more calcium than expected especially if your math was on using dihydrate

[cedar otter]

they probably have a LOT of this taste card bc everything else there's a new card with a slightly different format

[short condor]

Saw that it said col but read coal and thought glitch was doing a self burn 😆

[surreal pivot]

You were LOCKED in this morning. A couple of us were like “hey good morning Brian!” No reply 😆

[cedar otter]

Lol sorry

Opener came late and kinda screwed me up

[surreal pivot]

No worries, got a good chuckle out of it

[cedar otter]

This is a self burn

[short condor]

Solid I dig it

[crude citrus]

Really is giving green curry. @cedar otter can I order a bowl of rice with this?

[glossy sail]

@civic crest and Mrs. @crude citrus reminded me I'm hella close

[civic crest]

Damn I need it haha

[compact hound]

I need to go try this spot

I feel like ive never been wow’d by a banh mi before

[glossy sail]

hoa phat for the banh mi heo quay is good, im tempted to try their dac biet but ive always been a fan of banh mi my tho's dac biet - only because its all cold cuts + thit nuong

other places dac biet is usually just all cold cuts

[glossy sail]

gotta visit the homeland - shit was good there haha

[compact hound]

Don’t kill me but im not big on heo quay

[shadow torrent]

math was also anhydrous unfortunately

[eternal birch]

holy shit

3 weeks of mechanic trying to diag the car

got it back not fixed

come home and friend sends me a forum thread saying it might be a fuse

it was a fuse

[mellow sonnet]

one time it rained and my backup camera became blue tinted. i brought it in for service and they tried wiping the camera as if i didnt try that at home

took them 1 week to replace camera. still blue

and then 2 more weeks to just replace the whole nav system and basically reset everything bc they didnt know what was wrong

[neon scaffold]

a man of culture

I overdid it but I saw the sl9 the rest is history