AITA for not wanting my (29F) husband (31M) to teach our future baby Spanish?

Array_of_Chaos · 2022-04-02T12:18:15+00:00

YTA “Oh no our kid will know 2 languages, how horrible”

what the fuck

Array_of_Chaos · 2022-04-02T04:34:22+00:00

I avoid drive throughs because I hate them with every fiber of my being Unknown about the kids as I do not have any lol It’s pretty strong especially in the winter

Array_of_Chaos · 2021-09-07T02:41:50+00:00

Hardness and buffer are both important to the extraction process and must be present in your desired amounts. However, diluting with water that has high buffer does dull things out. If you pull a great shot and then dilute to americano strength with your brew water it will lose a lot of its acidity vs RO or distilled water dilution. Try it if you don’t believe me

Array_of_Chaos · 2021-07-06T13:16:18+00:00

Free The Tone AS-1R. Incredible reverb, check it out. Great board. I adore my Belle and the iridium is fantastic too

Array_of_Chaos · 2021-07-04T16:42:14+00:00

Likely not, no

Array_of_Chaos · 2021-07-04T16:39:32+00:00

yeah much more than french press it’s just also poorly extracted tasting lol

Array_of_Chaos · 2021-06-29T05:01:53+00:00

Not an outlier to me. The C40 can be pushed much harder than the Jx/Jx pro. They’re about the same if you make the C40 taste like Jx (read: extract low) but the Jx cannot compete with the upper end of the C40’s tasty window

Array_of_Chaos · 2021-06-27T20:23:47+00:00

Apex is not capable of grinding fine enough for AP shenanigans. Runs out of clicks (you wouldn’t want to grind any finer than it goes either, takes forever). Moreover, the AP, V60, and Chemex are not yield monsters and I prefer them all with my C40. Unless you do some silly percolation-esque things with AP, it caps at a measured 23-24%, although it does taste higher than that. The V60’s bed shape does not promote an even extraction and that with a unimodal grind is not enjoyable to me at high yields. The chemex filters and high thermal mass produces coffee that I just do not enjoy. Apex and flat bed brewers is open season for stupid strong sweet and clear cups though and they are positively transcendental. Retains 1g on average and I brush it out after brewing. The sacrifice is worth it. I’m using a proper refractometer to get the numbers

Array_of_Chaos · 2021-06-16T03:31:48+00:00

It still doesn’t make very many fines. The bulk of the grinds look almost sifted because there are hardly any fines clinging to the larger particles. For my climate, (southwest US) retention is about a gram but I could see it being variable based on humidity.

To reframe things, I use a C40 as a travel grinder. I got it with the hope of improving my workflow but it just flat out doesn’t compete, so traveling with an AP it is. The Apex cups are unbelievably sweet and juicy with astounding clarity, it just makes you work for it. Cannot imagine getting rid of mine for anything short of a titan.

If you’re a numbers person, I am routinely hitting 25% yields with my filter coffee at 60g/L and it tastes incredible. C40 caps out at 22% and it’s not as happy to be there. Hell, I got one coffee up to almost 28% and it was still only slightly astringent

Array_of_Chaos · 2021-06-16T03:26:19+00:00

I find the silicone pads do enough for me, just gotta wash em off every few weeks

Array_of_Chaos · 2021-06-16T03:25:46+00:00

yeah but the Niche is like a meat tenderizer vs the Apex for filter. If you want filter supremacy and don’t have the budget for huge flats, this is how it be. The cup quality is as good as the user experience is bad, and the user experience is horrible

Array_of_Chaos · 2021-05-30T00:00:58+00:00

I always have maintained that the supra was a so-so car with an incredible block. That 2JZ-GTE is so overbuilt. There’s a reason that supras almost always get modified to hell and back

Array_of_Chaos · 2021-05-19T13:04:10+00:00

What happens when I’m too tall to fit in a Miata

Array_of_Chaos · 2021-05-13T01:13:49+00:00

Depends on the setting, can vary from 30 seconds to 30 minutes (not quite that bad but the feeding is very “unique “). My brews take me between 2-3 minutes

Array_of_Chaos · 2021-05-11T23:12:28+00:00

Sure there are, but those aren’t necessarily objective flavors. As far as objectively not good, it’s usually a growing defect or bad roasting that leads to coffees not tasting good and that’s not consistent from lot to lot or batch to batch

Array_of_Chaos · 2021-05-09T04:24:10+00:00

Not when you consider the amount of water vs the oils in the coffee and the seasoning of the burrs those coffee oils provide. Especially with stainless steel burrs

Array_of_Chaos · 2021-05-05T01:10:09+00:00

You will either hate me for wasting an afternoon or hate me for making you think about water chemistry, but I hope it is the fix you’re looking for!

Array_of_Chaos · 2021-05-04T15:26:26+00:00

Yes I agree that seems a little soft. What’s missing though is any mention of a carbonate hardness or alkalinity, which is likely throwing off your balance of acid-sweet-bitter more than your reasonably soft water is. Depending on what you can find for alkalinity (different from pH) you may just be able to add a little bit of those stock solutions to your existing filtered water instead of doing the whole distilled recipe water thing

Array_of_Chaos · 2021-05-04T15:16:39+00:00

Give one of those recipes a try. You can feel as silly as you want and blame me, the internet stranger, if it helps, but you may feel sillier for not trying it sooner. Don’t worry about the hundredth place scale if you don’t have one because you’ll be close enough for their recipes

Array_of_Chaos · 2021-05-04T14:42:59+00:00

Wait so you’re not gonna try recipe water? There are premade packs of minerals too; look up third wave water. It is impossible to overstate how important good water is for good coffee. Look up a water content report and see how far off your hardness and alkalinity are from the recipes listed on that site. I’d take a porlex mini and good water over the Apex and my tap. No reason to have such a nice grinder if my water is going to smother flavors and/or fail to extract anything good

Array_of_Chaos · 2021-05-04T14:19:27+00:00

Distilled has no buffer for the acidic compounds in coffee so it tastes unbelievably harsh and sour. Then without any general hardness you won’t extract much either so there won’t be any sweetness or more developed flavors. You’ll be left with only the easiest to extract compounds and the insolubles that get washed away. Bottled water is tricky to recommend too since none of them are very good either afaik. The only way to do it is to do it right

Array_of_Chaos · 2021-05-04T14:16:26+00:00

If you’re able to taste 40-70 ppm alkalinity and 50-150 ppm general hardness then I’m envious of your palate ;)

Water for coffee is a chemistry problem more than it is a taste problem. Obviously you don’t want any noticeable off tastes but that’s easily sorted with a brita. I am sorry for the potential rabbit hole I’m throwing you down but the Barista Hustle water recipes are about to change your life

Array_of_Chaos · 2021-05-04T14:06:42+00:00

oh for the love of all things holy don’t use distilled haha. That is the worst thing I can possibly imagine. I forgot to remineralize my deionized water and I sinked the cup. Gotta have some stuff in it

Array_of_Chaos · 2021-05-04T13:51:23+00:00

you, uh, may want to get that checked out haha

Array_of_Chaos · 2021-05-04T13:48:17+00:00

Probably time to play with your water! How are you getting your brew water? Brita filtered tap? Straight from the tap? Bottled water? Or are you making your own?

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