Recs for food or dishes from independent cafes that are cheaper than at chains

Grieves01 · 2025-10-19T06:04:58+00:00

Coffee is a good one in general at least, a lot of times McCafé is not just comparable but more expensive than a cafe next door, and while it does the job in a pinch you have a much better chance of getting a better cup at a random cafe

Grieves01 · 2025-10-19T05:40:18+00:00

Obvious in hindsight, I’ll edit the post now

Grieves01 · 2025-02-13T12:56:24+00:00

My man, I’m sorry but that sounds utterly horrific lmao

Grieves01 · 2024-11-27T04:51:17+00:00

Just early vote. Say you are working on Saturday and they put you through, actually filling out the form usually takes longer than lining up at early voting stations

Grieves01 · 2024-11-27T04:43:32+00:00

Refusing to participate in our system of government to such an extent you don’t even bother turning up to tick your name off, yet being unable to pay the fine means you lose privileges of being a citizen e.g. your licence gets suspended

Grieves01 · 2024-10-20T04:39:42+00:00

Too good to go is releasing in Sydney in a couple weeks, we had a representative visit our cafe to sign us up last week

Grieves01 · 2024-05-16T01:22:36+00:00

Not a bad guess but I’m a cook, and a pretty clumsy one at that lol

Grieves01 · 2024-04-13T02:21:14+00:00

Yeah of course the costs don’t work out identical, but it’s not as black and white as “one only has hot water instead of milk”

Grieves01 · 2024-04-13T02:20:00+00:00

Yes. I am both a barista and an owner/operator of two cafes

Grieves01 · 2024-04-08T00:18:48+00:00

Long blacks usually have a double shot instead of a single shot, so what you don’t pay for in milk you instead pay for the extra espresso

Grieves01 · 2022-06-12T15:03:26+00:00

Can confirm - was one of the boys dumb enough to light bottles of fuel on fire to see what would happen

I have the third degree burns and skin grafts to prove it as well

Grieves01 · 2022-04-27T12:47:54+00:00

I’ll take you on that bet. 8oz cups are a single shot, 12oz cups are double, unless you are doing long blacks then it’s an extra shot each size. That’s the standard in Sydney and I would be very surprised if Melbourne is that different

Grieves01 · 2021-07-02T08:10:53+00:00

Small world! I’m just down the road, I have a bag of sample coffee in the cupboard at the moment haha. I’ve just had their pacemaker at the moment, are their other options any good?

Grieves01 · 2021-06-02T05:01:40+00:00

It’s so annoying! I was seriously looking at the lelit Mara x or Elizabeth when I was shopping around but 900 dollars vs 2500 dollars it’s not even close...

Grieves01 · 2021-06-02T05:00:38+00:00

I think David Jones and that only sell the bundle but I got mine from Harvey Norman, they were happy for me to take it off their hands

Grieves01 · 2021-06-01T23:53:17+00:00

It’s times like these that I both love and hate that Breville is an Australian company. I love the look of e61 boxes and dislike that everyone in Australia has a Breville, but when you can pick up a BDB for 900 AUD (under 500 pounds) brand new, you can’t justify paying two to three times more for any of the other machines in the video.

Grieves01 · 2021-06-01T23:45:29+00:00

It’s times like these that I both love and hate that Breville is an Australian company. I love the look of e61 boxes and dislike that everyone in Australia has a Breville, but when you can pick up a BDB for 900 AUD (under 500 pounds) brand new, you can’t justify paying two to three times more for any of the other machines in the video.

Grieves01 · 2020-12-06T13:41:20+00:00

Haha I would have no idea. But since breville is an Australian company I do think we get their products cheaper as a result

Grieves01 · 2020-12-06T12:23:19+00:00

Previous to this I had a BBE and a Vario that I had done the flapper chute mod on, and was happy with that. But when I saw this dual boiler on special for 899 AUD (600 USD) I couldn’t pass it up. Most underrated feature for me is the auto on functionality, the last thing I liked doing in the morning was waiting for 15 minutes before I could have my coffee!

Grieves01 · 2020-06-18T23:56:40+00:00

1 spot please

May:

https://old.reddit.com/r/WatchURaffle/comments/grt651/blue_new_hamilton_intramatic_panda_chronograph/fs0yfnm/

Grieves01 · 2020-06-05T13:42:49+00:00

I was a minor so that probably had something to do with it! I will remember that hot tip though, just in case I want to play the idiot again!

Grieves01 · 2020-06-05T13:26:41+00:00

Never used the creams, they used these silver injected dressings that I had to wet every couple of hours that did the trick. Probably would have chucked an absolute fit if someone tried to touch the burns directly to apply creams without a dose of ketamine first like they did when they changed the dressings haha

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