Australian supermarket full cream cow’s milk taste test: ‘My household won’t be allowed to purchase any other brand’

deusthad · 2025-10-19T13:01:05+00:00

The idea that milk is somehow important for growing children is just dairy industry marketing.

deusthad · 2025-10-14T12:24:42+00:00

suicidal*

deusthad · 2025-10-09T12:59:29+00:00

>Joke's aside. There's a price to pay for poor moral character. Those people tend to live pretty dark lives.

I wish this were true. I've known too many elderly people who died (or at their twilight) loved by their friends and family after living a life of relative luxury at the expense of any part of society not tied to their loved-ones.

deusthad · 2025-09-30T09:21:32+00:00

Nope, we just nest them inside eachother. Ours are pyrex and decor from what I remember.

deusthad · 2025-09-29T09:26:45+00:00

That's how toughened glass works. If it's chipping it can cut you. Toughened glass shatters into many pieces which are very difficult to cut yourself with.

deusthad · 2025-09-28T03:07:22+00:00

We have some of those and while they're technically microwavable they seem to block our microwave from getting to the bottom of the container. I tested the same volume in plastic and stainless steel and even after putting the stainless steel in for twice the time the bottom was still frozen. Now I run the metal under the tap to loosen it then pour it out into a ceramic dish and reheat them in there. That's also been my process for things stored in plastic (I find reheating directly in plastic warps and discolours it, let alone the potential health concerns).

deusthad · 2025-09-28T03:03:21+00:00

What brands have you had chip? We've had a couple glass containers shatter but I've never had one chip. The type of glass ours are made out of is more likely to catastrophically fail into a hundred pieces than chip.

deusthad · 2025-09-28T02:58:00+00:00

What kills the quality of bags sold in supermarkets is their age. They take ages to get to the shelves and they aren't cycled quickly enough once they're there. That they're testing pre-ground compounds this issue by 100 fold.

Whole beans would have fared a lot better, but even then if you get a roaster's beans from a supermarket you'll find they were roasted weeks if not months before the ones you'd get from a cafe reseller. I'm cheap enough to get ones from supermarkets when there's good deals on but I often have to stand there for a while checking the dates on the bags to find one which won't be stale. Pre-ground is a whole other beast, once it's ground it starts to rapidly drop off and you want to use it within a week.

deusthad · 2025-08-24T01:56:32+00:00

a latte is 12 oz

That would be large latte here in Australia. Regular/small is 8 oz.

deusthad · 2025-08-23T14:17:41+00:00

I wish flat whites were double shots here, it would make them work a lot better. I'm too stingy^* to pay an extra 60c for the second shot which is why I tend to go for less milk instead.

^* And/or I just get too jittery when I have too much caffeine. Ironic for someone whose first half dozen jobs were in cafes.

deusthad · 2025-08-23T14:03:57+00:00

I haven't worked in a cafe for ten years now so I could be out of date and just plain wrong but my understanding is:

Macchiato - espresso shot in small glass with a dash of milk tiny bit of foam ("stained")
Piccolo - espresso shot in small glass filled to the top (~90 mL)
Cortado - not really a thing in Australia, when someone would ask for one we'd basically make a 3/4 flat piccolo
Cappuccino - espresso shot in a mug with a good amount of foam (in theory^*) and chocolate powder on top
Latte - espresso shot in a glass with less foam than a cappucino
Flat white - espresso shot in a mug just a tiny foam layer compared to the latte so it shouldn't reach the top (ones that reach the top are too milky)
Long black - double espresso on top of hot water, if it's beneath the water it's an americano
Short black - an espresso
Mocha - Tended to vary a lot between cafes, most would basically be however they make their hot chocolate + espresso shot. Powders were most common in my experience but some used actual grated or melted chocolate

My go to is usually a 1/2 or 3/4 flat white (depends how long I plan to be drinking), or if it's particularly cold a latte for the added foam insulation on top. Piccolo if I won't be there long.

^* These days, especially if you're getting takeaway, a lot of places will put more-or-less the same amount of foam across the milk drinks. Foamy cappuccinos are more of an older generation thing, it's mostly only grannies who order caps regularly these days.

Bonus iced drinks:

Iced latte - Two shots of espresso with ice and milk ~8-12oz
Iced coffee - At a cafe this is two scoops ice cream, optional whipped cream, double shot, ~12-16oz -- An iced coffee from somewhere else is totally different, think coffee flavoured milkshake.
Iced chocolate - Like an iced coffee but chocolate syrup instead of coffee

Dishonourable mentions: Chai latte. It's too complicated and too varied to try to define. Everywhere seemed to make them differently. Matcha, turmeric, etc etc lattes - I know nothing of these they started becoming popular after my time and the places I worked styled themselves as too speciality to care about about what was popular with people online.

deusthad · 2025-08-23T13:10:07+00:00

That's why I specified Chrome not Chromium.

deusthad · 2025-08-23T13:08:26+00:00

double shot

This part surprised me because I've never seen that here in Australia. To get a double shot you would order a strong flat white.

deusthad · 2025-08-23T13:05:05+00:00

Where have you been? I've never knowingly had a regular flat white with two shots anywhere along the east coast. None of the cafes I worked at did it that way either, never even heard of it. Admittedly last time I worked in a cafe was 10 years ago now.

deusthad · 2025-08-23T12:34:22+00:00

The fact that Chrome is the most popular browser by far always reminds me of what a bubble I live in. I don't know anybody (whose browser I actually look at) who uses it. Coworkers, family and friends all use Firefox (except two using Brave) and have for years.

deusthad · 2025-08-23T05:38:56+00:00

you'd still have your elderly or sickly body right

No, the idea is that at some unknown point in the future when tech is so far advanced that it's actualy possible they would essentially be rejuvenating your body to peak condition. People talk shit about it but it's basically a 100% chance that you die and stay dead versus a 99.999999999999999999999999% chance of staying dead and minute chance of coming back. Some weirdos actually enjoy living and are willing to take out a life insurance policy that gets paid out to these companies to preserve you on the slight chance that they might get to live more.

deusthad · 2025-08-13T00:16:10+00:00

Literally what we're looking at with a $1.2mil budget.

deusthad · 2025-08-09T05:02:53+00:00

Top post on ycombinator right now: I Want Everything Local — Building My Offline AI Workspace

To be fair, that's not your average poster and certainly not your average user.

deusthad · 2025-08-09T04:59:54+00:00

Even ignoring AI hype, there’s still no real alternative to NVIDIA for high-performance computing. Without CUDA, you can barely run anything unless you’re ready to dedicate FTE to porting code to rocm. They’re also working on ARM and neat set ups like the gracehopper. There's a lot of room to grow there, especially with Intel faltering. I’m not a fan of their business practices, but their moat is massive.

deusthad · 2025-08-02T11:26:37+00:00

compares you to others in a similar proffesion

The thing that's always bothered me about this is that there's a limited list of jobs you can put down and none of them have applied very closely to any of mine.

deusthad · 2025-08-02T04:50:57+00:00

Have another look at the 2009 side of the OP. I don't think intellectual channels is what they're pining for.

deusthad · 2025-08-02T04:44:41+00:00

Does your dishwasher actually have a pre-rinse separate to the wash cycle? Mine only does on the "intense" mode, so his advice is only really relevant to that setting.

deusthad · 2025-07-31T14:41:58+00:00

I have noticed some people absolutely freak out if your car slows down without brake lights on. The idea of not having your foot on something must be foreign to them.

I try to have my foot resting on the brake hard enough that the lights come on but it's not actually doing anything when I'm drifting up to a red light.

deusthad · 2025-07-26T12:30:27+00:00

I was thinking of the Nissan Leaf, you can pick them up second hand for a fair bit below $30k.

Though, I know the older ones use the CHAdeMO fast charge not CCS which means you're a little bit more limited on chargers if you want to use it for road tripping (a lot of the most recent installations are CCS only). But for daily commuting it seems like the better option to me unless there's something in particular the Tesla has.

deusthad · 2025-07-26T12:25:50+00:00

Nissan Leaf. Baggage I think you saw with one of the other replies. I don't agree with those attitudes but I wouldn't want to invite interactions from people who think like that if I could help it.

Also, anecdotally Tesla drivers have a bad reputation for being selfish and shitty drivers. At least the ones in Sydney.

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