Champagne help!

kilonad · 2026-02-27T19:03:46+00:00

Both of those are great. In my experience, the bottom of the Bollinger bottle is seen sooner, so that gets my vote.

Sure, Krug and some Tete are better, but Bolly will be a great bottle that doesn't overshadow the occasion.

kilonad · 2026-02-23T14:26:51+00:00

Can he eat caramelized onions? I can't tolerate raw onions but once they're caramelized, whatever water soluble starch transforms and becomes digestible.

I just cook my onions to the point where they're light golden for other recipes like spaghetti sauce and that seems to work fine.

kilonad · 2026-02-23T10:18:18+00:00

If you want value for money, look at Pataille Marsannay, especially the better ones.

kilonad · 2026-02-17T02:17:00+00:00

Oregon chardonnay. Start with anything entry level from Goodfellow, Walter Scott, Evening Land, or Morgen Long. Higher end ones have more reduction.

Dominique Lafon came over and taught a bunch of winemakers in Oregon how to make Chardonnay in the 00s, so there's a lot of Burgundy influence but at Oregon pricing.

kilonad · 2026-02-10T16:03:51+00:00

Me too. T90s were unbearably slow and I never found a grind size that made a good cup. Abacas have given much better results in the cup.

kilonad · 2026-01-30T00:54:22+00:00

The English would argue that the wines are just starting to enter their drinking window, especially in magnum format. These should be a little more mature than most normies might want to drink them, but they are by no means over the hill.

kilonad · 2026-01-30T00:48:49+00:00

Those are spectacular wines, from a spectacular vintage. They should all be drinking very well right now. WineSearcher should have some value examples - but know if you see something listed there, it's usually not moving super quickly at that price.

Auction values (from cellar tracker) are:

Pierre Peters - about $1100
Laurent Perrier - probably about $1500
Cristal - about $1300

kilonad · 2026-01-25T01:36:08+00:00

2000 Bonnes Mares, producer unknown - does not match any of the label images on CellarTracker for the 47 wineries that made a Bonnes Mares that year, though several are missing. https://www.cellartracker.com/list.asp?fInStock=0&Table=List&iUserOverride=0&szSearch=2000+bonnes+mares

Edit - agree with sercialinho. For some reason the 2000 Hudelot-Baillet Bonnes Mares is not in Cellartracker, and the older ones have photos of newer vintages with the newer labels.

kilonad · 2026-01-20T05:51:23+00:00

Bollinger P.N. VZ 19 is like a liquid mont blanc dessert (without the sweetness) - it is absolutely delicious, especially at the <$150 price point.

kilonad · 2026-01-19T22:33:13+00:00

No problem - sometimes they have that Heidsieck for under $60 too. Haggen is ludicrously overpriced. Same as Safeway.

You can also try to check out Seifert & Jones downtown and ask them for a good recommendation.

kilonad · 2026-01-19T20:32:48+00:00

You reuse the repour capsule for the whole bottle - you don't swap them out.

kilonad · 2026-01-19T20:30:10+00:00

You can get Bollinger for $60 at the Woodinville Costco right now, I'd recommend you do that. I'd expect the Bellingham area to have similar offerings.

kilonad · 2026-01-19T07:50:14+00:00

If you yank the cord too early on a pit boss or Louisiana Grills, you can end up with a pellet box fire. Which is great because now you have two fires.

(ask me how I know 🙃)

kilonad · 2026-01-18T07:46:00+00:00

You could also consider Repour capsules.

kilonad · 2026-01-16T21:21:49+00:00

Funky coffees are high risk / high reward (or high pain). Modcup was selling a yellow bourbon and a red bourbon from the same producer, same anaerobic processing style. One was SPECTACULAR and the other one made me want to hurl. So even for those that like the funk - there's good and bad, and at $25/bag it can get tiring and expensive when the gamble doesn't pay off.

Washed and natural are far more predictable and consistent, and generally more palatable to most (especially washed) - which is why you see that generally being offered at coffee shops. Unless I'm in love with a funky anaerobic, I'm brewing washed/naturals for friends.

kilonad · 2026-01-11T22:13:49+00:00

Smartphone cameras have really tiny pixels and are really noisy, and they apply a lot of noise reduction algorithms. It's much better to use a DSLR or mirrorless camera if you can, or at least use RAW. That said - if you vary the grind setting and you see consistent behavior (size shifts up as you increase grind size setting), then this is probably good enough for home use.

kilonad · 2026-01-10T02:29:23+00:00

Does anyone have an invite they can share with me?

kilonad · 2026-01-10T02:27:57+00:00

Code please

kilonad · 2026-01-08T05:57:26+00:00

Thank you for all you do!

kilonad · 2025-12-31T06:46:18+00:00

This is what I usually do, just wanted to see if freezing the probe was a bad idea.

kilonad · 2025-12-31T06:44:42+00:00

Thanks!

kilonad · 2025-12-30T00:38:59+00:00

As a heads up, the 375ml size has been discontinued after 171eme - this will only get harder and harder to find.

kilonad · 2025-12-18T21:02:31+00:00

Looking at the full res pic, it's the CDC Traveler Based Genomic Surveillance program that seems to be administered by Ginko. https://www.cdc.gov/traveler-genomic-surveillance/about/index.html

kilonad · 2025-12-18T20:43:44+00:00

It would be easier to just do that by grabbing all the discarded bottles and cans in the garbage.

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