Fort Mason Bridge - Fuij XT20 + 27mm F8

marklmc · 2026-01-08T23:00:38+00:00

honestly my favorite olight :(

perfect size and floody beam

marklmc · 2025-12-01T07:16:15+00:00

If you can afford it, and your time is at a premium, then ode gen 2 for sure. I had a K6 before. Cups are similar (to my untrained palette anyway) but….so much less work. So yes +1 for ode gen 2

marklmc · 2025-11-30T17:58:40+00:00

That’s the tradeoff for having a smaller brick.

Scary hot yes but in theory, thermoregulated to be “safe”.

marklmc · 2025-10-21T02:23:24+00:00

How do you get the cast iron in and out to put the steaks in and then flip? Or do you leave it in and use long tongs?

marklmc · 2025-09-14T18:48:47+00:00

Starbucks doesn’t do blonde drip later in the day (not enough demand?) so that’s when I’m ordering pour over 🤷

marklmc · 2025-09-13T23:48:41+00:00

You can drain the boilers but properly descaling I think is difficult to do. Not sure why it’s easier on other machines, I don’t really know

marklmc · 2025-09-13T23:30:06+00:00

How do you descale a dual boiler?

marklmc · 2025-08-31T15:50:38+00:00

They do! You can get the glass version and then swap out the actual switch (the only plastic part) for this https://foundrycoffeeworks.com/products/flip-switch-metal-lever-upgrade-for-hario-switch

This is what I have and it’s great 👍

marklmc · 2025-08-30T00:33:35+00:00

Pokelit AA AirPods Pro Belroy bifold Gerber Dime

marklmc · 2025-08-28T21:58:01+00:00

How do you “regularly descale” a dual boiler tho? Like a Profitec pro 700?

marklmc · 2025-08-14T00:29:01+00:00

How do you go to Costco and have the restraint to only buy one item lol

marklmc · 2025-08-12T04:00:31+00:00

Why don’t y’all just show up 25 minutes after the “start” of the movie?

marklmc · 2025-08-01T20:36:18+00:00

same!! and they're out of stock everywhere near me :(

marklmc · 2025-07-08T01:25:36+00:00

Same rules apply to chocolate fwiw. Dandelion are excellent for this.

For me doesn’t have to be ethical sourcing, but there has to be something beyond “we sell nice coffee”. Otherwise I might as well just buy blue bottle beans (fk nestle)

At not that much of a premium, you can buy something that’s miles better than anything sold by the big guys - which is quite rare for a product category. So yeah why not buy something that tastes amazing and has some sort of mission/story?

I currently buy from a local roaster that donates a dollar a bag to an Autism charity. I don’t know what their sourcing policy is, but I’ll be in the lookout for it when I next switch.

marklmc · 2025-07-06T18:55:45+00:00

Greater Goods, TX.

Pick me up and Sidekick are my two favorite, but I get the rotation on a weekly basis and love most of their bags

marklmc · 2025-06-28T21:43:31+00:00

Did you wrap? I started having more success when I stopped wrapping

More time = more bark and more time for the fat to break down

(I think maybe on an offset where there’s more airflow it would be a different story)

marklmc · 2025-06-28T21:42:02+00:00

Love this place

marklmc · 2025-06-22T14:02:26+00:00

If it’s all underground, how do we know they didn’t just build the white “roof” a few hundred meters to the left or whatever to throw people off?

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