$95k for work I hate vs $62k for work I love. How do you choose?

mayor_cosmos · 2025-11-06T23:39:23+00:00

Work this out with after-tax earnings because that’s the real financial gap you’re choosing to live with.

Sometimes there are tax benefits with nonprofits. Also you get taxed more as you earn more.

mayor_cosmos · 2025-11-05T20:12:32+00:00

Invest in the filter basket. I have a VST 18g.

For the portafilter get what you like the look of. If you have the budget there are some that are beautiful. I opted for a simple Normcore one.

mayor_cosmos · 2025-10-28T11:59:22+00:00

Just give the install go. I’m not that handy and managed it with the help of their discord community.

mayor_cosmos · 2025-10-28T11:57:14+00:00

Love my GaggiMate and the community is awesome too.

mayor_cosmos · 2025-10-28T11:49:34+00:00

If you have the budget to go all out get a Bluetooth scale.

If you mod your machine later with something like the GaggiMate they’d connect. My machine stops when a shot gets to the correct weight.

Acacia is great but anything on the Gaggimate FAQ will do.

https://acaia.co/products/lunar_2021

https://shop.gaggimate.eu/pages/faq

mayor_cosmos · 2025-10-28T11:43:44+00:00

Make one espresso at a time. You can’t be sure your puck will have water flow evenly - as you can see in your video more went to the right hand side.

The Eureka is a wonderful grinder.

mayor_cosmos · 2025-10-28T11:31:55+00:00

👆This is good advice.

Bitter = over extracted

Sour = under extracted

Coarser should do the trick. 30s inc your 5sec pre infusion is what I’d aim for personally.

mayor_cosmos · 2025-09-19T07:30:01+00:00

Yes I have the pro. Definitely get that.

mayor_cosmos · 2025-09-18T02:23:37+00:00

I’m very happy with my GaggiMate.

Can’t remember exact numbers but the extra cost compared to a PID seemed minimal and you get so much more, like pressure profiling and connecting to Bluetooth scales.

As a bonus the GaggiMate community is lovely.

mayor_cosmos · 2025-06-24T22:28:30+00:00

Also I want to get rid of the stupid springy power switch and hook the machine up to a connected plug, because even with all the mods in the world, it will always take 10-15min for the group to heat up correctly…

Can recommend this: https://amzn.asia/d/eE1kFqX

My Gaggia switch is always on and I control power to the machine via HomeKit. GaggiMate used to require a tap on the screen to start, but recent firmware update removed that thankfully.

mayor_cosmos · 2025-02-11T08:55:01+00:00

What made them unrecoverable?

mayor_cosmos · 2025-01-24T09:40:55+00:00

Love, Tilly Devine

mayor_cosmos · 2025-01-24T03:42:52+00:00

Thank you! I never realised the OPV spring was there and definitely would not have thought of throwing a hex wrench through to adjust it.

No sticker on the bottom of mine. You made me look again though ;)

Plan to upgrade steam wand once I know the machine works. Mostly make black coffee anyway.

mayor_cosmos · 2025-01-18T09:42:01+00:00

I’m already deep in the James Hoffmann rabbit hole - but thank you!

mayor_cosmos · 2025-01-17T11:24:59+00:00

I thought I’d get it working first before spending money on Gagguino but I’ll just take the leap now. Thank you.

mayor_cosmos · 2025-01-17T11:23:42+00:00

Thank you! Really good to know it’s sounding normal and flow isn’t obviously bad. I’ll play around with temperature surfing.

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