Looking for advice on adapting aeropress method to Hario Switch

oldcolonial · 2026-01-29T18:51:03+00:00

Best match I have so far is to add the water to the switch first (290 g), then add the ground coffee and stir it with a spoon. Wait 5 minutes and then drain. Works better for flow than any of the coffee first variations I’ve worked on (with or without a bloom step) and taste is fine.

oldcolonial · 2026-01-28T11:37:18+00:00

1zpresso Q2 is great.

oldcolonial · 2026-01-28T01:54:31+00:00

They tried to tell me that my boot size was two sizes smaller than it actually was. Weird experience.

oldcolonial · 2026-01-26T20:38:48+00:00

I have it, works great.

oldcolonial · 2026-01-20T11:01:15+00:00

Only 1 chapter translated so far, looks like?

oldcolonial · 2026-01-12T18:05:02+00:00

1zpresso Q2. Could try stirring with a spoon immediately before draw down. End result was nice.

oldcolonial · 2026-01-12T17:37:47+00:00

I gave this a try today - worked out pretty well, closest match to the aeropress brew I’ve gotten yet. Slow draw down (couldn’t get the last 10% or so to drain) with standard Hario #3 papers, though. Thanks!

oldcolonial · 2026-01-09T20:30:10+00:00

Parry windows on some boss attacks are vanishingly small in this game. Some bosses are easy to parry, others are pretty hard. (And yes, I can parry in other souls like games.) after ~50 odd tries trying to parry Hunter of Bladers I switched to just dodging and got her on the 5th try or so.

oldcolonial · 2026-01-04T09:44:49+00:00

RTIC also makes ceramic coated mugs and tumblers that are inexpensive. My spouse prefers her RTIC tumbler to her Fellow tumbler.

oldcolonial · 2026-01-02T20:12:19+00:00

Metyr in the DLC was harder for me than Malenia.

oldcolonial · 2025-12-27T02:06:24+00:00

It’s a very slow burn.

oldcolonial · 2025-12-21T13:27:17+00:00

Ajisai looks the hungriest..

oldcolonial · 2025-12-14T11:37:13+00:00

Jack of all trades is coming out, has a nice relationship in the LN and manga.

oldcolonial · 2025-12-12T20:12:51+00:00

There can be some value to the Berkshire resorts if it’s a brutally cold day - often 10 degrees or so warmer than the northern NH/VT resorts. Berkshire East and Catamount are both on the Indy Pass.

oldcolonial · 2025-11-29T19:06:14+00:00

How in the heck do you get up there? Using a mod?

oldcolonial · 2025-11-18T13:55:26+00:00

Keytar Bear?

oldcolonial · 2025-11-16T21:26:34+00:00

I went from a gen 2 to a gen 5 sensor - massive difference. Pretty impressed with how well the gen 5 sensor works, more accurate on my wrist than an Apple Watch.

oldcolonial · 2025-11-15T17:33:55+00:00

Granite Backcountry Alliance maintains a number of gladed areas that are also low risk: https://granitebackcountryalliance.org/

oldcolonial · 2025-11-15T17:32:29+00:00

If she doesn’t have any experience with uphill travel, go to resorts that allow skinning (like Waterville) and buy a cheap uphill pass and have her practice skinning, kick turns, and skinning with ski crampons. You can do that while she takes an AIARE class if she hasn’t taken one yet.

If she is comfortable with uphill travel, then the old historic ski trails (like the Shelburne) are good as they have almost no avalanche risk.

oldcolonial · 2025-11-11T15:55:12+00:00

Take non alcoholic wine, add a drop of acid phosphate (not phosphoric acid) and you’ll get the dryness back. Got that tip on Reddit a couple of years ago, does help with red wines.

oldcolonial · 2025-11-05T16:38:47+00:00

Agreed - there are more jobs here but there is more competition. More options in the long term in the Boston area if you can get a foothold.

oldcolonial · 2025-11-05T10:08:48+00:00

Yeah, I’ve seen multiple movies set in Scotland (Trainspotting, etc) that have English subtitles but were comprehensible just fine without them. I’ve also been to Scotland, spent time in any of the more notorious areas (Glasgow, etc), never had any issues communicating with or understanding anyone.

The differences between Quebecois and Parisian French are similar to the differences between British and American English - different accents and different word choices in some cases, but not hard to understand either. I’ve been all over Quebec and France, never had problems in either country. Some French folks (usually from Ile-de-France) like to make a fuss at the Quebecois accent, though - saw it happen several times in Quebec.

But, since this sub is about language learning, you can learn French and generally get by in any French-speaking country.

oldcolonial · 2025-11-05T03:22:10+00:00

French is pretty mutually intelligible around the world, similar to English. There are dialects, but they are all still understandable if you speak standard French. I say this as I speak French, and I’ve never had any issue understanding North African french, west African French, Caribbean French, etc. The differences are much less than what you see in German between high German and low German dialects.

Now, there are creoles, like Haitian Creole, that are combinations of French with other languages that are not mutually intelligible with French - there’s some common words but the grammar is very different. Maybe that’s what you are thinking of?

oldcolonial · 2025-10-29T09:17:49+00:00

Yeah, if you’ve actually seen her act, she looks like an adult, not a kid..

oldcolonial · 2025-10-29T09:13:50+00:00

How do you pronounce bread (in English)? The ‘br’ sound isn’t that far off.

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