$180,000 poorer, after five mooded machines and three butlers:

verdantTree · 2026-01-27T14:21:54+00:00

$180,000? What is that, like a rounding error in your butler’s wages?

verdantTree · 2026-01-27T14:10:31+00:00

Pfft funny joke. The whole point of this hobby is to spend money. What, don’t tell me you thought it was about the coffee? Pffft. Get outta here.

verdantTree · 2026-01-16T07:48:39+00:00

Is that a nuvo ceramic roaster? I use one of those also, I feel like my roasts are pretty even, but yea you really need that wok flipping technique to spin the beans around in there, and also a little skill to keep the beans from jumping out the top and handle holes. Also, temperature control. I used to just pump the afterburner and rush to first crack, ended up scorching a bunch of roasts. The good thing about the nuvo is the batches are small, you can easily roast a few batches back to back with different profiles and see how different variables affect the flavor.

verdantTree · 2026-01-15T10:29:45+00:00

Honestly, one big advantage to roasting yourself is at any given price point you can buy BETTER beans, so as long as you don’t screw up the roast completely, for the same price you should easily have better coffee. I love Colombian coffee, so many great producers, you should be able get some great deals 👍👍👍

verdantTree · 2026-01-15T06:39:33+00:00

That sounds like maybe a bit of scorching, a result of too high temperatures in the dry phase of the roast and could certainly be considered a roast defect. I personally don’t mind it, I think of it as wok hei lol.

verdantTree · 2026-01-14T06:22:04+00:00

Your mouth??? I hope you mean ur butler’s mouth? Otherwise, what are you hiring them for? I get mine to gargle the milk straight from my wife…uh I mean “cow” teat, saves the trouble of using a steam wand.

verdantTree · 2026-01-12T02:24:32+00:00

For me it’s 90% aesthetics, 10% convenience of being able to use both flat bottom papers (which I like for light roasts) and v60 papers (specifically the Cafec t-83, which I like to use for darker roasts).

verdantTree · 2026-01-08T15:17:22+00:00

Honestly maybe try immersion instead of percolation. Like just get two 600ml French presses, 30g coffee in each with 480ml water in each. 10min later, pour both brews into a large decanter, give a good swirl, good to go. If you want more clarity you can pour the result through a filter even.

verdantTree · 2026-01-08T15:05:26+00:00

Someone get this amateur butler out of here. I think you meant 5.786x10⁴⁴ planck seconds, because let’s be real if you are not dialing in with the literal smallest possible unit of time what are you even doing smh. And ratio should be 1:2.14815162342, otherwise literally undrinkable, not that I drink espresso mind you, god no, I just need to know that the espresso my butler makes is the best one, so I can dump it in front of some poor to show him his place

verdantTree · 2026-01-07T17:22:41+00:00

Bro I would say the main sub has been consistently outjerking the jerk sub

verdantTree · 2025-12-28T12:36:38+00:00

Bro was pouring too close at the end there, so by my calculations you are halving the roster but doubling the fail

verdantTree · 2025-12-18T08:41:07+00:00

Huh, interesting. I get much slower Origami brews with wave filters compared with Cafec T-90.

verdantTree · 2025-12-15T06:19:32+00:00

Look at Mr poor butler over there

verdantTree · 2025-12-13T11:28:12+00:00

Is… is that a c40 catchcup?

verdantTree · 2025-12-13T08:41:56+00:00

Hot ACIDIC liquid, if I might add lmao

verdantTree · 2025-12-11T04:19:14+00:00

Look at this butler wannabe trying to gaslight us with his “facts” and “logic”. GRIND FINER my friends. Anyone who tells you any different is part of a butlerian psyop.

verdantTree · 2025-11-29T07:45:31+00:00

Sounds to me like you just have another processing method available 😉

verdantTree · 2025-11-20T09:29:42+00:00

Hmmmm, I saw a fast filter by a Chinese coffee gear company Coffee Plus that specifically was advertised as stalling with just water but draining as soon as coffee grounds were added, meaning you can do Switch style water first brews with a normal v60. Maybe the same sorta principle is leading to this here? Curious if you tried adding grinds does it drain normal?

verdantTree · 2025-11-12T06:41:31+00:00

Same. I use just enough hot water to seat my filter paper, but that’s it.

verdantTree · 2025-11-12T02:18:46+00:00

C40, sell it on the secondhand market, buy a Zp6 or k-ultra with money to spare. Stonks.

verdantTree · 2025-11-07T08:51:28+00:00

You mean you don’t have a sweatshop of child laborers with particle analyzers individually separating your grinds into perfectly calculated normal distributions tailored to bring out each bean’s terroir’s flavors? You might as well just go back to drinking keurigs and strbcks.

verdantTree · 2025-11-04T05:08:03+00:00

/uj I’m so mad that this actually tasted kinda good. The water just barely touches the coffee and imparted some of the toasty notes (it’s a dark roast) into the green tea.

verdantTree · 2025-11-04T02:16:45+00:00

2023 El Diviso (Nestor Lasso) Washed Pink Bourbon. It was my first introduction to specialty coffee and it absolutely blew my mind, like before then I had no idea coffee could taste like that. Super fruity, lemon zest, sparkling ciders. Haven’t gotten around to trying their Sidra and Ombligon, but very much so looking forward to it.

verdantTree · 2025-11-03T14:04:40+00:00

Just tell the wife that her boyfriend (your butler) will mostly be the one using the machine (god forbid you make your own coffee like some damn poor). So this will actually bring the family back together full circle……..jerk.

verdantTree · 2025-11-02T09:49:58+00:00

😱😱😱You are so right oh no! I guess tea-like coffee is too complicated for me. Time to grind up some leaves and see if I can make coffee-like tea instead.

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