If you have a decent machine you really need to grind your own. I know how incredibly pretentious that sounds but once you start doing it and getting into the whole thing you see the difference is massive, The grind settings for each bean are completely different to pour the same quality of Espresso from each bean. Espresso grinders are tricky because they are machines to really only do one thing and that is to grind fine enough for Espresso. Cheap grinders simply won't produce anything like the fineness or consistency needed for Espresso. I did quite a bit of research before buying and this is generally considered the best in the price range but it is still a fairly eye-watering £500. Jame Hoffman on youtube is your guide for all things coffee but when people start asking about making good Espresso at home then I think the advice should be similar to Poker back in the day. Turn back now before it is too late . . . . .
A small thing but get a decent tamper with a bit of weight in it. I got one of these soon after buying my first machine and still going strong 15+ years later. The plastic yokes you get with the machine are shite.
In the top 5 of 'favourite things I own'.
"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
Just to get this thrad back to where it used to be
In pub since 3pm game, noe on the doubles and cocktails
should go home as u7 duties at 9am
prob going drinking and poker
some idiit
I drank all day yesterday on train and in Belfast. Feeling suspiciously OK but suspect it's temporary. Need to go down to the Georges Market for a Belfast bap once my accomplices wake up.
"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
On that, it seems a real art to do it right, to get a good crema.
Enjoying learning about it. With the machine I bought you've got to waste a bit of coffee first to get the settings right, and do so again if you introduce new beans. The dose level, the grind setting, the heat.
All will vary depending on the bean. Then the tamp has to be spot on. Then frothing milk is a whole different set of rules.
Good fun figuring it out, and very rewarding when you get it right.
Am getting some top class coffee from it. Would recommend the splash out.
You do go through coffee a lot quicker with bean to cup than ground though I have found.
In a previous job, the coffee machine in the staff kitchen was a cafe style machine. Nothing automatic. Only a few variables but I could only ever get ash tray juice out of the thing.
Obviously would get better with practice. But still they they are terrible option for workplaces. Every now and again a client insists if a proper cafe job. And just laugh thinking of how bad it will be starting out.
I see the Cryptobros/NFTsquad that bought the Dune thing for 3 million (guide price 40k) got shafted.
Happy to have it explained to me why this was thought to be a goer at all.
I acknowledge this is peanuts to those lads, and is probably all done to launder funds regardless.
“Shafted” suggested they were screwed over if some way, or something unfortunate happen. Which is nothing remotely like what happen.
They bought a copy of a rare book. Basically an unproduced movie storyboard. Somehow they thought this gave them the rights to the movie/book. Unbelievably clueless given the fact it’s a major movie in the cinema currently.
The book isn’t even unique, there are 10-20 copies. One of which was made available for free online a decade ago.
It’s like buying an original Spider-Man #1 comic and thinking you can pitch a Spiderman reboot to Netflix.
The retards are now running a writing competition so people can enter their outlines for a tv-series, that they want to pitch to various networks. Somehow not realising they’d also need the rights to Dune for that also.
Oh, definitely not money laundering. They spent $3m, and earned $zero. Laundering requires at least some sort of income.
That was amazing, the penalty was enough to scrape past cardiff by a single points scored difference! Connacht can expect to be punished for giving away the home game advantage.
All that shocking pink is very hard on the eyes, I thought it was a phase they would grow out of
Debated about whether to go down the home barista path at the very start of lockdown. I was happy enough with effort to reward, being at home every day it was my 10am break and something to immerse myself in for 10 mins.
Got a sage machine, beans from local roaster, coconut milk and set my expectations very low. Would say i only had 2 or 3 awful cups, watched some youtube vids about where i was going wrong with the grind,tamping etc.Got incrementally better as the week went on and by second week was doing it from muscle memory.
I drank all day yesterday on train and in Belfast. Feeling suspiciously OK but suspect it's temporary. Need to go down to the Georges Market for a Belfast bap once my accomplices wake up.
Made it to Mulligans on the return leg. No real sense of liberation here.
Belfast was reasonably loose.
"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
Between The Tourist and discovering The Orville, I don't think anything will top 2022 for TV. Are ye all, all over The Tourist? It's properly excellent.
Jaysus id be up the walls the worry is always worse than the reality . Hope she isnt too distressed by it all , poor kid . Sounds like they have it all under control .
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Between The Tourist and discovering The Orville, I don't think anything will top 2022 for TV. Are ye all, all over The Tourist? It's properly excellent.
Waiting for a source with a tad more credibility on TV recommendations to confirm
General wordle observation. Spoilers as it is relevant to today's one.
SPOILER
I was wondering about double letters so did some checking after the word today. May be common knowledge, but may not be.
If there is a double letter (the same letter used twice, and the same applies to the same letter used three times I presume) then if you use that letter twice but in the wrong place, both will show up yellow. If you use it twice and one is in the right place, then one will be green, one yellow. Doesn't help you know there is a double letter though if you have only used it once obviously.
So when does the pension expire ? If the Post Office opened at 9 am and he dies at 9.01 . Is he still not entitled to his pension ? I need to know if i have to hang on a while longer in the day\week for the sake of the kids in the future.
Im thinking if i feel ill i'll soldier on until i collect the monies then collapse in Doyles veggie shop with the loots in the phoca ?
I'm amazed at how 'young' he looks at 40, normally folk who've had a tough life, particularly junkie types, look so weather beaten and old before their time.
I believe him as much as I believe that lad in Mayo who stole his father-in-law's money from a tin can, broke into a church to swear on the bible that he hadn't, and has subsequently failed a lie detector test! Anyone see those videos that are floating around? Someone in work sent them through, an equally engrossing family saga.
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Between The Tourist and discovering The Orville, I don't think anything will top 2022 for TV. Are ye all, all over The Tourist? It's properly excellent.
The Tourist is straight garbage, one of the worst tv shows I've watched.
People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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Four year old was having difficulty breathing tonight, wheezing and grunting, 60 breaths a minute. She had similar before but not as bad.
Brought her to Crumlin A&E at 10pm. She's currently in ICU.
Doctor has assured me she's not in any danger, just the particular IV bronchiodilator drug they've stepped up to requires ICU.
Fucking scary tbh.
They gave me a bedroom to get some sleep but too wired to I think.
Hope everything is ok bud.
Scary situation no doubt.
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Got that coffee machine, could someone tell me what coffee I buy as in a supermarket. Heading to supervalu would I pick up some there? Is it like a packet of ground coffee or beans. I don't drink coffee so haven't a clue.
Mia uses Bewleys in work, is it possible to get that in a shop?
@conor hope the little one makes a speedy recovery.
Got that coffee machine, could someone tell me what coffee I buy as in a supermarket. Heading to supervalu would I pick up some there? Is it like a packet of ground coffee or beans. I don't drink coffee so haven't a clue.
Mia uses Bewleys in work, is it possible to get that in a shop?
@conor hope the little one makes a speedy recovery.
You can buy Bewleys in Supervalu. You want a bag of ground coffee not beans. I’m sure there are better choices available from craft roasters. But bewleys is one of the better I found in Irish supermarkets.
You can buy Bewleys in Supervalu. You want a bag of ground coffee not beans. I’m sure there are better choices available from craft roasters. But bewleys is one of the better I found in Irish supermarkets.
Ah brilliant thank you!
If she wants fancy stuff she can buy it herself lol
Lucky first word today, and the only word I could think of at all was right so got it in two. Of course I can think of a few more ways to get it wrong now but my brain had my back.
I wondered about this. Does everyone start with the same word everyday?
Those that do not. Why not?
I was doing that but got bored after a few days, I had the same first two words, using a lot of the most common letters. Sometimes the outrage on social media also told you to not go for those words.
Really? I'm 5 out of 6 episodes in and am really enjoying it.
It's just preposterous with some of the worst acting I've seen in ages from a vast majority of the cast. The wife would laugh at me because I was rolling my eyes so much at it.
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It's just preposterous with some of the worst acting I've seen in ages from a vast majority of the cast. The wife would laugh at me because I was rolling my eyes so much at it.
You've changed since you got married
I've no issues with the acting - I think Dornan is very good in it and I like the some of the sub stories, especially between Helen & Ethan - I actually think Danielle MacDonald's performance in it is absolutely excellent.
The dark humour in it is great and visually, it is also very impressive - There is some fairly epic cinematic shots that don't come cheap so I'd imagine the budget wasn't small on it.
I'd be happy if there was a second series of it after next week final episode.
Jesus this coffee machine is costing a fortune. Between the coffee, barista oat milk and monin Syrup and then Moaning she needs a stainless steel jug. I threw her a pirex jug said that would do her to which she was having none of if that the milk wouldn't be heated correctly among other things. I did every single shop looking for a jug. Only place that has them is Argos at 23 fucking euro
Well untill I get that she goes, I can't do a nice coffee or make a nice design on top
She's gone Into argos to get it.
Tell ya it better he a fucking work if art by the time she's finished!
Jesus this coffee machine is costing a fortune. Between the coffee, barista oat milk and monin Syrup and then Moaning she needs a stainless steel jug. I threw her a pirex jug said that would do her to which she was having none of if that the milk wouldn't be heated correctly among other things. I did every single shop looking for a jug. Only place that has them is Argos at 23 fucking euro
Well untill I get that she goes, I can't do a nice coffee or make a nice design on top
She's gone Into argos to get it.
Tell ya it better he a fucking work if art by the time she's finished!
You're being far too generous.
She's working. You've bought the machine and beans. If she wants accessories, off she pops to get them. Any complaints should be met with a swift "GTFO and buy it yourself" kick back and relax while she decides the gravy jug will do lol
She's working. You've bought the machine and beans. If she wants accessories, off she pops to get them. Any complaints should be met with a swift "GTFO and buy it yourself" kick back and relax while she decides the gravy jug will do lol
Having only got boys myself i can only imagine what daughters are like .( judging by my sisters ) Satnav has my sympathy .
Any price on Russia crisis actually helping Joris?
A don't change horses mid stream type thing
This Russia Ukraine thing is gathering serious steam.
US media visibily creaming themselves at the idea of tousling with the old bear again.
Hard to see how Ukraine get out of this situation with significant cost of life or land, or both
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This Russia Ukraine thing is gathering serious steam.
US media visibily creaming themselves at the idea of tousling with the old bear again.
Hard to see how Ukraine get out of this situation with significant cost of life or land, or both
Almost like The Streets and Arctic Monkeys did the needful but forgot the hooks.
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Question on revoult. I have exchanged euro into dollars leaving zero euro on card and have set currency to dollar showing xxx amount. Can I use card then in USA spending dollars or not. Confused
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