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Cake day: January 7th, 2025

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  • I used that dedica for a while until I killed it. Bottomless portafilter and all. I dont remember the dose but it was double digits, maybe 12-15grams? Id keep dosage and tamp always constant (not too hard and not too soft) and instead vary grind size and shot pull length. I eyeball shot pull lenght and cut it when it starts to look too pale, sometimes I use scales to get ratio roughly right and then ignore scales for the rest of the bean, adjusting grind alone based on flavor as coffee ages.

    For getting it right, Go off taste alone. If its acidic and salty, its underextracted and you need to go finer. If its bitter it is over extracted and you need to go coarser. Adjusting pull lenght also plays with under and overextraction and it should be used when grind size is not enough, same for tamping.

    There are actually no rules only guidelines. For example I pulled a delicious, sweet shot by accidentally running v60 grind for 16 seconds instead of espresso grind for 32 seconds. I reccomend getting a whiteboard or a notebook and every time you pull a shot you write down what you did. That way you can more easily figure out what the machine likes and how to get back to a working recepie.

    That being said, what I remember from my delonghi and sage grinder(breville for you baka gaijin) days was that it was able to produce delicious coffee inconsistently. A WDT and a little funnel that fits your portafilter so you can wdt better can help with having a more consistent shot as it can result in more evenly distributed grounds. But at the end of the day you are tamping it all down anyway so idk.

    I broke my delonghi and I am now on timless 64s and lelit victoria and I have less surprises. But I do miss delonghis fast heat up, not gonna lie. I just tell myself that it was stupid expensive for basically same result as delonghi but its going to last me hopefully decades, making it cheaper than going to a cafeteria. If you want to upgrade I reccomend plastic v60 and a gooseneck kettle. That shit is endgame and slam dunks on endgame espresso gear as long as you are not drinking only pure espresso.



  • ohyeah im fully aware. Will they actually delete it or will they just mark it in database as deleted? Are big companies like google going to send their tech workers to go through all their tapes and databases archived all around the world and prove they actually deleted your data? Are there enough consequences to ensure companies actually scrub your data rather than do the bare minimum?





  • Exactly! Leave my attention span alone like the lonely whales that hunt for food alone in their feeding areas. I reccomend taking a whale watching trip, just make sure you aren’t seasick but ginger candies can help stave that off. By the way you can grow ginger yourself, just dry it for a few days and plant it 2 inches deep and keep it moist. Not tiramisu but sponge cake moist but I prefer tiramisu if it is well made. The cake should be cold and fresh like spring water on a hot day