Lots of websites seem to have M2’s cone burrs, and matching ring burrs in stock.

And also the paddle wheel.

You don’t have to buy it directly from Baratza.

Here’s an Italian company that sells food grade filter paper: https://www.polsinelli.it/en/filter-paper-disc-ø-200-100-pieces-P3276.htm

Before you say “it’s not the same”, you have to understand that you’re moving to an entirely different non-Chemex product anyway, so you’re going to have to experiment with what products work for you as well.

You could try googling for “chemex compatible filters” then carefully looking for where the products come from.

Here’s one that says “from Canada” on the box, and “Canadian pulp” in the description. ~~https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D8BFP4C3~~

But where was it actually made? Doesn’t say

Never mind. It’s made by the parent company of NutriBullet, Alchemy Worldwide, which is American.

Lecterian slip.

How many people actually own shortwave-receiving radios though?

Little pigs plead with state for subsidies to upgrade wood and straw houses.

Grandmas living alone in the woods terrified.

Does the web page game work for you? Mine just sits there.

Refillable K pods worked great for me, until I tried French press which tasted so much better.

Now my jaded taste buds say even fp tastes weak compared to aeropress, cucumella and moka pot.

https://github.com/lukemcneil/killer-queen

maybe? I’m not sure how this clone is supposed to work.

Meanwhile big box stores sell multigame consoles with hundreds of retro games…

They still do that, even with Nintendo games, so how do they get away with that?

And don’t they owe something to the developers of the emulators.

From what I have heard, the Italians use milk/cream to cut the bitterness of their espresso and moka pots.

I kind of hate the bitterness that I get out of my moka pot, so I can believe that.

Otherwise, I find that a well brewed coffee (French press, aeropress, cucumella, moka pot) is so rich in oils, that they really don’t need anymore fat.

Something like instant tho… Needs creamer desperately.

But sweetener… I hate coffee without sweetener.

I managed to get a used Baratza Encore off Craigslist relatively cheap for $100, and there were other good choices that I could have gone with.

As for K cups, it’s the gateway drug, but I sort of quickly moved on. A lot of people started there, so much respect to their marketing department, if not so much their product development and quality assurance.

And the environmental cost of all that plastic…

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Enh, I didn’t want to be fertile anyway.

Blooming coffee grounds does have some effect on the final brew. https://www.seriouseats.com/the-hows-and-whys-of-blooming-coffee

But in a French press, I just fill it up to my mark, wait a few seconds, and swirl the grounds around to get rid of the CO2 bubbles.

It’s not good coffee unless there’s a bowel movement soon afterwards.

You forgot the hand-forged carbon steel burr manual grinder, set on 3.275 clicks.

Calibrated weekly to produce grounds within 10% of the required micron distribution.

The water compressed by half in step 4.

She must be using a high quality french press!

They both give very different brews, don’t take up much space (looks at siphon brewer), and are relatively affordable, and easy to find used or new.

Having both a moka and a cucumella, I like the brew from my cucumella more.

It’s strong, but not quite moka pot strong.

The brew tastes sweet, but not moka pot burnt, and it has a little viscosity to it, but doesn’t cling to the walls of my mug like a moka pot brew.

I also like having a little volume to my morning coffee. The volume from my little 1-2 cup moka pot just feels disappointing and over too quickly.

I also like the process of brewing from my cucumella better. The moka pot just seems fussy, because it actually requires boiling the water in the moka pot itself, and if you use the James Hoffman/Wired Gourmet on-and-off burner technique to reduce the burned flavor, it’s just too much work.

Whereas I can just add pre-boiled water to my cucumella, flip it over, and it’s done dripping in about 1-2 minutes.

In the longer term, there are no gaskets to replace on cucumellas, so less operating costs and worries later too.

Cleaning my moka pot feels like a chore: Mainly trying to get that filter funnel out of the bottom is awfully fiddly. I’m working on pushing in the sides of the funnel so my fingers have someplace to lever it out.