Just out of curiosity how did the person ruin the Fellows kettle? I've been thinking of getting one, too. They have them at Sur La Table now.
― beard papa, Friday, 29 October 2021 23:42 (two years ago) link
blue bottle tastes sour to me, no thanks
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 29 October 2021 23:58 (two years ago) link
Yeah it wasn’t good at all! Certainly not worth the $5.50 I paid. I use a drip filter at home and it tasted like that except if I hadn’t used enough grounds
― calstars, Saturday, 30 October 2021 00:24 (two years ago) link
Blue Bottle isn't good. Great example of the power of good branding.
― beard papa, Saturday, 30 October 2021 00:26 (two years ago) link
There's a Blue Bottle at the end of South Park in SF and it's a big hob-nob place for tech knobs.... everyone looks like the theranos lady
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 30 October 2021 00:33 (two years ago) link
Atmosphere in the one I was in was like a funeral parlor with hipster lurkers
― calstars, Saturday, 30 October 2021 01:05 (two years ago) link
xp I know the place. Used to be Jeremy's, who moved out I believe because they got priced out of the area. The place was empty forever, and I rooted for it to stay that way to punish the greedy building owner. But then Nestle Blue Bottle moved in.
― beard papa, Saturday, 30 October 2021 01:20 (two years ago) link
― beard papa, Friday, 29 October 2021 23:42 (yesterday) link
Don’t worry, what happened here is not something you are likely to do. She put it on the stove in a moment of what I assume was extreme morning exhaustion.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 30 October 2021 01:46 (two years ago) link
tbf that sounds like something i would do
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 30 October 2021 02:00 (two years ago) link
It seemed extremely well built. My one complaint was the on/off button was a little wonky and required a certain touch.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 30 October 2021 02:43 (two years ago) link
I'm pretty happy with my Bonavita pourover temp-controlled kettle; definitely a bit cheaper than the Fellows. They don't look too bad, either.
― vcrash, Saturday, 30 October 2021 03:52 (two years ago) link
agreed blue bottle is the worst of the big third wave companies
― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 October 2021 14:34 (two years ago) link
Thirded. I feel like Stumptown and Counter Culture have gone down somewhat too, although still prefer Stumptown to CC or BB. I've been mostly ordering Tandem lately. I sometimes mix decaf beans into my regular beans now to cut the jitters, although the flavor takes somewhat of a hit. Partners and Grumpy are both solid, although for some reason the Grumpy beans at Whole Foods are often not as recently roasted. Tried some Irving Farm beans recently, not particularly impressed but fine.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 31 October 2021 01:35 (two years ago) link
gf accidentally bought decaf coffee, which we've been drinking all week without realizing. horrible
― flopson, Sunday, 31 October 2021 01:52 (two years ago) link
ouch
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 31 October 2021 02:03 (two years ago) link
that is a legit horror story
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 31 October 2021 03:41 (two years ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Sunday, 31 October 2021 13:56 (two years ago) link
i like counter culture the best of the stumptown intelligentsia blue bottle cc bunch i think tho i havent had it in a while
― lag∞n, Sunday, 31 October 2021 13:57 (two years ago) link
I have a support request in about that Fellow (Stagg EKG) kettle and the finicky power button! It’s great once you actually get the damn thing turned on
― mh, Sunday, 31 October 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
(I would not normally spend that much on a kettle but it was discounted by quite a bit)
― mh, Sunday, 31 October 2021 17:45 (two years ago) link
Is there a benefit of using a kettle when you can just boil water in a small pot? Wtf am I missing here
― calstars, Sunday, 31 October 2021 17:47 (two years ago) link
i live in the UK so i already have an electric kettle obviously.. getting another one feels a bit redundant/decadent. i feel like as long as you let 30 seconds / 1 minute pass after the boil it’s pretty much the right temperature for a pour-over. a goose-neck would be nice tho
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 31 October 2021 17:48 (two years ago) link
calstars i think some of these kettles have temp controls on them for the real finicky types
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 31 October 2021 17:53 (two years ago) link
We have a pretty standard Capresso burr grinder. Never had a problem with it, really, except the last batch of beans we used suddenly started to get all static-clingy over everything. (Or the powdery residue did, at least.) Apparently this *can* be a problem with burr grinders, enough so that Cook's Illustrated tried (and failed!) to find a solution.
https://www.cooksillustrated.com/how_tos/8357-minimizing-static-in-burr-grinders%E2%80%8B
And yet, we'd never had the problem before, and in fact, after we went through that bag of beans and opened another, the problem went away. The roast itself was one of our regular rotation, but we had noticed it tasted a bit darker than usual, which made us wonder: could it, the particular bean or roast, have been what was generating all the static electricity? And if so, why?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 31 October 2021 17:53 (two years ago) link
there’s your podcast right there
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 31 October 2021 17:56 (two years ago) link
have noticed this a couple times but never cared enough to remember what kind of beans. if it roast was a factor i would expect a dark roast to be less staticky because they are more "oily." maybe the beans were a little older and had lower moisture content. anyway you have to repeat this experiment under the same temp/humidity conditions with the cup exactly as clean/dirty each time. please report back.
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Sunday, 31 October 2021 18:02 (two years ago) link
― calstars, Sunday, 31 October 2021 18:03 (two years ago) link
its also much faster
― lag∞n, Sunday, 31 October 2021 18:09 (two years ago) link
is it? on your weeny little 120V current?
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 31 October 2021 20:56 (two years ago) link
i had always understood that to be the stumbling block to mass acceptance of the countertop kettle
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 31 October 2021 20:59 (two years ago) link
yeah its faster, americans dont have them i think just cause they dont use kettles very much
― lag∞n, Sunday, 31 October 2021 21:18 (two years ago) link
it's faster, but not as fast as euro kettles due to what I am told is the "mains voltage"
― mh, Sunday, 31 October 2021 21:31 (two years ago) link
its against gods law for europe to have a single better household appliance than america and must be rectified i demand mains voltage
― lag∞n, Sunday, 31 October 2021 21:58 (two years ago) link
most houses have 220V outlets for the washing machine.. i bet something could be rigged up
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 31 October 2021 23:02 (two years ago) link
xp burning the european flag to heat my coffee water
― mh, Monday, 1 November 2021 01:39 (two years ago) link
I didn't get it either before I dated/married a non-American but now I will never go back to the stovetop kettle. And the Fellow did heat very fast somehow.
I really did like the temp control as well as the temp hold feature on the Fellow, but I just can't splurge like that again. The cheapo one I've been using is basically fine for now.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 1 November 2021 01:46 (two years ago) link
the fellow kettle pulls hell of amps to keep up afaict
― mh, Monday, 1 November 2021 01:54 (two years ago) link
tbh feel like electric kettles have become pretty common in america
― lag∞n, Monday, 1 November 2021 02:03 (two years ago) link
as many as one in fifteen of my coworkers may have them in their domicile
― mh, Monday, 1 November 2021 05:18 (two years ago) link
Ive switched to a stovetop kettle because the electric ones just got eaten by the hard water locally
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Monday, 1 November 2021 09:12 (two years ago) link
reminding me that i need to get an electric kettle for my office...for TEA
― gbx, Monday, 8 November 2021 21:52 (two years ago) link
......i use the water arm of my coffee machine....
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Monday, 8 November 2021 22:07 (two years ago) link
It's a Friday afternoon and I'm fading, coffee would be great right now. I work on a college campus, it's finals week, shouldn't be hard to source, no?
Turns out, yes. None of the cafes in the buildings I can access are open, the local coffee shop randomly closed at 3 this afternoon, even the Starbucks is closed.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 17 December 2021 22:53 (two years ago) link
Thoughts and prayers
― o. nate, Saturday, 18 December 2021 04:23 (two years ago) link
An otherwise excellent cof house in my town closes at 1pm, WTF? Others close at 2pm. Only one is open until 5. Otherwise, the Starbucks inside the Target is your choice.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 25 December 2021 18:53 (two years ago) link
Not in the same annoyance league as most cafes in Japan, which OPEN at noon or some afternoon hour.
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 25 December 2021 20:16 (two years ago) link
japanese business hours are strange
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 25 December 2021 20:22 (two years ago) link
i got a good espresso grinder (eureka mignon) for xmas. this is going to be a life-changing upgrade.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 27 December 2021 00:55 (two years ago) link
get ready baby
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 December 2021 01:15 (two years ago) link
nice
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 December 2021 17:10 (two years ago) link