Looking at the innards of a moka pot, I’m forced to argue that it’s essentially a percolator, and not really an espresso machine at all.
I was impressed by that until a vet pointed out that different species react very differently to things. Dogs can die from eating raisins or onions, but happily eat rotten meat and the feces of pretty much anything, without even a mild tummyache. Their guts can beat the daylights out of bacteria that would make ours weep.
And you can kill spiders with a solution of saltwater and peppermint, which is probably sold in little frou-frou bottles at Bath & Bodyworks.
Oh yes good point.
In Canada, Costco and all the major grocery stores removed their aisle coffee grinders decades ago.
I dunno. I have never smoked, and I think I might even be allergic to tobacco. But just as an experiment, I tried a piece of nicotine gum once, and felt nothing. Check my temp, BP, blood sugar and pulse every 10 minutes for an hour, and nothing, and I followed the directions on the box (of the gum).
I’m one of the heaviest caffeine users I know. I don’t even bother with coffee or tea-- I just take it in pill form.
If you want to know why, you can PM me.
Neither?
Not pushing steam once through fine grounds as espresso machines do, and not continuously cycling boiling water above the coarse grounds and through them repetitively.
Boiling water pushed once through fine grounds with pressure. To my read closer to an espresso machine than to a percolator.
Here’s the type of pot I grew up with and used initially as an adult:
It is not necessarily an “espresso machine”—the pressure does not get that high— (although the good ones do have a little pressure regulator/carburettor-looking widget), but what it definitely does not do, unlike the machine reviewed in the video, is continuously recycle burnt coffee. After the top is full of coffee (which never touches the pool of boiling water), you take it off the stove. Also, the flame should not be so high that it comes up around the sides and boils your coffee.
I have a similar one made by Grosche that I’ve used as my go-to for 5 years. It’s almost like making a espresso/coffee hybrid. I’ve tried so many pour overs methods, french press, aeropress etc. I really like the taste from the Grosche and its really easy to use. I passed on the bialetti because its made out of aluminum these days which put me off.
We would have a party, and it would be like 100 degrees out, and we would serve up the birthday cake, and my husband’s parents would always ask for coffee!
I get that. I crave coffee with sweet baked goods ever since I gave up drinking milk by the glass.
I drink milk with sweet baked goods, but mostly because i eat them late enough in the day that i can’t have caffeine. Coffee goes really well with them.
Coffee is one of those things that often smells better than it actually tastes.
On weekday mornings, in the interests of time, I usually make Cafe Bustelo instant espresso, but on weekends, will break out the fresh beans to grind up for a quality brew.
Cafe Bustelo instant is my go-to for a quick out the door morning.
The grammar is perfect. Orb spiders are ones that spin orb webs as opposed to platform webs.
The … issue … (and sounded like gentle tease) with this:
was not the phrase “orb spider webs.”
Ah, perhaps you’re one of those people who thinks “impact” is not a verb, then? If so, you are simply mistaken: the figurative sense “have a forceful effect on” was first recorded almost a century ago. (If that’s not it, please enlighten me.)
“Language changes. Deal with it. Revel in it.” –Mr. Verb
No “impact” is not the awkward portion either.
I suspect you keep reading it how you meant to write it, not as it is written.
Hint. It isn’t that “cognitive” is a poor word choice either, albeit calling the effects on web geometry “cognitive effects” is a poor word choice, even if one assumes web building by spiders involves actual cognition.
I think it was the ‘drugs impact the cognitive effects of drugs’ bit that people are flagging up…