the encore’s not great for dialing in espresso. with the budget you mentioned, look at espresso-focused manual grinders. the 1zpressos appear to be fairly well-regarded in that arena.
yes basically handbrake is an easy button but not as powerful as ffmpeg. ffmpeg has aac encoding options, sometimes you can get into easier syntaxes just to make it easier on the mortal mind by first demuxing your source file into individual streams, re-encoding those as needed, then remuxing together. i still have no idea how to get ffmpeg to use cuda/nvenc and also do other things as the syntax becomes arcane to me
Trip report, I tried it and the double filter seems to create a very high flow restriction so I didnt get a pourover-like function. I’ll try just the metal one next time.
it undoubtedly matters to some degree, since i suppose that creates irregularities in puck thickness, which in turn may create irregularities in extraction all else held equal, etc. whether it matters significantly in your specific use case depends on other details.
I make it so my partner has immediate coffee concentrate ready for the morning rush. I also like the unique flavor it has, often I’m getting interesting notes nothing like when I brew the same coffee hot.
Just try it. When I started making cold brew I did a bunch of experimenting with grind size and brew time. I dont grind much different from when I make hot coffee, but I found the brew to improve up to 24h or so. Anything less than 18h or so was not acceptable. One thing you can try if you want to speed things up is a hot bloom before adding the rest of the brew water and moving it to the fridge.
the encore’s not great for dialing in espresso. with the budget you mentioned, look at espresso-focused manual grinders. the 1zpressos appear to be fairly well-regarded in that arena.