tankplanker @ tankplanker @lemmy.world

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Lol, always happy to help people who ask.

There are a lot of simple things, often free or low cost that people can do to get a lot more out of their existing gear, and the more people know that the better.

Oh for sure

I wouldn't recommend that approach, its more suited to single dosing, which is based around grinding only the amount of beans you need for that single lot of coffee by only feeding the hopper with the amount of beans needed rather than using the hopper for bean storage.

So weighing out your beans first for a single espresso or pot of pour over, wetting those beans with a drop or two at most of water, giving them a shake/stir, then feeding them into the hopper and making sure everything comes out that you put in.

Single dosing makes it easier to get the exact amount of coffee by weight each time from cheaper grinders and can lower retention (how much ground coffee the grinder holds in its burr chamber and spout) when combined with RDT and flushing out the grinder with something like bellows and discarding what comes out as its mostly chaff and fines that you do not want. Coffee tends to build up even in expensive grinders without flushing it out, this goes stale over even a few hours and works its way into your normal cups of coffee.

Grinding by weight is still pretty limited availability, most with a hopper tend to offer grinding by time, which is nowhere near as accurate. Grinding by weight makes it easier to make your coffee more predictable, its especially important for espresso as you are trying to fill the basket almost but not quite the top. Espresso is better measured by volume as coffee density varies by roast type and by time since the beans were roasted, but that is much harder to do than by weight on a regular basis so most people just use weight.

My favorite part of that paper is that thanks to them actually measuring particulate size we now have empirical proof adding a small amount of water improves the consistency of your grind:

it is clear that the inclusion of even small quantities of water (as low as 5μLg−1) results in an immediate reduction in electrostatic aggregates of boulders and fines

They would just exempt themselves from it as they did with both reporting on people accessing porn using the HoP network and with the investigatory powers bill.

When they did report on it, it was a shockingly high number for a place of work: https://www.theregister.com/Print/2013/09/04/mps_binge_on_smut_theyre_trying_to_ban/

The G Wagon, as long as you don't lower it and/or fit stupidly skinny tyres to it is actually pretty good off road, unlike the Tesla. Sure there are better cheaper options if you going off road, but at least the G Wagon can do that.

If you make them that wet you are doing it wrong, lol.

You only need a drop or two of water for espresso and only slightly more for a larger amount of beans for a pour over, it's a tiny amount. People have been doing this since 2005 without problems.

Check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuqVUsMPs-U&t=2620s

If you don't believe me

If it applies to both I would still post it here as the community is bigger and would still benefit from it. Even for basic stuff as there appears to be far more total beginners than the subreddits in the other place.

Well they did win two world wars, which is two more wars than their idiot children, the boomers managed against weaker opposition.

But thats about it for their achievements.

RDT is useful for pour over as well, really helps improve majority of grinders and grind types.

Even slightly wetting the end of your finger and stirring it through the beans can be enough to make a difference.

Not sure if you have watched Lance's video I linked elsewhere in the post but they measured particle size, RDT improved uniformity of particle size. This to me is the first empirical evidence of the actual benefit of RDT over and above less mess with grinding. For what can be a completely free and quick upgrade that seems always worth doing.

While WDT does need a tool and even a homemade one isn't completely free it's ability to better distribute grinds in the basket I would also say it's an essential upgrade as it can be so low cost

Anything else like slow feeding, hot starting that are free upgrades no matter how small for cheap to midrange grinders that lack prefeeding augurs or other chokes that prevent overloading the burrs seem no brainers to me.

What utter garbage.

Any community particularly one for nerdy hobbies has jargon as part of it's discussion and doesn't have explanations littered in every instance jargon is mentioned. Part of joining in that community is asking or finding out what the jargon means. Asking like an entitled ass over not understanding jargon in a hobby you aren't familiar with shows what sort of person you are.

Again,, I answered the question when asked.

The issue here is posting chatgpt answers as fact without knowing remotely enough about the topic to know it's garbage. I wouldn't dare post answers on random topics I know nothing aboutusing chatgpt as my sole guide, its a proper dick move.

It's been a part of the speciality coffee scene since 2005, and a big part of many recommendations to improve grinding. I would be surprised if anyone who has been an active consumer of coffee content hasn't seen it used at least once.

Wow.

So what happened was that someone asked a question and while I answered the question someone else answered with a completely incorrect answer. My answer was then down voted and the incorrect one (which has since been edited to add in the right answer) upvoted.

So yeah, you are a bit late to the party here.

At not fucking point did I refuse to answer a basic question.

I am very surprised that anybody answering that question wouldn't have been in the hobby long enough to not know what RDT is. Immediately downvoting my actual, factual link to both what RDT is and a deeper dive on the article to it says a lot.

I wouldn't trust that to tell me anything I didn't already know the answer to, it is fucking useless as it still makes too many mistakes and lies about them

That is not what RDT is for coffee beans, lol. RDT is Ross Droplet Technique, which is very much adding water to beans. Named after David Ross who came up with it back in 2005

Edit: post I replied to has now been edited to include the correct answer. The original answer was from chatgpt and completely incorrect so extremely misleading

Well, in that case I suggest Lances video on this very paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuqVUsMPs-U