not_woody_shaw

They remind me of the Bob's from Office Space.

Haven't tried it. Not particularly interested in mixing my coffee with ... things.

I knew there'd been some kind of thing with the same name as the open source(ish?) DivX video codec, but not living in the USA I never found out what exactly it was.

The whole album is fantastic.

Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism.

primary function

I thought we were talking about voice calls here.

Your hyper-alignment experience aligns with mine.

I swapped mine to the steel burrs to help with lighter roasts and longer espresso ratios 1:2.5 - 1:3, so this sounds like the opposite of your experience. Of course the steels also help with v60's down the other end of the macro range. Where is this information coming from, that the ceramics are better for light roasts?

Vario team!

Did you try out the steel burr yet? Or the "hyper-alignment" procedure? Any other mods?

Or in New Zealand: Chip != Chip

constantly fidling with the grind

...is a necessary step on the way to great tasting coffee. You just have to decide if it's worth the effort for you. Those kind of super-auto machines are better suited to slightly darker roasts and just getting the same consistent beans every time.

Biggest problem was water temperature. They'd have a microwave, and one of those fancy taps that gives chilled or instant-coffee-hot water, but not hot enough for brewing, and no electric kettle. Can't put the gooseneck kettle in the microwave. I had a plastic gravy separator thing to microwave the water in for a while. Better to just use something less dependent on pouring technique, like aeropress or clever.

Clever + Feld + something to heat the water up to brew temp in, was my kit too, back in the day.