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This is well nice. I drink bourbon all the time - Buffalo Trace, about 1 bottle a month. Gave this a try on holiday in Southwold and it’s delicious. Not the big caramel body of Bourbon but very smooth and balanced, no smoke, just as I like it.

They’re so easy too, worth it I reckon.

Did a shredded lamb leg, homemade pittas, salsa verde and tzatziki. I ran out of time / patience to get the meat to the 90deg + internal temp, I started a bit late, so it was more chopped than shredded but it was a great dinner in the end.

Yes, there’s not much that doesn’t improve for cooling down and settling a bit straight after cooking.

That was 60% Caputo Nuvola / 40% Semola, 4g yeast, 7 hrs bulk, 2.5hrs balled.

Yes works a treat. About 70 deg.

Airy lads tonight.

Nice one, haven’t played with long extractions for a while.

Not sure if rude or dim but yes, if you want decaf that tastes like Starbucks which is characteristically heavily roasty tasting, a lot of decent roasters’ decaf has a bit of that about it.

A lot of decaf is roasted pretty dark because it’s very vinegary at light levels, certainly Swiss Water process decaf anyway, so you’re in luck given that slightly unappealing brief. It still probably won’t taste as roasty as Starbucks though.

Great stuff, enjoy!

Almost certainly heating element. Check for resistance across each of the coils with the power off. Infinite resistance means it’s knackered.

https://youtu.be/XwCKGeHxMK0?si=-tpappilq2x-mWjZ

Nice one! Really sweet isn’t it.

Ah gutted! We’ll have to replay the leg tonight.

Last night the aurora borealis, tonight this from my 13 yo. That scores, right?

It’s all getting a bit earnest these days, just doing my bit to push on.

Just jumping in in case this elicits a tribal response - I’m really glad you’re enjoying the coffee, thanks!

I’m a big fan of JGC, I’ve met Peter James once or twice. They’ve been in the speciality coffee business since long before it really took off, they’re probably just not into the light and bright and have always done well with balanced smooth coffees, I think it’s just their thing. It’s my preference too tbh but I do enjoy the juicy ones on occasion and wouldn’t be without them in the range.

Soaking the portafilter and basket, backflushing, scrubbing the bayonet, cleaning the drip tray, cleaning the bodywork, cleaning the knock box, cleaning the counter….. PITA all of it.

It’s already unplugged ready to go on the shelf at the roasting unit. The Technivorm is all set up ready to deliver effort-free stimulant as soon as I stumble bleary eyed down the stairs in the morning, enjoyed in my grey towelling housecoat, a quadragenarian testicle visible from the straight-ahead.

Ah ffs. Glad it’s ok!

I bought a used Linea mini for portable business things, I’m quite excited about it. I’ve brought it home to see if I can get over my home espresso antipathy during the next couple of weeks. I’ve got dialled in really quickly - the Eureka Libra is brilliant, the coffee and setup is proper pro level but so is the cleaning burden so we’ll see. I’ve got a feeling the Technivorm will be back in its spot after next weekend.

^sorry that was me. Nice one. Will do

I think when I tried DSD upsampling it sounded rubbish, the others didn’t make much of a noticeable difference. Mine’s set to upsampling bypass (sound mode 3), filter 1 (natural) but I’ve just looked up the manual and it seems you can only bypass the upsampling when using USB, which I don’t anymore. SPDIF all gets up-sampled. I dunno.

My Cambridge Audio MXN10 streamer was hooked up by both toslink and RCA and I could switch between the 2. They did sound a bit different, not better or worse particularly. Now I have to use the RCA input for the phono box so the Project pre-box does DAC duties for streaming and CDs and sounds great. I switch between amps to tune the sound for different moods, that makes a genuinely noticeable difference

Nice one. Such a versatile piece of kit with all those connections. Looks great.

Thanks it was too. Nicest I’ve ever had - so much smokey flavour, had it with all the trimmings and a great bottle of red. Now to try to stay awake through the tour of flanders that I’d paused. Decent Sunday this.

First go using the diffuser plate on my Webber for a leg of lamb - it held 120deg nicely and it all looks great, took it off at 57 deg internal but it ended up cooking about an hour faster than I was expecting. Thats a lot when I was aiming for 3 hours - can’t really bring lunch forward to 12.00.