[djmcmath]

Greg, you did a terrible thing to me. I can't buy coffee at most coffee shops anymore. I'll go out with friends, and we'll stop for coffee, and they won't understand why I'm not buying one. When I do get coffee, I lean over the counter to watch the barista's tamp technique, inspect the pull for time and crema, and comment on the temperature of the pull. I've wandered in to coffee shops just to talk coffee with the barista. "I saw that shot from outside and thought I'd wander in. What do you do to get that kind of crema?"

(sigh) Don't be so kind to the Solis. It's a piece of dog pucky, unworthy of the name "coffee grinder." I broke the plastic internal adjuster doodads and had to drill holes and epoxy in reinforcing pieces of steel to keep it in place. The burrs are tiny, and the static is terrible -- nevermind the leftover coffee and half-ground beans that stay behind in the machine after a grind, but come out next time you use it. The plastic burr carriers are already wearing -- I have to tweak it a little between the first shot and the second every time to make the second come out perfect.

It looks like Chris Coffee is out of $200 used MCF machines; they're listed at the $330 regular price again. I've been keeping my eyes peeled for a deal on a Mazzer Mini or a Rancilio Rocky. If you spot another deal like that, would you mind PMing me? Thanks.

I refuse to roast beans with a heat gun in a dog bowl. Just straight up not gonna do it. I mean, a man's gotta have some dignity!














Ok, so tell me about home-roasting beans. Does it really make that much of a difference? How expensive is it to get started? How much time does it take? Aaagh, noooooo, I'm sliding down the slope!!!