Note to self: always take the smol Nespresso and capsule supply with me on road trips.
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jun-2023 22:33:24 JST Thomas 🔭✨
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Pete Keen (zrail@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jun-2023 22:45:25 JST Pete Keen
@thomasfuchs half caf Nespresso is my jam. Although I got some of those filter-style pods recently and they're remarkably good for what they're trying to do.
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 29-Jun-2023 00:54:33 JST Thomas 🔭✨
I caved and tried the Keurig at the place where we are staying.
Literally spat it out. Let’s never speak of it again.
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 29-Jun-2023 01:27:41 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@ZiggyTheHamster you’ll need an extra milk foment/steamer. Maybe you should look at superautomatic coffee makers, they often make great espresso from whole beans and have decent milk foaming built-in; plus screen will show you what to do.
I mostly just drink straight up espresso and only rarely dabble in adding any milk.
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Keith Gable :whyfox:🇺🇦🌻 (ziggythehamster@ruby.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Jun-2023 01:27:42 JST Keith Gable :whyfox:🇺🇦🌻
@thomasfuchs idk why but every Keurig coffee pod tastes like old car dealership coffee.
On the Nespresso - how painful is it to make espresso drinks (lattes, cappuccinos) with the system / are they any good?
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 30-Jun-2023 01:07:43 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@lrz Nespresso makes decent espresso, not the best ever but very passable.
Keurig makes a mixture of tire fire and cat urine.
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Laurent Sansonetti (lrz@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Friday, 30-Jun-2023 01:07:44 JST Laurent Sansonetti
@thomasfuchs is it that worse than the nespresso? 🙃 personally I always travel with this
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 30-Jun-2023 01:10:10 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@lrz To use the Bialetti you need: grind beans or buy pre-ground and you need to have a stove top and you need to clean it after.
Nespresso: you need a power plug. No cleaning, no stove top, no grinding.
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 30-Jun-2023 01:11:51 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@lrz most of the time the coffee from the Nespresso will be better than the bialetti because any type of brewing machine is heating the water too much (boiling water easily burns coffee).
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 30-Jun-2023 01:15:14 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@lrz (The ideal coffee brew temp is around 93°C fwiw)
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 30-Jun-2023 23:51:20 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@lrz iirc aluminum has to be an aerosol or powder to be poisonous to humans, it’s more like drinking from a beer can
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Laurent Sansonetti (lrz@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Friday, 30-Jun-2023 23:51:21 JST Laurent Sansonetti
@thomasfuchs I never tried Keurig (a google image search shows it's some kind of drip coffee? yikes), indeed Nespresso makes an OK espresso, I use it occasionally when it's in hotel rooms while thinking I'm probably getting aluminum poisoning at the same time :)
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jul-2023 00:32:42 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@lrz Even if it does (it doesn’t), ingesting small solid pieces of aluminum won’t do anything, you can’t actually digest it in solid metal form. It just comes out at the other end.
You probably ate a bunch of aluminum accidentally left from butter wrappers before.
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Laurent Sansonetti (lrz@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jul-2023 00:32:43 JST Laurent Sansonetti
@thomasfuchs Yeah but the machine perforates the aluminum case so there might be residues in the coffee? I'm sure it has been tested and it's totally safe for human consumption but I'm quite paranoid :)
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