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This is how I feel with you all talking about coffee:



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Also Aeth, thought you'd enjoy two of my new purchases in preparation for fall/winter here:



(CDBs, as much as I hate the MFA circlejerk, are legit, and the other pair are LL Bean, lifetime warranty. Third pair that are half in the shot are Varvatos and expensive as hell.)

Edited, Oct 12th 2012 11:48pm by Theophany

I still really need a pair of boots but I haven't found a pair that is both affordable and good looking yet.

Grind has an influence within the context of each coffee maker, but not much across them. On average, despite using coarse grounds, a French Press will produce more-caffeinated coffee than a drip pot will with medium grounds. Turkish coffee will have the most, but it doesn't have as much to do with the grounds as the fact that you'll actually be ingesting a fair amount of the beans themselves.

But yes, a French press with finer grounds will produce a coffee with higher caffeine content. Doesn't mean much though, because you really shouldn't be going below a medium grind with them (and even that's a stretch), because the mesh plunger won't filter that out. You'll get grainy coffee.

As for filters, it's really a toss-up. It's much better for your cholesterol to use paper, the coffee tastes better if you use metal. Caffeine won't be too meaningfully different in either (I'd guess it's less than a 5mg difference). It's not bad, per se, to be using metal.

If you're brewing decaff (for some crazy reason) though, use paper. The caffeine in coffee helps offset the cholesterol through a process I don't understand. You don't get that in decaff, making it much worse for you.

Of course, coffee is more than just caffeine and cholesterol. It's actually a surprisingly healthy beverage for the body, and there's a significant decrease in risk for a few different diseases from its consumption. And the most common con for it in public mind, blood pressure, actually doesn't hold true--long term studies on hypertension have not revealed any link between coffee and the disease.

Good news for me.

They're pretty nice, but I'm still in the breaking in process. They're extremely stiff right now.


LL Bean, son. Best boots in the world, even if they're stiff as sh*t when you first get them. Can't beat a lifetime warranty.

$60?

I won't tell you how much I spent on shoes/clothes in the past month.

What about eggs?

"Did that chicken just poop out a big white turd? "

...

"I'ma boil it and eat it!

The BDT works in mysterious ways.

ur faec nub

Yeah, well if I made the kind of money you do, I could afford to spend a lot more on shoes and clothes too. I'm just proud I managed to get a pair of $95 shoes for $60. Yay for shopping sales and employee discounts!

Heh, there's a brewery in Eugene called Ninkasi.

I know of that, but who first though to try it? I mean, heating up water I can understand but adding leaves of a random plant to it not so much, fermenting random fruits and grains and mixing them with water is also not really the most obvious thing to try I'd say.

A pretty good brewery too I think, I'd love to try some of their beers but even with their up and coming expansion they'll still only produce some 300k barrels a year which means it's still highly unlikely anything will make it here.


Edit: Thanks for the offer Theo but I really want to be able to fit shoes before I buy them so I'd be a bit uncomfortable with doing that.

Edited, Oct 14th 2012 11:58pm by Aethien

I respectfully disagree.

Someone got to paragon level 100. On hardcore. I'm finding it slow to get to level 20...

Beats playing WoW.

They may have the best beers, but I'd argue that a beer is only as good as the food it goes with and when it comes to enjoying beer, nothing trumps a smorgasbord. A smorgasbord with snaps (aquavit)!



Skål!

How is the weather in Seattle better? It rains there pretty much every day right? Not that different from Oregon coast weather.

I actually like the snow, and we get alot of it. sh*t only hits the fan when the snow starts to melt.

If you mean rolling in snow after a sauna and then going back into the sauna, you're correct!
Maybe a little snowfight butt-naked while you're out there.

Edited, Oct 15th 2012 7:58am by smunks

lolgaxe, I can quite likely prove you wrong there!
Does NYC have a place where they serve Mämmi?

Why would ANYONE want to eat that?

Anyway I'm sure. I haven't turned up anything yet, but there are some finnish restaurants/bakeries in the city, and I can only assume it would be available. It might only be around Easter though.

edit: Dammit Lolgaxe

Edited, Oct 15th 2012 10:53am by idiggory

You say that like it's a bad thing...

Miss having that giant air conditioner they call Puget sound outside my window, and could go without the ice storms we get here. Then again, had the parents come down here and get excited about it actually being warm outside, so I'll take what I can get.

So lolgaxe, another challenge then. How about yak butter tea?


(I'd ask about Dutch stuff but I know the answer's going to be yes to all those anyway)

That's not hard to find at all. Pretty much any Tibetan restaurant has it. I've had it in random towns in both Massachusetts and NY--you can definitely find it in NYC.

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Also worth noting, after trying it in three different places (in two of which the food was amazing), I've decided that the butter tea is frickin' gross.

Edited, Oct 15th 2012 3:33pm by idiggory

They make candlewax out of yak butter as well, it's really no surprise that it's @#%^ing disgusting. Hence why I though nobody would have it since who drinks that sh*t?

edit: Omnomnom beer with.. euh.. dandelions...

Edited, Oct 15th 2012 10:19pm by Aethien

BEARS!

LYRICS
SpoilerBears! Charging down the ravine,
Eyes glowing bright as they tear out your spleen.
Over the mountains they fly with a roar
Wherever they go, the bears just leave gore!

Bears! Standing tall in the woods,
They'll bite off your face if you're up to no good.
Claws leaving scars, giant teeth tearing skin,
Fur on the outside and darkness within!

Beware the shadows that slink out of sight.
The noises you hear will fill you with fright.
Tonight the bears are hungry. (hungry...)
Tonight you will not escape. (no escape...)

Listening to you as you say your prayers -
Evil bears with deadly stares.
Ripping you apart to protect what's theirs -
There is no escape from the furious bears!

Hunters away! Stalking their prey!
Track deep in the woods, to skin and to slay,
They'll never catch up to the treacherous bears,
Leading the hunters back to their lairs.

Look up in the forest, and what do you see?
The face of a bear that's watching for thee.
Stand still, never budge, or the end will come quick,
Don't make a sound, don't break a twig.
Many ways you can die, torn limb from limb,
Being eaten by a bear would be especially grim.

BEARS! Watching you...
BEARS! You're just food for...
BEARS! Death comes slow when you're attacked by...
BEARS! Live to kill...
BEARS! Blood will spill...
BEARS! Children eaten by the giant...
BEARS!

Setting a trap will lead to your death,
You'll wake up in its jaws, you'll stop drawing breath.
Tonight the bears surround you. (Surround you...)
Tonight there will be blood. (YOUR BLOOD!)

Hunters away! Stalking their prey!
Track deep in the woods, to skin and to slay,
They'll never catch up to the treacherous bears,
Leading the hunters back to their lairs.