I will say, this is nothing like a Dunkin’ Donuts flavored coffee or anything like that. You can still distinguish the flavor profile of the bean’s origin and such, just with a little bit of added complexity.
PERC is a local roaster for me and they’ve earned my trust with some exceptional traditional roasts over the years.
Yeah it’s certainly wild. It was a bit pricey but with a description like that, I had to check it out.
I hadn’t heard of co-fermenting before this either, but apparently they added dried strawberries and specific yeast strains to the fermentation tanks during the natural processing to influence the flavor. There are more details on the website.
I’ve never had a coffee’s tasting notes come through as prominently as this one does, absolutely crazy.
(I added brew method since different brew methods can accentuate different tasting notes)
Just installed a soup profile on my GaggiMate earlier this week. I also picked up a bag of light roasted Ethiopian beans from my local roaster yesterday. This inspired me to finally try it out with a nice light roast.
Out of curiosity, what made you choose the Gagguino over the Gaggimate?
yeah that sounds like a totally mentally stable guy
Way better than mine looked when I first started learning. And better than the art on a latte I got at an actual expensive coffee shop today. Nicely done!
Qwen3.8 is out now and blows Qwen3.6 out of the water in pretty much every metric
I have a setup very similar to this. Although I’m fully on the Plasma Bigscreen bandwagon. But then again, I don’t have many custom services such as NFC login/custom background image logic like you do, and I doubt Plasma Bigscreen would play nice with that stuff. A couple of things I learned through my many attempts of setup:
I wish I had some, but I honestly just follow all the standard guides I see online. Start with the wand just below the surface and inject air (paper tearing sound) for around 6 seconds, then bury the wand a bit deeper and find the right angle for a vortex, then keep it spinning until the pitcher is too hot to touch. Tap the pitcher a few times and swirl it around for a bit to pop the large surface bubbles and pour.
I follow this exact set of steps every time, and I still don’t get consistent results. I think the problem lies with the vortex step, I can never consistently find the right angle that produces a strong enough vortex.
I’ve been using the Flatpak version of Ungoogled Chromium for a while now (for websites that don’t work natively with Librewolf). Is this really that new?
I’ll probably continue working on my Swift GTK/libadwaita wrapper and the demo project that makes use of the library. Doing it this way has been very pleasant, it allows me to put it through real world tests and helps me identify stopgaps in the toolkit I wouldn’t otherwise notice through unit tests alone.
Been looking for something like this for RetroDECK! Thanks!
This is the Cortado size in the smoke gray color, the espresso cup would probably be a bit smaller.
Should also mention that I have a cat, and this cup has been knocked off the counter and all it did was put a dent in my wood floors lol
I’m a huge fan of Fellow’s Pirch espresso cups. They’re not double-walled, but they’re thick af, super solid and feel so nice to hold because of how weighty they are. They also come in some pretty colors. I’ll follow up with a picture of mine when I make my morning espresso here in a few minutes
They both have their pros and cons, with the main takeaway being that Gaggiuino tends to be a bit more configurable and stable but lacks visual polish and has less frequent updates. Gaggimate is the relative newcomer, but has since caught up to Gaggiuino in terms of features for the most part. But the biggest thing for me is that Gaggiuino is no longer open source, while Gaggimate is still fully committed to being open source which I find super important for a DIY project such as this.
It used to be behind Gagguino in terms of features, but it’s caught up incredibly quickly, now I believe the only thing Gaggimate doesn’t have is the option for an integrated scale built into the drip tray.
The biggest thing for me was that Gagguino recently stopped being open source, while Gaggimate is still committed to being fully open source. And in my opinion, Gaggimate has more polish and looks better visually. But definitely do your own research and compare them yourself if you’re curious.
Hell yeah, that’s an amazing machine! If you like tinkering and wanna make your Gaggia even better, check out GaggiMate if you haven’t already. It allows you to do pretty much everything something like a Decent DE1 ($2500+) can do such as pressure profiling, flow control, PID tuning, smart scale connection, etc. for a fraction of the cost.
It’s not too hard to install if you’re a little bit crafty either, took me about a day to install mine. I can’t recommend it enough.
Given the first few commits referring to scaffolding phases and the frequent use of em dashes, I’m suspicious this was built with AI assistance. Nothing wrong with that, but a disclaimer of some sort somewhere would go a long way.
Man this kinda brings me back to the IRC days. I love fun, entertaining projects like these.