cheese_greaterWhats an absurd luxury you enjoy every day in your life?
breadsmasherwhy is a cat in your lap an absurd luxury?
I guess in the same vein, my dogs sitting in my lap
When washing my hands, I use an electric soap dispenser.
Washing my hands, I use a $1 bottle of dollar store soap, feels pretty luxurious (Iām a broke university student and my codormatory had no soap before I bought it donāt judge).
snooggumsIām gonna judge you so hard for doing something positive for your living space.
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ripcordI once bought an electric hand dryer for the āofficeā bathroom in my house.
Clean tap water.
People have no idea how fortunate this is until itās gone. Several years ago we had a bad algae bloom in the river that supplies our water and we couldnāt drink it for a couple weeks. Every store in town was out of water and you had people with well water leaving hoses and signs out front of their house offering it up to people. One Pilot gas station tried scalping 6 packs of Dasani for ~$50. Itās so crazy how you take it for granted until you canāt just go to the sink to fill up a cup of water (we have excellent tap water) along with taking for granted the fact that stores have bottled water on the shelves.
Ever since then weāve kept a small stock pile of water in the garage just in case.
Thanks, i sould appreciate it more. Tap water in switzerland is maybe even healthier as bottled water.
Day AND night moisturizer for my face and eyes feels pretty absurd and with inflation over the last four years is entering what I consider to be luxury territory for my budget.
But, I love taking care of my skin and looking nice, and my face feels amazing after applying the moisturizer, so whatever.
What moisturizer(s) do you use? Just curious!
My day regimen is:
Neutrogena Mens 3-in-1 Face Lotion and RoC eye cream
Night regimen is:
IFUDOIT Retinol Cream and Era Organics Eye Cream
And I keep a bottle of Ceravie with 30 SPF on my desk to use when I take the dogs out for walks. It works really well if youāre consistent. I am in my 40ās but get mistaken for early 30ās all the time.
kurcatoviumCan it be biological? Iām approaching 40 and Iāve been asked to show ID buying alcohol until I got fed up and grew some beardā¦ I donāt use this kind of products, Iām happy to live with just soap and shampoo and when itās reeeeeealy hot outside and I just need to go out for long period of time I use whatever sunscreen I can find.
Yes, part of itās biological too, no doubt.
I have a Xbox series x
I sit in the back of my car in the parking ramp on my lunch break, throw my Nintendo Switch on a seatback headrest mount, and play Diablo II like Iām flying first class. First time Iāve ever had something with 4 doors and Iām using every damn door
You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. I will try to emulate your good example
Itās ok Nintendo, calm down, he didnāt mean that kind.
Coffee
Love muh tea muhself
anon6789I usually try a new single origin every month, and this is the first time Iām reordering one because it is so good. Some stuff is pretty unique and I never see it again, so I canāt miss out on more of this.
Itās like pineapple and brown sugar and is so sweet and refreshing, especially at room temp or fridge temp. When itās hot outside, itās a bit tougher to find a coffee I get excited about and this stuff rocks.
FWIW cold brew coffee is extremely easy to make, gives a different flavor profile than brewing with the same beans hot, and I find it super refreshing in hot weather. My only complaint is the extraction is inefficient so you go through a lot more beans for the same amount of beverage, which irks me. But then again, sounds like youāve got the situation sorted, that tea sounds great.
That cold brew method is how I got into coffee, since I didnāt like it much at the time, so I didnāt have a coffee machine or anything specialized. I made the extract and made cafe au lait with it.
My current method for most days is to make coffee right before I go to bed. If I want it warm to hot, Iāll Aeropress and add warm or hot water in the morning. If I want it cold, I do pour over. I put it into a mason jar, and I think it keeps the original flavor profile really well, at least well enough for when I stumble to the kitchen at 5 am.
Itās not the same as the cold brew method, but the Aeropress with a metal filter is pretty close without the extra bean usage.
Cool! For the cold, are you just saying you put water and grounds together in a mason jar overnight, then use the Aeropress with the metal filter in the morning to strain? Cuz thatās pretty close to what I do. Mesh strainer (like for rinsing fruit), then through Aeropress with paper. Maybe I should try the metal instead, paper gets pretty gummed up and impermeable.
The metal filter will let the coffee oils through along with some of the fines leaving you with more flavor and mouth feel that the paper filter holds onto.
Iāve done the method you do, and if Iām remembering right, itās much harder to press cold for some reason. Iāve done it that way hot too with very coarse grounds to clear up cowboy coffee when I want to make a bigger batch, but the gf doesnāt like the fines.
What I do is I make my Aeropress extract as normal. I do 20g beans, 200g water, inverted for 2 minutes and extract into the mason jar, cap it and toss in the fridge right away. Then in the morning, I add 150g water at around the temp I want to drink it.
It gets it immediately to the desired drinking temp, and the extract in the sealed container doesnāt taste old/stale/flat because it has been in the sealed jar, and itās reheated by plain water, the coffee isnāt messed up microwaving it.
I do it mainly to put the effort in while Iām awake at night, and then all I have to do is microwave some water in the AM, so itās either ready right away with tap water or fridge water if I want it cold or room temp, or in a minute to 90 seconds if I want warm or hot.
Itās essentially regular Aeropress brewing, but split over 2 days. Especially as the gf likes my coffee but doesnāt want to follow the steps and measurements, it lets me have 2 big cups of Aeropress first thing in the morning without all the measuring, boiling, and squeezing when Iām not in the mood for all that. Since we both donāt like scalding hot, fresh coffee anyway, it works out better for us, especially if we want different temps but at the same time to enjoy it together.
Interesting! I definitely see the advantages you mention. Iām curious about the strength, though, my understanding was that the cold brew just needs much more extraction time (which makes sense intuitively from a physics and energy standpoint). And youāre not using a particularly strong ratio, I actually use 1:8 for my overnight āsteepā, slightly stronger than your 1:10.
With that said, you seem experienced. Works out to pretty ānormalā strength coffee (whatever that means)? I guess something Iām vaguely remembering about the Aeropress is that the pressure itself helps it extract efficiently even with lower heat, but Iām not even sure how much pressure there would be with the metal filter.
Ah, I was not clear about the brewing water. The extraction is made with water just off boil, so it is a standard hot extraction. My final bean:water ratio is 1:18 which is fairly standard. I use that to scale up recipes when I do other things.
I donāt really consider any pressure from the Aeropress. With a clean paper filter or metal one, the pressure feels inconsequential. The Aeropress benefits to me are the immersion brew method of the grounds and the repeatability and adjustability of the brew since itās all manual. You can tweak every variable, and Iāve never ended up with anything undrinkable from cowboy coffee to wannabe espresso.
Ohhh. I see. Using the Aeropress to make concentrated coffee, letting it cool overnight, and then deciding how you want to serve it by what you add to it in the morning. Makes sense to me.
Yup, youāve got it!
Nice. I quit smoking weed and reduced my alcohol intake to near zero a few years ago. To make up for all of the lost ritual, I dove deep into coffee brewing. Itās the only part of my day that I have complete control over and I love that.
I will try those beans! Thanks for the tip.
Similar story here. Was never a huge drinker, but since getting on depression meds, the desire just isnāt there anymore, so I started exploring coffees and brew methods to keep up the taste adventures.
I take all mine black with sugar, as the sugar really brings out some of the flavors. This pineapple stuff has been great at all temps, but cooler temps make it bolder and more concentrated. Itās still very dominant hot though. I hope you enjoy it!
Iāve heard of people serious about coffee who use sugar. How much do you use? Iāve also seen people brew with sugar right in with the coffee grounds - do you do that or do you add it to your cup?
One of the hardest things to let go of when I gave up smoking pot was rolling joints. The ritual was so calming, and after several decades, a huge part of my life. But preparing a pour over coffee is so similar to that: wetting a paper, grinding, strong smells, heat. Not to mention the flavours of the different strains and the tinkering with the process to get the most out of your āstuffā. Only now I donāt bumble on like an idiot for 3 hours!
Lol I feel more guilty about saying how much sugar I use in my coffee than most other things I could tell you about myself. Everyone always acts like I use an obscene amount, but itās far less than a soda.
I use 12-16g, which is 3 to 4 packets worth. If I go less than about 12, it gets in a funky place where Iād almost rather have none. The same size soda has 3 times as much. I swear itās to being out the coffee flavor, since at a dinner I either wonāt add any, or 1 pink packet if itās rough. There itās all roast and get gross if I add much sugar. With the good stuff though, it just makes all those great tastes shine so bright! All those judgey people ask drink coffee just for the caffeine, not to savor it and explore.
The routine is fun. I enjoyed the experimenting with grind size, steep time, and all that. There are far worse vices one could have than coffee, so I will continue to indulge myself a cup each day.
I get to handle over $1 million in musical instruments every day for my job.
(Iām a church organist and pipe organs are insanely expensive)
Ridiculously expensive tea from artisanal tea gardens. Like four bucks and more per portion (which you can brew 6-12 times in that sitting, though). Itās addictive and sets your standards so high, I canāt drink cheap tea anymore
Herbal tea or tea tea?
Doesnāt actual tea get unusable basically after the first wash due to tannins?
High quality tea can be brewed multiple times, youād typically use a higher tea to water ratio than for a single steep though.
Green, pu erh and especially oolong teas also often change their flavor profile and taste in subsequent steeps, bringing out more nuanced flavors.
Tea tea :)
FlaxI have a human who feeds me and does whatever I want, even lets me sit on their lap all day š±
A King Charles spaniel.
I can afford to buy groceries from the expensive supermarket!
dohpaz42Hint: theyāre all expensive š
Expensiver
Expensivish
Ron Howard
I get to work from home every day, and so does my wife.
We each have our office space so we can work in peace but at any point in the day we can just have a chat, we can have lunch together, we can have our evening planned and be out of the door at 5pm
Itās just all so much better than the old office-based life
NegativeNullNothing about that is absurd
It would be if you had this exact same scenario 5 years ago. Itās absurd if you remember what it was like before, and it highlights how absurd return to office mandates are.
You could even, oh my god, have a hug or touch her nose.
Boop!
see some of that ankle
You saw ankle bone? You got some ankle cleavage, you dirty devil, eh?
ā¦good height !
Like five niiiine!
NOT_RICKI flew nonstop from Newark to Singapore. That was a crazy flight with fantastic amenities. First time Iāve ever had the āhot towelā treatment
Thats something you do every day? Wow.
Oh shit, whoops. Gonna go ahead and blame that on posting before coffee. No, just the most luxurious thing Iāve ever done. I have essentially unlimited clean water and sewage at my house, I think thatās pretty easy to take for granted
I either buy a cafe con leche from a local place, or make mija pot coffee with freshly ground beans - not just any type, the same beans the cafe uses, from the local coffee roaster.
Also get gently woken up, no alarm, and have sex every morning.
My mornings are the most ridiculously indulgent time, every day.
MothraTwo eggs every morning
Holy crap, slow down there Caligula!