day's stream

September 30th 2023. Slow day today with a few highlights. Woke up early enough around 9:15 but grandma used the bathroom so I got ready starting 10:00. Skipped breakfast, wasn’t really into the fridge, worked on the personal insight questions some more. Hario Switch arrived(!!!), great box. Had some leftover stirfry and soup with a bit of kimchi for lunch. Kimchi was nice and sour. Made coffee on the Hario Switch: 18g, 250ml water, preheated with 300ml-ish water, lever switch worked well but was a little softer than I thought. Though, that lightness was probably a safety feature. Love love love the glass design. Feels so regal and elegant. Drained preheating water into the mug to warm it up. Boiled the water for the coffee, ground the coffee, added the water first before coffee to prevent clogging. Used my AeroPress paddle stick to stir which worked okay, though a more curved spoon would work better. Let it steep for 2 minutes, then flicked the switch again to let it drain. It drained pretty quickly, around 35 to 45 seconds, and it didn’t look too much like sludge. Coffee continued to drip through until I noticed some leaking around the side of the mug. Disaster: I forgot to pour out my preheating rinse water!! Not only had I diluted the coffee, it potentially had a slight paper taste. I cleaned up the brewer, poured out half an ounce or so of coffee, and then tried it. Surprisingly it wasn’t that bad. I couldn’t really taste any paper flavor, and the coffee was weak, but not tea weak. It actually reminded me of donut shop coffee. Good extraction, just a little diluted. And here’s the kicker – no bitterness. I don’t know if my grind size was on point but the dilution seemed to scrub away all of the bitterness that had plagued the first few times I tried brewing the coffee on my AeroPress. What was left was a very elemental, roasty flavor. I had it over a tangerine and a couple James Hoffman videos, and continued working on the personal insight question.