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  • #46
    Originally posted by Barry O'Speedwagon View Post
    It's hardly like a week on the Burma railway. Individuals with a modicum of common sense and a willingness to understand what is going seem to have no problem with it. I have several friends (non forumites) who don't understand what all the fuss is about....and they make great coffee when I visit them.
    While that's true, the fact remains that whether it's able to be worked around or not, the poor temperature stability of machines with wide-band thermostats is something that is purely negative easily fixed if you're willing to spend a little more (or faff around with a PID) and doing so improves the efficiency with which you can crank out drinks.
    If you are happy to spend/mod, I don't see why anyone would talk someone out of it. I don't see anyone saying that people shouldn't worry about electric grinders because hand-grinding isn't a torturous experience, let alone with this kind of regularity.

    If you and the other proponents of temp-surfing left it at "it's not that bad" I could understand, but no, if someone doesn't like temp surfing it's always because they're lazy, or artless, or ignorant, or otherwise incapable of learning, as though working with technically less capable equipment and being able to force it to punch above its weight holds some sort of cachet. I'm an individual with a modicum of common sense, which dictated that I shouldn't put up with an inconvenience that I could remove for the sake of 40 bucks and an hour of tinkering. I bet I'm more intimately knowledgeable of my machine than most people who temp surf after seeing SeattleCoffeeGear do it on this one video one time.

    FWIW there's no anger in that post, I just think it's silly.

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    • #47
      Don't disagree with anything you say, Dragunov. Wasn't talking anyone out of anything, just suggesting that the whole 'temp surfing' thing can be blown into something a little more problematic than it is. At no point did I say that anyone who decided not to purchase a Silvia lacked a common sense or ability (I'd be abusing myself.....I made a similar decision to yourself)....I just said that people I know who did buy a Silvia don't find it a problem. I was replying to a post that questioned (by implication) why someone would buy a plain vanilla Silvia.
      Cheers

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      • #48
        as much fun as I having from temp surfing my silvia each morning, I've ordered a PID from a site sponsor just to make my life slightly easier and save me some time each morning when making shots before I rush off to work... as long as the coffee taste good

        nothing wrong with watching SCG videos... Kat and Gail are entertaining to watch... I dont think they take themselves too seriously anyway

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        • #49
          Originally posted by Barry O'Speedwagon View Post
          Don't disagree with anything you say, Dragunov. Wasn't talking anyone out of anything, just suggesting that the whole 'temp surfing' thing can be blown into something a little more problematic than it is. At no point did I say that anyone who decided not to purchase a Silvia lacked a common sense or ability (I'd be abusing myself.....I made a similar decision to yourself)....I just said that people I know who did buy a Silvia don't find it a problem. I was replying to a post that questioned (by implication) why someone would buy a plain vanilla Silvia.
          Cheers
          My apologies; I thought that was the insinuation from the bolded bit and I guess that was mistaken. As I said I didn't intend it to be be as aggressive as it might read.

          In completely unrelated news, I'm caving and getting a popper up here (Darwin) so I can roast Decaf; apparently I'm just not built for two doubles a day; one day without caffeine and my head throbs so bad it pulses my vision by mid-afternoon.

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          • #50
            No apology necessary, Dragunov. My post could have been clearer.

            I struggled coffee wise when I spent a week in Darwin. Some nice food though.....give Hanuman restaurant a go if you are feeling like a night out.

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            • #51
              Cheers for the heads-up.

              It's weird, maybe I've just gotten used to my own or maybe I'm just doinitwrong (comparing lattes rather than shots because that's what I drink most) but I haven't found a place that measures up to what I pull/steam out of the Gaggia, with the exception of one place in Melbourne that blows it out of the water and a place in Hobart that was really really good.

              After trying the recommendations in Darwin I'm resigned to making my own damn coffee, but as I said, needs less caffeine O_O

              /derail

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