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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • This is a great example of why to check before killing/removing any bugs from your plants. Same thing when you see eggs planted on your leaves. It would suck to crush a bunch of assassin bug eggs on a plant.

    I had yellow jackets build a nest inside one of my potted plants last year. On one hand, it’s a little sketchy, on the other hand, wasps and Hornets are great multipurpose predators if they aren’t located where they will bother you much.





  • The nuts at this stage smell very citrusy, almost. Apparently that doesnt last for nocino, but it might for the “molasses”. Also, be forewarned that the nuts are light green-whitish on the inside when you first cut them open, but they rapidly start to oxidize and the liquid inside starts to darken, and I bet it could stain your hands/clothes/cutting board if you don’t rinse quickly.








  • I am assuming they are just out of stock temporarily. I wanted one a while back and I just had to wait a little bit. If you email their support, they are super helpful.

    If you’ve never taken it apart, i would definitely do that before ordering stuff from baratza. There’s a good chance if you’ve been using it for a while that’s you have some broken bits of the paddles that clear grounds into the chute, and that’s easy to replace when you replace the burrs. Same thing with the upper burr carrier. It uses 3 points of contact to maintain a setting, and if one breaks, it’s not super obvious except in makes a less consistent grind. To get to that, you just need to pull off the hopper and upper carrier without any tools.




  • But you don’t call it “point four five caliber” you call it “forty five caliber”. Similar is 7.62 mm AKA “thirty caliber”. It’s reasonable that someone wouldn’t know that it’s literally just hundredths of inches.

    Shotgun gauge is wonky, so it’s not a given that the number would just be a diameter in units they are familiar with. “Grains” are also a meaningless unit to most people.