u/Big_Purchase118

Hi! I'm new to the community, I wanted to introduce Rocky. This beautiful beast is an LR4 2016, bought at 103 000km. I've owned it for 2 years and added 50 000km more.

Despite their reliability reputation, this car has been solid. Performed oil changes every 5000-6000km. Now it's finally the time to do the cross over coolant pipes, I've been having small coolant leaks and I'm ready to send it to the shop. I prefer to order parts myself, and I'm doubtful about this one. OEM plastic ones are crap, 3rd party aluminum seems better but there are some very cheap and crappy as well.

Any suggestion? Thanks a lot.

I like my clean counter set up, espresso gear inside cabinet, cups and carafes as well. Left for pour overs, right for espresso. Coffee cabinet to light up my morning.

Any thoughts?

The series was phenomenal, and the last video showed how to manipulate those variables in order to get an our perfect cup regardless of coffee type/roast/process. I love seeing data and having TDS and EY values as feedback to troubleshoot your extraction, it’s quite useful.

I don’t own a VST refractometer for TDS measurement but I own a Melitta Senz V brewer that estimates TDS at the end of each brew, precise accuracy is still unknown but repeatability and responsiveness it’s great. I did my own experiments and I’m sharing my results to support what was discussed in the series.

33 brews were recorded, using a baseline brew and changing 1 variable at a time. The same coffee (medium-dark roast) was used during the whole experiment set. I found the results pretty interesting, proving almost every “expected behavior” (regarding TDS % and drawdown time) from each variable change. TDS estimation also seems pretty consistent and responsive to physical changes in the brewing process, although accuracy vs VST refractometer was not tested.

Any thoughts?

Has anyone came across the Melitta Senz V? It claims to deliver TDS measurements for every cup you brew! Too good to be true? Is it a gimmick or a serious deal?. I'm doing a ton of experimentation and I'll share my results later.

I'm shocked by the little (almost none) documentation / reviews about it. It's a beautiful brewing system and a marvelous engineering piece. It kinda went under the radar, it's not easy to get and it's quite expensive ($230 USD).

Any thoughts?