u/dylanmadigan

It seems the online coffee community, particularly the influencers, are obsessed with V60, with occasional mentions of other brewers.

However, to my understanding the filter coffee method was invented by Melitta Bentz in 1908. In the decades after, her company ultimately refined the design to this.

This is the only brewer I actually see at stores. They have it at grocery stores, walmart, target. They only sell Melitta filters. I had to order my V60 online to get one.

But when I search about it, there is remarkably little content or discussions compared to any other brewer.

So why is that? Does anyone here use it? Or do Coffee Aficionados simply not like it? Is it just a gateway pour over brewer of limited potential?

I’ve been looking into drip assists. Particularly because I make almost exclusively decaf and require less agitation.

I found this to deliver pretty good results.

I just put some tea tongs and the Aeropress filter on top of the V60.

Just gotta make sure you zero out your scale after adding them on top.

I came up with this false cut as a kid. Basically the start of a swing cut combined with the end of an overhand cut. Because I wanted a false cut that I could do standing that didn’t look fancy.

And I still use it.

I can’t imagine I’m the only person to have ever come up with this. Yet I don’t think I’ve ever seen it.

Has anyone ever seen this or done the same thing?

She’s always been difficult about food.

Let me preface a few things.

1. It doesn’t matter what the food is. Kibble, wet food, freeze dried, farmers dog, or even fresh cooked chicken. Even peanut butter or treats. It makes zero difference, her behavior is the same.
2. She’s always been this way and no vet has found any health issue to make her like this.

Rather She had some sort of abuse in the past and It’s a psychological problem.

So the issue seems to be a combination of pickiness and comfort level. Food itself is a trigger for her.

she has to be comfortable, but not excited and distracted, and if she is not in the exact perfect mood but close, then food that is enticing enough can help overcome the difference. If she’s not close, she will refuse all food.

But also if I spoil her with special food, she gets bored of it after 2 meals and needs something more enticing to overcome nerves or distractions.

Or she just needs to be in that perfect mood and she’ll eat anything. Basically relaxed, bored, ignored (I can’t be too close or watching her), and hungry.

The tactic of giving her 10-15 minutes to eat and removing the food whether she eats or not doesn’t work. It stresses her out and she’ll refuse all food. Even fresh chicken or bacon. I tried it and after a few days, I just couldn’t get her to eat anything because food became a trigger. She continued to refuse all food for 6 days straight, even with a lot of exercise.

So my best solution is I give her dry food with wet food mixed in and leave it out for a couple hours. Most of the time she will become comfortable and go eat it.

This works at home.

Now she is going to spend a week with another dog that I’m sitting.

She is so happy about this. They get along great and all she wants to do is play.

But he will eat all the food he can get. He’ll happily take anything she doesn’t eat, but he’s already overweight.

I don’t want her to go a week without eating again.

She’s already skipped a meal. I had to lock her in a different room with food so he won’t get it. But her only concern is getting out to play with the other dog.

I leave her in there for an hour and she just sleeps by the door and doesn’t touch the food.

I try hand feeding her and she waits till I look away to spit it all out. Even though it is food that she likes under different circumstances.

Ultimately I gave up and let her out of the room and threw out the food. She’s now happily running around and playing.

Idk what I’m going to do for the rest of the week.
I’m alone watching both these dogs.