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There is no "stovetop espresso", there is only good, strong Moka pot coffee.


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Any coffee aficionado will tell you that espresso is its very own thing. True espresso (N.B. not 'expresso") is made by a machine that uses pressures of around 8 atmospheres to force very hot water through a dense cake ("puck") of finely-ground coffee. It needs a particular build of machine to make it, and nothing else comes close to it. When people use the phrase "stovetop espresso", they mean a generic moka pot and possibly specifically, the Bialetti Moka Express. I admit (opinion incoming) that this is one of the things that grinds my gears when people use the phrase, and I'd happily see it expunged from language along with "pre-ground coffee".

The moka pot will make a good, strong, hearty cup of coffee, anything from 1 cup (and by that, read 'demi-tasse espresso-size cup) to a family-sized 18 cups. It is not

It's my partner's birthday this Friday. She is turning 25. I check my bank account: $61.06 until the 15th. I think I can stretch it into flowers and a dinner out, hopefully.

We are low on cash because we recently took a vacation we couldn't afford- not that it was lavish, but our time off was unpaid. Actually, vacation is a bit of a stretch for Arizona in June, but it was time off, back home. The first night we were there we shared a cigarette. It was well after dark, but the air was 90+

Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams is a PC videogame that simulates the full experience of doing a jigsaw puzzle. There are many websites and games for the purpose of doing jigsaw puzzles -- what makes this one unique is that it renders the puzzle on a table in a room, and you can customize everything about the room; the materials and colors of the table, the walls, the furniture; you have a kitchen, a couch, a bedroom. The graphics are gorgeous with Unreal Engine 5 and it runs on under a gigabyte or

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