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Can You Clean A Moka Pot With Soap? A Deep Dive Into An Almost 100-Year-Old Tradition
I know this post is going to raise a few eyebrows and may even rub some the wrong way. We’re talking about how to clean a moka pot with soap – a highly controversial subject that has many in the coffee community divided. But as someone who believes in logic and science, I am open…
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Why 5 years later, the Brikka is still the Moka Pot I use
Buying a Moka Pot is a personal milestone. It’s not the same as brewing out of a percolator. Brewing coffee in a moka pot takes time and patience. It is an experience, and you buy it for the sensory satisfaction, the ritual, and the heavenly aroma of espresso wafting through your kitchen. Unlike complicated machines…
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Meet Yasmin Book Review- A Story That Quietly Healed The Inner Child In Me
I couldn’t tell the last time a book had the power to heal the inner child in me. A powdery blue cover with a girl who looked like my daughter and me as a child. A rare occurrence, and yet here it was, in the books aisle of Target. Saadia Faruqi, the author of “Meet…
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Growing a Cauliflower – A Gardening Experiment
Little curds are shy. As Earth slumbered into a long winter, the ground was frost-laden and cold. Growing a cauliflower may be a hard one for the beginner. But not a worry in a garden where fairies guard every bud and bloom. As if they understood, the leafy jackets protect and barely show what’s inside.…