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[camwyn]

Didn't wanna bore people with exercise stuff, so I've moved my progress reports to the community bulletin boards at darebee.com. I'll put up a link if anyone's interested. Preparation for the punchening continues.

In other news I have server and DNS changes to make this weekend, so I will be getting up and settling to work at my kitchen table at 8 AM on Saturday. I am... very glad that my parents gave me a moka pot for Christmas 2018 and that I can make espresso at home without having to use the Nespresso machine- admittedly the machine produces something that meets the bars-of-pressure requirements for 'true' espresso, but I am not the kind of person who fusses over that, and I like making something close enough to espresso for Italian government work, especially using a device that would still work after most major apocalyptoi so long as the rubber gasket doesn't give out.

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[derien]

I wonder if, when the rubber gasket gives out, you could replace it with leather? Not so sanitary, thought that probably wouldn't matter in the application, with hot water and coffee... and probably wouldn't last long before you'd have to replace it again.

[camwyn]

I suppose it's possible. It's not like the moka pot is generating a seal on par with a standard pressure cooker, as far as I know- the stats I've seen for it indicate a maximum of 1-2 bars of pressure- so it doesn't need as tight of a seal. A good piece of leather of the right thickness might conceivably do it.

mind you an apocalyptic situation without access to replacement rubber gaskets is probably an apocalyptic situation without access to coffee grinds, so it's probably best to think of this as more of a MacGyver situation. "Oh no! I and my fellow travelers, who wanted espresso on our fourteen day trip into the wilds of the Yukon, have found that our moka pot's gasket broke due to cold and the backup broke due to the dog finding it and using it as a chew toy! How do we make our coffee now?"