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devintrinidad · 3 years

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Kind of going off my other ask, 1146 is definitely the over comforter type. He’s bad w/words and awkward but he’ll try to do things for you that he thinks would be helpful (give tea) in some way to making you feel better. He’ll react with big emotions to your crisis and over tend to your feelings to let you know he’s understanding and sympathetic. We kind of see this several times later on in the series. Basically he’s the mother smother guy in his actions and thought processes. He’s way better at reacting to things. But he’s not great at being perceptive at how to tackled emotional problems of others he can’t directly fix for you. Again he’s usually reactive and often stumped at handling outbursts or characters having complicated emotional issues which leaves him silent or unable to say much.

3803 is actually more pragmatic. She gives you exactly what you need/want and doesn’t smother you. She’s not always attentive to everyone around her or constantly trying to dote on you. Once you have her attention she gives you space and lets you say what you want. She knows what you need and gives it to you. Rod Cell would die without oxygen so she said the exact words needed to get him to want to do something for her since he didn’t want to do anything for himself. Sure she came off as insensitive but again, 3803 didn’t bother pampering him. She went straight to the first problem she could tackle and help him with. If she only cared about her job she would have left right away. But instead of that she followed Rod Cell to hear more about his problems (despite it not technically being her problem as a Red Blood Cell). She worried over Rod Cell and was upset for him (and the whole tragic thing going on for the body). But again she didn’t smother him because in her mind that’s not what he needed/wanted.

Rod Cell felt useless and alone. He didn’t regain some life/drive in him until the new cell motivated him that he could still do something good for the body before he died and that the new cell could help him personally with that.

Back to Red Blood Cell, as soon as Rod Cell gave her the task to carry a message to the Neurons for him. She accepted and bolted right out of the room. Again, despite this not being part of her job, technically. She knew this is what Rod Cell needed so she quickly did it for him.

I think it’s a very interesting contrast between 1146 and 3803. On the surface it looks like 1146 was the only sensitive one because he was reacting a lot more to Rod Cell’s despair and trying to comfort him a lot. However 1146 didn’t actually help Rod Cell at anything long term and his comforting sadly did not motivate Rod Cell out of his resign to die uselessly. If the scenes did anything it was to to show what a gentle and caring spirit 1146 has. However the New rod cell (I’ll just call him that) and 3803 were the ones who actually did the lifting and assisted Rod Cell in having agency again.

New Rod Cell motivated Rod Cell by promising he was someone Rod Cell could teach to improve the situation. He gave Rod Cell hope and a goal to focus on instead of wasting away alone.

3803 was sympathetic to Rod Cell’s situation. But she didn’t try to coddle him like 1146 did. She cut through his self pity to give him the oxygen in a way that made Rod Cell feel useful to her. She hung around to listen to him because he wanted her to. Rod Cell gave her the job to deliver his message to the Neurons and she did it lightning fast without hesitation because he asked her to do it and she cared about his problems.

3803 gives compassion when she knows it will be useful to you. She always congratulates and shows gratitude for hard work because she knows cells like hearing that. She does tasks that may not even be part of her job if it helps someone else. She’ll comfort you in direct ways if you ask for it. 3803 gives compassion in useful ways she knows you want/need. I think that definitely comes from how she’s struggled a lot with her own problems and feelings of sadness, fear or worthlessness. She didn’t get coddled so she won’t coddle others. She’s perceptive at knowing when someone needs or doesn’t need something. If something is out of her depth, she waits until she knows what she can do before she acts.

1146 is kind of the opposite sort of (now). Maybe it’s because he’s a protector and he has this natural protective mindset/personality where he has to be doing something to help someone in trouble. He always pays attention to the platelets like giving them water or picking them up so they don’t get accidently crushed in a stampede. He sees a helpless lacti bacteria so he goes against protocol to return it home even though another WBC would kill it. He follows 3803 around to stop any obstacle from getting in her way. He tries to stop NK and Killer T from arguing too much. Ect, 1146 has to to step in to fix problems and gets pretty emotional when he can’t figure out how to help or fix things. Like Backward Cap feeling down about her abilities or Rod Cell venting about his depressing fate. 1146 might even over comfort to the point where it’s useless. He just has to always do something whether he’s actually being helpful or not. Like how he gives Rod Cell tea despite Rod Cell not asking for it and obviously it being a useless gesture because Rod Cell isn’t even shown acknowledging it or drinking it later.

I guess 1146 is better then 3803 at jumping in faster to react or try to help someone. But 3803 can be wiser and better at reading other cells and figuring out what they really need/want and trying to do those things for them. At least when she opens her mouth she will be far more likely at knowing how to move a situation to a productive one and saying the right words to move someone forward out of their negativity (even briefly). We’ve seen that in 1146, 4201 and Rod Cell to various degrees.

Basically if you’re feeling really negative and want someone super sensitive to comfort you with tea and smother you with sympathy: Get 1146. You want someone to read between the lines and show their care by motivating you - whether you know it or not - and performing the tasks you need to feel and do better to get past your problems all the while not smothering you about it: get 3803.

More or less that. ;P

It’s just funny because you’d think it’s the opposite. But 1146 is the smother friend who will fret over you. He most likely will not know how to talk to you about you emotional problems but he will hover around with concern and jump at any opportunity to be nice to you in ways he thinks would help (mostly ways he thinks help him if he doesn’t think of anything else. Man really loves his tea). On the other hand 3803 is the “get your working butt out there” friend who isn’t above being tough on you to help you want to help yourself. But when she’s not that she’s the silent/subtle support that waits until you let her know what you need/want from her and she’ll do it with 200% support energy.

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I think the main reason why 1146 wasn’t able to reach Rod Cell was because 3803 knew what it was like to feel useless or helpless. 1146 is a model white blood cell, so he can’t really relate and can only do his best via comforting in the only way he knows how. (Can you imagine him trying to calm down an emotional 4989 or 2626? Hahaha, there would be so much tea going around!)

Meanwhile, 3803 is definitely the more pragmatic of the two. I bet, before the whole hermorrhage incident, she would have been more anxious and not as willing to take charge in the situation, but wow... She’s like a born leader here. She took charge and took names while she was at it. XD

But, for the most part, I love your analysis and I can't wait to read more from you. Seriously, there was so much subtextual information in the chapter, I didn’t even realize it! Hahaha, I might incorporate some of the characterizations in future stories for CAW if I ever do.

Thanks for the submission and I hope that you have wonderful day! :D

#cells at work #hataraku saibou #caw #anon #caw anon #devintrinidad #devintrinidad author #devin trinidad author #devin trinidad #submission

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shinygoku · 3 years

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Thunderbirds (2004)

A review by me, CutCat! This is 8-ish pages long!

Spoiler for the end of the film warning: Alan is in International Rescue. What a twist!

Totally Turbulent

Soooo, Tbirds ‘04 is one of those Infamous Adaptations, at least among those who enjoyed Thunderbirds (’65) and of more recent times, Thunderbirds are Go (’15). It’s one of those Bad Live Action Adaptations to a near sacred property, making it dubious contemporaries with Dragon Ball [Evolution], Avatar [The Last Airbender] and suchlike.

But wait, is it really That Bad?? Why is it as divisive as it is? What caused the film to be the way it is, and quite unpopular at that?

First I’m gonna make a long story very short by saying that a Live Action Thunderbirds movie was on and off production for many years, and that the script we ended up with is apparently better than another one that was pitched... but there are reports of cooler scripts further back that never made it, for various reasons. It’s almost a story of it’s own right but I’m only going by 2nd hand information at best, so I’d rather just link them at the end for Additional Reading if y’all felt so inclined.

With that out of the way, we have the Takes from the Andersons to look at. Sylvia had a very favourable reception to it:

"I felt that I'd been on a wonderful Thunderbirds adventure. You, the fans, will I'm sure, appreciate the sensitive adaptation and I'm personally thrilled that the production team have paid us the great compliment of bringing to life our original concept for the big screen. If we had made it ourselves (and we have had over 30 years to do it!) we could not have improved on this new version. It is a great tribute to the original creative team who inspired the movie all those years ago. It was a personal thrill for me to see my characters come to life on the big screen."

Whereas Gerry had a considerably blunter response at the opposite end of the scale:

"the biggest load of crap I have ever seen in my entire life."

As for me, a mere fan of predominantly the TAG series with limited but fond memories of the 90’s TOS reruns, I’d been inclined to ignore it and write it off as a DBE or TLA lost cause. But the combined effect of me deciding to check out unpopular media for myself, namely Dragon Ball GT and the live action Super Mario Bros. movie, and thoroughly enjoying both; and the other effect of TAG finishing but my fixation reawakening with the need to consume More, I dived deeper into the fan base than I had dared to before, in which I found more reasons to watch it and make up my own mind fairly.

Find out what I thought, and a review of the movie itself, below the Cut! ✂

Stormy Story

Ok, enough teasing, I see good things in the movie but not enough for it to be a secret masterpiece, not by a long shot.

1/3 Stars from Me. That’s Poor. (Compare with 2/3 being Good, and 3/3 being Excellent)

My main beef is unfortunately kinda the crux of the whole story, so while there were aspects I really liked, it had permanently set the bar low, and other issues were not helping matters. I’ll go into the problems after I sum up the plot.

[sitcom harp music]

14 Year Old Alan Tracy is stuck in a stuffy school with only his nerd friend to confide in. Something’s eating him up, and it’s jealousy over how his family are International Rescue, the secret rescue workers whole pilot the Thunderbirds, impossibly cool craft with capabilities vastly exceeding standard technology. Even when he’s allowed out of school and back to the Island, his envy and barely repressed resentment over not being a member himself causes him to go off and sulk and to try taking Thunderbird 1, the hypersonic jet plane, for a joyride.

His father and the leader of International Rescue, Jeff Tracy chews Alan out for almost compromising the need for the organisation to remain secret, lest their advanced technology falling into the wrong hands. Alas, said wrong hands are already working against IR: The Hood, a diabolical, cold blooded criminal with psychic powers and a grudge against Jeff. After successfully tracking the location of Tracy Island, he launches a missile towards Thunderbird 5, the Space Station where IR monitor potential disasters to prevent as much damage as possible, manned by John Tracy.

With TB5 crippled and John injured, Jeff and his other three older sons all scramble to the disaster zone via Thunderbird 3, the Rocket Ship. But with Tracy Island largely unmanned, The Hood moves in and aims to use the Thunderbirds to rob bank vaults while simultaneously smearing International Rescue’s good name. As the only Tracy brother left on Earth, it’s up to Alan and his 2 friends, Fermat and Tin-Tin, to foil the Hood and save his family, proving himself worthy in the process. He is also assisted by IR’s London Agent, Lady Penelope, and her driver/butler/lockpicker, Parker.

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Ok, so that’s a summary you may read on the back of a DVD box, maybe it’s a bit long but whatever. Do you see what’s wrong with the story? The massive rift in the formula that should be within a template set by the hugely popular TV Series?

Critical Crux

For me, the main issue with the movie is that the Tracy family are thrown under a bus, or perhaps it’s more like being locked in a closet, in order for Alan to rise up and be The Hero. A show that was about each of them having different roles and personalities to the others, and the movie sees the best way to adapt the premise is to reduce 3 of them to cardboard cutouts who aren’t allowed to do or say anything meaningful, with the exception to this getting the dubious honour of getting a missile and exploding space station to the face.

I can’t clearly express how much this pisses me off! It’s downright insulting and baffling as well. They had pre established characters right there for the taking but go NO! Let’s make OCs to fill this newly created void instead and make the main Message of the film Friendship Teamwork.

Why does every child-skewed media hafta have the Friendship message? It’s a good one, sure, but nothing said in this film about it was fresh or original. Y’know what I see far, far less? Not just in Kid Flavoured Media, but all sorts? The importance of Brotherly Bonds between actual brothers!! I don’t subscribe to the massively misunderstood message version of ‘Blood is thicker than water’, but a story with the siblings actually pushed and stressed and coming out stronger at the end would have ruled!!

[For what it’s worth, the actual saying is “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb”, i.e. the bonds you choose to forge are more important than happening to be born to certain people. This correct message is still compatible with literal siblings though!]

The other, somewhat lesser Large Issue with the movie is simply that we don’t see much in the way of Rescues with the titular Thunderbirds. We only get the tail end of the Oil Rig in Act 1, and then the ‘Birds are used predominantly to get to London and save 1 Monorail Car with TB4.

Watsonian Woes & Doylist Dilemma

When looking at Media, there’s 2 main angles to consider; Doylist and Watsonian. Doylist is the “real life / meta” angle, the structure of the story or interests of the author being in the plot, that kinda thing. Watsonian is the reason given within the story.

All stories have Watsonian and Doylist reasonings, the trick is to blend them in and not use a weedy Watsonian reason for something stupid happening.

Why bring this up? Because it’s still part of the Huge Problem I have with the film; the Doylist reason for all of IR being incapacitated so easily is so Alan can shine without fighting for focus in a large group. I don’t like it, but let’s go along with it for now.

Believe it or not, but I can accept that a Movie format isn’t going to be the same as an ongoing series. There’s way less time and you gotta hit certain beats. Ideally you also condense the essence of the show into the film while being more than just a long episode. They didn’t hit this note in my opinion...

But other than ‘It has to happen for he story to work’, there’s no damn reason for all the Non-Alan Tracys to be cooped up in the crippled TB5! They put all their eggs into one basket when a considerably more sensible choice woulda been to have a small crew, and the others remain on base. Because even without factoring in a worst case scenario where another missile hits them while in space, killing them all, which totally could have happened for all they know, there’s also the part about them being International Rescue! They gotta be ready to respond to other disasters should those develop. TB1, 2 and 4 were still available for use!

If I was Jeff making the boneheaded decision, I would have taken a second to think about it and have 1 of the Bros come up in 3 with me. Seeing to John shouldn’t be something 4 people are needed for, it would just get more crowded and the oxygen would be used way faster! Considering they all come close to asphyxiating, 2 less people would mean things weren’t so damn close to the wire! (Granted, the movie also has them falling into Earth’s atmosphere and burning up as a hazard, but the whole crew being there doesn’t affect that.)

Jeff! You’re the patriarch and supposedly most experienced dude in the whole movie! Why didja run into that trap with both eyes open? Stressful situation, sure, but in the Rescue Business you need to be able to listen to the cold, clinical angle. You’re risking more of your sons’ lives making such a rash judgement!!

Character Conundrums

This is the part of the review where I begin to really emphasise the differences between TOS and this movie. I’ll hold off TAG for now in the interest of fairness.

The movie is a mixed bag when it comes to the individuals within it. Some have been refreshing updates to stuffy 60′s tropes, but several draw the short straw, feeling even stiffer than their marionette precursors.

Alan - Hoo, boy. The plot follows Alan.... for the third time if you’re factoring in the Supermarionation movies, which was quite the baffling choice as Puppet!Alan is quite the obnoxious jerk. But whatever, new movie, new canon, new Alan. While the Alan of the 60′s was a bizarrely whiny brat of a character considering he was supposed to at least be in his early 20′s this Alan at least makes more sense to be annoying. But yes, he starts off as a sullen jerk with unclearly defined jealousy towards his own brothers and seemingly a lack of grasping the stakes behind International Rescue, viewing being one of the crew as a Cool Job rather than a gruelling, life-risking ordeal. Over the course of the movie (mostly Act 3) he becomes less of a berk and a better team player, even going as far as to save the Hood personally.

Jeff - One of the stronger characters in the movie, even with this poor choice I’ve gone on about already, haha. You get the real impression the job means the world to him, but still secondary to his sons. An update and improvement to the sometimes stodgy and holier-than-thou character from the 60′s, plus his proactive role makes him way less of a backseat driver.

Lady Penelope - Best character and a splendid update to the 60′s Socialite. This Penny is always a delight to see, although her ability to change clothes offscreen sometimes pushes plausibility, haha. She and Jeff also have very natural and endearing chemistry, so for this iteration at least, I’m up for shipping them, something I can’t say for TOS.

Parker - Remarkably true to the beloved puppet version and another highlight. His interplay with Penelope is some of the best dialogue in the whole movie, and was written by Richard Curtis in an uncredited role, or so I’ve read.

The Hood - A shockingly sadistic and cold blooded so-and-so. His Psychic powers have been given a huge boost, and the depths of his spite generates all the tense scenes the movie has to offer. His performance may be the best in the whole film, simultaneously over the top while also completely deadly.

Tin-Tin - Y’know, Tin-Tin is a funny character, in how she’s very different in all versions. I enjoy her in TOS, but her potential as an engineering assistant, mathematician and member of IR are quickly discarded to make her a secretary, which is further demoted to bringing coffee. Ahh, The Sixties! One of her other defining features was the sometimes bickering sexual tension with Alan. Movie!Tin-Tin is still the implied love interest [and the same age] with him, but she’s also an Action Girl extraordinaire, with abilities bordering on metahuman. She can trek through the jungle without slowing down, she can dive underwater for prolonged sequences, and has a variation of her Evil Uncle’s Psychic capabilities, but used for good. Notably, the Kayo of TAG takes significantly more from this Tin-Tin to the original, sadly sans Telekinesis.

Fermat - The only OC I’m gonna dignify with a section here lol. He’s basically mini-Brains, complete with the way he t-ta-tal- -distinctive speech patterns. But yeah, as the hypersmart and nerdy pal, I feel that his role is pretty superfluous, though his performance in the movie got me to soften up, he’s a good kid. Just one who, like, is part of the deal breaking issue I have with the whole film. In a way I think he’d have made a better lead than Alan lmao

Brains - Not much to say here, he’s also a dude in distress for a majority of his screentime. Seems to be older than his TOS self and a bit less subservient to Jeff, but also a father ....or Fermat is his clone. They never make that clear. He’s hit on by the Hood’s Female Scientist and it’s played for comedy, more on that later.

John - In TOS, his role was infamously minimal, as Gerry Anderson took such a strong disliking to the John puppet and the TB5 model that he exiled both into space with a few token shots per episode. So in comparison, this movie is far kinder to John! He has a nice, genuine chat with Jeff, without any mission to initiate said videocall. The movie is also quite mean to John in how he gets bombed by the Hood, his space station in tatters, his arm hurt and then near suffocation with Jeff and most of his brothers. Ahh, the conundrum of being John.

Scott, Virgil and Gordon - No, they don’t even get their own paragraphs in my review. Their lack of presence and importance in the movie is my giant gripe (have you noticed yet?) and it got to the extent that I feel they could have been combined into one character to save casting money. They get maybe 5 lines each, if that. I literally can’t tell Scott and Virgil apart (I know they have name tags on their uniforms, but in most scenes I couldn’t even read that) other than knowing 1 of them is taller. Which that one is, is a mystery.

The only one with a slightly distinctive appearance and air is Gordon, which is another can of worms because he seems to be the designated Doubtful Jerk Brother and that drives me mad!! In TOS he wasn’t as main a character as Scott, Virgil or Alan, but he was still a defined person with his own abilities. And his personality was as a slightly mouthy but the most lighthearted character! Why didn’t they carry that over?!

And yeah, Scott and Virgil are pretty much the Main Two of the brothers in TOS, so their roles being reduced to 1 token act during the oil rig rescue each [Gordon didn’t even get that!] is all the more mind boggling.

Hood’s Minions - Can’t be assed to write their names out, I refer to them as Heavy Dude and Science Woman. Heavy Dude is the Heavy, and his character consists of Dumb and somewhat Sadistic Muscle. Science Woman is first objectified (we see her ass first. Yes, really.) but then it’s ‘revealed’ that as she has Austin Powers level teeth, she’s uuuuuglyyyyy and her otherwise genuine attraction towards Brains is played for laughs with this angle. And that’s still female on male sexual harassment, which doesn’t fly with me. Eeeesh. Bad writing! She does Science Things for Hood.

The Rest - Kyrano and his wife are in this. Wife is Original but basically Grandma’s role, though she doesn’t even get a single word to say. Rip. Also the Hood has a few more generic mooks from somewhere, but seemingly only for part of the movie. Kyrano didn’t do much in the show except get bullied by the Hood and little has changed.

Tone Trouble

I feel like the movie has a bit of an issue with balancing a consistent Tone. Again, let’s look back at TOS. It was a Family Show, designed to not just appeal to little kids, but to also keep their parent and other adult amused. Maybe some of it was also the result of the times, but striking to me is that they allowed the characters to get pretty hurt, complete with red paint being applied to look like realistic blood. Some of the criminals, including the Hood himself, would be very vicious, how he treats Brains in Desperate Intruder comes to mind. There was even firefights resulting in death, like the memorable climax of Operation Crash-Dive, where Gordon has to shoot a saboteur in the back, into the open sea below the compromised plane. He then proceeds to hold the cut wires together with his bare hands. Don’t try this at home, kids!

So while I can understand some of that being removed from the Movie (and TAG), there’s still the irritating going down to a perceived kid’s level for the majority of the film, which is probably also a large reason for the massive structural change. But then, there’s shockingly dark implications here and there, and the haunting sight of the crew trapped on TB5 floating lifelessly in the dark, asphyxiating. But then, again, we have goofy choreographed fight scenes with juvenile stock cartoon sounds. And then, we have Hood force choking Alan?! It has been mostly consistent until Act 3, then the tone goes up and down more than the flying machines.

Revamped Rockets

I’m mostly talking about the main craft here, though I know the Pod vehicles got modified too, I’m not sufficiently a TOS Pod Buff to go over them.

TB1 - Looks real nice! Maintains and even enhances the sleekness, and the idea of a glass cockpit is much better than having 1 tiny window and a dinky TV screen to see by. Oddly dark inside the cockpit considering how much glass there is, though. Probably my fav of the Movie Fleet.

TB2 - Oof. Looks bad, man. Like, really ugly. What have they done to the glorious design that was the Original Big Green? The unofficial mascot from her importance and unorthodox style? They turned her into a stubby, too glossy, chunky bar of green soap. The thick ass legs are a good idea but it sure ain’t enough. Also, she carries 3 smaller pods insteada 1 big one.

TB3 - Like TB1, pretty much the same design but streamlined a little. Docks with 5 sidewise instead of like pen going into its lid.

TB4 - I’m mixed. I like the idea of giving her a glass canopy and extendable arms, but the movie’s version is so boxy she looks more like a small yellow Greenhouse with the rear half of the old Four, haha. The arms also look a little stiff, can they bend? Now, if there was a sleek, glass hulled, variable armed, demolition charges-loaded Four, that would be my favourite possible version ;3 Four is my fav craft in TOS and TAG, for what it’s worth.

TB5 - I say it’s quite a visual improvement over TOS and the odds and ends jumbled look that had, though I do appreciate a bit of Chunkiness. This one really needs to have better defence too, TOS 5 may’ve been able to tank that missile lmao

FAB1 - I know that she would have been a Rolls Royce in the film, but BMW said no, so that’s not a point against the movie. And failing the classic image, it’s cute that it’s a Ford Thunderbird, though I’d have preferred one with those 50′s/60′s stylish fins personally lol. Her ability to fly is new here unless you count the Dream Sequence in Are Go (’66) and the water mode was also seen in that before this, and she gets the job done, though we don’t get to see as many gadgets and gizmos in the course of the film.

Unlikely Uniforms

I really don’t understand these. Why are they off white with minimal accent colours? What was wrong with the blueness of their suits and the broad stripe of a secondary colour? I sure ain’t saying the 60’s costumes were practical or even that fashionable, but they were very distinctive and striking!

Not only that, but for some strange unexplained reason, their uniforms all correspond not to their own speciality, but to which craft they’re currently piloting. Even if they’re all in the same Bird...! So like, four out of five are wearing identical looking red accented suits while locked in TB5. I already find the elder brothers to be the Similar Squad, and their microscopic name tags don’t help!

Why don’t they wear their own coloured uniforms all the time? Then ya don’t need the name tag at all! And the silly implication from the way there’s apparently a whole set of Craft Specific uniforms is that there’s piles of clothes that ain’t getting used in all of them, like the tiny TB4 probably having 6 whole sets on board at the end of the film.

Between that, no blue and the outfits looking like Generic Sports Wear, the only nice thing to say is the THUNDERBIRDS down the sleeve is a cool touch. Which should really say International Rescue or IR...

Mingled Misc.

Yeah, The conflation of Thunderbirds and International Rescue is a tad irritating but it’s actually something I can overlook. It’s not a dealbreaker and it makes sense the Dumbass Public would misunderstand and call them the wrong thing.

Jeff refuses Alan early access into IR and cites “No shortcuts”. Then at the end he echoes this when he is making Alan an official member, saying he did it with no shortcuts. The whole faffing scenario was a giant shortcut!!! Fuck training and being a suitable age, am I right?!

Amazingly I didn’t cover this already, but when Alan shortcuts his way onto the team he’s made pilot of ... TB4. That’s why he’s in yellow accents in the pic. Gordon is seemingly the main pilot of TB3 instead, but the movie doesn’t deign to make that clear. While I appreciate that the 14 year old with no Astronaut training isn’t put in charge of 3 instantly, I resent the careless removal of characterisation. Obviously movie Gordon never served with WASP or won the gold medal in swimming or had a massive hydrofoil crash to nearly kill him but ggggghgggaaahhhhhhhhh

Also what’s with the implication that Four is the Babby’s First Machine? She’s a highly specialised craft that would require different training to flying or Space shit! How dare you?! The most charitable link is that Alan stood around in 4 as Tin-Tin did most of the work herself, but I guess it coulda as some level of experience.

Ford Sponsorship - Gets a bit much! It’s one thing for all the cars to be Ford, but them seemingly owning the News is like an unpleasant look into a world where corporations run everything.... hahahaahaaaaaa........

Marvellous Music

Something the movie really excells at is the tunes! The remix of the Thunderbirds March is good in it’s own right and very welcome, and the new music is all solid. Special mention to Busted’s outro song for slapping so hard even people who hate the movie leave warm youtube comments about the song. I have a habit of listening to it set to TAG footage myself, haha

Sincere Summation

Look, I’ve come off negative in this, but I honestly have a lot of respect for a lot of the parts of this picture. Hood, Penelope, Parker and Jeff are fantastic, the physical models and sets have a lot of care and loving detail poured in, the music is all bangers and other little nods and homages to the show shine brightly. The director got a lot of good work in and I hold him no ill will.

I think the problem is in the Writing and probably Studio Mandates, I’m not 100% sure, but things often get snaggy when the studio you’re working under gets bought out by a bigger company partway through. Again, I’ll refer to the info I’ve seen instead of trying to relay it in my own words.

And they made a real bad call snubbing Gerry as a Creative Consultant. Some of his venom towards the film may be from that, as well as his alleged preference to Team America: World Police as a theatrical homage. And I’ve seen that before and wouldn’t really say that’s true to the spirit of Thunderbirds, but yeah...

I’d be interested in any future Thunderbirds Movies, if that’s ever on the cards again. I’d probably be even more up for continuation of the TAG series, or newer new Captain Scarlet with International Rescue involved. Either way, I want new footage of the Birds taking off again, be it puppet, people, CGI, or something new~

Extra Reading

https://securityhazard.net/2017/05/19/thunderbirds-2004/ Full movie review, warm reception. Contains photos of set pieces and costumes.

http://groovyfokker.blogspot.com/2013/02/thunderbirds-arent-go-unfilmed-versions.html Insight into some of the past issues developing a Movie, but gets some basic information wrong (Since when is Gordon the youngest and TB3 orange??)

Thanks if ya’ve been reading the whole thing! <3

#Thunderbirds 2004 #Thunderbirds #Thunderbirds TOS #Thunderbirds Movie #Movie Review #can't really tag it with TAG because I deliberately kept that minimal lol #I care so much about Tbirds so I had much to say #I hope the links don't mess up it appearing in the tags :v

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english2 · 3 years

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Argumentative essay

Little actions that have big impact

By: Maria Camila Sanchez, Isabella Saavedra, Ana Sofia Marriot, Natalia Poveda and Mariana Ortiz

In the last years the planet has been exposed to a massive environmental degradation, much of the degradation has been human’s fault, this damage has been caused by the activities they do and the things they used in their daily life, such as cars, factories, chemicals or objects, among others. The pollution has increased a lot in the last years. Humans are the ones that keep damaging the planet, and all the natural resources, the actions they do are examples of the damage they cause, actions such as throwing trash in the streets, don’t recycle or wasting water and a lot of things that seem to be insignificant, but have a big impact in the environment. It is a matter of fact that humans and their actions, have destroyed the environment in a significant way, despite this there exist some humans that still fighting to protect and save our planet, humans actions need to be exposed, so they will know the consequences.

The continuous growth of population is one of the main factors that has contributed to the environmental degradation problem. When the population increased, so does the pollution, this result in an increase in the usage of products and the waste of water and resources. An additional problem that is generated by the continuous growth of population is deforestation, this had a huge impact in nature, as a result of this the greenhouse gases increase. As is affirmed by (Mayer, M. 2018) “Population growth also results in increased greenhouse gases, mostly from CO2 emissions. As greenhouse gases increase, so do climate patterns, ultimately resulting in the long-term pattern called climate change.” These gases have serious effects that also can be seen in the loss of animal habitats and the extinctions of some animals, this causes a modification on the food chain and ecosystem balance. If the population increases it means that humans would need more food, more wood, firewood and lots of different resources. Additionally, agriculture is also responsible for almost 80% of the world's deforestation, however deforestation is not the only problem that exist. There are other big problems like Eutrophication, these mean that the oxygen-consuming in plant life increase, inducing to the death of many aquatic animals, loss of fresh water, global warning, among others.

There exist more than a million ways that the humans had polluted this planet for his own good. Another important issue is the case of the ozone layer, the ozone layer lies up in the atmosphere to shield us from harmful ultraviolet rays that come from the sun. Around 1980 scientist discovered that the ozone layer was damaged, more specifically that the ozone layer has a hole over the south pole on the Antarctic, the most shocking part of this was that they also discovered that this was caused by the chlorine and bromine humans produced. As we can see according to (Adam Mann, 2020) “Chlorine and bromine, which are present in chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and related compounds, are highly destructive to ozone. A single chlorine atom can rupture more than 100,000 ozone molecules before it leaves the stratosphere”. Scientists have recognized that the ozone damage was the result of air pollutants from human's activities. The chemical compounds that affect the ozone layer such as chlorine and bromine can be found in spray aerosols, halocarbons refrigerants, propellants, foam-blowing agents and solvents, as we see there are the things that humans use on their daily life. Even though these chemicals are not affecting yet the Ozone layer, the damage humans make with these chemicals in the ozone layer is huge.

It is wrong to said that all the humans are the reason of the environmental degradation because is a fact that are groups of persons that fight against the waste and extreme uses of natural resources, such as Greta Thunberg, Aidan Gallagher, Julia Butterfly Hil, among others, they are evidence that there are people that still looking forward for a good future for humans and nature, that are part of organizations like Fridays for future, the United Nations, Greenpeace and Earthjustice and not just them, they are thousands or millions of people that keep trying to make the difference through other ways and organizations like The World-Wide Fund for Nature that is an international non-governmental organization. But without going too far, people these days are using reusable products like metal straws, metal razors, bamboo toothbrush and other eco-friendly products. A big amount of the global population is worried about the horrible situations the planet is living right now. It’s evident that humans need to make a change, for these reasons the world and digital-industry leaders decide to join completely to the fight for a better planet, by making resources to protect the environment, as one of the participants of the UN environmental assembly said (UN environmental programme. 2021) “Environmental action must be backed by latest technologies, including earth observations, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and the Internet of Things”. As the same way the humans used the technology for discovered the problems, they can used it to solve it, they only need motivation to do it.

The environmental degradation is something that humans need to stop, people should be more conscious about their actions such as the deforestation, ozone layer, overpopulation, eutrophication, extinctions of animals, among others. Humans should start making a change before its late, and there is nothing else to do, if people like Greta Thunberg, Aidan Gallagher and different non-governmental organization had achieve to make a change, the rest of the humans can make it to. Environment and nature are an essential thing in human's lives, so at the end humans are just hurting and damaging themselves, they need to take care of the resources, because they need them to survive. There is already a lot of damage, but they still having time to fix it.

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Some Core Issues of this World

Before we dive into the execution of a revolution we should probably address why change is necessary and why it is so important that it happens soon.

The issue that has always bothered me personally the most is that of the exploitation of the worker. To think that the t-shirt I was wearing was sewn by a girl my age or younger, in a run-down factory, breathing in poisonous gases, continuously working her hands bloody (literally) because she has no real choice but to let companies exploit her, just to ensure that her family can afford the barest necessities of life. It is one of the most disgusting things I can think of. She doesn’t have the option of doing something with her life that fulfils her. She has to sell her labour at a wage that is no where near enough to provide for her loved ones. And to top this off employers could not care less for their employees’ safety and thus the working conditions are often insecure and endanger the workers. Phew, all the topics that come to my mind when thinking about this. Apart from endangering their workers, big companies and employers take away people’s means of living by for example pressuring them to sell their farmland which has been their main source of food and income for generations or buying up a vital fresh water source, bottling it up and selling the water these people used to get for free straight from nature for money which they simply do not have (not to mention the pollution created during the process if plastic bottle-making and then the shipping of the goods (I tip my hat to you if you also immediately thought of companies like Nestlé who are one of these monsters)). Or, which I might find even worse, such factories polluting their environment with chemicals either out of self-servitude or ignorance. Excuse me, I get carried away. Awful things that we let happen.

Now, as for the reason why this is an issue that could and needs to be ended by a system change is that this exploitation is the absolute base on which capitalism is built. Capitalism relies on the means of production getting cheaper and cheaper and the market to continue expanding. And seeing as we as consumer ship expect less expensive products the money we do not want to pay needs to be taken from somewhere. I can guarantee you that CEO’s will not part with a single penny which means that labourers (this includes office workers as well nowadays, contrary to Karl Marx’ time where this particular class struggle was first properly studied and where Marx’ oppressed class, the Proletariat, was made up by all workers (meaning factory and manual labourers) of the world) will have to deal with worsening working conditions and even less pay.

Instead of having only a handful of people in a company call the shots, make most of the money and not care about the people doing the actual work, anarcho-syndicalists as well as communists suggest self organisation and the complete abolishment of hierarchies, as well as a reconnecting with the work we are doing. The people working in a factory deciding how, when, and what they want to do that is, however, just a small part of that change.

While we are on the topic of exploitation, something else that is grossly being exploited is our earth and her resources. I don’t know where or when people got the idea that the earth is a 24 hours unlimited all you can eat buffet but it isn’t. Get that idiocy out of your heads. On the bright side, not all people are completely unaware. So there have been multiple trends in recent years such as a ban of plastic bags in supermarket chains all over the world and the most recent trend of refusing plastic straws. While it is admirable that some people are doing something it is hardly enough. What needs to change is again the system. 100 companies are responsible for 70% of emissions and although I do not know the numbers for the responsibility of ocean pollution I’d wager our plastic sins, while despicable and under all costs needs to be reduced, if not stopped, are nowhere near as harmful as that of big companies. Now, more important than continuing to reduce the harmful ways in which we impact our planet as individuals, is that we pressure big companies to either do the same or make sure they disappear forever. Aside from harmful emissions and plastic, in order to make profit, companies destroy enormous amounts of forest (especially in South America) for mono cultures of plants such as soy and palm trees. I have to admit geography is not my area of expertise, however, if I’m not mistaken then the hummus layer (which is the layer with most nutrients) in the ground in the rain forests is rather thin and can only be used for a short amount of time before yield is close to non existent without massive fertilisation. As though removing a big chunk of our planet’s lungs, our oxygen provider, wasn’t bad enough, using such amounts of fertiliser is incredibly harmful. And eventually these big stretches of land will have to be abandoned and by then the ground is so exhausted of nutrients that the forest struggles to reclaim the land. I can not even express my disdain for such reckless and stupid actions. And again we have only scratched the surface of these atrocities. We have yet to address the massive loss of life and habitat during deforestation. But I’ll leave that to organisations such as WWF and Green Peace.

Another topic close to my heart is discrimination. This will take me some time to cover as we are talking about discrimination against different ethnicities, people in the LGBTQ community, women, and, tied to the discrimination against ethnicities, xenophobia, and I’ll scrape the topic of the absolute brainlessness of borders and keeping people out of a country.

As a foreigner who grew up in the central European country I quickly learnt how normal discrimination is. As a child I got harassed and called slurs due to my origins. I wasn’t alone in this. If you didn’t absolutely adapt to the predominant culture you would have a though life. While this can be rather traumatising it is nothing compared to what prejudices for example black people in Europe as well as the US have had to live with. Shot at, killed, unjustly taken into custody, wrongly imprisoned. To name a few. I can’t believe that I am explaining this because the only right thing, on which I will not argue with anyone, is to judge a person based not on their skin colour, clothes, physical appearance, piercings, tattoos, hair colour, headscarf, burka, or anything like that, but on their actions and their capacity to show kindness. Back to the topic at hand. While there may be a lot of minorities, such as black people who live in poverty, which in no way represents their laziness or inferiority, they are not given the same opportunities as other people because of their skin colour. Prejudice and decades of oppression has forced them into impossible situations, where for many survival is their biggest concern. Being denied access to education or having to “sit with the brown kids” at lunch is what keeps them imprisoned in a lower class. This struggle is exceptionally painful as black people freed themselves of slavery mere decades ago just to be continuously mistreated.

Unfortunately, discrimination is not limited to people of colour. Modern women’s rights movements, which have been going on for over 100 years also still struggle and have to fight for each scrap of equality. I will not delve too deep into the topic. I will say though. My body. My choice. You can fuck the hell off if you tell any woman who did not specifically ask for your opinion how she should live her life. This is regarding clothing choices, choices regarding children, or how many or few sexual partners she has. Aside from that, many people see equality between men and women as achieved when plain and simple it has not been. The pay gaps being the smallest issue. Women are denied jobs for which they would be the perfect candidate for the reason of being female. The annoying thing about this is that many are not aware of their own prejudices, which makes it that much harder to battle. Women are naturally assumed to be the stay-at-home parent and are pressured into the “right” gender role. This applies to both men and women of course and the issue of bigenderism will be another point of discussion in the future. DISCLAIMER: Just because you do not do one of these things that does not automatically make you a non-sexist. It just makes you not quite such a sexist. Treat women as equals and there you go. Now actively say or do something for equal rights for women and you’ll be a feminist. This includes all women; white, black, Muslim, Christian, trans, etc. (We will discuss feminism and the fears connected to it at a later point as well.)

Speaking of trans (great TRANSition). Acceptance towards the lgbtq community is lacking as well. Not only is there a lack of acceptance but people actively hinder lgbtq members from being happy and living their lives the way they want to. I will try to make this very clear: they are not harming you by loving who they love and fucking who they want as you are. Who do you think you are, attacking them when they do nothing to harm you. Instead of complaining or hating queer people you might want to judge people based on their morals, as I have said before. A gay guy that’s rude is just as much of an unlikable person as a straight guy. He is, however, not an unlikable person because he’s gay. Never. Let people do what they want as long as they don’t harm anyone. And no one has a right to harm them for being who they are. Not civilians, not police. We just passed pride month, which, apart from reminding us to love who we love, should remind us of those who have fought for the rights of lgbtq members. It should remind us of those who were crushed and prohibited from loving and those who were suppressed by their governments and their police. Hatred will not stand against love.

And it is in these times, I believe, that we need love for one another more than ever before. We have reached a certain standard of living in western society that we do not have to fear for our lives. Unfortunately, not all people are that lucky. People flee from their home countries, whether it’s because it’s at war, or they can’t provide for their families. For whatever reason they flee, they are looking for a better life for their families and themselves and they need to be given a chance. Of course the problems in their countries need to be solved, but until they are these people need a home. Instead of pretending that they are all evil you could get over yourself and get to know some of them. Yes, there may be a cultural difference but it might be interesting to get to know it, broaden your horizon. Everyone is a human as you are. Some where just more or less fortunate in where they were born and how their country has been or is being governed. They have worries enough. Be kind to them. There is no need to put them in concentration camps, build walls to keep them out, separate children from their families, or be scared of them altogether.

Speaking of concentration camps (aka ICE). Many anarchists will agree that we hold no love for the police. I only briefly mentioned police brutality in the paragraphs about discrimination. I did not even scratch the surface of the disgusting things they do. They have been given the power and the right, by their government, to use force when they deem it necessary. Keep in mind they choose when they want to use force. It is no coincident that there are more black people being shot than white people by police, or that more lgbtq members are beat up than cis men. There is an imbalance in the distribution of power. We are governed from the top down and it is all we can do not to submit and accept this injustice.

If you take anything from this, let it be that we are all human beings, who deserve to live our lives as we choose, without fear for survival. Assuming we are different from one another because we are born in different places marked only by an imaginary line, or the colour of our skin, sexuality, or gender (which is also an ide constructed by our society).

It is not a coincidence either that all the oppressed are not white, straight, old men who sit in positions of power and assure that these few named injustices continue. It is our duty to ensure that no innocent is harmed and every moment we fail to do just that, is one moment too much. We need to fight this. Now.

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How to age Well. 5 Secrets to Age Well!

Aging Gracefully Is A Choice! Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

There are few people you might know of in your life and when you see them you immediately think ‘wow, they are really aging gracefully! Is there a secret? Or did they inherited some special genes?’ It’s a simple question, but the answer might surprise you.

So, what does it really take to age well?

Diet: Not a specific diet, but a balanced diet of what you already like to eat!

Exercise: No Crazy exercises that you will do once and regret for the rest of your life. Something you already like but a new way of doing it.

Memory Health / Brain Health: To do everything right, you need your memory to remember, and remember correctly.

Skin & Hair: What we put on our skin eventually makes its way inside (partially or in an indirect way) the same goes for our hair.

Cell Health: Everything boils down to our cells! This is where everything started from, so it makes sense that we should fix everything at the roots.

First – Diet

When we usually talk about dieting we always like to label our diet with some sort of a name. However, if you are looking for a specific diet and diet plan, maybe this is not the article you are looking for. Even though we will be talking about food and nutrition from the inside out.

But for us, we look at diet and food from a holistic approach. You need to eat almost everything, and everything in a moderate amount will benefit you. There are many diet plans out that tell you to stop completely consuming one thing or another. But most people who start on those diets, don’t make through the first month. The main problem with such diets that they are not sustainable. Cutting something out ‘cold turkey’ might work for some, it does not work for the majority.

Food Variety Is Key To Provide Us With All Nutrition Image by silviarita from Pixabay

For diet, we are going to provide the tips that will give you the best results with the least amount of effort! Tips that will require you doing less not more. It sounds like a good deal. Right?! Let’s dive in. You need to look at those three areas ONLY:

Look at your food consumption for a longer period of time. Not daily. Balance it on a weekly basis, monthly and overall basis.

Stick with organic whenever you can.

The dirty dozen and The Clean 15 lists. A simple list of food that you want to get organic, and another list that you might be able to go with the non-organic. The top 15 foods with the least pesticides are called the Clean 15, while the 12 foods with the most pesticides are called the Dirty Dozen. The list is courtesy of the Elizabeth Rider Blog

THE DIRTY DOZEN (2019)

Buy these organic whenever possible – Updated 2019

Strawberries

Spinach

Kale

Nectarines

Apples

Grapes

Peaches

Cherries

Pears

Tomatoes

Celery

Potatoes

+EWG’s Dirty Dozen Plus:

Hot Peppers +

THE CLEAN 15 (2019)

These are ok to buy conventional (not organic) – Updated 2019

Avocados

Sweet Corn

Pineapples

Sweet Peas Frozen

Onions

Papayas

Eggplants

Asparagus

Kiwi

Cabbage

Cauliflower

Cantaloupe

Broccoli

Mushrooms

Honeydew Melons

Second – Exercise

Exercise is closely connected with diet. We can’t talk about one without the other. Also, the same goes for exercise that goes for dieting. Most people who start a brand new exercise that is totally different from their daily activities, typically they will give up on the new routine quickly.

For sure, there are some crazy cases where people stick with it from day one and keep going forever, but most of us, we need to adapt those exercises in our daily life one exercise a week, or one exercise a month.

This Is The Reality Of How Most People Feel About Exercising. Especially, Trying Something New For The First Time

This Is What We Think Of Ourselves When We Exercise For The First Time! It’s True After A While But Right Away.

Here are a few steps to get your exercise ‘requirements’ done easily:

Things you like to do or you are already doing. If you like walking, then start with it. If you like working out, then do this. If you like hiking or even as simple as shopping. Yep, you read it correctly. You can just add a few steps to your shopping trips. Park the car further, do a few more laps around the mall. Chase your kids, or grand-kids around the yard, the park, or even the living room. Take the stairs down and the elevator up. Or half-half.

Break a sweat. If you can break a sweat in whatever you do then you nailed it! Sweating is a sign that you are putting your body in activity mode. Nothing too crazy, but just a little to move you forward ahead of where you are today. Usually, 3-5 min of high-intensity exercise should be enough to break a sweat.

Add one more. By the end of the day, you just want to add one more pump to your heart to keep it pumping longer. One step, one repetition, one pound of lifting weight, one positive change no matter how small it is.

A Walk With Your Grand-kid In A Fresh Air, Is More Thank Just An Excellent Exercise! Image by emailme3 from Pixabay

NOTE: Never, Ever use your progress in dieting and exercising as a rewarding/excuse to bring bad habits that you are trying to move away from. The reward of walking the extra mile is not another donut. You are better off without them both in this case.

Third – Memory Health / Brain Health

There’s no point of dieting and exercising if we don’t remember doing them. It might sound silly to bring up such a thing, but it’s so real. We don’t remember to exercise until it is too late in the day or the week. Or we forget what kind of activity we planned on doing today. So, in this case, we are missing on our physical health because of our mental health.

“Sometimes you will never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory” Photo by Roman Kraft on Unsplash

Our brain is the most important organ in our body. It is the central computer of the whole body. When we start forgetting, slipping off mentally, we lack mental clarity, memory issues, lack of focus, and other issues. Those are problems on their own, but also they are signaling issues that are occurring from our bad food, lack of activity, sleeping behavior, and so on. However, the good news is that we can reverse most of them. We can change our food, and see it in our brain, and we can feed our brains and see the results on our bodies.

That’s how science started discovering the types of food that will help our brain become healthier and stay healthy. Few of those foods are:

Wild Salmon – Omega 3

Walnut

Avocado

Almond

Blueberries

Broccoli

Coconut oil

Turmeric – curcumin

Dark chocolate

Drinking water – Brain content is 80% water.

Two more tricks/ hacks that will help improve brain health, but has nothing to do with food and as easy as eating food, are:

Brush your teeth with the opposite hand. That will help your brain develop new neural connections.

Learn something new! Anything. Learning new skills, activities, games, crafts, new learning helps the brain to engage, wake up, and spark the young activities that once used to have.

Skin Care Is Not Luxurious, It Is Essential Image by chezbeate from Pixabay

Fourth – Skin & Hair:

We often don’t think much of what we are putting on our skin & hair from deodorant, shampoos, lotions, sprays, etc. We pay attention to the way it smells, the way it makes us feel, but not the ingredients, or how we are getting those results.

A simple example of this case is that we use lots of deodorants, but we are not sure (aware) of how they are working. Most of them use harsh chemicals to kill the bacteria that are causing the odor, but at the same time is hurting our skin. There is a nice article by publicgoods that explains the way ‘deodorant’ works on our body.

The same goes for shampoos that we use, we like the smell, the price, and maybe the results, but over time we start losing hair. That’s when we start looking for solutions and start educating ourselves on what we the heck we are putting on our hair.

If you think you are starting to go bald, you might want to check this blogpost First Signs Of Balding

And if you are a woman losing a lot of hair then you need to start with considering treatment from the source, the scalp first. Here’s a good blog post I found for this (it has good humor in it as well haha) Inside My Quest to Find the Holy Grail of Hair Care

Fifth – Cell Health

Last but not least, is the health of our cells. Out of everything, this is what all boils down to. It takes no genius to figure it out, but it’s important to say it over and over that the health of our cells is the health of our body.

The problem that we see out there with all of these big corporates and big money, is that they look at each problem in a very disconnected way from other problems so they can sell you an UNLIMITED number of product “solutions”. While the core thing is to look at the main source of all the problems which are our cells.

Our Health Start From The Health Of Our Cells Image by Colin Behrens from Pixabay

The health of our cells starts by fighting Cellular Stress.

What Is Cellular Stress?

Nrf2Science describes that “Too many damaging free radicals — or too few protective antioxidants — can wreak havoc on cell membranes, mitochondria, and DNA, leading to tissue damage and a wide range of chronic diseases, including cancer, chronic fatigue, diabetes, arthritis, and heart disease. For more than 50 years, scientists have known the aging process to be linked to highly reactive oxygen molecules produced during normal metabolism. These oxygen molecules, often called “free radicals” or “reactive oxygen species” (ROS), can react with and cause damage to cellular structures throughout the body. Particularly vulnerable to oxidative damage are cell membranes, DNA (genetic material), and mitochondria (where cells generate energy)—and damage to these vital areas often means that cells cannot function properly.” Cellular Stress/Oxidative Stress is something that we need to combat in our cells as it has been linked to many chronic diseases like cancer, chronic fatigue, diabetes, arthritis, and heart disease, etc.

Oxidative Stress Diseases

Some of the chronic diseases that are linked in a way or another to oxidative stress

The Cause of Oxidative Stress

Even though Oxidative Stress is harmful to the cell, it is part of its natural behavior. According to Nrf2Science “Sometimes, the body deliberately makes free radicals in order to neutralize viruses and bacteria.” Also, scientists have found that the cell produces free radicals during its normal metabolism. However, the problem arises when there are too many free radicals that they begin to interfere with the cell’s normal functions. The increase of free radicals might also be from external sources as well. External factors like food, pollution, smoking, pesticides, fungicides, chemicals, etc.

A quick search on the topic of Oxidative Stress and the diseases related to it will yield quite some results, probably more than what we would like to see. However, relatively speaking, all research seems to be limited, or new in age. But for the most part, this is where taking antioxidants started taking off. Things like vitamin C supplements, vitamin E supplements, eating more blueberries, etc. The kind of routine that we have been familiar with. The only issue with this approach is that we are supplementing our body with external antioxidants, which is better than nothing but is very limited in the amount of effectiveness in combating oxidative stress and eliminating the increasing number of free radicals.

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The other emerging approach, which is the one I subscribe to, is ‘hacking’ the Nrf2 pathway to signal the production of antioxidants within our body itself instead of supplementing our body with external synthetic antioxidants. In my mind, I imagine our body as this perfect computer and at some point it starts to slow down (due to aging and other factors), instead of me upgrading the machine by adding better processors, which is not possible to our “human-machine”, I will try to optimize my existing system/ body to perform better to go back to its original capabilities.

Releasing the system from the unnecessary burden that we are putting it in, is much easier, and more efficient than upgrading or supplementing with external resources. That’s where Nrf2 Activation comes into the picture.

We can think of Nrf2 as the new sheriff in town! Oxidative stress & Cellular Stress are the bad guys. The antioxidant is the policemen. Everyone is telling you to add more policemen to your body to fight the bad guys, which is a good idea, but what’s even better is that you have your body making its own policemen if you enable the sheriff to do their job! NRF2 is the sheriff you need on your side!

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Pegan 101: All You Need to Know About Paleo & Vegan

Pegan: Protein & Vegan Unite

Some things in life just don’t make sense.

Like:

How your checked luggage makes it to your final destination after your flight change in Dallas/Fort Worth (amidst a sea of thousands of other bags)

Why we say “Fine” or “Good” every time someone asks: “How are you?”

How many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?

And, why the human body needs protein?—specifically why it needs or benefits from “creature” or animal protein.

No ifs, ands or buts about it, the human body is like a plant that needs water and sunshine.

The Pegan Diet

We require a balance of water, fats, carbohydrates and proteins to be a well-oiled machine, and when we neglect any of those to the extreme, over time, our body suffers for it. Pegan is an approach that uses the combination the paleo and vegan principles.

Sure you can find some trace amounts of fat in carbohydrates.

Sure your body can convert proteins into some form of ‘energy’—like you get from carbs and fats.

And sure some plant sources contain proteins (like nuts, beans and broccoli)

…But for the primary source of each of the three main nutrients (protein, fat and veggies), our body THRIVES upon the real deal powerhouse sources:

Healthy Fats, like: avocados, extra virgin olive oil, coconut, coconut oil, grass-fed butter, lard, tallow, pasture-raised egg yolks, raw nuts and seeds

Nutrient Dense Veggies & Fruits, like: Asparagus, Greens, Squash, Broccoli, Cauliflower Beets, Carrots, Apples, Oranges Berries, and more

And Sustainably-Raised Proteins, like: Grass-fed Beef and Bison, Pasture-raised Chicken, Wild-caught Fish, Pasture Raised Eggs, Organic Organ meat.

Of the three macro-nutrients, protein is probably the most mis-understood.

We know “carbs give us energy.” We’re told “fats help boost metabolism, improve brain function and balance blood sugar.”

But as for protein…All we really know is: “It helps us build muscle…right?”

Enter: The protein dilemma:

“Why” do we need it?

What are the best sources to get it?

What happens when we DON’T get enough?

And how much of it we really need ?

Unfortunately, Dr. Google isn’t the most helpful in this situation.

Search “protein requirements” on Dr. Google and your sure to come across thousands upon thousands of conflicting information.

Fitness and body-building communities tell us to eat dry tuna packets, chug a protein shake after our workouts and even to toss some raw eggs in there while we’re at it

Vegan-enthusiasts say we can get all the protein we need from plants and grains

And pro-Paleo heads tell us to eat more bacon and juicy steaks

Let’s clear the clutter, and get to know a little bit more about protein.

Why Do I Need Protein?

Many reasons, including:

Tissue/cell growth and repair

Metabolism

Brain function

Immunity

Energy

1. Tissue & Cell Growth/Repair

Proteins are composed of varying combos of amino acids that make up the structure of every tissue, cell and substance in your body—your heart, your nails and hair, your hormones, your skin, your other organs, your brain cells.

We need these amino acids in order to continue building tissues and sustaining life.

Amino acids found in protein help with the growth, repair and healthy maintenance of our tissues and structures, and we require a constant supply of amino acids to keep on keeping on.

2. Metabolism

Proteins play a dynamic role in revving our metabolism (keep our cells and engine going and going and going) since they are a major building block of our hormones and

The primary protein hormones are insulin (which regulates blood sugar) and thyroid hormone—which controls your metabolic rate (how efficiently your body burns and uses fuel).

3. Brain Function

Proteins are also a major building block of your mood, emotions and all around brain power. Amino acids (simply put, protein is made of amino acids) make up your neurotransmitters—biochemical messengers whose job it is to carry signals from one brain cell to another.

Brain cells transmit all sorts of signals to the different parts of the body to carry out individual tasks—from throwing a ball, to avoiding a car wreck, to brainstorming a new idea, to crying when you watch a sad movie.

The better your messengers (neurotransmitters) are fed with complete proteins, the more efficiently they deliver “the goods”—the ability to think clearly, respond, fire and achieve your big dreams.

(Think about your mom telling you to clean your room as a kid, and you paying off your younger brother to do it – the more you paid him, the cleaner the room… The more you feed your body with quality amino acids, the more your cells can communicate, and the more efficient and wise your brain!).

Amino acids are also essential for our boosting our feel good brain chemicals—like serotonin and dopamine. When we don’t eat enough good protein, the brain can’t produce enough of these neurotransmitters. This is a reason why sometimes amino acid therapy is used as a treatment for depression.

4. Immunity

“Antibodies” are proteins that form in response to a foreign stimulus, known as an antigen.

Our ability to fight off antigens (bacteria, fungi, illness, disease and other pathogens) lies in the power of our antibodies.

Different antigens, or invaders, require different “antibody” proteins to fight them off—hence why we need a variety of proteins and complete amino acid profile.

5. Energy

Food gives us energy. Duh.

And a balance of different foods—carbs, fats and proteins—gives us the balance of energy sources we need for different body needs.

Protein, as mentioned above, are big on “building, growing and repairing” tissues—meaning they spur a lot of bio-chemical reactions and enzyme activity in our cells.

Energy.

Think of protein as the turbo power for supercharging cellular activity (and metabolism) to go, go, go.

In addition, protein comprises hemoglobin in your cells—an iron-bearing protein that is the key component of the red blood cell, meaning: Oxygen. Meaning: Energy.

(That’s why people with iron-deficiencies or anemia often have low energy).

What Are the Best Sources?

There are a total of 22 amino acids found in the various proteins we need.

Eight of these are essential amino acids—amino acids ONLY found in the foods we eat. The body can produce the rest of the amino acids from these 8 essential aminos, but otherwise, we need to eat protein to allow for optimal and complete amino acid production.

Animal proteins contain ALL the essential amino acids in the right proportions to one another—also known as a “complete protein.”

True some of these essential acids can be found in plan proteins. However, the majority of plans do NOT have the adequate amounts our body needs throughout its lifetime.

Therefore, plant protein is incomplete protein (even if combined with other plants to try to make it more complete).

While vegetarian and vegan-based diets do use the power of food combining (like rice and beans, or whole grains and nuts) to re-create a “pseduo-complete” protein (a combination of the essential amino acids glued together from the two separate sources), if this is our sole source of “complete” protein, over time, this can wreak havoc…namely on our gut.

Anti-Nutrients and More

Grains, legumes and nuts contain components known as “anti-nutrients” including lectins and phytates—known for their protection of plants from predators and weather in the wild…and protection from complete digestion in our guts.

Our guts have a hard time breaking down these anti-nutrients, and when we eat a lot of them, the stage is set for a host of GI “issues” like constipation, bloating, malabsorption, leaky gut, intestinal permeability, bacterial overgrowth, and beyond.

Complete Proteins

Hints why the most complete and easily assimilated versions of complete proteins (with all the amino acids we need) come directly from the main sources of protein—such as:

Grass-fed Beef

Grass-fed Bison

Pasture Raised/Organic Chicken

Pasture-Raised Eggs

Wild-caught fish and wild-caught seafood

Turkey

Pork

Lamb

Venison

Secondary sources of plant-based proteins (i.e. not ideal to solely rely upon), include:

Plant-Based Protein

Lentils

Beans

Quinoa

Seeds and Nuts

Nutritional Yeast

Nuts

Peas

Seeds

Spirulina

Fermented Tofu, Tempeh, Miso, Natto

What happens when we DON’T get enough?

Two words: Body breakdown.

When we don’t get the complete profile of amino acids over time, things break down.

From hormone imbalances, to lowered mood, lowered energy, decreased muscle repair (and results in the gym if training), lowered immunity…things don’t function quite as efficiently or effectively because enzymatic activity is sllllloooooowwwwweeeeeddddd (protein intake is not driving the ship).

Not to mention: Digestive disturbances.

With protein out of the picture, often times plant-based diets turn into grain, bean and nut based diets, or raw-veggie diets—all of which CAN comprise part of a healthy diet, but leave our bodies trying to meet its needs for protein with secondary sources that are hard to break down.

Couple this with the widespread popularity of fake veggie proteins, like vegan sausage, processed soy products, tofurkey, seitan and overly processed veggie burgers, and our gut says, “Thankyou, but no thankyou.”

Often times the health side effects of not eating animal or creature based protein are hidden for many years.

The honeymoon euphoria of feeling cleansed and alive is common for several in the beginning, only to run into problems like infertility, crazy PMS, skin breakouts, constipation, bloating, bacterial overgrowth, autoimmune conditions, increased illness, slowed metabolism and mineral/vitamin deficiencies months or years later.

Case in point: My meatless mayhem.

Meatless Mayhem

I went meat free for about a year and a half during my eating disorder days.

My decision was intertwined with my obsession and desire to “be healthy,” and, in my mind, vegetarian and vegan based diets were the holy grail of health.

In order to fill the gaps that turkey, chicken and beef once filled between sandwich bread, alongside rice or on top of spaghetti, I ate more grains and “low fat” foods, like fruit, steamed broccoli, fat-free yogurt and low-fat packaged snacks (crackers, bars, pretzels).

Little did I realize that the symptoms I began to experience were my body’s way of crying out for meat—not just the potatoes.

Constipation, bloating, skin rashes, anemia, loss of period, dark circles under my eyes, brittle nails and hair soon replaced the initial spark and energy I felt for being able to deny myself something that most lazy Americans ate too much of (Big Macs, steaks and turkey sandwiches).

However, denial was rampant—as I refused to correlate my diet with any of these side effects (never!) until…the day I decided to give chicken a try again.

Fast forward several months later, and my energy, digestive woes and even mental clarity had been restored.

Magic!

(See “Food for Though” below).

So how Much Protein Do I Need?

Not as much (or as little) as you may think—depending on what “camp” you fall into, as well as current stage of life and goals.

As a baseline, aim for at least 25% of your plate to have a whole-sourced complete amino acid protein with most meals.

In terms of percentages for a given day, a healthy amount for general health in both men and women falls somewhere between 10-20% of total intake (about 65-130 grams/men, and 50-100 grams/women).

If muscle gain, weight loss or blood sugar re-balancing is part of your goals, bumping that protein up to at least 20-35% of total intake (130-230 grams/men, 100-176 grams/women) is ideal.

My Meatless Mayhem

You Can Have Your Cake & Eat It Too

I think author Michael Pollan said it best: “Eat real food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”

Translation:

Eat food your body recognizes as ‘food.’

Eat to satisfaction and nourishment for energy levels.

Base your plate on fresh veggies, fruits, healthy oils and fats, and some nuts and seeds.

Simple.

Eating vegan or vegetarian based dishes are NOT a bad thing.

In fact, with the rainbow of tastes and varieties out there, plants make eating both delicious and nutritious.

Above all, food is medicine. And animal-based protein (with all the amino acids) is part of that equation.

For optimal health and nourishment, incorporating the “real deal” is the quickest route to the most nutrients that your body recognizes and absorbs as protein.

The best part?

You CAN have your cake and eat it too.

Consider incorporating the best of “both worlds” with a Pegan-inspired philosophy (hybrid of vegan and paleo eating): A plant-based diet with meat and animal protein as a “condiment” (about 25-percent of your plate.

That said, NO LABELS are necessary.

Food For Thought

Often times, the BIGGEST thing standing in our way of giving our body what it needs is our moral ties to our food. We make ourselves feel guilty if we so much as THINK with the idea of adding animal protein to a vegan based diet.

Or, overwhelm overtakes us if we TOY with the idea of eating some sushi WITH rice (gasp, grains).

Enough!

Rules aside, your body is a smart cookie. And when we give it balance and listen to what our body is telling us, we may very well find that…

You can be “vegan” or “vegetarian” with some “medicinal protein” fuel.

And you can eat a paleo-based diet with some ancient grains, rice or beans.

And you can have those “20%” bites—like your grandmother’s famous chocolate chip cookies, a slice of pumpkin cheesecake, or a handful of chips and Queso at the restaurant, and live to tell about it.

Break the Rules.

Vegan-Paleo Recipes

Yesterday, we talked all about protein—why we need it, what happens to our body when we don’t get it and how to incorporate it into a plant-based diet.

Essentially, for optimal health:

Eat real food. Mostly plants. And “supplement” with animal-based protein as a condiment of your meals (about 1/4 of your plate at least) if the thought of protein (with ALL the amino acids you need) is hard to stomach.

Need some inspiration in the kitchen?

Here are some of my favorite “Pegan”-based recipes from around the web you should try:

Mains

Better Than Restaurant Falafel by Minimalist Baker

Paleo Vegan BBQ Meatballs by Sweet Designs (use avocado oil or coconut oil)

Plantain Seed Veggie Burger by Purely Twins

Sweet Potato Noodles with Creamy Cashew Sauce

Braised Lentils & Vegetables by Cafe Johnsonia

Coconut Curry Lentil Soup by Veg Angela

Garlic Spaghetti Squash by Meat Free Keto (add chickpeas, blackens or ground turkey or bison for some protein)

Grain Free Saffron Rice by Against All Grain (add salmon, chickpeas, fermented organic tofu or tempeh for some protein)

Savory Indian Pancakes by My Heart Beet

Stuffed Acorn Squash Bowls by Healing & Eating (pack with lentils or chickpeas if you can’t stomach ground meat)

Cauliflower Pizza Crust by Detoxinista (top with pesto, dried tomatoes, mushrooms, spinach, chicken or tempeh)

Quinoa Salad by Primal Palate (throw in some canned wild salmon or wild-caught tuna)

Creamy Broccoli & Cheese Soup by Blissful Basil (add some pulled chicken, pork or white fish to round it out)

Cornbread by A Girl Worth Saving (add a side of lentils, soaked beans or Beanless Paleo Chili like this Meat & Veggie Chili by Lauren Fuentes)

Side Dishes

Creamed Spinach by Eat Drink Paleo

Balsalmic Roasted Beets by The Primal Palate

Spiced Winter Squash by the Primal Palate

Cauliflower Mash by Whole Living Lauren

Crispy Sweet Potato Fries by Clean Eating Veggie Girl

Sweets & Treats

Chia Seed Pudding with Paleo Krunch (or use Wildway, Paleonola cereals) by The Thin Kitchen

Carrot Cake Cheesecake by One Green Planet

Real Deal Chocolate Chip Cookies by Against All Grain

3-Ingredient Flourless Brownies by The Big Man’s World

Almond Butter Blondies by Cook It Up Paleo

Orange Creamsicle Bars by Om Nomally

Coconut Chocolate Chunk Ice Cream by Two Peas in a Pod

Caramelized Banana Vanilla Bean Ice Cream by Get Inspired Everyday

Recommended Reads

In addition to these amazing recipes, here are a few books to spark your brain for more info on protein, protein myths, and a balanced approach to both plant and protein dining:

Eat the Yolks by Liz Wolfe

The Vegetarian Myth by Lierre Keith

Breaking Vegan by Jordan Younger

The Meat Fix by John Nicholson

Health Food Junkies by Steven Bratman

The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan

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KSP Weekly: The Asteroid Miners

Welcome to KSP Weekly! Fan-favorite astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson, predicts that the world’s first trillionaire will be an asteroid miner. Asteroids are leftover material from the formation of the solar system and range from around a meter to hundreds of kilometers in diameter. Being the primordial building block of rocky planets, asteroids are very rich in mineral resources. If we are to sustainably keep growing economically and technologically, we will have to look up to this natural resource that has never been touched, is effectively inexhaustible, and has a value large enough to disrupt entire economies. There are three main types of asteroids in our solar system: Type C-type (carbonaceous) are the most abundant, accounting for more than 75 percent of known asteroids. These types of asteroids probably consist of clay and silicate rocks, and are dark in appearance. They are among the most ancient objects in the solar system. S-type (silicaceous) asteroids follow in second place accounting for about 17 percent and are mostly made up of metallic iron mixed with iron- and Magnesium-silicates. Finally, there are M-type (metallic) asteroids, which are composed mainly of nickel, iron and other heavy elements. These are leftover cores of larger asteroids that were destroyed by collisions. If an asteroid is big enough it will undergo a process called differentiation. A process that happens during an asteroid’s formation when the heavier elements sink to its center. Although all these materials are plentiful on Earth, metals in particular are more accessible in asteroids, since the differentiation process happened in Earth as well, putting most of those valuable resources deep within our planet’s core.

Asteroid mining is not a simple endeavor: it would take years of work by dedicated engineers and scientists and billions of dollars to extract useful and profitable asteroid material. While all asteroids are potentially profitable, the right combination of valuable contents, mission essential resources, and accessibility is key. A perfect asteroid to mine has a decent amount of water, a high abundance of valuable materials, and is large enough to be worth the effort and accessible by an economical spacecraft. With this in mind, the first asteroid miners will probably look for a near-earth asteroid. Identifying the ERO (Easily Recoverable Object) is the current focus of effort of companies like Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries, who are developing robotic prospector spacecraft for this purpose.

The extraction of platinum group elements and rare earths from asteroids might be the most lucrative. Both are essential in the production of electronic components, batteries and fuel cells, magnets, as chemical catalysts and reagents, and a huge range of advanced materials. Iron, nickel, aluminum and titanium, on the other hand might not be cost effective to bring back to Earth, but could be useful for the mining process itself as it could go into building infrastructure in space, including more asteroid mining facilities. Water is also abundant in asteroids, which can be dissociated into hydrogen and oxygen, becoming rocket fuel. In the long haul, there are even proposals to farm on asteroids, as it could end up being more cost efficient to provide food for long term missions, and “c-type” asteroids are known to be packed with organic compounds and soluble nutrients.

Once the enterprise proves to be profitable, we could see a real development and economic explosion, and maybe in a few decades there will be various mining outposts in the Asteroid Belt. Kerbals realized this a while ago and Kerbodyne even developed the “Drill-O-Matic” Mining Excavator with this in mind. How many asteroids have you mined so far?

[Development news start here]

This week the team focused mainly on bug-fixing tasks. With the help of the community, the focus group team and QA testing teams identified various issues that needed attention and several have been solved and are ready to be merged into an upcoming patch.

Some solved issues are related to Steam Workshop. We talked about a couple of them last week, and in the past few days, the team managed to solve a couple more, among which there was a bug that prevented some ships from being selected in the VAB Steam Tab, forcing players to subscribe via the Steam Workshop page. There was another one that impeded the prompt update of Steam item statuses or showed incorrect information. Although a part of the problem can be attributed to delays with remote servers, there was indeed a conflict that was luckily identified and corrected.

Likewise, the team also solved some Making History Expansion issues. Among these, the team fixed a bug related to the Mission Award system, which prevented the “Boldly Going” award to show up and caused the “Homesick” award to appear when it shouldn’t. The problem for this one was that the node distance checking never started because it asked the vessel to launch, then land, and then launch again in order to meet a certain distance from the target. Additionally, the team fixed a NullReferenceException issue that was triggered after using “Vessel Explode” node on an unfocused craft within physics range, as well as a bug that prevented users to delete missions from the in-game interface. The “Landed Vessel” node also presented some issues, as it didn’t mark the node completion when some facilities were set as the landing location.

Moreover, we managed to fix a bug that froze the game when the Mini Settings window was closed using the “Esc” key. Similarly, there was a game freeze problem that occurred when certain node connection configuration was made and the mission was saved in that state.

Issues related to the base game were also addressed. For instance, and as requested by the community, we adjusted the offset engine shrouds. Coupled with that, within the technology tree some part icons weren’t being displayed correctly. That’s fixed now too. Some of you might have also encountered a bug that made your crafts immediately float away and off the surface when loading into the Exploring Gilly scenario. That was solved as well.

There were some wheel related issues looked into as well. One of which caused landed vessels to jump when rovers attempted to dock with them. In like manner, a bug that caused wheel suspensions to explode when two vessels attempted to dock was fixed. Work was put into improving suspension and wheel performance particularly oscillations, bouncing and overloaded wheels.

Parallel to our work, BlitWorks has continued their maintenance work on KSP Enhanced Edition. Our testers have been continuously testing builds and helping to ensure that we can pack as many fixes and adjustments needed in these versions. We know it has taken us a while to release this patch, but it’ll be worth the wait.

Remember that you can also share and download missions on Curse, KerbalX, and the KSP Forum.

That’s it for this week. Be sure to join us on our official forums, and don’t forget to follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Stay tuned for more exciting and upcoming news and development updates!

Happy launchings!

*Information Source:

Shaw, S. (n.d.). Astronomy Source. Retrieved from http://www.astronomysource.com/tag/rare-earth-metals-from-asteroids/

In Depth | Asteroids – Solar System Exploration: NASA Science. (2017, December 19). Retrieved from https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/small-bodies/asteroids/in-depth/

Providing Resources to Fuel Industry and Sustain Life in Space. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.planetaryresources.com/

Deep Space Industries. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://deepspaceindustries.com/

Mautner, M. N. (n.d.). In situ biological resources: Soluble nutrients and electrolytes in carbonaceous asteroids/meteorites. Implications for astroecology and human space populations. Retrieved from http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.1007.6002&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Asteroid soil could fertilise farms in space. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22430004-900-asteroid-soil-could-fertilise-farms-in-space/

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Why Onions Are Good For Hair

Why Onions Are Good For Hair?

We all are constantly worried about our hair as everyone wants flawless, thick and shiny hair. It is not always easy to have the perfect hair because of the conditions we live in today. Exposure to sun, pollution and dirt can cause hair fall and premature greying of hair. Split ends, dry hair, itchy scalp and dandruff are some other problems that everyone faces at least once in their lives.

While there are several hair problems, onion is the one-stop solution to them. Pampering your hair once in a while is extremely important to nourish them and maintain their overall health. If you don’t have time for salon sessions then don’t worry because the magical ingredient lies right in your kitchen. Here are a few benefits of onions that will make you want to apply an onion mask to your hair this instant.

• Stimulates hair growth Dietary sulfur is found in onions which is mainly responsible for the production of enzymes as well as proteins. Moreover, sulphur is one of the main components of keratin that is found in our hair. Applying onion to the hair nourishes them and also imparts a beautiful shine to them.

Due to the presence of sulphur in onions, they may promote hair growth. Undoubtedly, they make your hair stronger and provides the essential nutrients to the hair strands. This way, the strand will not break easily, thereby preventing hair fall. Onions are also known for making hair smooth.

• Improves scalp health Your scalp must be clean in order to keep the hair strong. Having a healthy scalp is very important as your hair requires a favourable environment to grow. Since onions contain anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties, it keeps your scalp safe from any kind of infections.

Strong hair follicles will only prevail if the scalp is clean and healthy. If you are suffering from dandruff issues then applying onion to your hair will benefit you greatly. Moreover, dandruff is another reason that makes your hair weak and leads to more hair fall along with giving an itchy scalp.

• Prevents hair fall If the body contains free radicals in excess, it may provide harm to your hair. Radicals not only contribute greatly to the premature ageing of hair but also weakens the hair follicles. This can result in hair thinning and hair loss.

However, onions contain antioxidants that combat free radicals in the body. Although there is no scientific evidence whether onions reverse hair fall or not, they surely do stop your hair fall in a drastic way. Applying onions regularly to your hair will make them stronger and will prevent hair loss to a huge extent.

• Better circulation Onion contains active ingredients that increase blood circulation in the scalp. By doing so, the essential nutrients, as well as oxygen, drive to the hair follicles. Apply onion juice on your hair and massage for a few minutes to improve blood circulation. Alongside, onions can reduce inflammation of the scalp and remove dry skin once and for all.

Inflammation leads to itchiness and dandruff too so these issues can be sorted easily with onions. When it comes to healing the hair, onion is of the best ingredients present. From preventing infection to stimulating hair growth, onions do it all.

• Prevents ageing of the hair Premature ageing of the hair is a common problem that several people face. Having grey hair at an early age can be quite embarrassing. When the hair strands become grey, it means that they have weakened and will fall off now.

Catalase is a compound that is responsible for imparting colour to the hair. If this element is missing then grey hair can prevail. Onions contain catalase in a significant amount so you can prevent your hair from going grey or becoming weak. Applying onion juice to your hair regularly will definitely solve this problem.

• Moisturizing the scalp Your scalp often lacks moisture that leads to dry skin, itchiness and dandruff. Providing significant moisture to the hair and scalp is very important. Onions can keep your scalp hydrated and offer an adequate amount of moisture to the hair follicles for them to grow.

Plus, onions are rich in nutrients so they nurture your hair. Vitamin C, sulfur, potassium, manganese, phosphorus, calcium, iron and vitamin B are found in onions. Since onions target all hair problems, they are extremely popular for curing damaged hair.

How to make onion juice? Take a few big onions and wash them nicely to get rid of dirt particles. Dry them with a tissue or a cloth. Now, peel off the onions and clean them again with water. Start cutting the onions into small pieces. Put all the pieces in a blender and form a thick paste of them.

Take out the paste and place it into a cheesecloth. You can also use a sieve to strain out the juice. Press the onion pulp so that the juice can be extracted. Empty the juice into a container and keep it in the fridge for a few minutes before using it.

Final Words These were some benefits of applying onions to your hair. If you have unexplained hair fall then you should try out onion home remedies for hair. Give your hair the attention they deserve and start acting on the problems before it is too late. Achieve stunning hair with onions and get ready to slay.

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What’s So Good About Cafetieres, and Which is The Best for You?

The humble cafetiere is definitely one of the best ways to enjoy great quality coffee without spending a lot of money, in my humble opinion. Come to think of it, cafetieres are probably the most underrated coffee makers on the planet.

If you're looking for a French press by the way, and you're not sure if you've landed on the right page, you have, I'll explain shortly.

In fact, if it wasn't for the cafetiere, coffee blog wouldn't exist!

This blog was created thanks to my wife and kids buying me a new stainless steel cafetiere for my birthday in 2015, at that point I was definitely a coffee lover, but I wasn't yet a home barista and I certainly wasn't yet a coffee blogger.

I was impressed with this cafetiere compared to the ones I'd used previously, and I started writing a product review. It was turning into a blog post, and I suddenly had the inspiration to start my own blog, and review the cafetiere there instead.

If someone had told me back then that a few years later this would be my full time gig, writing and talking about coffee, I would probably have fallen off my chair laughing, spilling cafetiere coffee all over the place.

Anyway, if you're looking for the best balance between cup quality and value, then the cafetiere is definitely one of the contenders, especially if you like stronger, heavier bodied coffee than filter coffee, for example.

So I'm writing this best cafetieres post both to point out just what a great manual coffee brewer they are, and also to help you to choose from among the best cafetieres, if you're looking to buy one as opposed to freeing one from the depths of your kitchen cupboards.

There are literally hundreds of cafetieres to choose from, so if you don’t know what you are looking for it’s a bit of a minefield and very easy to buy something that is not suitable.

One of the easiest traps to fall into is buying a super cheap one for £10 and thinking “what can go wrong, you just add coffee and water and plunge down, they are all the same right?”

That’s definitely not the case and if you go down that road then you may find yourself buying another one pretty quickly because the glass is super thin and will crack or break quickly and the mesh filter will just warp or not even filter the coffee and you’ll just get a bad overall experience.

Don't forget the timeless bit of life advice: Buy right or buy twice.

I’m not advocating spending a fortune on a cafetiere but if you start at around £20 and go up to £50 then you’ll get something that will last you for a good number of years and will produce great coffee throughout its life.

Does cafetiere coffee taste good?

Oh yes! Now, this is a subjective thing of course, we all have different tastes, but cafetiere coffee can be amazing.

The reason, I think, that cafetiere coffee tends to have a bit of a bad reputation, especially here in the UK, is purely down to user error.

If you correct these errors, which I'll discuss shortly, you can enjoy the main advantages of brewing with a cafetiere without having to put up with the negatives sides of cafetiere coffee.

The benefit of using a cafetiere is that it's an immersion process which extracts a great deal of the oils from the beans, without filtering them out of the cup.

This means you end up with a much heavier bodied coffee than you'd get with brew methods like pour-over or Aeropress which use paper filters (although Aeropress is a versatile brewer which can be used with all sorts of filters).

So if you like a heavy body, coffee with some real substance to it, and if you see filter coffee as watery for instance, then you're going to love cafetiere coffee when you're using great coffee, the right grind size and recipe.

Some people don't like the mouth feel of cafetiere coffee, they find it too heavy and want something lighter, and that's fine – if this is you, a manual or electric filter coffee machine may be right down your street. See:

Best Filter Coffee Machines

So what are these user errors I'm going on about?

The main error is buying pre-ground coffee.

If you buy pre-ground, you don't have any control over the grind, which can adversely impact your ability to make great cafetiere coffee, but also you're drinking stale coffee at least to some degree.

When roasted ground coffee beans are whole, oxygen can only get to the outside of the bean. As soon as you grind beans, a great deal more surface area of the entire bean is exposed to Oxygen, and they start going stale straight away. So buying a grinder and grinding your own is one definite way to increase cup quality with any brewing method.

For manual coffee grinders see:

Best Manual Coffee Grinders

Or if like me you can't be bothered with the manual labour ;-):

Best Electric Coffee Grinders

Something else which lead to the fall of the cafetiere in the eyes of many brits over the past few decades is grind size.

I'm not sure why, but for some reason it was thought that grind size for cafetiere should be very coarse.

So given that most people would buy pre-ground, and pre-ground coffee for cafetiere would be overly coarse, most people have never tasted the kind of coffee that is possible via the cafetiere with a slightly finer grind.

The biggest error, though, is probably simply down to buying poor quality coffee.

Many people would buy a cafetiere and then buy bags of pre-ground coffee, and enjoy cafetiere coffee as a special treat after a meal for example, and expect something much better tasting than they could achieve from a jar.

The fact is, in most cases, the bags of pre-ground coffee people would pick up from a supermarket are actually very similar to jars of instant. The only difference usually is that the instant has been brewed into a thick sludge and then freeze-dried, so you only have to add hot water.

In this sense really it's just like eating frozen veg vs fresh veg. Whether it's instant or freshly brewed, if it's a similar quality coffee, it'll taste similar in the cup. Commodity coffee will taste like commodity coffee whether it's brewed fresh or instant.

The best way to improve cup quality is simply to improve on the coffee you're using, which means buying great quality coffee beans. If you do this, coffee brewed via your cafetiere or any other brew method will taste hugely better than any jar of “normal” instant.

I say “normal” because there are a few roasters beginning to make speciality instant, and this is more proof that it's the quality of the coffee bean which is of the utmost importance, as these speciality instants taste fantastic! One day they may even be a realistic way to enjoy speciality coffee, although at the moment I see them as for emergencies only as they're so bloody expensive.

I won't harp on too much about this as it's quite a big subject, but there's such a world of difference between commodity coffee and speciality coffee.

Commodity coffee is priced simply by the stock market like any other commodity and is all a much of a muchness. Quality doesn't come into it at all, it's just big sacks of coffee priced by weight.

It takes investment and slower, more costly methods to produce higher quality coffee, so why would any farmer cut their (sometimes nonexistent) profits by trying to increase the quality of their coffee if selling it as a commodity?

The coffee farmers growing high-quality coffee are doing so with a view to having it score highly enough for cup quality to be officially labelled as speciality coffee, which enables them to fetch higher prices for their coffee by selling to speciality roasters or importers.

These farmers have something to gain by aiming for the best cup quality possible, and every decision made is made with cup quality in mind, from where the farm is located, what varietals to plant and what processing methods to use.

So commodity coffee and speciality coffee is similar to fine wines and the cheapest plonk. If you were buying the very cheapest bottles of wine you could get your hands on and it tasted like thinners, you wouldn't blame the wine glass, would you? ;-).

For more on this see:

Best Coffee Beans

Finally, another major error when brewing fresh coffee with a cafetiere is simply down to the method and recipe.

This is about the amount of coffee to water (brewing ratio), and what you do while brewing including brew time, plunging and so on.

For this, I'd highly recommend James Hoffmann's cafetiere technique:

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So if you buy great quality coffee beans, grind them yourself so you have control over the grind and can adjust accordingly to get the best possible results from the coffee you've bought, and then follow a great method and recipe such as ex world Barista Champ Jame's Hoffman's method, above, you're going to dramatically increase the potential cup quality with cafetiere or any other brew method.

Cafetiere coffee is bad for your health?

The health impact of coffee, in general, is a very complex one, even the medical experts don't agree, in many cases.

My personal opinion (just my opinion, I'm no Doctor, please consult a medical professional rather than listening to the ramblings of a coffee obsessed blogger) is that as with everything, “all good things in moderation”.

Even back when it was thought that coffee was generally bad (before several studies seemingly pointing to the opposite being the case started being released) that didn't stop me from drinking it.

I'm sure the Gin & Tonic, and the red wine (not in the same glass, that would be strange) that I enjoy aren't the best for my health in the long term and I try to keep them in moderation, but if someone told me I could live an extra ten years by drinking only water, I'd say pass me the sodding Gin!

I read something recently that said drinking more than 8 cups of coffee per day could lead to some long-term health issues, and thought something along the lines of “wow, you don't say??” ;-).

But even then I'd say it depends, on your individual caffeine tolerance, on cup size, on the kind of coffee you're drinking, and so on – and again, I'd say consult your doctor if you're concerned about coffee and your health.

Talking specifically about cafetiere coffee, the reason there has been some bad press about this kind of coffee, in particular, is that the coffee oils (namely cafestol and kahweol) aren't filtered out via the cafetiere mesh, and that these oils “may” raise cholesterol.

The mesh in a cafetiere isn't a filter, it's a coarse mesh which just stops (most of) the grounds ending up in the cup, and you end up with more of the natural coffee oils in the cup, which is the reason many people enjoy cafetiere coffee as it's generally bigger in body because of this.

Some studies appear to show that these oils, Cafestol in particular, may be a factor in raising cholesterol.

But some studies cite these same coffee oils that other studies find to have a negative impact, as having a positive impact, for example due to helping to reduce inflammation, and potentially helping people with diabetes when it comes to glucose uptake in muscle cells!

So, who knows – its very difficult to understand, and it does appear to be subjective, it's unlikely that Cafestol or other coffee oils (or anything else) is going to have the same effect on everyone who consumes it.

I can't advise anyone on what may or may not be good for their health, all I can say is that for me personally, I drink up to around 4 coffees per day, I have my last one usually by about 2 or 3 pm, and I drink various types of coffee including cafetiere.

Is a French Press the same as a cafetiere?

The Americans love to put their own stamp on things, and changing the name of things is one of their little nuances.

The beautiful game of football has been changed to soccer, chips have been turned into French Fries and my favourite that always makes me laugh is trousers has somehow been altered to pants.

They have done it again with cafetiere and decided to change it to French Press. Google Translate has reliably informed me that the direct translation from French into English of the word “cafetiere” is “coffee maker”.

That seems pretty straightforward to me and represents exactly what a cafetière does – makes coffee.

Yes, you do press down on the plunger – but you also press the button on an espresso machine, yet we don't call espresso machines Italian presses ;-).

Anyway, I'm not buying the invented Americanism of French Press so we are going to stick to Cafetiere throughout this article as that’s what they are called as far as I'm concerned.

So, to answer the question, yes, a French Press is the same as Cafetiere, it’s just the Americans call it something else.

What size cafetiere is best?

This completely depends on how many cups you'd usually be making at one time. If you're occasionally going to be wanting to make two or three cups or maybe more, I'd go for a 1L or 1.5L cafetiere, personally, even if you're making just one cup more often than not.

The reason I say that is that you can easily make a single cup in bigger cafetiere, but you'll never be able to make more than one cup with a 350ml cafetiere, for example.

If you don't think you'll ever need to make more than one cup at a time, or if you have another cafetiere or a different brewer you'd use for bigger batches, and you're just looking for a smaller cafetiere for the office or travel, for instance, then a smaller one would be fine.

Ignore cups as a measurement. You’ll see things like 4 cup, 8 cup and 12 cup to give you a guide as to how much you can brew at any one time, but you can completely ignore this. There is no standard measurement for cups, and coffee maker manufacturers appear to expect people to drink coffee from thimbles.

The estimated number of cups shown in the description for cafetieres generally go on the basis of 125ml for one cup so a one litre cafetiere would be advertised as an “8 cup” but 125ml is a teeny weeny cup.

Also, they don't seem to take into account the amount of volume taken up by the coffee grounds, they'll just measure the total capacity.

Just to give you an idea, the standard sized “builders mug” which are around the average cup size in terms of volume, they're certainly not huge, hold about 300ml when filled to just below the brim.

I think a good rule of thumb when it comes to the average size of a cup of coffee is about 250ml, but in order to take the wet coffee grounds into consideration I'd say roughly 275ml per cup.

So with a 1.5L cafetiere you'd get maybe 5 cups, from a 1L you'll get around 3, maybe 4 at a push. With a 500ml cafetiere you'll just about squeeze two cups out, and 350ml cafeteieres I think need to be referred to as “single cup”, even if they may produce slightly more than a 250ml cup.

What is the best type of cafetiere?

Best is a subjective word, but there are a few different types of cafetiere, and which one is best for you just depends on your budget and your personal preferences.

The two main distinctly different types of cafetiere are one piece and two piece cafetieres.

One piece cafetieres are usually stainless steel, stoneware or ceramic, and the handle is attached to the jug.

Two piece cafetieres consist of a handle attached to a frame, and a removable jug which sits inside the frame. Two-part cafetieres usually have a metal frame and a glass jug.

The one piece stainless steel, stoneware or ceramic cafetieres are usually more expensive than two part glass and metal cafetieres.

Personally I prefer one piece cafetieres, because glass is a lot more fragile than stainless steel, ceramic or stoneware.

There's also an argument for stainless steel, ceramic or stoneware over glass due to insulation, as the glass ones are usually single walled so not well insulated, which means they'll lose heat faster, meaning your coffee will go cold faster in a glass cafetiere.

Although this may be factually correct, in my humble opinion it shouldn't matter, because cafetieres are for brewing coffee, not for storing it.

Coffee grounds are never fully separated from the coffee liquid in a cafetiere, the ground coffee remains immersed in the extracted coffee and only separated via the mesh, so if you leave the coffee in there it will “stew”, or to be more precise “over extract”.

I'd highly recommend pouring your coffee into cups as soon as you've brewed, or if you've brewed more than is required immediately, pour the rest into a flask, or anything else which will keep the coffee warm while keeping it separate from the grinds.

I would assume that the faster heat loss from a glass cafetiere would have some negative impact on the extraction, but I would assume it would be very small. I'll have to give this a test at some point and see if I can detect any difference in the cup but I'd be surprised if there was a huge difference.

Some people prefer glass cafetieres because you can see how much coffee is left, but again, I wouldn't leave coffee in a cafetiere, I'd pour it into a cups or into something else as soon as it's brewed.

As I've said, my main issue with glass cafetieres is they're so easy to break, it really doesn't take much, just a quick knock against the kitchen tap can do it. Borosilicate glass cafeteieres are a bit tougher, and I'd recommend one of them if you do want glass, but they're still going to be a lot less durable than steel.

How to make great coffee using a cafetiere

Finding the best cafetiere for your needs is half the battle, the other half is figuring out how to make great coffee with it, but thankfully there's no need to reinvent the wheel here.

Coffee beans

As I mentioned earlier, the quality of the coffee itself is of utmost importance. Put crap in, you'll get crap out ;-).

I have put together a great (and growing) range of stunning coffee beans that you won't find on supermarket shelves, which I sell via my website The Coffeeworks – and there's 25% off for new customers, so you can get hold of some at a discount rather than taking my word for it :-).

See My Coffee And Use Code CBNC25 for 25% off your first order

Also see:

What are the best coffee beans & how to choose them.

Ratio of coffee to water

Ratio refers to the amount of coffee vs the amount of hot water. This determines the strength of your coffee, if you use too much water your coffee will be too weak, not enough water and the coffee will be too strong.

I'd recommend researching this and finding the ratio that works for you, but generally, I'd start off with around 60 grams per litre, so if you're using 500ml of water, grind 30 grams of coffee, and go from there.

Water is important, make sure you're using good quality water. This is something most people overlook to a large degree but don't forget water makes up the majority of the drink, so water is important.

Depending on where you are, you may have great water, or not so great water. More specifically, your water may have a lot or a little dissolved minerals, mainly calcium and magnesium. If your tap water doesn't taste too great straight out of the tap, it's not going to do any good to the taste of your coffee.

You can buy a water filter of course, such as the very popular Brita water filter, or ZeroWater, which is another increasingly popular filter. You can also buy spring water, which some people do use to make their coffee.

My only issue with buying spring water for brewing coffee really is the environmental impact, given the overall carbon footprint of bottling up water and sending it all over the planet vs using the water most of us have available on tap. I'm not going to get onto that subject though as that discussion warrants a blog post all of its own.

Grind

As I mentioned earlier, I'd highly recommend you grind your own beans rather than buying pre-ground coffee beans.

My coffee at The Coffeeworks, is available pre-ground, but we grind to order while bagging up the coffee, which is quite rare.

Even then, I'd still much prefer my customers to buy their coffee wholebean and grind themselves, as it's going to be much fresher if they do this, especially a few days after opening the bag.

Grinding your own coffee also gives you control over the grind, it means you're able to adjust accordingly if you feel that the grind isn't quite right. The grind isn't quite as important for cafetiere as it is for espresso, but it's still important.

As I mentioned earlier on in this post, the traditionally accepted norm for the grind is quite coarse, a heck of a lot more coarse than for espresso, and quite a bit coarse than grinding for filter.

I used to brew with cafetieres using this kind of a grind until I watched James Hoffmann's video a few years ago in which he recommended more of a medium, filter type grind for cafetiere, and this (and the rest of his method which is not at all the conventional cafeteiere brew method) revolutionised cafetiere coffee for me.

I know I've already plugged my grinder posts ;-), but in case you've not seen them:

Best Manual Coffee GrindersBest Electric Coffee Grinders

For more on making the best quality coffee with a cafetiere, see:

Ultimate Cafetiere Technique

The Best Cafetieres

So now I'm going to talk about what I believe to be among the best cafetieres in the UK at the time of writing. I'm doing this in two sections, one peice and two peice, and in order of size.

The best cafetieres – one piece

MeelioCafe 1.5L Cafetiere, Double Wall Stainless Steel

Check Price - Amazon UK

Material: 18/8 Stainless steel

Capacity: 1.5L

Dual walled

None drip spout

2 spare mesh filters

No internal level markers

Not dishwasher safe

It's stated that they'll replace defective products but no warranty duration given.

This is a big, one and a half litre capacity stainless steel cafetiere.

The 18/8, by the way, refers to the make-up of the stainless steel, and this means 18% chromium and 8% nickel. In theory the type of stainless steel used does make a difference, particularly to corrosion resistance, but while some manufacturers refer to it as 18/8 grade, and some refer to is as 304 grade, from what I can gather they're usually actually referring to the exact same material.

You'll find a few looking along similar lines to this one, with the big handle which stands proud quite a bit away from the main body, with the intention of giving enough space to hold it without touching your knuckles on the warmer outer surface of the cafetiere.

There aren't a great number of cafetieres with 1.5L capacity though, more often than not you'll find the stainless steel, ceramic and stonewear cafetieres are one litre.

This one comes with 2 extra replacement plunger filters, and if you read through the Amazon reviews, you'll find it's largely positive, although just ignore the reviews which talk about volume, the reviews are for the various sizes that this cafetiere is available in.

Keep in mind there's no mention of a warranty with this cafetiere, while the next couple of 1.5L stainless steel cafetieres are listed as having a warranty.

1.5L Double Wall Stainless Steel Cafetiere with 4 Level Filtration System

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Material: 304 Stainless steel

Capacity: 1.5L

Dual walled

2 spare mesh filters

Big 20cm long spoon

Not dishwasher safe

Internal level markers

1 year warranty

This is another large 1.5L one piece dual walled stainless steel cafetiere, and this one is listed as being made from 304 stainless steel, but as I mentioned just now, I wouldn't put too much stock into that, I'm fairly sure manufacturers tend to use these terms interchangeably.

It's referred to as having a four level filtration system, but I wouldn't put too much stock into that either, from what I can tell it has two mesh filters instead of one, this second filter may help to ensure less bits end up in your cup of coffee, but they're the same grade mesh, so this isn't going to do any “filtration” other than the standard separation of the coffee grounds from the water.

Coffee makers often come with a scoop, this one comes with a big spoon, interesting.

I'm guessing the intention is to use it for stirring the coffee, rather than for using it as a scoop. In any case, I'm sure you'll find a use for the spoon – possibly the next best invention after the wheel? Imagine trying to eat soup with a fork!

Without a word of a lie, my wife and I watched a rather inebriated gentleman in a local restaurant trying to eat soup with chopsticks. He actually asked for them, completely ignoring the perfectly good spoon sitting in front of him. Bizarre, but quite entertaining. Anyway, I digress.

Café Ole Double Walled Bellied Stainless Steel Cafetiere, 1.5L

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Material: Stainless steel, mirror finish

Capacity: 1.5L

Dual walled

Cool-touch handle

Not dishwasher safe

No internal level markers

2 year warranty

Another large stainless steel cafetiere, but a slightly differnt design to the majority. This one, like me, has a belly ;-).

If you're thinking I look fairly trim on my YouTube videos, thanks, but the apron does a good job of hiding my gut! I'm nowhere near as fat as I have been, but I am working on getting rid of the belly.

This cafetiere on the other hand is proud of its belly, and it should be, it makes it stand out from the flat-sided cafetiere crowd ;-).

One thing that impresses me about this one is that the blurb appears to be reasonable when it comes to the capacity, describing it as being capable of producing four mugs.

There's a 2 year manufactures warranty with this, and it's the only one at this size that I can see which does.

Coffee Gator Cafetiere. Double-Wall Insulated Stainless Steel – 1 Litre – Orange

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Material: 304 Stainless steel. Orange (available in other colours)

Drop Proof & Rust Proof

Capacity: 1.L

Dual walled

Cool-touch handle

Free coffee storage container

No internal level markers

Not dishwasher safe (colour will come off)

No mention of warranty

Coffee gator is probably a brand you've heard of, they produce a fairly wide range of coffee related products including other coffee makers, coffee scales and coffee storage containers.

This striking looking cafetiere is really very similar in design to most of the other stainless steel one part cafetieres, but it's amazing how the colour really makes a difference, as most of the others are plain stainless steel. This is the orange one but you can toggle through the various different colours available.

This one comes with a coffee gator coffee beans container. I think this is their mini travel coffee canister, and to be honest I can't tell you much about it. Most of their containers have the air tight mechanism, this one doesn't, so whether it's actually an airtight canister, and whether it's any good, or what the capacity is, I can't tell you – as I can't find out anything about it.

If you buy one, please let me know if this container is any good, and what the capacity is, ta :-).

Le Creuset Stoneware Cafetière, 1 Litre, Cerise

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Material: Enamelled stoneware with a stainless steel plunger

Matching mugs (and teapot) are available

Available in a wide range of colours

Smooth-pour spout

Capacity: 1.L

Dishwasher safe

No internal level markers

10 year guarantee!

You won't have needed me to tell you this is a Le Creuset product, they're unmistakable. If you already have other Le Crueset products in your kitchen, this one may be the obvious choice.

Even if you're a newbie to Crueset, though, this is worth a look. It's made from their sturdy chip-resistant enamelled stoneware, it's available in 7 colours, and it comes with a whopping 10 year Le Creuset guarantee. From looking at the Amazon reviews, I get the impression that this is a very well made cafetiere, and it's not just a case of buying into the brand name.

Double Wall Stainless Steel Cafetiere by KICHLY 0.95L

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Material: Stainless steel

Capacity: 0.95L

Dual walled (30% thicker)

Dishwasher safe

No internal level markers

No mention of a warranty

This is another of the most common design of stainless steel cafetiere, and this one is just under 1L in capacity.

Apparently the dual walled stainless steel is 30% thicker, but 30% thicker than what, I'm not sure – I'm assuming it's 30% thicker than any dual walled stainless steel which happens to be 30% thinner ;-), some markting blurb makes me giggle.

But look, it's a stainless steel cafetiere with just under 1L capacity, it's inexpensive, and if you're getting it from Amazon you can simply return it free (free return window is usually 30 days) if you're not happy with it.

That's probably long enough to know whether it has any manufacturing defects or if there's anything about it which you really don't like – but it does have a huge number of Amazon reviews, most of which are very positive, so I wouldn't be too concerned about buying this. It actually looks very similar to the stainless steel cafetiere I was given for my Birthday which prompted me to start this blog.

Meelio 350ML Double Wall 18/8 Stainless Steel Heat Resistant Cafetiere With Coffee Measuring Spoon & 2 Extra Filter Screens

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Material: 18/8 Stainless steel

Capacity: 350ml

Dual walled

None drip spout

2 spare mesh filters

No internal level markers

Not dishwasher safe

Coffee scoop / pouch seal

It's stated that they'll replace defective products but no warranty duration given.

This is a single cup cafetiere, and it's the smaller sibling of the Meelio 1.5L cafetiere above, the only difference I can see other than the smaller size and capacity is that this one comes with a scoop which doubles as a bag sealing clamp.

BODUM Travel Cafetiere Coffee Maker Set, Stainless Steel with Extra Lid, Vacuum, 0.35 L Black

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Material: Stainless steel with plastic lid, non slip rubber base & ergonomic silicone grip

Comes with extra standard lid so you can use it as a standard travel mug

Capacity: 0.35L

Dishwasher Safe

No internal level markers

Limited one year manufacturers warranty on manufacturing defects

Bodum is a brand you'll no doubt be familiar with, as well as cafetieres they make Chemex type coffee makers, vacuum coffee makers, travel cups (I have a couple of their metal ones, very good). They do make a “coffee grinder” too, but it has blades so I wouldn't recommend it.

This is an interesting one from Bodum, it combines their brilliant stainless steel travel mugs, with a cafetiere.

I say brilliant, because I've got a few of them, and I think they're great. They do such a good job when it comes to keeping coffee warm, that I won't usually use them for coffee, they do too good a job ;-).

Usually when I'm making a coffee, I'll want to drink it fairly soon after making it, and these cups keep them so warm, that if I'm making black coffee (which I usually am unless it's a flat white), it'll be too hot to drink for an hour or so. I'd usually use one of these cups if I was making a cup of tea and taking it with me on a long journey after already having my coffees for the day.

So it's interesting that they've made one of these travel cups into a cafetiere, but, personally I wouldn't want to use one.

This is for a couple of reasons. Firstly, a cafetiere is a coffee brewer, not a coffee storage device, as I mentioned earlier. This is because the ground coffee is only separated from the extracted coffee via a mesh, so if you're brewing and then leaving the coffee in the cafetiere, it's going to stew, or over extract.

Secondly, in combination with the above, these cups are very well insulated, they're going to keep the coffee too hot for most people to drink for ages after brewing.

Personally the only way I'd want to use a brewer like this would be if I was brewing on the go, and decanting the brew into a less well-insulated cup so I could drink it straight away and prevent it from over extracting.

What you could do, is add milk or cold water after brewing – this would cool the brew down to drinking temp, and at that temp it would be less likely to continue to extract, so that might work.

The best cafetieres – two piece

Grunwerg Café Olé Classic Cafetière, 1.5 Litre 4 Cup French Press Coffee Maker, Chrome Finish

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Material: Stainless steel frame and lid, plastic handle, glass jug

Capacity: 1.5L

Available in 3 finishes, copper, chrome and gold

Dishwasher Safe

No internal level markers

2 year manufacturers warranty

This is a 1.5L glass and metal 2 part cafetiere with a plastic handle.

It seems a good deal for the cash, but just bear in mind I don't think this is borosilicate glass, and there are a few complaints in the Amazon reviews when it comes to breakages, and also rusting.

Having said that, it is listed with a two-year warranty, but whether they'll honour the warranty when it comes to breakages, I'd think probably not, although they should for rusting within a two year period.

VonShef Cafetière Gold Stainless Steel Glass – 1.5 Litre

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Material: Stainless steel frame and lid, plastic handle, Borosilicate glass jug

Capacity: 1.5L

Dishwasher Safe

No internal level markers

2 year manufacturers warranty

Another large two part cafetiere, but this one has a Borosilicate glass jug, so I'd be a bit less concerned about breakages, and it looks like a decent product for the low cost.

It has done very well in the Amazon reviews, and I can only see (at the time of writing) a single complaint about a breakage.

They do annoy me slightly by stating this cafetiere will produce 12 cups! By the time you take the wet coffee grounds into account, you'd only get 12 cups out of it if they were tiny 4-ounce cups, and even then you probably wouldn't get 12 full cups.

Stainless Steel Cafetiere 8 Cup RAINBEAN, Easy Cleaning, Double Walled 1L

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Material: Stainless steel frame, plastic covered handle, plastic lid, Borosilicate glass jug

Capacity: 1.0L

Non-drip spout

Dishwasher Safe

No internal level markers

No mention of warranty

This is an interesting looking, low cost cafetiere, 2 part with stainless steel frame and Borosilicate glass jug.

It does look slightly distinct from others, with the handle design, and the “HUNMAN-SHAPED” logo, I'm not sure – but I think they meant Human ;-), I also think they meant easy cleaning cafetiere, and not “easy cleaning cafeteria” ;-).

8 cups from a 1L cafetiere, though? Hmm, taking the wet grounds into account, you're probably looking at just over 3 ounces of coffee in each cup, about 100ml, also known as a swig.

But it's cheap, it has a good review score, the jug is Borosilicate, so as far as the two-part cafetieres go, you probably can't go too far wrong with this.

Bodum Kenya 8 Cup French Press Coffee Maker, Black, 1L

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Material: Stainless steel frame and lid, plastic handle, Borosilicate glass jug

Capacity: 1.5L

Dishwasher Safe

No internal level markers

Limited one year manufacturers warranty on manufacturing defects

So this is a 2 part cafetiere (no, I will not call it a French Press despite every manufacturer including this term for obvious reasons) with a stainless steel black frame and a Boroscilicate glass jug.

They refer to this as an 8 cup brewer, and OK – I'll let them off with that, I'd say you'll probably get 8 almost 6 ounce cups from a one and a half litre cafetiere, taking the volume of the coffee grounds into the equation. 6 ounce is quite a small cup though.

Bodum also make milk frothers, which are basically a glass cafetiere with a slightly different mesh on the plunger. See my video below for more on that.

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You could actually use this cafetiere as a milk frother too, all you'd need to do is clean it out, wash the mesh, remove the glass jug, put your milk in it, heat it in the microwave (if your microwave is tall enough), then use the plunger to froth the milk, and pour into your coffee, easy.

For more on milk frothers, see:

Best Milk Frothers

Bodum Kenya Cafetiere, Borosilicate Glass – 4 Cup, 0.5 L, Black

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Material: Stainless steel frame and lid, plastic handle, Borosilicate glass jug

Capacity: 0.5L

Dishwasher Safe

No internal level markers

Limited one year manufacturers warranty on manufacturing defects

Another one from Bodum, this one is half a litre, and I don't see that many half-litre cafetieres come to think of it, they're usually 1L, 1.5L or 350ml.

Again their “4 cup” description is possibly just about doable with small 6 ounce cups. I remember the sales meetings I used to go to in my early 20's (so at least several months ago then…) usually in a hired room in a hotel, the cups there were the low profile white cups with saucers, you're probably familiar with them.

I'd say these were about 6 ounces, and the coffee was usually from a couple of large capacity filter coffee machines. I recall several visits to the coffee station filling up these little cups in a bid to stay awake during some utterly boring talk about who knows what (I probably wasn't listening).

BODUM 3 Cup 350ml Cafetiere, Black, 0.35 l

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Material: Stainless steel frame and lid, plastic handle, Borosilicate glass jug

Capacity: 350ml

Dishwasher Safe

Patented safety lid

No internal level markers

Limited one year manufacturers warranty on manufacturing defects

Come on Bodum, you're letting me down now – this isn't a 3 cup cafetiere, not unless you're using teeny weeny cups. I'd say you'd get three cups if you're talking about 80-100ml cups. Realistically speaking this is a one cup cafetiere.

This is one of the best selling cafetieres in the UK, it has a crazy number of Amazon reviews, and they're largely positive – the majority of the complaints are about the “3 cup” statement, and I understand that.

I know what marketing folk are thinking when they come up with lines like this, they're saying “cup” not “mug”, and a cup can be literally any size, so they can literally say whatever they like – but I think they're making a mistake.

A brand like Bodum, I think, should put more thought into gaining the trust of the market and working their way into the hearts – and kitchens – of the population, and taking little shortcuts to sales like this will work wonders for sales, but will have the opposite impact on PR.

But that aside, if you're looking for a small one cup cafetiere at a fairly low price, this probably isn't a bad shout.

So there we go, I'll just answer one final commonly asked question about cafetiere coffee before signing off:

Is cafetiere coffee better than instant?

Yes yes yes, by a country mile.

I should state here that not all instant coffee is the same, there are a couple of speciality instant coffees being produced at the moment.

The vast majority of instant coffee, though, is “commodity coffee” – which is simply bags of coffee beans bought at the stock market price, which doesn't take quality into account.

It's then roasted in large batches, usually very dark in order to get past the taste imperfections that are common with this kind of coffee, and then brewed in large batches, into a thick sludge, which works its way around a factory where it's freeze-dried and then smashed up and put in jars.

If you think instant coffee tastes OK, even the newer “barista instant” which is basically the same stuff but with finely ground coffee mixed into it to give the illusion of crema – then I'd say it's time to broaden your coffee horizons.

Even if you're not taking my advice, getting yourself a grinder, buying great quality freshly roasted speciality coffee beans and grinding them yourself to enjoy them at their very freshest from start to finish, it's still really not hard to make much better coffee via a cafetiere than most jars of instant, even if you're using shop-bought pre-ground coffeee.

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