Notes on coffee, the objects it is made with, and what we will not sell you.
A scale asks for two things you may not want to give it. It takes up counter space next to a kettle that is already there, and it turns a morning y...
Read the setupA cloth filter is the only part of a coffee setup that gets worse while you are not using it. Everything else on the counter is inert between brews...
Read the setupCoffee roasted yesterday is not at its best. That is counter to everything the category teaches, and it is the reason a bag bought directly from a ...
Read the setupThe scoop that came free with your brewer is the only piece of coffee equipment that gets less accurate the better your coffee gets. That is a stra...
Read the setupPour a little water on fresh grounds and the bed swells, domes and hisses. Most people have been told this is a step you perform to make the coffee...
Read the setupMost people brewing at home are turning one dial and expecting two different results from it. That is why the coffee keeps landing somewhere betwee...
Read the setupA bad cup of coffee gives you one honest signal and a lot of noise. The noise is everything you think you know about the beans, the water, the mach...
Read the setupEvery brewer arrives with its own recipe, and the recipes disagree with each other in ways that suggest each method is its own discipline. They mos...
Read the setupPeople shop for brewers and inherit filters. It is the wrong way round. The brewer sets the shape of the process, but the thing the coffee passes t...
Read the setupA shop shelf of brewers looks like a shelf of unrelated inventions. A press, a cone, a flat-bottom dripper, a vacuum pot, a plastic plunger, a valv...
Read the setupIf your coffee is good on Tuesday and bad on Thursday and you cannot say why, you do not have a skill problem. You have a record-keeping problem, a...
Read the setupA blade grinder does not grind. It chops, repeatedly, at whatever happens to be in the path of the blade at the moment it passes.
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