Notes on coffee, the objects it is made with, and what we will not sell you.
The two kinds of coffee art want opposite cups, and most people find this out with a wet piece of card in their hand. Free-pour designs are finishe...
Read the setupThe snobbery charge is fair for about a third of what gets said about coffee cups, and the honest thing to do is name which third before defending ...
Read the setupArabica pollinates itself. It does not need an insect to set fruit, which is why the "save the bees, save your coffee" line is wrong about arabica ...
Read the setupThe glass jar on the counter is the most photographed object in home coffee and one of the worst performing. It was chosen because you can see the ...
Read the setupPour a good mineral water next to your tap water and taste them side by side. The bottle usually wins, and it wins for reasons you can name. It is ...
Read the setupA wooden barrel is a bad container for green coffee. Wood is porous and hygroscopic, which means it takes on and releases water depending on the ai...
Read the setupMost Aeropress arguments are not about technique. They are about which of two drinks the people arguing are making, and neither side says so out lo...
Read the setupThe grinder is the first thing most people reach for when a cup goes wrong, and the direction they turn it is usually chosen by a single word. The ...
Read the setupOrder a large cappuccino and you get more milk. You do not get more coffee. The shot stays exactly where it was, sized by the basket in the portafi...
Read the setupLeave coffee brewing too long and it does not simply become more of itself. It becomes a different drink, one with flavours in it that were not pre...
Read the setupDrinking one coffee attentively teaches you almost nothing about it. That is an uncomfortable thing to say to somebody who has just spent twenty po...
Read the setupBefore the reassurance, one question, because the answer to it flips the advice completely.
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