05 Aug 2026Why Copper Conducts, and Why That Matters at the Stove
The short answer to whether the metal changes your coffee is no, and the useful answer is that it changes something else entirely.
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Notes on coffee, the objects it is made with, and what we will not sell you.
05 Aug 2026Why Cezves Are Copper on the Outside and Tin on the Inside
A cezve is two metals doing two jobs, and the division of labour is old enough that nobody involved in settling it had access to a chemistry lab.
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05 Aug 2026Living With Patina
We sell copper polish. Keep that in mind for the next twelve hundred words, because the honest answer to whether you should polish your copper is t...
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05 Aug 2026How to Care for a Copper Coffee Object
Nearly every care guide for copper treats the object as one surface. That is the mistake, and it is the reason so many well-intentioned owners dama...
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05 Aug 2026Glazed Ceramics and the Lead Question
Here is a fact that took us by surprise, and it is sitting in plain sight in the federal regulation.
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05 Aug 2026Copper and Coffee: The Lining Question Nobody Asks
Our company has copper in its name. So it is worth being direct about the thing we had to learn before we could responsibly sell a single copper ob...
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05 Aug 2026Your White Cup Is Changing the Coffee
There is a claim moving around specialty coffee that a white cup makes the same coffee taste roughly twice as intense as a black one, and simultane...
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05 Aug 2026Preheat the Cup
There is a step in almost every espresso recipe ever written that most people at home skip entirely, and it costs nothing, requires no equipment, a...
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