Notes on coffee, the objects it is made with, and what we will not sell you.
A surplus sounds like a gift if you are standing at the drinking end of it. More coffee, cheaper coffee, better coffee for the same money. That 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 setupTwo numbers stamped on the underside of a pot, and nearly everyone reads them as a score. 18/10 sounds like it beats 18/8, which sounds like it bea...
Read the setupA flat white asks you to drink it quickly. There is very little foam insulating the surface, the volume is small, and the coffee-to-milk ratio is h...
Read the setupThe brown filter costs about the same as the white one and looks like the more responsible purchase sitting in the cupboard. It is also the one mor...
Read the setupThe press has two genuine costs and almost nobody objects to either of them. It puts oil and fine sediment into the cup, which some people do not w...
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 number on the front of the bag is the only thing on the pack that looks like it was measured. Everything else is adjectives. So people use it, ...
Read the setupThe usual complaint about capsule machines is that they make bad coffee, which is the weakest available criticism and the easiest to argue with. Pl...
Read the setupSomebody posts a recipe with a grind setting in it. Twenty on the Encore. Two and a half on the hand grinder. It gets copied into a comment, then i...
Read the setupThe usual way this gets explained is that cold water pulls the same things out of coffee, only slower and more gently. That is a comfortable pictur...
Read the setupThe argument in most kitchens is about foam volume, and it has been settled in the wrong direction for years. Whole milk does not foam more than sk...
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