Notes on coffee, the objects it is made with, and what we will not sell you.
The 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 setupA syphon takes about fifteen minutes of your attention to produce roughly one minute of brewing, and it does it over an open flame in two pieces of...
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 setupThe story has a punchline, and the punchline is the problem. Priests arrive at the Vatican asking that the Muslim drink be forbidden to Christians,...
Read the setupEvery espresso accessory page lists the mat somewhere between the tamper and the distribution tool, and that placement does most of the persuading....
Read the setupA brewing object built around a constraint carries that constraint with it. Buy the object and you inherit both halves, the clever answer and the s...
Read the setupThe earliest person in a history is rarely the person who invented the thing. They are usually the earliest person somebody happened to write down,...
Read the setupMost words on a coffee bag have no definition behind them. "Specialty" is the odd one out, because for about twenty years it had a number attached,...
Read the setupThe phrase carries a real cost and almost nobody is told what it is. Buy a coffee sold this way and you get something that tastes like one place in...
Read the setupMost people who start buying bottled water for coffee are solving the wrong problem. They taste something flat or chalky, decide their tap water is...
Read the setupA coffee bag is two documents printed on the same surface. One of them is advertising, written by someone whose job is to make you pick it up. The ...
Read the setupThe peaberry premium is one of the few things in coffee that everybody in the chain has a reason to keep. The producer gets a higher price for bean...
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