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Best Budget Coffee Grinders Under $150
Under $150 the question stops being which grinder is best and becomes which compromises you are willing to accept. Every grinder at this price gives something up — grind uniformity at the co…
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The grinder decides more about how coffee tastes than the brewer does, which is the reverse of how most people…
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Best Coffee Scales
A coffee scale is the cheapest way to make your coffee repeatable, and repeatability is most of what separates…
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Best Gooseneck Kettles
A gooseneck kettle does two things an ordinary kettle cannot: it lets you place water exactly where you want i…
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Burr Grinders Explained — Conical vs Flat, Stepped vs Stepless
Grinder specifications are the most jargon-dense part of coffee gear, and most of the jargon describes something simple.…
Guide
Pour-Over Basics — Ratios, Grind and Pour Technique
Pour-over is the brewing method with the most variables and the least equipment. Here is what each variable actually doe…
Guide
Espresso Dial-In — Grind, Dose and Yield Explained
Dialling in is not guesswork, and it is not a hundred variables. It is four numbers, changed one at a time, in a particu…
Guide
How to Build a Home Espresso Setup — What to Buy in What Order
Home espresso goes wrong when people buy the machine first and everything else as an afterthought. Here is the order tha…