Category: Filter
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Life with Timemore 064s (and an unauthorized alignment guide)
This post is intended for folks intending to use aftermarket burrs in an 064s. If you’re happy with the taste results of stock burrs or are intending to purchase an 064s and never intend to swap burrs, this post isn’t for you, and I’d recommend not reading beyond this point. It’s truly a great grinder…
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The Problem With Ultralight Roasts (and other myths)
Despite its primary purpose (as seen by the consuming world) as the cheapest available drug, coffee consumers have strong opinions on how it should taste. Specialty coffee especially prides itself on showcasing how different coffee can taste like, well, not coffee. A change in style About decade and a half-ago, a certain spice grinder began…
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Cheapest way to make high-clarity coffee
In this post I talk about the cheapest setup combined with a recipe one needs to make high-yielding delicious coffee consistently (excluding grinder). Since we’re compromising on equipment, we’ll be compensating with lots of nerdery, most of which is based on the application of concepts in The Physics of Filter Coffee by Jonathan Gagné. Things…
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Wet-WDT (WWDT) for Coarse-grind Percolation
Note that Lance Hedrick gets credit for recommending this technique. Lance was doing WWDT almost a year before this technique started getting talked about by other coffee content creators. This post also leans heavily on the concept of fines migration as described by Jonathan Gagné in his book “The Physics of Filter Coffee”. Some of…
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SSP-MP 64mm burrs in The Frankenjolly
A problematic thing about being involved in discussions with DE1 owners is that you are bound to have a lot of FOMO. The shiniest and latest is always on display and there’s always the question of whether or not you’re getting “the best possible”. The “what” of “the best possible” can be anything from the…
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