Category: Temperature Profiling
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Temperature gradient across an espresso puck
I sometimes think the concept of espresso exists to trick us into thinking that perfection can exist, only to have reality handed to us on a plate to humble us. That’s the best way I can summarize the events that led to this post. As the photo above might tell you, I stuck a temperature…
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Birth of Turbobloom and Extractamundo!
EDIT: Yang Luo kindly translated this post to Chinese and can be accessed here. When Cameron et. al. released their peer-reviewed paper on turbo shots, it kinda took the espresso world by storm. It was controversial in a very interesting sense. The science behind it (by the standards of a lot of coffee literature) was…
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DE1 Teflon Grouphead Shower Upgrade

A while ago, Ricco (officially the nicest person in the Decent user community), reached out to me saying he heard from John Buckman (Decent’s owner) about prototype teflon grouphead shower parts being available for purchase. This is significant in a number of ways. On the surface, as written by Decent’s official channel, the pieces theoretically…
