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Espresso water flow Part 0: Workflow
Skepticism is a weird deal. Too much can stunt innovation and too little can, well, lead to too many pocket theories. Lance Hedrick is among the few who seems to take a balanced approach based on both data and experience. So when I claimed in my debut post that Decent’s new dispersion block design was…
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The most underrated dripper (and a busy dad’s recipe)
There’s so much hype about percolation drippers that it’s almost uncool to say that you like immersion. While recent steep-and-release brewers have changed the dynamics to some extent, I still think there are aspects of extraction in immersion we often overlook – a grave dug by the concept of immersion itself. A rather clever idea…
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How to brew with Pulsar (coming from V60)
It’s been a while since I’ve been excited about a new brewer. I try my best not to be in upgrade mode. Indeed the V60 I love and adore is almost 4 years old and so is my kettle. If anything, after having dealt with the tricolate I have been even more wary of brewers…
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Making filter coffee with an espresso machine
This isn’t filter2.0 or filter3.0, but rather an approach to make actual filter coffee with sufficient yield at coarse grind settings in a regular size espresso basket. With that out of the way, let’s explore why it may have taken so long to achieve this. 9 bar or bust When most people think of espresso,…
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The Case for Turbos
Disclaimer: I have literally zero idea how to run a cafe. The series of questions I pose below are simply an attempt to make the reader question their understanding of espresso. Have you tried a fifteen second shot? If no, why not? If the why is “because everyone says 30 seconds”, have you broken the…
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