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It seems quite common for experts to use the word sweet to describe the taste of coffee. I just listened to JH's book on audible, The World Atlas of Coffee, and he must have used it 100 times. Although I prefer medium to dark coffee, I have tasted all sorts of coffees and rarely...

I'm encountering this issue now and was wondering if anyone else has had experience with it before. Namely, how long did it take for the grinder to get to you and were there any visible signs of use or damage from inspection?

IIRC, Prima coffee had their shipment of P64s held...

I've been playing with espresso for 15 years now. I have never calibrated a scale. Should I buy some calibration weights and do it?

Dan

I read about measuring total dissolved (coffee) solids, and it seems expensive and involved. I was wondering if a simpler approach is possible:

Then, with the magic of arithmetic, you can calculate TDS. I'm bad at math, but I think it's:
Weight of: (pre-brewed coffee) -...

I have a pressure regulator inline between a Shurflo pump/accumulator and my espresso machine. I use this to control preinfusion pressure.

I had the regulator set to 5 bar output this AM and it was working normally. The pump/accumulator is supposed be set at 90 psi (6 bar) per...

I've found it's become easy to tell which machine someone owns by the comments they make. I thought I'd offer up my observations:

E61 HX owner: Look at that chrome! Now, if I could just figure out that flushing thing...

Breville Double Boiler owner: Each of the four...

The Ono Coffee YouTube channel - - visited Greg Scace at his house a while back and has been putting out a bunch of videos of the visit. The YouTube descriptions of each video is complete with chapter markers so you can skip to parts of each video that you're interested in. I...

Here's the subtitle, which offers an overview of the research. Drinking coffee has been linked to a reduced risk of all kinds of ailments, including Parkinson's disease, melanoma, prostate cancer, even suicide.