I walked into a third-wave cafe in 2014 and asked for “a tall coffee.” The barista, who was 22 and had the air of a...
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I roasted my first batch of coffee in a $12 cast iron skillet I already owned, mostly because I didn’t...
I’ve roasted coffee on my stovetop since 2019, and the single biggest thing I’ve learned is that the thermometer is...
I started home roasting in 2009 with a $20 hot-air popcorn popper from a Goodwill, a metal colander, and a...
I picked up a used West Bend Poppery II at a thrift store in 2018 for about six dollars, specifically...
Roast levels at a glance Light roast (Cinnamon, New England): bright, acidic, fruity. Tastes of the bean origin. Slightly more...
I sat through my first real cupping in 2015 next to a roaster who used the word “briny” to describe...
The West Bend 57040 was a four-cup electric French press: a press pot with a heating base that boiled the...
DeLonghi BCO264B Esclusivo – the quick answer Not formally discontinued, but genuinely hard to find new. This is a 2007-era...