Coffee coffee coffee
I love drinking pour-over coffee at home. I brought my aero-press to work long ago, and really enjoy a strong cup of coffee during the day. But at home I am all about the pour over and the French Press.
It’s funny how important the coffee became to me as I discovered the joy of making a fancy cup of coffee.
Since we lost everything in the fire a month ago, I’ve been missing that hobby. Now that we have settled into a place we can call home again, I was excited to restart the coffee craze. So, I decided that it was worth upgrading the grinder from a Cuisinart electric burr grinder to the Bodum electric steel burr grinder. The Cuisinart grinding surface left a lot to be desired. It produced uneven size grinds and had trouble getting very fine at all. It was more like two discs instead of a deep cone shaped auger style grinding interface.
My older Hario hand grinder and the Bodum electric have great deep grinding gears, the hand grinder is affordable and effective, but it’s just a lot of work. I have to really crank it hard to get enough coffee ground for an Aeropress shot by the time my water boils in the microwave.
I ordered two pour overs, the V60 and the Melitta one cup. We had a V60 before and it is still awesome. But, the other big upgrade other than the grinder is my water pouring and heating vessel. I finally decided the time was right for a Gooseneck stovetop kettle. I love it! It’s a lot easier to use if its not too full. Before, I was using a 2 cup pyrex liquid measuring cup, which has a nice spout on it, but it offers nothing like the control of a true gooseneck kettle. Now, I just need to move a little closer to my favorite roasters, Switchcback Coffee Roasters. It was easier when I was a block and a half away from an obsessive small batch roaster.
Coffee is a fun thing that I can experiment with, because it doesn’t require hours sitting in front of my IDE or tweaking config files for an open source CMS.