Manual coffee grinders can be a slippery slope. It only takes about $70-$80 to find one that will do your specialty coffee justice, but as the price creeps upward, so too do build quality and grind consistency and overall refinement. At some point, you’ll hit diminishing returns. So the question becomes: what does it take…
Your grinder will affect the quality of each cup more than anything besides the beans themselves. Brewing devices, storage canisters, kettle choice, and whatnot are all important and worth spending (some) money on. But they don’t have the same game-changing impact as a good grinder. To be fair, any fresh grind with a halfway-decent grinder…
Timemore was one of the first brands to sell legitimately high-end hand grinders at an affordable price. Early reviews were few, but positive, so around 2018 I took the plunge on their original Chestnut model. (It’s now called the Chestnut G1, but I believe it was the only “Chestnut” model at the time.) The Chestnut…
When you make pour-over coffee, you’re at the mercy of gravity. If grind size is a little off, then you’ll probably get a wasted cup of over- or under-extracted coffee. There’s just not much you can do about it. With the AeroPress, that’s not the case. It’s not just convenient, but an incredibly forgiving design….