> Buy cheap grounds in the biggest quantities you can store
> Buy a coffee maker where no hot water touches plastic. Just glass and steel.
> ... gets you most of the way to great coffee.
James Hoffman, who's credentials include winning the "World Barista Championship", publishing multiple coffee books, running a coffee roasting company, and so on, has significantly different advice.
When experimentally comparing the glass, plastic, and ceramic V60s, he found that the plastic was easier to preheat and sucked less heat out of the grounds, resulting in better brews (https://youtu.be/1oB1oDrDkHM?t=480).
What reasoning do you have for avoiding plastic? How can it change the brew other than through its thermal properties (which are pretty clearly beneficial compared to glass and steel, right?)
He also recommends getting grinding beans very shortly before brewing.
I personally can easily taste the difference between freshly ground and stale grinds, and can notice the difference in extraction and flavor from varying grind size, so I'm personally quite dubious of your claims. I have yet to ever make "great coffee" from pre-ground beans bought from the super-market, only mediocre coffee.
Can you not taste any different between fresh grinds and pre-ground coffee? From fiddling with the grind size to find the right extraction for what you personally prefer?
> Buy a coffee maker where no hot water touches plastic. Just glass and steel.
> ... gets you most of the way to great coffee.
James Hoffman, who's credentials include winning the "World Barista Championship", publishing multiple coffee books, running a coffee roasting company, and so on, has significantly different advice.
When experimentally comparing the glass, plastic, and ceramic V60s, he found that the plastic was easier to preheat and sucked less heat out of the grounds, resulting in better brews (https://youtu.be/1oB1oDrDkHM?t=480).
What reasoning do you have for avoiding plastic? How can it change the brew other than through its thermal properties (which are pretty clearly beneficial compared to glass and steel, right?)
He also recommends getting grinding beans very shortly before brewing.
I personally can easily taste the difference between freshly ground and stale grinds, and can notice the difference in extraction and flavor from varying grind size, so I'm personally quite dubious of your claims. I have yet to ever make "great coffee" from pre-ground beans bought from the super-market, only mediocre coffee.
Can you not taste any different between fresh grinds and pre-ground coffee? From fiddling with the grind size to find the right extraction for what you personally prefer?