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two things: (1) depending on how good you are, you'll be better than X% of the coffee shops out there. but the converse applies too: somewhere out there, i'd b

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• Semaphor 4y ago
  > somewhere out there, i'd bet, there is a coffee shop making coffee as good or even better than your own. I doubt the "better" part for people preferring the french press. It is not a complicated method. Now there might be one with better beans, but that’s always the case. > a least half the pleasure in going to a coffee shop is going to the coffee shop. Heh, depends, for me that does not sound like pleasure at all ;)
  • dilap 4y ago
    Both good points! I do feel coffee is remarkably subtle. You can easily make a pour-over twice, using exactly the same method and same beans, and have different results. Which is crazy, but true. So there's a lot of room for technique. Lattes are the same way. I enjoy making lattes at home using a moka pot for esspresso(ish) and a stovetop steamer -- and even though I've been doing this for years now, I'm still not consistent. Sometimes it's great, sometimes it's just OK. Adding in the steamed milk is a whole new dimension that can vary in very subtle ways. I think you're right, though, that the french-press is more of an old-school, give-it-to-me-good-and-hard-and-bitter method. Not as subtle, probably not as much variation.