Your comment resonates with me being a fan of subtractive methods. I shared an office with the nice, modern gentleman who wrote this: https://blog.moertel.com

Your comment resonates with me being a fan of subtractive methods. I shared an office with the nice, modern gentleman who wrote this: https://blog.moertel.com/posts/2002-04-25-coders-guide-to-coffee.html https://blog.moertel.com/posts/2002-04-25-coders-guide-to-co... Another of my office mates was a barista. To me, this is like reading, "Shop class is soul craft" because coffee is definitely art in the hands of an experienced aficionado. After a decade of personal experiments with coffee devices you'd recognize, I've settled on a cheap and simple Mr. Coffee burr grinder and Bodum pour-over. I don't pre-soak my filter, just grind-and-go with a Sumatra bean from Fresh Thyme. My experience has been that coffee is phenomenological to the point that it seems to resist attempts at empiricism, similar to audiophile pursuits; like software, it's prone to Heisenbugs!