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The beginner's guide to over­complicating coffee ☕ - Tyler Cipriani

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There’s a scene in AMC’s “Breaking Bad” where Gail Boetticher explains to Walter White how to make the perfect cup of coffee. And it all sounds so plausible—there’s a perfect coffee, and science will magic it for us. That whole idea, scene, and contraption are, of course, wrong. But there are real ways to experiment your way towards a more perfect cup. In 1957, a professor of food science at MIT forever changed what we think of as good coffee. E.E. Lockhart posited that coffee flavor is the result of two variables: Lockhart surveyed a bunch of people to suss out the ideal range for these values, creating the “Coffee Brewing Control Chart,”—which is still in use today.1 And you can use Lockhart’s data to better your own brew. When he was developing the Aeropress, Alan Adler was a frequent poster on the coffeegeek forums. There he shared the results of his experiments measuring coffee using a simple brix refractometer. And, unfortunately for everyone in my immediate family—I own one of t

← Monitoring my weather at home 🌩️ | posts | Paper Review: “Did you miss my comments or what?” Toxicity in Open Source Discussions → Complicated coffee: plain and simple. There’s a scene in AMC’s “ Breaking Bad ” where Gail Boetticher explains to Walter White how to make the perfect cup of coffee . And it all sounds so plausible—there’s a perfect coffee, and science will magic it for us. That whole idea, scene, and contraption are, of course, wrong . But there are real ways to experiment your way towards a more perfect cup. 🗺️ The quest for good coffee In 1957, a professor of food science at

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