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1 Fun Thing
Our video Learn To Pour won a Sprudgie in the Best Coffee Video/Film category!
3 Coffee Facts
Recent research by professor Tim Spector has shown that certain cruciferous vegetables like broccoli can quite dramatically reduce the effects of caffeine. So the next time you’ve had a cuppa late in the day you know what you should be cooking for dinner!
When brewing coffee, as a general rule of thumb, the finer you grind the less you want to agitate and the coarser you go the more you want agitate.
Espresso machines like the Slayer and Lelit Bianca sport a paddle that moves a needle valve to control the rate at which water exits the group head. This can be used to flow profile a shot of espresso and get a more optimal extraction.