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but how much difference does grinding make compared to chopping and why does it make a difference?
the answer to this one is (like a lot of things) It depends. Uniformity and grind size is really only important if you’re making espresso, and even then bean quality, temperature, pressure and time all play a role, so just relying on a burr grinder isn’t going to magically make your home espresso taste any better or produce a nice crema. If you’re making it in a stove top or a press or drip it’s pretty much irrelevant.
but in the other hand, if it’s your thing and you want to fetishise the process, then crack on, it’s your coffee at the end of the day, how you make it is up to you. But don’t feel under pressure (see what I did there) to conform to someone else’s idea of the perfect cup of coffee
But don’t feel under pressure (see what I did there)
*applause*
I’m of the opinion that with 0 decent coffee shops within a couple of miles of home I’m going to drink most of my coffee at home. Admittedly, this used to just be weekends, but has not become every bloody day as I never leave the house.
Cutting out that one cup a day from coffee shops, at £4 a coffee you'll be saving £1,460 a year!
Lockdown has converted me to 'proper' (i.e. non-instant) home coffee with an Aeropress, Hario Skelton and James Hoffman's ASMR videos.
The speed of the Hario is OK for a single cup (part of the ritual!) and provides a bit of daily exercise but that hasn't stopped me thinking about hacking it with an electric drill / screwdriver. Looks like the Hario Pro has a 7mm top nut (under the handle) so will be an easy conversion, whereas the non-Pro will need a couple of locking nuts.
brewing via all methods, depending on the time of day !
Ended up picking up a mazzer super jolly grinder, planning to mod it to be doserless via these nifty 3d printable files https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3472206/files
Very excited to not have to grind by hand anymore !
Super jolly ftw!
I tried one of the 3D printed doserless mods.... was ok, but decided to go for a timed dose mod in the end.
If you do go single dosing, check this guy out, he does a quite reasonably priced kit that looks pretty smart: