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What to Buy First
Start with a grinder and a scale; the machine can wait. The gear a beginner actually needs, when spending more shows up in the cup and when it doesn't, and gifts for the coffee drinker in your life.
Still tuning this one.
What to buy first, what's worth the money, and gifts: those guides are on the bench right now.
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The Coffee Station
A coffee bar at home that works every single morning.
SetupFurnitureOrganizeMugs & Thermoses
Keep it hot: desk mugs, travel mugs, carafes.
Keep it HotTravelThermal CarafesEverydayCaffeine, Decaf & Low-Acid
Caffeine by method, decaf that tastes like coffee, low-acid picks.
CaffeineStrongest CoffeeDecafHalf CaffLow AcidFiltersLeftover Coffee
Reheat it, store it, or turn it into something else.
ReheatStoringUses
Kept in tune by Alfredo Ramses · Founder. Every guide here starts from one question: what's off in the cup, and which peg do you turn first? How we pick →
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