alt Hacker NewsBefore spending money on a good grinder, make sure you have access to reasonable good quality / priced beans in your area! Otherwise your OPEX really starts to go through the roof for shipping coffee (At least my area)
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satvikpendem • today at 5:36 AM
Before you buy beans, make sure you have good water first, as hard water can ruin coffee. There are literally products to demineralize water and also to add them back in for optimal water flavor for coffee.
joe_mamba • yesterday at 6:39 PM
>make sure you have access to reasonable good quality / priced beans in your area
Why? In which country can't you buy high-quality hipster single-origin beans online?
Before making sure you have access to good beans (had to carry on with the theme), make sure you actually want to have "coffee" as another hobby in your life. Maybe it's worth it to outsource to your local cafe the machine maintenance, grind fine-tuning, bean recipes, hours learning milk steaming, hours spent on youtube, coffee forums, commenting in the occasional HN coffee-adjacent articles...