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I feel like he’s spoiling my enjoyment of coffee
Why worry about it? Just treat them as what they are, a bit of entertainment. I wouldn't do 90% of the crap he does but it's fun watching someone nerd out trying things.
Also, I fucking hate the aeropress, ever since one was brought into the office I was working in about 10 years ago, I always thought it was a massive faff for coffee no better than using a cafetière. Still gonna watch all the vids though.
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What’s my takeaway from the first Hoffman Aeropress video?
So I’m interested to see what the next couple of videos come up with, but I think I’m unsubscribing after those. I found his early videos quite enlightening but, longer term, I feel like he’s spoiling my enjoyment of coffee. For best part of a decade I’ve been making perfectly good espresso drinks by eye, without a grinder and without scales. I feel like I’ve been maybe goaded into messing with that process and it’s broken something somewhere. I sometimes flick over to another forum I used to use a lot (where they’re not generally Hoffman watchers) and it’s interesting to see that they’re mostly using more traditional machines and not spending £££ trying to chase things down to the nth degree. It’s been interesting learning from him about grind, roast, pressure and water etc but maybe I’m done with that now.