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@Stevethecoffee
I’ve probably sounded too dismissive of taking care of the details when brewing coffee. The way I think of it is like baking a cake. If I want a really really good one I’ll buy one from a bakery because the equipment, ingredients and expertise are not reasonably practical to reproduce at home. If I want to make one for a loved one I’ll buy nice ingredients, follow a recipe and be generally happy with the result even if something didn’t quite go right, because it’s a cake after all. When I’ve made that same cake 5 times I probably won’t follow a recipe anymore, I’ll probably find some shortcuts and efficiencies, there’ll be things I’ll substitute and stuff I’ll skip altogether; there will be some variability but it will always be nice. It’s just confidence. I’m much more interested in eating cake than making cake.