What was the root cause of this rage and frustration? The answer: pour-over coffee, a seemingly simple but incredibly time-consuming method of coffee assemblage which wreaks destruction wherever it appears, a gastronomical ascot whose chief benefit seems to be that it roughly triples the time it takes to make a cup of coffee and allows consumers to then imagine that they can taste a difference....which seems to me to be about correct as a description of the problems with pour-over, though my experience is limited to Intelligentsia in downtown Chicago. Their coffee is fine as-is. It doesn't need the fancy set-up.
*The coffeemaker I had prior to moving over to the french press was a gift from an ex-girlfriend, and would reliably burn or otherwise spoil the coffee unless the whole apparatus was turned off immediately after brewing had completed.
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