Kitchen
Most of what makes a good cup is not the machine. It is the water, the grind, and whether the gear is easy enough to use before you have fully woken up.
Kitchen
I ordered six Try the World boxes so you can see exactly what $390 of snacks looks like.
Six months of the Try the World snack box, opened and accounted for. What arrives, what gets eaten, what sits in the cupboard, and whether the subscription earns its place on the kitchen shelf.
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Kitchen
I did the arithmetic on a snack subscription box. Here is what $65 actually buys.
Fourteen small packets from nine countries, at about $4.60 an item. The maths is not the interesting part — what the box changes about how you eat is.
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Kitchen
Your tap water is doing more to your coffee than your machine
Two thirds of a cup is water. If the kettle furs up, the coffee is being brewed with something that has already been rejected by the pipes.
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Kitchen
Buy the grinder before the machine
If you are upgrading one thing, upgrade the thing that decides particle size. A cheap machine with a good grinder beats an expensive machine with a blade grinder, every time.
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