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Appreciation post: the $8 kitchen scale that finally showed me my coffee dose was off by 4 grams the whole time
Grabbed a cheap digital scale at a Target in Boise last Tuesday and realized my usual scoop of beans was actually 22 grams, not the 18 my recipe needed, which explains why every batch tasted a bit harsh, so now I'm wondering who else found out their eyeballed dose was way off.
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leow9019d ago
The kitchen scale is like that one friend who tells you the truth even when you don't want to hear it. Mine sat in a drawer for months doing nothing while I kept dumping "two scoops" into the grinder like some kind of coffee cowboy. Turns out my scoop was closer to 20 grams, so every cup was running strong and bitter and I just kept blaming the beans. A $10 piece of plastic humbled me more than years of guessing ever did. Now I weigh everything and my morning routine takes an extra 30 seconds, which is apparently the price of not drinking mud.
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