/ck/ - Food & Cooking

whether mars is in retrograde or not has a huge impact

>>19681390
the materials that the coffee touches

>>19681390
I can almost taste the unwashed hands of the slave laborer who picked these coffee beans.

>>19681390
your mental health

>>19681390
The amount of chicory

bean density
bean subspecies
bean fermentation
roast level
elevation
thermal mass
filter thickness
bloom time
vessel sanitation
flavors/oils from other foods that linger on the palate

i like how with most food and drink, inherent taste is of paramount importance, but for coffee, it only tastes good if you apply some scientific methods and set arbitrary bars based on the results of your tests.

with coffee snobs, it's about the process, not the product

>>19681390
Rotational velocidensity

>>19681390
However many packs of Splenda you dump into it.

>>19681497
Since when?

political persuasion and social credit score

The cup used to drink from, apparently.

>>19681390
Bean oscillation angle

>>19681497
>source: my ass
From what I've seen, these scientific methods are just so you could replicate the best tasting cup as many times as you want since coffee has over like 700 different volatile compounds
If you found a great way of making coffee, keep doing it.

>>19681390
Bean Horoscope

>>19681390
There are none.

>>19681390
Interest rate

>>19681390
autism

How expensive your coffee tools are. I know my coffee immediately started tasting better when I spent 200$ on a kettle.

>>19681491
lol some of these seem absolutely ridiculous
bloom time, thermal mass, bean density? Seriously?

>>19681390
only one

>>19682272
Bloom is referring to off-gassing upon contact with water, not literal flower bloom.

Sanity of coffee consumers

This variable is in constant decline