PSA: figured out last month I was grinding way too fine for my French press this whole time
Been brewing the same way for 3 years until a barista in Seattle asked what grind I used and just kind of smiled, so now I'm wondering how many other basic things I've been getting wrong without knowing it?
Three years. THREE YEARS. And a barista just smiled at you instead of saying something? That's cold. I had a similar thing with my coffee where I was using way too much water and wondered why it tasted like sad tea. What gets me is nobody ever says anything. You go to a friend's house, they hand you a mug of muddy sludge, you nod and drink it. The barista could have saved you so much time.