Used to drink Folgers straight from a dirty mug, now I weigh beans on a $12 scale
I drank drip coffee out of the same stained mug for like 6 years, never rinsed it because I thought the leftover oils added flavor. Then about a year ago my sister handed me a bag of whole beans from a shop in Sacramento and I had nothing to grind them with, so I smashed them with a hammer on my counter. It tasted so much better than my usual that I went out and got a cheap hand grinder and a $12 kitchen scale the next weekend. Now I measure 18 grams of beans every morning, and it takes me maybe 4 extra minutes but I actually taste the difference. Anyone else start out completely clueless and slowly turn into the person weighing their coffee at 6am?