All posts filed under: Coffee

A person pours freshly brewed coffee from a glass carafe into a tall glass while preparing a pour-over at a café counter.

Some Things Need Tuning, Others Need Leaving

Published by Trotzendorff

There’s a cer­tain kind of sto­ry the inter­net instant­ly falls for. You know the for­mat: some­one with just enough sta­tus to sound unques­tion­able, sim­plic­i­ty, a sym­bol­ic detail like a black cof­fee, a min­i­mal­ist detail like a black cof­fee, and one sharp sen­tence deliv­ered with enough detach­ment to pass for life phi­los­o­phy: »I stopped adding sug­ar to things that were bitter.«

A barista carefully pulls a lever on a chrome espresso machine while preparing a shot of coffee, as a colleague watches in the background inside a café.

To Taste Everything

Published by Trotzendorff

»Dump the first espres­so of the day.« That was the advice, I saw in a reel the oth­er day. A guy stand­ing in a spot­less kitchen, speak­ing with qui­et author­i­ty. No dra­ma, no irony. Just a clean instruc­tion. Even if you sin­gle dose. Even if you weigh your beans to the tenth of a gram. The cof­fee sit­ting in the dead space of the grinder overnight will have oxi­dized. It will dull the shot. It is not worth drinking.

A lone person walks down a quiet road lined with leafless trees, fading into thick winter fog over frosty fields.

Hello, Today!

Published by Trotzendorff

Today is Jan­u­ary 1st. Not a good day for look­ing back on the year that has just end­ed. I’ve already spent a lot of time doing that — revis­it­ing what I expe­ri­enced, the suc­cess­es and the wounds, the progress and the set­backs, tak­ing a clos­er look at encoun­ters and good­byes, tak­ing stock. Today, I don’t want to do it again.

People sitting in a coffee bar.

Protective Effects against Asthma

Published by Trotzendorff

I was just hav­ing my first cup of cof­fee in the morn­ing, when an arti­cle on sprudge.com popped up in my feed read­er. As an asth­mat­ic and cof­fee enthu­si­ast it nat­u­ral­ly caught my atten­tion. It reports about a study by med­ical pro­fes­sion­als from Korea’s Hal­lym Uni­ver­si­ty, Hanyang Uni­ver­si­ty, and Kang­dong Sacred Heart Hos­pi­tal, with research find­ing that mod­er­ate cof­fee con­sump­tion can low­er the fre­quen­cy of symp­toms asso­ci­at­ed with asthma.