From the Yes Plz dispatches with this week’s coffee, dispatch 212:
Mose mornings I make coffee either with a small single cup Kalita filter or a larger Chemex pourover. I could much more easily make coffee every bit as tasty in a fancy automatic drip machine, but I enjoy my morning ritual. I like having a pre-caffeinated moment of focusing on just a single task with no other distractions. It’s not quite meditation or anything, but I think it gives grounding to my mornings.
Tonx, Yes Plz Weekly Dispatch 212
I relate to this a lot. I’ve made coffee manually since 2008, and ground my beans with a hand grinder since 2014. I like the ritual of slowing down and making it all by hand, and I especially like that grinding beans by hand is quiet, unlike every electric coffee grinder I’ve encountered, which is offensive in the morning.
That said, these days I can no longer focusing on a single task like making coffee in the morning… Charlie is usually nearby and I need to keep an eye on him. Sometimes he likes to help crank the grinder, which takes longer but is sweet.