Blend coffee at home from roasted beans: our video's 40/40/20 starting point and four blends, Scott Rao's spoon test for choosing a ratio, a weighing worksheet, and why to blend after roasting.
How to brew with OXO's Pour-Over Coffee Maker with Water Tank: OXO's own coffee and water amounts, the #2 filters it takes, the grind, and who it suits next to a V60.
Papua New Guinea grows about 800,000 bags a year, mostly washed highland arabica from smallholders' coffee gardens. What it tastes like, where it grows, its history and how its grades work.
Mexican coffee is mostly washed arabica: mild, nutty and chocolatey, and brighter when grown high. Here are its regions from Chiapas to Puebla, harvest months, varieties and café de olla.
Our 2020 review of Starbucks' canned Nitro Cold Brew Black: smooth, with a rich aroma, a little bitter on its own and much better with half-and-half. Plus what the can's label says now.
Eight electric burr grinders compared from their makers' own specs: burr size and type, how each one adjusts, which can grind for espresso, and where to find each maker's grind settings.
Our 2020 SteepShot review: it brewed in 30 seconds, but the coffee was only okay and ours came without a filter. Hoshikawa Cafe has ended its sales of the original and now sells a V2 redesigned in Japan.
Hand grinders from Timemore, 1Zpresso, Kinu, Comandante and Hario compared from their makers' specs: burr size, how far each click moves the burr, capacity, and which list espresso.
Our 2020 video tasted coffee fruit tea, or cascara, beside a cup of coffee. What cascara is, how much caffeine labs have measured in it, how to brew it, and its food status in the EU.
Our 2020 Nanopresso review: how we brewed it and how the shots tasted, Wacaco's own specs and instructions, and what its 18-bar figure does and doesn't tell you about the shot.
The Clever Dripper steeps coffee behind a valve, then drains it through a #4 paper filter when you set it on a cup. Our 2020 recipe and review, two published recipes, and how it compares with a V60.
Our 2020 taste test scored eight bottled iced coffees from SToK, Starbucks and La Colombe. Here are the scores, with each bottle's caffeine, sugar and ingredients from its maker today.
Our 2020 video brewed one AeroPress recipe through three metal filters and paper. The Koffico mesh let no sediment through; the Able Disk Fine let through the most. What each maker sells now.
Our 2020 taste test scored nine Walmart instant coffees out of 10. Great Value and Juan Valdez tied for best at 6, and none scored higher. See every score and what each label lists today.
Our caramel brûlée latte: two shots of espresso, a tablespoon each of caramel and vanilla syrup, a cup of frothed milk and a caramel drizzle, plus a darker caramel sauce to make yourself.