What Do We Really Know About Roasting Coffee?
A 40-year-old specialty coffee industry behaves like everything about coffee roasting is already settled. But what if coffee beans don't really care about a pretty line on a monitor—we do? Let's play a game of Specialty Coffee Roasting Bingo and look at the rigid, unverified dogmas we’ve blindly accepted.
Does a "Perfect" Roast Curve Actually Guarantee Better Flavor?
We’ve all been there: staring at a perfectly declining RoR curve, convinced the coffee will be spectacular. But does a "pretty" graph actually guarantee a balanced cup?