Coffee is easy to obsess over. I think this is because of three things:

• There is a huge difference between bad and good coffee
• There are many variable to making good coffee
• There are many fun gadgets that make the process enjoyable

Espresso setup

Espresso Machine: Profitec Go

• Temperature and Pressure adjustment
• Built-in shot timer, temperature readout, and pressure gauge
• Slow to warm up for some reason. Steam tip was 1 hole, which we upgraded to 4
• Fantastic overall

Main Grinder: Eureka Mignon Silenzio

• Extremely heavy and quite quiet
• Clogs every few months but pretty easy to take apart
• Grind adjustment is sensitive but doesn’t keep track of complete rotations, which makes it hard for pourover and espresso use at the same time

Second Grinder: Baratza Encore

• Being used as a decaf grinder
• A bit hard to fine tune and loud, but no clogging

Coffee for Espresso

• Orinoco Ethiopian
• Groundwork Ethiopian
• Wegmans Ethiopian (Used to be excellent but something changed in ~2024)

Accessories

• Microfiber cloth
• Needle distribution tool
• Metal funnel
• ACME cups. They are so nice to use!

Pourover setup

Hario V60 cone and paper

• No complaints, light and portable

Hario V60 insulated carafe

• Incredible carafe, well made and robust
• A bit hard to clean

Grinder: 1Zpresso X-Pro S

• Wood handle, aluminum construction, no complaints
• Threaded catch cup is wonderful. They moved to magnetic catch cups now; I own one and it falls off and spills ground coffee on the ground all the time

Wood Stand

• Homemade with ash
• stained with espresso so it is already as stained as it will ever be!

Kettle: Fellow Stagg EKG

• Wonderful to use, intuitive and well built
• Wish it had a fast pour spout as well as the gooseneck, for making tea

Coffee for pourover

• Elevator coffee subscription
• We met these folks when they were in St. George and they blew us away with a cool extra fermented coffee