Shaking Liberates Fines

Shaking Liberates Fines

Back in February, Lance Hedrick showed the world that shaking your grounds before making an espresso could both increase the extraction and reduce the shot time of your espresso. The effect on extraction was striking, but it was the fact that it also decreased shot...
Roger Roger — Rise of the Robotic Busser

Roger Roger — Rise of the Robotic Busser

There’s no barista who grew up watching Star Wars who doesn’t like the idea of having a lovable little droid about the house, helping with the dishes or just hangin’ out for a couple of rounds of Dejarik (holographic space-chess). And any human living in an...
Coffee Overdose

Coffee Overdose

It’s debatable who invented the triple ristretto, but if Paul Bassett didn’t invent it, he certainly made it famous. Here’s how the story goes: Paul was representing Australia in the 2003 World Barista Championships and narrowly missed out on getting into the finals....
Shake it Real Good

Shake it Real Good

Last month, we wrote about why you might want to shake your grounds before making espresso. Lance Hedrick’s testing showed that shaking was somehow dramatically increasing extraction in his espressos, while simultaneously decreasing shot time. We explored a few...
Shaken or Stirred

Shaken or Stirred

A couple of weeks ago, coffee influencer Lance Hedrick released a pair of videos with the potential to radically shake up the way that we make our espresso. According to Lance’s testing, shaking the coffee grounds for a few seconds before pouring them into the...
RDT vs The AutoComb

RDT vs The AutoComb

Unless you’ve been making your coffee from under a rock lately, you probably heard that scientists recently caught up with something home baristas have known for nearly two decades: that spraying your coffee with water just before grinding can reduce the amount of...