# The math of brewing a better espresso | Ars Technica - Host: [arstechnica.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/arstechnica.com/) - Saved: January 23, 2020 (2020-01-24T02:36:51Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d29fee407318/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d29fee407318.json ## What Jamie wrote Okay, I came for the science and the cool charts. But then reading this is just straight up heresy! > "The real impact of this paper is that the most reproducible thing you can do is use less coffee," said Hendon. "If you use 15 grams instead of 20 grams of coffee and grind your beans coarser, you end up with a shot that runs really fast but tastes great. Instead of taking 25 seconds, it could run in 7 to 14 seconds. But you end up extracting more positive flavors from the beans, so the strength of the cup is not dramatically reduced. Bitter, off-tasting flavors never have a chance to make their way into the cup." 7 seconds! Runs really fast? Stay away! 🚫 ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Appears in - [WT132: Weekly Thing #132 / Backdoors, Espresso, Technical Debt, Coaching, Studio Ghibli](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/132/), Recommended Links ## Same host - [macOS 10.15 Catalina: The Ars Technica review | Ars Technica](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/c29ccc5bbb11/) (arstechnica.com, October 8, 2019) - [Minecraft becomes a board game, and the results are faithful, fantastic | Ars Technica](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/307c28e5bc06/) (arstechnica.com, October 22, 2019) - [Some shirts hide you from cameras—but will anyone wear them? | Ars Technica](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/170b19da3108/) (arstechnica.com, April 16, 2020) - [The chemistry of cold-brew coffee is so hot right now | Ars Technica](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/76d5a6e9c00c/) (arstechnica.com, April 16, 2020) - [30 board games to play during quarantine with family, two-players, or solo | Ars Technica](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/e41f271c6286/) (arstechnica.com, April 30, 2020) ## Saved the same week - [Introducing Deepnews Distills - Monday Note](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/508f8674c757/) (mondaynote.com, January 23, 2020) - [Technical Debt Is like a Tetris Game - Fluent C++](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/44838d6dc5e3/) (fluentcpp.com, January 23, 2020) - [This Is True History: One of the Internet’s Oldest Newsletters](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/69fc0aea7151/) (tedium.co, January 23, 2020) - [PHP in 2020 - stitcher.io](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9d51d71dfd51/) (stitcher.io, January 23, 2020) - [My Must-Have Apps, 2019 Edition - MacStories](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/4b72722023ad/) (macstories.net, January 23, 2020) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/the-math-of-brewing-a-better-espresso/