Entering the kitchen with sleepy eyes this morning, you just want enough caffeine to keep your eyelids open. Suddenly, your kitchen turns into a chemistry laboratory. The nice coffee that used to foam up in a copper pot a few years ago has now become a ritual, and even an intelligence or sanity test of a coffee.
Making coffee used to be really simple: boil the water, add the coffee, stir it, drink it. What happened now? Waking up in the morning, we head over to the counter and weigh our beans on a scale as if we were managing an atomic reactor.
Grammages and boiling points of water... There’s almost a belief that if the coffee is off by a single gram, the balance of the universe will be disrupted, meaning a very meticulous approach. What temperature should the water be? That question constantly floats around in my mind. Are the beans stale or fresh?
An electric grinder or a manual hand grinder? Grinding coffee is no longer an ordinary task; there is the hope of reaching nirvana in coffee flavor by choosing the exact grind size of the mill. Our interest in coffee taught us a lot of things: coffee can carry fruity, floral, and even slightly sour notes. While learning this, the sour taste burned our stomachs and made us wince.
The real deal wasn’t just drinking the coffee; it was the idea of being a person who can brew coffee. We loved the idea of coffee brewing. Wetting the paper filter, setting the blooming time, pouring the water slowly in clockwise spirals... All these things felt like a sweet illusion that makes us feel we can control the chaos of that day during the time it takes for the coffee to fill the cup.
The reason we pay this much attention to coffee is perhaps because our own cup is the simplest thing we can actually control in a stressful world where we can’t control much else outside. We might not be able to change life out there, but if we grind the beans right, our day might start off nicely. Or even a bad day can become a little better, right?
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