Coffee

9639 readers

2 users here now

☕ - The hot beverage that powers the world!

Coffee gadgets - It's always great to learn about new gadgets. Please share your favorite hardware or full setups. It might inspire newcomers to experiment!

Local businesses - Please promote your local businesses. If you are not the owner of the business you are promoting, kindly ask the owner if it's okay. It would be great if the business has a physical store to include an exterior or interior shot.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

martijn@lemmy.world

dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org

Xariphon@kbin.social

Scientists claim to have discovered secret to perfect espresso (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by tankplanker@lemmy.world to c/coffee@lemmy.world

49 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Spoiler, its RDT

In case people do nto know what RDT is, which they really should if they have been into coffee for a little while as it makes a big difference:

RDT is Ross Droplet Technique, which is very much adding water to beans. Named after David Ross who came up with it back in 2005

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 50 points 2 years ago (4 children)

This post is like 3 levels of coffee interest removed from mainstream. RDT is unknown outside of whatever small circle the listener is part of which does not overlap with other, known definitions of RDT.

This post is almost gatekeeping because of how much jargon and technobabble is required to know for this very specific subject. Hopefully you see the value in helping others enjoy your hobby and make any future explanation more open to new users!

[–] Savaran@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

For folks who make espresso at home, especially if you’ve worked with a manual grinder of any sort, this is extremely well known. In fact when you first get started and start searching for how to deal with the static problem (cause it’s the first major problem you’ll encounter), it’ll be what comes up. So for future scientists.

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=how+to+remove+static+from+coffee+grinder&l=1

For the first result I get: https://www.javapresse.com/blogs/grinding-coffee/how-to-deal-with-static-in-coffee-grinders-3-tricks-you-can-try-at-home

Which as #1:

Ross Droplet Technique

[–] GarytheSnail@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

How does a static problem affect the taste?

I don't understand how rdt leads to better tasting espresso. Maybe an easier cleanup session, but taste?

[–] fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I find RDT to be more important with an electric grinder than a manual hand grinder.

[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Wow.

So what happened was that someone asked a question and while I answered the question someone else answered with a completely incorrect answer. My answer was then down voted and the incorrect one (which has since been edited to add in the right answer) upvoted.

So yeah, you are a bit late to the party here.

At not fucking point did I refuse to answer a basic question.