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Heck ya, some solid experimenting to me is way cooler than someone dropping massive cash on something. That's kiiiinda interesting sometimes to see what's new and experimental, but I'll never spend that on it, so there's limited use to me. But the fart sniffing stuff of overpriced scales and stuff like that, I can live without that type of content completely.
I agree with you that hobbies often enshittify. However, coffee has a special place in my heart because you can make really, really tasty coffee with simple tools.
My setup is a plastic cone, a set of filter papers, a plastic kettle, a thermometer, a dispersion screen, and a scale.
As to grinding coffee, you’re right that a grinder is expensive. There’s no way around that. However, you can do what my partner and I did for months: our local coffee shop ground our coffee each week.
Why am I saying all of this?
In part because I agree with you. I actually approach coffee deliberately with an 80/20 mindset: I’ll get 80% of the coffee goodness for 20% of the effort. I do this because I don’t want to get sucked into the deep end.
And I think you could get a lot of coffee goodness for very little effort. Coffee ratios are a great way to start. You take just a few steps so that you can play around with temperature, grind size, and pouring technique. In my mind, that’s the 20% that gets me 80% of coffee goodness.
Of course, it’s possible that you like your current setup and that’s great! I believe the best coffee is the coffee that you like.