A Quiet Surface A latte at Cherry Lab often looks ordinary.There is no leaf, no heart, no white image resting on the surface. At most, a small point of milk remains at the centre. Everything else has disappeared into the cup.This is not an unfinished latte.It is the finished form…

I lock the portafilter into the group head. The coffee is dry, compressed, and almost completely hidden.Before a single drop reaches the cup, I have already begun reading it.I start at two bar for about four seconds, just long enough for water to enter the coffee bed without allowing liquid…

I can give you the full pressure profile for one of my espressos: the dose, every change in pressure, every second.Nothing is lost by publishing it.The numbers are exact. They are also no longer entirely true.They describe where I arrived with one coffee in January. They do not contain the…