Thomas Nielsen rated The Physics of Filter Coffee: 5 stars
The Physics of Filter Coffee by Jonathan Gagné
The Physics of Filter Coffee by astrophysicist Jonathan Gagné is perhaps the most significant book ever written on the science …
An easily read run-through of the attentiveness required, not to roast, but to replicate a roast.
There are some rather lengthy passages where Rob Hoos defends writing the book, which I think strictly speaking could have been reduced a bit without taking away from the central topic. On the other hand, these passages bring us a bit closer to the author and why he opts for the mechanisms he does.
It is not a reference manual but a kick in the butt to make us embrace scientific method in a professional setting, setting up a framework for it, rather than work from dogma and dictates. Read this a couple of times, and you are really quite well-equipped to experiment yourself and be better at dialling in for specific results.
You could argue that the framework could have been more precise and meticulously laid out, but the fluent prose works well …
