The Worlds Most Average Espresso Adafruit Industries Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers! [Video]

September 28, 2024 AT 4:00 pm

The Worlds Most Average Espresso

James Hoffman takes an analytic approach to coffee. He studies grain consistency, tamp pressure, total dissolved solids, and much more all in persuit of the perfect cup. In this recent video he is looking for the most average espresso. He asked 39,425 people how they make espresso. If you like to nerd out on coffee science check out the stats!

We ran a survey to check out the state of global espresso in 2024 and nearly 40,000 people responded. Here’s some of the data! Do you have any hypotheses about what we found, or any other questions you think we should be asking of the data?

Thank you to all 39,425 of you who responded, and to Dr. Samo Smrke, Federick Ho (from University of Glasgow), and the Discord user who helped us process the huge quantity of data we received.

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