Not too long ago I posted on Home Barista about trying to find a good way to measure the density of coffee beans. ¹

As always the paricipants there were way smarter than me and offered several interesting options. I dropped into the thread that this was part of my idea of a grand unified theory of espresso, and subsequently a few people mailed and pm’d me asking what on earth I was talking about and what density had to do with it.

Well, I should probably explain what I have been thinking. ²

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1. There really is no better place on the web for these kinds of questions! [↩]
2. Some of this is based on personal preference, some on what seems to be fairly well agreed upon within the community of people who worry a lot about their espresso. [↩]