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Black pepper gives a warm taste, cinnamon comes across more spicy and 'sharp'.

You must think you're one tough ombré to post a joke like that around here, pardner.

This is precisely the kind of smartassery I am here for.

Not the light reading I would have expected.

I gots yer Calc key right here.

Some cats are into that.

Helped some folks move house and many of their boxen bore the inscription WORD BRICKS. At the time I thought it merely a metaphor.

Snakon Bits

Most of the software on smartphones is built from the ground up to grab every bit of user attention it can and this makes phone use more dangerous than eating or fiddling with the radio. So much so that law makers and law enforcers notice and treat phone use differently from other drive-time activities.

No jump but the last picture has...additions.

Cheap drip machine from a big box store, bag of ground whatever. That's the cheapest and most cleanable setup.

Next step up in economy and flavor is buy a (again, cheap) blade grinder and switch to buying whole beans - they stay fresh longer and cost a bit less. Then you can get an electric or rangetop kettle and really start branching out to different brews and techniques.

Caveat the first, through all this, research by exploring Coffee YouTube and asking baristas and hanging out with that one coffee snob who actually will likely be entirely willing to help you out.

Caveat the second, beware equipment creep. Your collection of filters, kettles, cups, cones, scales, grinders, thermometers, and weird glassware will tend to expand to overfill whatever shelf you set aside for it. And that's without getting into espresso at all.