Sometimes making coffee can feel like a crapshoot. Will your cup be good today? Who knows. But have you ever wished making coffee was a literal crapshoot? Then you are in luck, because 2007 World Barista Champion and co-founder of Londonโs Square Mile Coffee Roasters James Hoffmann has created the Coffee Brewing Dice.
Made specifically for the AeroPress, the Coffee Brewing Dice are a set of five castable cubes, each associated with different variables like temperature, brew ratios, grind size and brew time, etc. On his website, Jimseven.com, Hoffmann notes that the โridiculous ideaโ for the Coffee Brewing Dice was borne out of the seemingly endless ways to use the AeroPress. โThere are just too many different ways to use it, too many potential outcomes and, for a while, this made me a little frustrated.โ
With the Coffee Brewing Dice, there are a total 7,776 possible recipes. So itโs not like they really cut down on the number of possible brews, but at least they keep you from having to make a decision about which you choose to make.
Each set runs ยฃ12 ($16 USD) and can be purchased here. They will begin shipping out at the end of the week, just in time for holiday gift giving. And if youโre thinking about waiting to get a set, Hoffmann states that he is only making one run of the dice, so once theyโre gone, theyโre gone.
Zac Cadwaladerย is the news editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas.ย Read more Zac Cadwaladerย on Sprudge.
*top image via JimSeven.com