Hello, welcome to The Coffee Scoop, a site dedicated to the topics of coffee and coffee related paraphernalia. I am not a barista, but I did grow up with parents running a café, which contributed to my passion for the beverage.

Life is short, lets have good things. Like coffee. We should be able to have good coffee, without having to go to a café all the time. Don’t get me wrong, support your local coffee shop, or LCS, it certainly is the best place to find what is usually freshly roasted coffee beans, a vital part of enjoying coffee, in my opinion.

I am an Instrumentation Technologist, which means I went to college to learn how to calibrate thermometers and that type of stuff. I use this knowledge to apply a technical take on what I do with my equipment, and I want to help others to raise their coffee game however I can.

What follows are pages dedicated to the equipment I have, what I think of it and how its maintained. I need to say, that this is all stuff I purchased myself, or like in the case of the Bodum French Press, gifted (it was from wedding gift registry). I do have links to affiliates, where if you buy something, I may receive a small commission, but there is no additional cost to you.

If somebody wants to send me some coffee gear, by no means am I opposed to that, and I will point out the freebie in my review, so full disclosures given, and we can try to limit our biases.