Coffee nerds love the ceremony of making a good cup of coffee, but once you get advanced enough, things get really complex really fast. Making high-end pour-over coffee is a fine dance of grinding, pouring, temperature and patience, and it turns out that a lot of us just cannot be bothered with learning enough (or bringing enough science to the mix) to have great coffee every time. If you have $800, Xbloom is here to help with its one-touch bean-to-cup system.
Each of the coffees in the company’s assortment needs a slightly different routine; different amounts of water, temperatures and different grind sizes. Each of the pods has an NFC chip built in, so it can tell the machine what it needs to do to prepare the coffee — or, using the app, you can fine-tune your preferred recipes.
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