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Add one or a few drops of water to your roasted coffee beans with your hand and shake well after weighing it out to stop the grinds from sticking to the walls of your grinder from static.


I love that a ripgrep article has such a deeply nerdy coffee thread…

> Add one or a few drops of water to your roasted coffee beans

Ah, RDT (Ross Droplet Technique)[0].

A little atomizer (“spritz” bottle) of plain water serves well here. NB: this is for single-dose grinding - e.g. measuring a small amount of beans loaded into a grinder to grind immediately. If you have a grinder with a “big” hopper on top that has (e.g.) the weeks worth of coffee (even though you grind on-demand for ea. espresso/french press/aeropress/pourover/drip/…) this isn’t for you.

[0] https://thebasicbarista.com/en-us/blogs/topics/how-rdt-broke...


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