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The Perfect Cup: Great Homemade Coffee with James Hoffmann

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The Impact of Soft Water on Coffee Machines

I hate recommending bottled water to people, so that's sort of my worst case senario solution. But the water that you have ith as sort of mineral content has a really depresing impact on the cup of coffee that you make. If there's a lot of limescale in there, not only will you scale up all your equipment, and that's bad,. The coffee you make will be very bland, very mutated, ll be kind of boring as a result. So relatively soft water makes better tasteing coffee. I don't like that that's true, but it is these days.

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