While the coffee technically doesn’t taste any different when someone makes it for you (unless their technique is actually better than yours), the experience of someone doing something for you ...

In 2018, coffee researcher Fabiana Carvalho found that coffee in a pink mug makes it taste sweeter, Sprudge reported. The rounder the cup, the sweeter the taste as well, she also found.

Unless you're buying pre-ground coffee, you need to grind the beans yourself. How fine or coarse coffee beans are ground will affect the end result. Here's how.

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