[Coffee at home: Experiments in brewing]The drawbacks to the Barisieur are apparent to anyone familiar with specialty coffee. Finally, no matter how fine you grind the beans, the coffee will not steep long enough to extract all the desired flavors. The best Barisieur coffee that you can produce will require one of several deviations from the machine’s standard (promised?) These deviations will, by their very active nature, deprive you of the bougie meditative quality of waking up to coffee already prepared. You can, of course, just go ahead and grind the beans before bed, the quality of your morning cup be damned.

Source: Washington Post February 13, 2019 18:00 UTC