What is your most controversial pour-over beliefs?

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What is your most controversial pour-over beliefs?

What is your most controversial pour-over beliefs?

minimum dose size?

I use the Hario switch to brew my coffee and am trying to reduce my caffeine consumption. Hence I would like to brew smaller cups of coffee. I am currently using 10g of coffee with 160g of water. (1:16 Ratio) I am wondering if there is a minimum amount of coffee...

What is your most controversial pour-over beliefs?

Most pour-over technique posts here seem to have people disagreeing about whether bean quality is more important than water quality, or grind evenness, or grind size, or pouring technique, or grind freshness, or water temperature, or etc. etc. etc.

Obviously, there are lots of opinions out there about what is very important or not very important in the pour-over parameter space. Personally, I don't even always agree with folks' general categorization of what's important. For instance, because I was traveling, I've been brewing/drinking coffee for more than a week from a bag of beans that was pre-ground at the coffee shop…and it's been good. Maybe grinding fresh isn't the most important thing, after all?

What are your most heterodox beliefs about which pour-over parameters are not very important? Conversely, what parameters do you think are more important than other posts on here would suggest?

Besides general curiosity, knowing your controversial opinions might just help me brew a better cup.

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