Am I the only one who dropped $55 on a gooseneck kettle and now my drip coffee tastes worse?

Elliot Jenkins · 2026-09-23T21:30:02.718488+00:00

I grabbed a gooseneck kettle for $55 at a shop in Portland last month thinking it would fix my pour over game. Turns out I was pouring way too slow, so my water temp dropped to like 185 by the time I finished, and the cup came out sour and flat. Two weeks of bad coffee later I checked with a thermometer and realized the problem was me, not my old kettle or my grinder. I went back to just dumping water in fast with my $12 kettle and somehow it tastes better. Now the fancy one sits on my shelf looking pretty while I feel like a fool. Did anyone else buy gear before they fixed their own technique, or am I alone here?

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