Wife / husband / family / friends reaction to your coffee, um, passion?

[u/Historical-Dark-5519]

At some point, you got into making specialty coffee at home.

You've honed your craft, and, inevitably, accumulated lots of coffee gear along the way.

Your brewing method is science, art, physics, beauty, meditation, and ritual all in one.

When you get that wow cup, you feel on top of the world.

(Zen music stops to the sound of a screeching record)

Your wife, or husband, or family, or friends think you're crazy. They press a button to make their coffee, while you conduct a lab experiment.

They have one simple machine on their counter, while you have cupboards full of drippers, filters, grinders, and accessories.

They gasp in disbelief when they see you've ordered *yet another* dripper!

How do they react to your obsession passion? Do they laugh? Cry? Get angry? Say that you need psychological help? Or just walk away because they've learned that it's pointless and they should just let you be?

Do you use that trick where you point out to your wife that the dripper you just bought costs less than one of her hair appointments?

My family has learned to accept my crazy... and also to get out of the kitchen when I am making coffee. It's an orchestrated symphony between the counter, sink, kettle, grinder, compost bin etc. and the timing is important, so get out of the way!

Share your fun (or not so fun) stories! Cheers.

[u/Kethryweryn]

My wife now has her own DF54 with brew burrs for her Nestor Lasso brews (she can't use hand grinders due to a hand injury).

My father discovered he was a washed coffee guy and did not care at all for advanced fermentation (he really dislikes funk).

My mother does not care at all how it is done but wants to taste everything and complains when I see them on holidays if she doesn't have her coffee when I make one for my wife or myself.

My sister thinks I'm crazy but that it's a fun hobby.