Pour-over people have decided the machine cannot be trusted with something this important. What they want from a gift is the precision layer that sits above their existing setup: a scale that catches the half-gram bloom variation they keep missing, a coffee that is actually meant for this method, or the extraction meter that tells them what happened instead of why it was off. Not more equipment — more precision.
“The one reliable rule of gift-giving: anything that makes them look more serious at what they love will be received with disproportionate gratitude.”
Friends claim items. No duplicates. No awkward conversations.