Simplify Your Morning With a One-Step Coffee-Weighing Cup

Eyeballs are great: I have two. I also like spoons. But if you want a consistent dose of coffee for delicious espresso or pour-over coffee, an accurate scale is the slightly inconvenient way to go.

I still remember a time when, to weigh my coffee beans every morning, I placed a small dosing cup on a digital scale and pressed the button on the scale, then waited a second or so for the scale’s display to weigh the beans Zero the dosing cup before pouring it into it. Going back in time – I think October 2024 – I don’t think this would be a huge inconvenience. This is how a coffee scale works.

But maybe they don’t need to. Over the past year or so, some coffee brands have figured out a simple idea: You can combine a measuring cup and a scale into a single device. Trigger the light bulb above the forehead and the bluebird on the shoulder. Perhaps the most elegant of them all is Subscale, a new product from Singaporean coffee brand Subminimal (also a producer of coffee beans). Our favorite milk frother).

The Subscale is a black-on-black cup that holds about 60 grams of coffee and has a scale on its base that is accurate to tenths of a gram. This device has been on my countertop since I got it – and it makes me enjoy my morning coffee routine even more.

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Key to Subscale’s appeal is its dogged simplicity. Today, the world of craft coffee is filled with new, complex, and sometimes confusing amenities. Once a humble tool, the coffee scale has become home to all kinds of coffee oddities. Partner Counting Pro (8/10, recommended by Wired) will do the math for you while listing the recommended water weight for your ideal brew ratio. With bluetooth function Acacia Pearl S It will track your brew time and water flow while playing music.

Subscale does none of these things.

This is a cup. It’s a lightweight, no-frills mug with a feather sensor scale at the bottom to accurately measure the weight inside. There’s no Bluetooth, no apps, and no specific learning curve. It takes up very little space on my counter and looks beautiful.