Charts for a kitchen
A kitchen reference has to survive being read with wet hands, from a distance, in the middle of doing something else. Nothing to unfold, nothing to scroll, nothing that wants a password first.
Coffee takes the largest share — the bean, the drinks by proportion, and brew ratios by method with weight, grind and time. Then tea, in the detail it deserves: the six kinds, the individual ones, the cultivars, matcha, and the aged teas. Alongside them the food sheets — sugar in fruit, protein in foods — and the conversions a recipe from the other side of an ocean demands.
A4 for a cupboard door, A3 for a wall. Both sizes are in the same download.
NINE DRINKS
the same coffee, different proportions
HOW MUCH COFFEE TO WATER
six methods · weight, grind, time
ARABICA AND ROBUSTA
two species, six varieties, one difference
POST-FERMENTED TEAS
six teas changed by microbes rather than oxygen
MATCHA DRINKS
six proportions · grams, millilitres, degrees
MATCHA GRADES
ceremonial, premium, culinary — what is behind the words
PUERH AGEING
sheng and shu · what the years do and when to drink
BLACK TEA
grades, six leaves and four blends · in China it is "red tea"
TEA PLANT CULTIVARS
assamica against sinensis · leaves at one scale · six cultivars
GREEN TEA
six leaves · water, time, number of steepings
OOLONG
from 15 to 80 % oxidation · leaf shape · seven steepings
SIX KINDS OF TEA
one plant · the oxidation scale · seven processing steps