There is a word for that feeling which I can not place. And a RUclips channel that covers those odd feelings which also I can not remember the name of.
@@Marethyu5285 "anemoia" nostalgia for a time you've never known. Also, thats Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, altho u probably already remembered by now. Don't mind me im just binge watching James's Channel.
When you dig out the old memories for yourself, its just nostalgia. When you use them to tell a story or two, you share them with others, and hopefully give them new meaning and life.
BRAVO!!! Keep making these videos. There's no one else making as great quality coffee videos that are both intellectually-satisfying and also come from the heart, like you're doing, James!
As far as your older videos go, I think this one holds up the best. It's exceptional, in fact. I enjoy your videos with methodical scientific method based testing, but I enjoy this as well, and I think we could use more of it.
Always love the fact that James includes soul in his science (and in this case, mostly soul). I would, as a decided novice, enjoy the science behind tamping as well in some future video. In particular, how to prevent channeling, is twisting good, are multiple tamps OK, what are the most common causes of a bad shot (caused by bad tamping), relative to grind size and dosing how important is good tamping even? So many questions regarding such a seemingly little thing!
Looking at your old videos, you certainly are a talented visual storyteller, James. Thanks for your endless stream of content, that somehow just keep ending up on my youtube start page.
When I’m training baristas the first thing I look at is how they tamp. Not just to examine technique, but because you can tell if they care. It’s also a great insight into how knowledgeable they are. So, even tough puqpress and the like are becoming more common, I’ll always use manual tamping for training. But in real world, high volume scenarios I can see why they might soon disappear.
A lovely video. It reminds me of when I also bought my first tamper as I wanted a tool of my own for my craft. No longer a barista but it takes pride of place amongst other items that bring back fond memories.
This reminds me of the journey hand-spinners (wool/cotton) make. We start with a basic one, then special sizes and methods; then to exotic woods and those with crystals...now I'm back to only six.
I bought the first Expobar Brewtus that came out because Schomer personally recommended it. Also got his tamper, and still have and use both. Met him at the SCAA Conference in Charlotte back in 2005 or 2006 and he was the man back then
I only use calibrated tampers these days. Not for a specific tamping weight/pressure, but for repeatability, and also - and that's why I find it interesting that James mentioned it - to protect my wrist. I am quite fit, but my joints are not the strongest. I hurt myself several times before. Not once though, since I started using calibrated tampers.
Beautiful. I love this, and hope that these are still a kind of video that you hope to make sometimes. There's a special thrill about an object becoming something of an icon, there is some kind of power there concentrating so much into something so small.
Beautiful video! That first plastic tamper with the Gaggia takes me few years back when my housemate had one and we would try our best to make coffee with it.
I feel like I just listened to Gaiman narrate one of his essays. I suddenly wish I had a cup of coffee to sit back and chill with as I ponder the narrative's implications. If that was your goal, achievement unlocked.
Man you are so good to listen to, no matter what it is you’re saying ! You don’t just “talk” … like most do. You “Narrate”… you tell a story. You are the white man version of the great “Morgan Freeman” 😊 Love listening to your story’s and learning from your wealth of knowledge and personal educated opinions 👍 I say…. Thank you 🙏
It’s of some interest to me how readily I’ve folded automation into my prep routine yet, the thought of saying goodbye to my tamper/tamping makes me very uncomfortable. Like a lot of baristas concerned with repetitive-motion-stress, I’ve spent many a shift just trying to work the more precarious moves out of my routine, however, like you said; it’s end is coming. I am both looking forward to the rise in consistency across the industry (specifically, retail) and cautious for what that might mean for the “performance” part of the coffee experience. Fantastic video, as always 👏🏼👏🏼
Thanks for the short. It was touching just like Up. As a cafe owner and barista I enjoy hearing and following your story. Even though I recently bought a new tamper I think my next major purchase next year will be the Puq press.
Your first tamper was my first and ironically still only tamper I use since I first started making espressos in the mid 90's. I'm sure my tamper will outlive me.
I just use a portafilter basket to tamp. It self-aligns, tamps level every time, and seals at the edges. It's just as uncomfortable as it would seem to be, but before shelling out $150 for the latest 'super' tampers, give it a try, at least for low volume use at home.
Those are elegant objects. Simple and functional. Those a often the sort of things that gain a mythos and superstition. Anvils, cooking knives, chisels, paint brushes...
Tampers are weird. I recently made a tamper from scratch, as I'm a hobby metalworker. But the dimensions of the tamper, nominally 58mm, are weird. The basket it goes into (sorry if I don't get the terminology correct!) is poorly made and apparently doesn't have reliable dimensions. So tampers are quite a loose fit -miles away from the kind of accuracy machinists typically deal with. But then you talk to coffee people, quite smart and experienced once at that, and you read the forums and reviews. And these coffee people get suckered into thinking their tampers are 'precision' or that it's somehow impressive how close to perfectly round they are. They're not precision. In fact, making them is really quite simple. If you examine them from a machining side, even the high-end ones, you can see how the machining typically isn't even that good. But coffee makers don't know that. They are drawn in by marketing wank, and made to believe they are buying something incredible. Perhaps you're right; it's something psychological, about giving yourself pride and confidence. But it's a weird mismatch between the lack of precision in so many parts of the espresso machine (especially the basket), and then suddenly this desire for precision in the tamper.
Looking at it from the outside - I've never pulled an espresso shot in my life - there are third party basket manufacturers, and they do brag about their precision machining as well. I would not be surprised if their actual machining is as mediocre as you describe for the tampers, but at least the baskets seem a tad more complicated to make than "metal puck with handle".
James, I would love a video about split tamping and staccato tamping. I remember being taught those techniques decades ago in a small town coffee stand here in Canada, but I rarely see people doing that now.
Surprising. I thought this was going to be a segment on coffee redistribution devices. I retired my last tamper a couple of years ago. I switched to a portafilter coffee redistribution device which does a better job of creating a uniform reproducible channel free puck.
perhaps you should revisit this video with the new spins on tampers ie force feedback and the waffle heads and the distribution tools etc. great stroy mate
2:10 "Something old, Something new, Something borrowed, Something blue" The fact that you're British makes this even more enjoyable (quoting dr. who here)
The first video of yours i watched was the puqpress review. Though it was very entertaining, Somehow i felt uncomfortable of the danger of tampers becoming obsolete. But while technology caters to the fast moving world there will always be room for something old. People will always find that reason to just slow down. There is the value in slowing down. You are great story-teller @jameshoffman .
Ive always hated the shiny convex basic LaMarzocco tamp we have, about 1mm wiggle room in the basket (their own tamp for their own baskets?!?). Wish I could justify buying my own.
I feel the same way about my industry (trucking). There are self driving trucks in existence as we speak and by 2025 20% of trucking will be autonomous in the USA. trucking like your industry its not so much the main variables that make the biggest differences but it is the nuances. Anyone with minimal training in 24hrs can get in a truck and be taught a rudimentary understanding of what to do and drive a truck relatively well, im sure that same can be said for an amateur barista? The big difference in the quality of work and results however comes from the nuance in details that can only be achieved through years of skill development, education, and adaptation, so much so that consciously you might not even be aware of minute corrections or adjustments to your creative process, which will distinguish your work and results from anyone else's. In time, autonomy will be able to reproduce consistent and inexpensive results that are "good for business" But they can never be as creative, or complex, or draw new enthusiasts into the culture, how can a robot educate, recommend or make a one-off for that special customer when they need it? there will always be need for the human element that a computer cant do or just because people who appreciate it, want it that way. I guess what im trying to say is don't hang up your tamper just yet.
As long as there are lever operated espresso machines, I think we'll tampers. Fancy modern shops will transition to automatic tampers, as will mass-market ones like Starbucks, but I imagine that manual tampers will stay around. It's already a fancy hobbyist thing, and communities generally like to hold onto this type of gadget.
Or for anyone running any half decent espresso machine at home. I'll never be able to justify £700+ for some wanky machine that tamps (puq press) when my Rancilio is under £500 and the grinder around the same.
Make some coffee with some people you love, admire, or even just met. Talk about the tampers you are using then pass them on to the people with who you made coffee. Let your meaningful things have meaning to others while you live and they will have so much more meaning after you have gone. Also, it's a good to unclutter our lives.
I'm just getting into brewing coffee manually. I wonder if I will ever start making espressos. I want to know what it's like to tamp. Flair is calling my name.
I crapped out my shoulder in September after over zealous tamping. The virgo in me wanted to apply all the pressure my skinny arms could muster. March has arrived and I can still feel the results of my enthusiasm.
Laugh as much as you want - for the last couple of months, I've been using the bottom of my salt shaker as a tamper. Still use digital scale to make the coffee though ;-) Nice video, sentimental...
It's a bit appropriate, and also funny that youtube followed this video with an ad for Breville's Barista Touch Impress, with an automatic tamping system.
I actually bought a Compak Cube Auto tamper since I got tired of hoping my tamping to be consistent. however it would be silly to overlook the cheap tamper since auto tampers add another $1,000 to the required equipment just to make espresso. Granted there are cheap chinese auto tampers in the market that does exactly the same thing but its still barriers of entry.
Funny I should find this video while sat opposite my Reg Barber Radical Pro, with it’s 58.2mm flat ridged base, on display on a shelf in my living room. I’ll be sad to see tampers go; the very act of tamping has been a lynchpin of what I see as my craft for over a decade. It’s what I’ve always felt distinguishes me as a craftsman, rather than just someone occupying a place behind a bar. Strange, the things we focus on and find meaning in.
How did you like that early Gaggia machine you bought? Could you produce exceptional coffee from it? I ask in hope as I've just bought it myself, I'm about to upgrade that comically bad plastic tamper. Any tips on a good one for home use? (Which is to say
Just looking on Amazon and someone is sell tampers which have a measuring spoon at the one end and the tamper is just a flat disc. Not sure how much pressure you apply without causing either yourself or the tamper some damage.
All the grinders I've worked with had tamping built in. Shame really. And all those years of being a barista and I could never get the fashion down, either.
I know enough weird coffee people to know that tampers will probably go the way of vinyl records. They may fall out of popular use, but there will be people who swear by the quality difference, and they may even be correct. Coffee making is as much about the ritual as it is about the end result. Everyone does things a touch differently, and therefore, everyone puts a special spin on their coffee, a special energy. I think, for some people at least, tampers are here to stay.
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This video made me feel nostalgia for a memory I've never had. Kudos, Mr. Hoffmann
Bravo. You just put into words something I could not put my finger on.
There is a word for that feeling which I can not place. And a RUclips channel that covers those odd feelings which also I can not remember the name of.
@@Marethyu5285 "anemoia" nostalgia for a time you've never known. Also, thats Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, altho u probably already remembered by now.
Don't mind me im just binge watching James's Channel.
@@hirumi9 thank you kindly for the reminder on both names.
Someone is also a Ramen Head
Tamped my heart..
James has a voice that can melt chocolate.
A voice that could temper chocolate, even
I also like the way he says chocolate
Can confirm. That's me. I am chocolate.
That said.... "All that is wrong with chocolate in coffee drinks" xD
"Just let the chocolate be chocolate. Have a crunchy chocolate time."
This is a piece of art. Very beautifully done short film. Thank you very much James.
"It was not a good tamper"
*nervously looking at that exact tamper i've been using because i've got it with my new old Gaggia Classic*
Upgrade... :D
My Gaggia 16 cup lever machine (a rebranded La Pavoni) came with the same useless device. I keep it in the back of my silverware drawer.
>That exact tamper nervously looking at you
FTFY.
I thought wow! I’m starting at the same place as James Hoffman. That’s at least a good start.
this made me feel emotions i never expected could come from a story about coffee tampers. James, you are a master.
Thank you for sharing this.
When you dig out the old memories for yourself, its just nostalgia. When you use them to tell a story or two, you share them with others, and hopefully give them new meaning and life.
BRAVO!!! Keep making these videos. There's no one else making as great quality coffee videos that are both intellectually-satisfying and also come from the heart, like you're doing, James!
As far as your older videos go, I think this one holds up the best. It's exceptional, in fact. I enjoy your videos with methodical scientific method based testing, but I enjoy this as well, and I think we could use more of it.
Always love the fact that James includes soul in his science (and in this case, mostly soul). I would, as a decided novice, enjoy the science behind tamping as well in some future video. In particular, how to prevent channeling, is twisting good, are multiple tamps OK, what are the most common causes of a bad shot (caused by bad tamping), relative to grind size and dosing how important is good tamping even? So many questions regarding such a seemingly little thing!
Looking at your old videos, you certainly are a talented visual storyteller, James. Thanks for your endless stream of content, that somehow just keep ending up on my youtube start page.
I’m working my way back through all James’ videos - had seen the blue WBC tamper lots of times but hadn’t heard the story about it... bravo
Amazing production value. Would love to see this as the start to a series that gets interleaved with other styles.
When I’m training baristas the first thing I look at is how they tamp. Not just to examine technique, but because you can tell if they care. It’s also a great insight into how knowledgeable they are. So, even tough puqpress and the like are becoming more common, I’ll always use manual tamping for training. But in real world, high volume scenarios I can see why they might soon disappear.
A lovely video. It reminds me of when I also bought my first tamper as I wanted a tool of my own for my craft. No longer a barista but it takes pride of place amongst other items that bring back fond memories.
This reminds me of the journey hand-spinners (wool/cotton) make. We start with a basic one, then special sizes and methods; then to exotic woods and those with crystals...now I'm back to only six.
Wow! Nicely done. It wasn't long ago that I didn't even know what a tamper was but your story made me feel.
Seriously, James, this is your best video yet!
Thank you James! You always keep us thinking!
Thank you for sharing these stories with us. Bravo!
I bought the first Expobar Brewtus that came out because Schomer personally recommended it. Also got his tamper, and still have and use both. Met him at the SCAA Conference in Charlotte back in 2005 or 2006 and he was the man back then
I only use calibrated tampers these days. Not for a specific tamping weight/pressure, but for repeatability, and also - and that's why I find it interesting that James mentioned it - to protect my wrist. I am quite fit, but my joints are not the strongest. I hurt myself several times before. Not once though, since I started using calibrated tampers.
Beautiful. I love this, and hope that these are still a kind of video that you hope to make sometimes. There's a special thrill about an object becoming something of an icon, there is some kind of power there concentrating so much into something so small.
Beautiful video! That first plastic tamper with the Gaggia takes me few years back when my housemate had one and we would try our best to make coffee with it.
A year later and this popped up in my recommendations feed. Love it. Humanity + coffee obsession = 👍👍
That chess tamper is so beautiful and amazing. You have an excellent collection :)
I find the videos of you reflecting on current and future thoughts about coffee wonderful. Thanks!!
I feel like I just listened to Gaiman narrate one of his essays. I suddenly wish I had a cup of coffee to sit back and chill with as I ponder the narrative's implications. If that was your goal, achievement unlocked.
Oh man, right in the feels. You are a poet, James.
Man you are so good to listen to, no matter what it is you’re saying !
You don’t just “talk” … like most do.
You “Narrate”… you tell a story.
You are the white man version of the great “Morgan Freeman” 😊
Love listening to your story’s and learning from your wealth of knowledge and personal educated opinions 👍
I say…. Thank you 🙏
What an absolutely awesome video James! I would never stop tamping!
It’s of some interest to me how readily I’ve folded automation into my prep routine yet, the thought of saying goodbye to my tamper/tamping makes me very uncomfortable.
Like a lot of baristas concerned with repetitive-motion-stress, I’ve spent many a shift just trying to work the more precarious moves out of my routine, however, like you said; it’s end is coming.
I am both looking forward to the rise in consistency across the industry (specifically, retail) and cautious for what that might mean for the “performance” part of the coffee experience.
Fantastic video, as always 👏🏼👏🏼
Great. Now I'm crying about tampers.
Thanks for the short. It was touching just like Up. As a cafe owner and barista I enjoy hearing and following your story. Even though I recently bought a new tamper I think my next major purchase next year will be the Puq press.
Your first tamper was my first and ironically still only tamper I use since I first started making espressos in the mid 90's. I'm sure my tamper will outlive me.
Love this. Thanks for sharing, James 👊
Almost made me shed a tear. Wonderful video!
I just use a portafilter basket to tamp. It self-aligns, tamps level every time, and seals at the edges. It's just as uncomfortable as it would seem to be, but before shelling out $150 for the latest 'super' tampers, give it a try, at least for low volume use at home.
I love your videos... thanks for taking the time to make them
Those are elegant objects. Simple and functional. Those a often the sort of things that gain a mythos and superstition. Anvils, cooking knives, chisels, paint brushes...
Hi James, it would be nice to hear your opinion about the distribution tools, eventually even replacing the tamping act. Greetings from Hamburg!
A good tamper is like a good knife... it works because it does... Long live the tamper!
Didn't expect to cry over tampers but you got me.
Tampers are weird. I recently made a tamper from scratch, as I'm a hobby metalworker. But the dimensions of the tamper, nominally 58mm, are weird. The basket it goes into (sorry if I don't get the terminology correct!) is poorly made and apparently doesn't have reliable dimensions. So tampers are quite a loose fit -miles away from the kind of accuracy machinists typically deal with.
But then you talk to coffee people, quite smart and experienced once at that, and you read the forums and reviews. And these coffee people get suckered into thinking their tampers are 'precision' or that it's somehow impressive how close to perfectly round they are. They're not precision. In fact, making them is really quite simple. If you examine them from a machining side, even the high-end ones, you can see how the machining typically isn't even that good. But coffee makers don't know that. They are drawn in by marketing wank, and made to believe they are buying something incredible.
Perhaps you're right; it's something psychological, about giving yourself pride and confidence. But it's a weird mismatch between the lack of precision in so many parts of the espresso machine (especially the basket), and then suddenly this desire for precision in the tamper.
Looking at it from the outside - I've never pulled an espresso shot in my life - there are third party basket manufacturers, and they do brag about their precision machining as well. I would not be surprised if their actual machining is as mediocre as you describe for the tampers, but at least the baskets seem a tad more complicated to make than "metal puck with handle".
Marketing wank....gonna have to adopt that one.
If the tamper made airtight seal, it would just suck the coffee puck out, wouldn't it?
@@itsJPhere Or fluff it back into powder, depending on the rigidity and the airflow through the basket holes, yes; good point.
@@dnebdal a single hole through the body of the taper would fix this although it would add a single defect to your puck (making the purists go mad).
Brilliant piece of content James. 10/10
Nicely done short (have never used a tamper, nor do I own an espresso machine)
Your WBC appearance came up on my recommend list and I watched it. Very Cool. That tobacco amaretto drink sounds most curious!
James, I would love a video about split tamping and staccato tamping. I remember being taught those techniques decades ago in a small town coffee stand here in Canada, but I rarely see people doing that now.
Surprising. I thought this was going to be a segment on coffee redistribution devices. I retired my last tamper a couple of years ago. I switched to a portafilter coffee redistribution device which does a better job of creating a uniform reproducible channel free puck.
Nicely nicely done!
Art at its best, so peaceful 🙂
perhaps you should revisit this video with the new spins on tampers ie force feedback and the waffle heads and the distribution tools etc. great stroy mate
So simple and yet so brilliant!
What a great story. Thank you for sharing.
I feel like hugging my tampers right now!
2:10
"Something old,
Something new,
Something borrowed,
Something blue"
The fact that you're British makes this even more enjoyable
(quoting dr. who here)
This demonstrates that James is very capable of making documentataries.
Beautifully done.
Love that I found this channel. I started doing Sunday coffee reviews on my wine channel.
Well done! This is quite inspirational.
This was beautiful.
The first video of yours i watched was the puqpress review. Though it was very entertaining, Somehow i felt uncomfortable of the danger of tampers becoming obsolete. But while technology caters to the fast moving world there will always be room for something old. People will always find that reason to just slow down. There is the value in slowing down.
You are great story-teller @jameshoffman .
Thanks James, that was fun.
Ive always hated the shiny convex basic LaMarzocco tamp we have, about 1mm wiggle room in the basket (their own tamp for their own baskets?!?). Wish I could justify buying my own.
just wow, I honestly shed a tear.
I feel the same way about my industry (trucking). There are self driving trucks in existence as we speak and by 2025 20% of trucking will be autonomous in the USA. trucking like your industry its not so much the main variables that make the biggest differences but it is the nuances. Anyone with minimal training in 24hrs can get in a truck and be taught a rudimentary understanding of what to do and drive a truck relatively well, im sure that same can be said for an amateur barista?
The big difference in the quality of work and results however comes from the nuance in details that can only be achieved through years of skill development, education, and adaptation, so much so that consciously you might not even be aware of minute corrections or adjustments to your creative process, which will distinguish your work and results from anyone else's.
In time, autonomy will be able to reproduce consistent and inexpensive results that are "good for business" But they can never be as creative, or complex, or draw new enthusiasts into the culture, how can a robot educate, recommend or make a one-off for that special customer when they need it? there will always be need for the human element that a computer cant do or just because people who appreciate it, want it that way.
I guess what im trying to say is don't hang up your tamper just yet.
Great video, very thoughtful!
As long as there are lever operated espresso machines, I think we'll tampers. Fancy modern shops will transition to automatic tampers, as will mass-market ones like Starbucks, but I imagine that manual tampers will stay around. It's already a fancy hobbyist thing, and communities generally like to hold onto this type of gadget.
Or for anyone running any half decent espresso machine at home. I'll never be able to justify £700+ for some wanky machine that tamps (puq press) when my Rancilio is under £500 and the grinder around the same.
Make some coffee with some people you love, admire, or even just met. Talk about the tampers you are using then pass them on to the people with who you made coffee. Let your meaningful things have meaning to others while you live and they will have so much more meaning after you have gone. Also, it's a good to unclutter our lives.
I'm just getting into brewing coffee manually. I wonder if I will ever start making espressos. I want to know what it's like to tamp. Flair is calling my name.
Nicely done.
I crapped out my shoulder in September after over zealous tamping. The virgo in me wanted to apply all the pressure my skinny arms could muster. March has arrived and I can still feel the results of my enthusiasm.
And here I was just looking for advice on how to tamp espresso...
Loved this RUclips video.
Keep those stories coming! :-)
Laugh as much as you want - for the last couple of months, I've been using the bottom of my salt shaker as a tamper. Still use digital scale to make the coffee though ;-)
Nice video, sentimental...
I used an empty spice jar from Aldi for years, it fit my filter basket perfectly
It's a bit appropriate, and also funny that youtube followed this video with an ad for Breville's Barista Touch Impress, with an automatic tamping system.
Did i just get emotional for something i don't even own?
I was actually just about to get rid of my first tamper but I think I might keep it now.
I don't think I could ever make espresso without my tamper
When we start talking about memories associated with tampers... Signs of age catching up 😝
You made me actually cry
Really? Get a grip.
I actually bought a Compak Cube Auto tamper since I got tired of hoping my tamping to be consistent. however it would be silly to overlook the cheap tamper since auto tampers add another $1,000 to the required equipment just to make espresso. Granted there are cheap chinese auto tampers in the market that does exactly the same thing but its still barriers of entry.
Damn, you're a good storyteller too?
Also: Don't lose your tamper.
I had to stop the video because I got surprisingly incensed at the thought of customs agents seizing your tamper.
What a bunch of absolute heroes. 🙄
Since he is British the officers probably thought it was a weapon of some sorts.
Dude... DO. SOME. AUDIO BOOKS. Such a relaxing voice.
Funny I should find this video while sat opposite my Reg Barber Radical Pro, with it’s 58.2mm flat ridged base, on display on a shelf in my living room. I’ll be sad to see tampers go; the very act of tamping has been a lynchpin of what I see as my craft for over a decade. It’s what I’ve always felt distinguishes me as a craftsman, rather than just someone occupying a place behind a bar. Strange, the things we focus on and find meaning in.
Lovely video...thank you!
Would love a video of your tamping technique
It's evolution: the "distribution tools" popular today are all but replacing the humble tamper. Or are hybridizing into a one-function-wonder.
I've recently stopped using a tamper and just a distribution tool. It's more consistent, convenient and causes less strain on your body.
How did you like that early Gaggia machine you bought? Could you produce exceptional coffee from it?
I ask in hope as I've just bought it myself, I'm about to upgrade that comically bad plastic tamper. Any tips on a good one for home use? (Which is to say
Just looking on Amazon and someone is sell tampers which have a measuring spoon at the one end and the tamper is just a flat disc. Not sure how much pressure you apply without causing either yourself or the tamper some damage.
Beautiful.
Wow what a great video. Great job
Where can you get the tamper from 2:53? Looks friggin awesome
Nice one, mate.
All the grinders I've worked with had tamping built in. Shame really.
And all those years of being a barista and I could never get the fashion down, either.
This is beautiful content.
amazing video. I'm curios to know, do you do your own editing? if so, its really good!
I know enough weird coffee people to know that tampers will probably go the way of vinyl records. They may fall out of popular use, but there will be people who swear by the quality difference, and they may even be correct. Coffee making is as much about the ritual as it is about the end result. Everyone does things a touch differently, and therefore, everyone puts a special spin on their coffee, a special energy. I think, for some people at least, tampers are here to stay.