Meet Andy Schecter

Andy Schom… er, Andy Schecter

Andy Schecter is a familiar face—and a familiar avatar—on home-barista forums like CoffeeGeek and alt.coffee, and he regularly contributes (as much as anybody “regularly” contributes) to Portafilter.net. A kind, funny man with an easy laugh, Andy generously agreed to be among the first people to meet the new Press Pot: “I hear I’m right after Andrea Illy and just before the Pope.”

After the jump, Andy discusses how he discovered a love of coffee by not wanting to be killed in a Moka pot accident, what his ideal home-café setup is, and why crema is not gross.