wallysober

Same here. Can you smell at all? I got Covid in late December last year and my sense of smell and taste are wrecked. I used to have a very keen sense of both and now almost everything smells like different concentrations of sulfur. I've begun to accept it as my new normal.

I've sort of gotten used to it, and it does seem like some things are becoming tolerable. Coffee, for example, is basically my only vise and I am a total coffee snob, but I couldn't drink it at all for a long time. I'm back to enjoying it, but the subtle flavor notes are gone. I'm no longer able to really profile a good cup. Tater tots have become one of the most vile smells to me because my own body odor, urine, bowel movements, and flatulence all share one smell, and it's the same smell for tater tots. It makes no sense at all. Radical acceptance is all I got.

I'm not above trying it. I initially lost my sense of smell completely. When it came back I had "phantom smells" where I would smell something that wasn't there. Cigarette smoke was the worst one, and apparently it's really common. I didn't start having confusing and incorrect smells until a few weeks after that, or at least I didn't notice due to my diminished sense of smell.

Onions are the same way for me! Honestly, you will hear people say "sulphur taste" a lot, but for me that is just as close as I can get to describing it to people. The real taste and smell fluctuations are literally indescribable. I just tell my wife it "smells/tastes like Covid."

Is there a grinder in the sub 1k range that you would recommend for espresso?