Jesse Raub

headshot of Jesse Raub against a black background
Title: Writer
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Education: Columbia College Chicago
Expertise: Coffee, Tea

Jesse Raub was a writer for Serious Eats. He joined in the summer of 2022 with a focus on testing coffee equipment and other kitchen gadgets. Jesse has been writing for over a decade as a freelancer, and spent 15 years working in sales and education in the specialty coffee industry.

Highlights:

  • Jesse has been featured in a variety of music publications, like Alternative Press and Lambgoat, as well as Vulture.
  • He earned a B.A. in Fiction Writing from Columbia College Chicago in 2006.

Experience

After graduating from the Fiction writing program at Columbia College Chicago, Jesse pursued music writing for a variety of publications. His love for coffee, however, offered an opportunity to develop a career in the specialty coffee industry. 

He was the Wholesale Education Manager for Intelligentsia Coffee for eight years, and managed sales and education for Ruby Coffee Roasters based in Nelsonville, WI. 

He’s also an avid sourdough bread baker and home cook. 

Favorite Purchase

The Pit Boss 6-QT Cast Iron Roaster With Lid (see sourdough mention above!). 

Education

Jesse earned a B.A. in Fiction Writing from Columbia College Chicago.

Other Works

About Serious Eats

Serious Eats, a Dotdash brand, is an award-winning food and drink website visited by over 7 million hungry readers every month. Our audience comes to us for rigorously tested recipes, science-driven cooking techniques, robust equipment reviews, and stories that offer cultural and historical context to the foods we love to eat.

Dotdash is among the largest and fastest growing publishers online, and has won over 50 awards in the last year alone, including Digiday's 2020 Publisher of the Year. Dotdash brands include Verywell, Investopedia, The Balance, The Spruce, Simply Recipes, Serious Eats, Byrdie, Brides, MyDomaine, Lifewire, TripSavvy, Liquor.com, and TreeHugger.

Read More from Jesse Raub

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We Tested 20 Ice Cream Scoops to Find the Best Ones for Serving Ice Cream
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I Tasted 17 Instant Coffees and Found Many That Were Genuinely Great
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I Tested 10 Tofu Presses—Three Squeezed By the Competition
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We Tested 13 Programmable Coffee Makers and Found Three That Can Wake Up Before You Do
four coffee makers with built-in grinders lined up on a kitchen counter
Should You Buy a Coffee Maker With a Built-In Grinder?
Water being poured into a pour-over coffee maker
I'm a Former Barista and Tested 15 Pour-Over Coffee Makers to Find the Best Ones
green coffee beans being loaded into the top of an air coffee roaster
We Went Through More than 5 Pounds of Beans Testing At-Home Coffee Roasters
A collection of ten bread lames, which are handles and rods that support a razor blade for scoring bread dough.
We Tested 10 Bread Lames—Two Scored the Top Spot
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We Tested 17 Coffee Makers That Cost $150 (or Less)—Here Are Our Favorites
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The Best Wine Subscription Services for Every Type of Wine Drinker
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We Tested 12 Thermoses—Four Were Hot, Hot, Hot
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The Best Small Espresso Machines and Coffee Makers, According to Our Tests
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I Stirred, Scraped, and Scooped to Test 13 Wooden Spoons
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I Made 24 Pizzas and Ciabatta Loaves to Find the Best Pizza Stones
The Ratio Six Coffee Maker on a counter next to coffee and cereal.
We Tested 16 Drip Coffee Makers—6 Brewed a Great Cup of Joe
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We Tested 18 Immersion Blenders to Find the Best Ones for Silky Smooth Sauces and Soups
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We Tested 8 Espresso Grinders—Four Ensured Excellent Results Every Time
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We Tested 12 Garlic Presses—Two Crushed the Competition
Three espresso machines we recommend on a kitchen countertop
I Pulled Hundreds of Espresso Shots to Find the 10 Best Espresso Machines for Every Budget
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The Nesco Deluxe Holds an Impressive Vacuum Seal for Months—and It's on Sale
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We Tested 22 Stockpots and Landed on 5 for Boiling Pasta and Simmering Stock
Four milk frothers on a kitchen countertop.
We Tested 23 Milk Frothers and Landed on Five Favorites for Lattes, Hot Chocolate, and More
A Breville espresso machine on a countertop, with a knockbox and a tamper beside it.
Which Breville Espresso Machine Should You Buy? We Tested a Whole Lot of Them
Closeup of the Rancilio Silvia Espresso Machine brewing two espressos into glasses
The Best Semi-Automatic Espresso Machines, According to Our Tests
Four soda makers on a kitchen countertop.
The Very Best, Bubbliest Soda Makers According to Our Rigorous, Fizzy Tests
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This Hybrid Colander-Spoon Is My Non-Negotiable Tool for Pasta Nights
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I Tested 9 Sauté Pans and Three (Shallow) Fried The Competition
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I Tested 9 Kitchen Timers—Four Beeped Their Way Into My Heart
a hand taking a loaf of bread out of the oven in a pink loaf pan
We Tested 10 Loaf Pans by Baking Dozens of Loaves and Recommend Half Of Them
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How to Descale and Clean a Coffee Maker (According to a Pro)
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We Tested 12 Kitchen Shears—Three Were a Cut Above the Competition
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What’s the Deal With Instant Cold Brew Makers?
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I Tested 10 Proofing Baskets by Baking Dozens of Loaves—almost All of Them Were Great
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We Tested 11 Espresso Knock Boxes—Five Impressed Us
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Do You Really Need an Expensive Wooden Cutting Board?
Vitamix 5200 Professional-Grade Blender filled with orange smoothie.
We’ve Recommended the Vitamix 5200 for a Decade—and It’s $145 Off Right Now
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Yes, Decaf Coffee Can Be Great—We Found 5 We'd Sip Any Time
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The Solo Stove Pi Prime Is a Powerful Pizza Oven (It Cost Less Than Most Ooni Ovens, Too)
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To Find the Best Bread Machines, We Made Over 60 Loaves of Bread
Three handheld coffee grinders are arranged on a counter in front of a kettle and electric grinder
I Tested 11 Handheld Coffee Grinders to Find Best Ones That Were Fast and Fuss-Free
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I Tested the Solo Stove Pi Pizza Oven—and Highly Recommend It
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We Tested 10 Coffee Scales—Here Are the Three We Recommend for Accurate Brewing
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I Tested 10 Pizza Peels—Four Slung Perfect Pies
A person using a food processor to make mirepoix.
We've Highly Recommended This Cuisinart Food Processor for 7 Years—Here's Why
Various coffee mugs on a kitchen countertop.
The Best Coffee Mugs (That Can Actually Make Coffee Taste Better)
Three coffee makers on a blue kitchen countertop.
The Very Best Coffee Makers, According to Our Exhaustive Testing
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The Best Espresso Beans for Pulling Fantastic Shots, According to an Expert
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Our Favorite Budget-Friendly Steak Knives Cut Through Meat Like Butter—and They're on Sale