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There are many ways to make coffee, some people like full automatic step in place, some like carefully hand-made coffee, these are based on your needs and preferences to choose. Many people like hand-brewed coffee and are attracted by its elegant and exquisite aesthetics. Hand-brewed coffee is hand-brewed coffee as its name implies. This brewing method was first invented by Germany's Bentz Melitta Benz Melita at the beginning of the 20th century.

Melitta, an ordinary housewife, was making coffee at home. On a whim, she punched a hole in the bottom of the copper bowl and used her son's blotting paper as filter paper, put coffee powder in the filter paper, and poured water into the coffee powder in a kettle, extracted a different cup of coffee, and rewrote the history of coffee drinking in the world.

After that, she founded a company called Melitta Merlot, which is now an one-stop professional coffee brand with coffee powder, coffee beans, drip and automatic coffee machines and related products. With the process of fast-paced modern life, the invention of coffee maker makes this kind of handmade follicle coffee has not caused large-scale popularity in Germany and Europe, and has become less and less. But it has miraculously become popular in Asia, such as Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the mainland.

The popularity of hand-brewed coffee can be traced back to Japan in the 1950s, when Japanese hand-brewed coffee almost became obsessed with it, and various kinds of filter cup utensils of various materials emerged one after another, and a whole set of theory and operation technology of hand-brewed coffee was established.

The equipment needed to make coffee by hand

The utensils needed to make coffee by hand are actually simple and are not bulky objects, so it is very convenient to start. Including: bean grinder, filter cup, filter paper, hand pot, electronic scale, thermometer, sharing pot and so on.

Bean grinder

There are two kinds of bean grinders: hand-operated and electric. The hand bean grinder is cheap and easy to clean. The electric bean grinder produces more uniform powder and less fine powder. The powder is ground evenly, and the coffee taste spectrum is cleaner. If you find it troublesome, buy an electric one. If you want to add a little flavor, you can use it manually, except for being a little tired. It is recommended to buy a better bean grinder to ensure that the coffee powder is evenly ground. If the powder is not evenly ground, the coffee will not taste pure enough. Because of the different contact area, hot water extracted from coarser coffee powder is much less than from fine powder at the same time. The best ratio of water to powder: 250 ml coffee is extracted for every 15 grams of coffee powder.

Kalita manual bean grinder

Hario MSS-1TB lightweight ceramic core coffee hand grinder

Baratza electric bean grinder

Filter cup

The filter cup has single-hole, double-control, three-hole, porous, as well as large-hole cup to prevent block. the more holes in the filter cup, the higher the flushing skills required, such as ceramic, glass, copper, resin and so on. The more commonly used are trapezoidal filter cup and conical filter cup. For novices who do not have a good grasp of water injection speed, trapezoidal filter cup is more likely to make good coffee.

The more common brand is Japanese Hario or Klita.

The most frequently used hand coffee filter cup is the V60 conical coffee filter cup made by HARIO Company. Its spiral groove can discharge the hot air more effectively, the deeper cone allows the coffee powder to be piled higher, so that the coffee can be stewed evenly, and the larger filter hole makes the effluent unimpeded. Paired with Hario V60 sharing pot, it is the basic standard that many friends will choose to get started.

HARIO V60 conical coffee filter cup

And there are American-style bubble pots to choose from, the coffee pot and the filter cup are one of this. There is a funnel-shaped air channel in the upper part, which can supply air smoothly when extracting coffee. The coffee extracted from the American filter pot can remove excess grease and bitterness, and the extracted coffee is so pure that it will not change its flavor even if it is frozen and heated again.

Chemex 6-Cup Classic Series Glass Coffee Maker American coffee filter pot for 6 people

Hand punch pot

The most expensive and most topical coffee in hand brewing is definitely the hand brewing pot. After all, this thing has the nature of some handicrafts, there is no need to talk about performance-to-price ratio, only whether you like it, it is not easy to use, and whether you can afford it. There are many choices for hand-punching pots, such as iron, copper and enamel in terms of material; from the spout, there are thin spouts and crane spouts. Beginners should be suitable to start with a thin-mouthed pot. The flow of the thin-mouth pot is easy to control, and there will not be too much water flow, which can greatly improve the success rate of brewing. The crane mouth pot has higher requirements for water flow control and greater degree of freedom, so it is not easy for beginners to master, so it can be used as advanced equipment after proficiency.

The Kalita Karita 900copper palace pot, known as the king of the pot, has a long mouth and a long mouth to make the coffee pot.

HARIO Harrio stainless steel electric hand punching coffee pot

Moon rabbit enamel coffee pot

Filter paper

The filter paper can absorb the miscellaneous smell and oil of coffee, so the coffee brewed is bright in color and refreshing in taste. The filter paper can be selected according to the shape and size of the filter cup. After using it once, it can be discarded, sanitary and easy to clean up. If you are an environmentalist, you can also choose flannel filter, which can be used many times. Hario, Klita and so on all have filter paper.

100 pieces of special filter paper for HARIO V60

Electronic scale

Often what we are most likely to ignore is the simplest, the amount of powder and the amount of water injected when brewing coffee. There is a certain ratio of water to powder to extract how much coffee needs to be ground with beans and how much powder is needed.

HARIO V60 electronic scale

Thermometer

To measure the temperature of the water, you can also buy a hand-brewed pot with a thermometer on the lid, because the importance of making coffee by hand is self-evident. In order to master the temperature of the water, we must start. The best water temperature is 90 ℃, because if the temperature is higher, it will "burn" the coffee, such as amino acids, aromatic hydrocarbons and other substances, if lower than 82 ℃, it is difficult to fully extract the coffee. Do not believe what 85 ℃ is the best, 93 ℃ American Fine Coffee Association standard. It depends on what kind of coffee you accept.

The Kalita thermometer is used for the first time. 64225 thermometer

HARIO V60 electronic thermometer

Sharing pot

The function of the sharing pot is like the tea sea in the tea ceremony, which is used for coffee. If you drink it alone, you can put it directly on the mug without sharing the pot. To extract multi-cup coffee, you need to share the pot. With the scale display and transparent material of the sharing pot itself, it is also easier to understand and control the extraction process, and the sharing pot is not just the role of dividing the cup.

HARIO V60600ml Cloud sharing Pot

The equipment is ready to be made, with a tutorial picture attached, the production process is actually very simple, the reason is understood, but it seems simple but full of various uncertainties, maybe this is the charm of hand-made coffee!