With three tips, you can make coffee by hand.

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For many people, the first thing to do after waking up every morning is to make a cup of coffee.

However, people's understanding of making coffee has changed a lot in recent years. The advantage of this is that the roasting and brewing techniques of coffee beans will also be changed, but it's up to you to benefit from it.

Many people will think that people nowadays pay too much attention to making coffee. However, there is no denying the fact that it is easy to make a bad cup of coffee, but difficult to make it well. However, once you start to understand the basics of making coffee, and then buy a few brewing tools, you can easily find the fun of improving your quality of life.

The New York Times has summed up three tips for making coffee by hand. You can learn one at a time, or you can try all of them.

The first step is grinding beans.

If you can only buy one coffee brewing tool, buy a coffee bean grinder, which is the most important of all coffee brewing tools. You can make good coffee even with an inexpensive coffee grinder and coffee maker. Because no high-end machine can save the bagged coffee powder that has been ground and the flavor that runs away when it is opened. Grinding coffee beans before brewing can effectively improve the quality of coffee.

But the bad news is that good grinders are not cheap. You need a cone-knife coffee grinder that can grind coffee beans into equal-sized particles, rather than cheap grinders that grind coffee beans of different sizes. Brewing coffee is an extraction process, and you need to dissolve 20% of the coffee beans in water, so equal-sized grinding particles mean the same amount of extraction. If some of the ground coffee powder is as fine as flour and others as thick as pebbles, then this cup of coffee is a mixture of underextraction and overextraction. Underextracted coffee has no taste, while overextracted coffee is very bitter.

Cone knife coffee grinder

In other words, the cone knife coffee grinder is not only a hard-working horse, but also an accurate locator. Baratza Encore is a good basic grinder, a similar choice is Breville Dose Control Pro, this kind of function is more, Oxo Barista Brain is also good, there is a built-in electronic meter. Baratza Virtuoso's cone cutter quality and grinding speed make it the first choice for home grinders.

Baratza Virtuoso

The second step

Abandon the measuring spoon and choose the electronic meter

Now that nerd has gone from sarcasm to praise, this change will make you take it for granted when it comes to making coffee. First of all, coffee needs to be measured in grams and weighed by an electronic meter.

If you've done baking, you won't be surprised by the suggestion of using an electronic meter to weigh it. For a long time, dessert makers measured the weight of dessert ingredients in grams. Now it's not just desserts. Electronic meters are needed to make all kinds of food. If you are using an electronic meter now, you must be well aware of its benefits.

Moreover, you not only need to weigh the coffee, but also weigh the water, at least how many liters there are, instead of filling the cup with water randomly. The reasons are as follows: brewing coffee is about blending proportion, and how much water you need depends on how much coffee powder you use. Most Americans weigh it with a scoop. However, the volume of the coffee machine is usually 5 ounces, but the volume of the scoop is variable.

If you can't handle this ratio well, make coffee at the ratio of 55 grams of powdered coffee to 1000 grams of water (about 1:18), the golden ratio recommended by the American Association of Coffee experts. Don't be intimidated by the metric unit, which actually makes it easy to make coffee.

As for the electronic meter itself, it is enough to buy a cheap one. You'd better make sure that its maximum load is 2kg before you buy it. If you want an entry level, consider the Hario V60 VST-2000, which is accurate to 0.01g, with a death Star polished black built-in timer.

Hario V60 VST-2000

In addition, it is best to keep the coffee beans in a cool, dark, sealed place, rather than in the grinder you put in the cupboard at this moment. Coffee beans can be packed in bags and stuffed in cabinets and weighed and ground when needed.

The third step

Buy a better filter cup

There are two kinds of coffee making tools: hand-made filter cups, where you need to boil hot water and pour it into the pot. There is also a drip filter coffee machine, which can be heated and brewed automatically.

The advantage of the filter cup is that it is not too expensive. Kalita Wave is easy to use, but if you use better filter paper and cups, the budget will be much higher. Strictly speaking, these things are not necessary, but they can make your coffee more exquisite. The Hario V60 is an inexpensive filter cup, and Chemex 8-cup 's hand-brewing pot is good for brewing or sharing coffee.

Hario V60

Chemex 8-cup

The filter cup also allows you to better control the water temperature (it should be around 93 ℃, if the water is too cold, the extraction effect is not good). If you want to improve efficiency, you can just put the filter cup and the kettle on the meter and look at the numbers above.

It doesn't matter if you want to get a fully automatic coffee drip filter. You need a coffee drip machine that completely replicates the manual coffee making program. These machines are more advanced than the manual ones because they can automatically control the temperature and the degree of penetration of the coffee powder. Therefore, they are much more expensive.

The basic entry-level automatic filter pots are Bonavita BV1900TS and Oxo Barista Brain, both of which are copies of the drip filter coffee machine launched by the Dutch brand Technivorm Moccamaster in 1968.

Bonavita BV1900TS

Last year, Chemex launched a drip filter coffee machine called Ottomatic, which is a pioneer for a company that has been making handmade pots, which is very much in line with the company's design philosophy. If you need some high-end products, the Ratio's Eight designed and made by Portland is good for coffee machines, like antique Marantz to speakers, made by nerd and designed for nerd.

Ottomatic of Chemex

Ratio's Eight of Portland

The tools recommended by the New York Times are made by professional coffee brands, which have stood the test of time and are very classic. People who really love coffee seldom put too much emphasis on the sense of ritual, especially when they rush through the door, the tedious steps will scare beginners. With simple tools, seriously make a good cup of coffee, get back to the essence, and enjoy it!