Five techniques of hand-brewing coffee

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Today, I would like to share with you that you should pay attention to brewing coffee by hand. Write down these notes so that you can easily become a coffee worker at home and make a good cup of coffee.

◎ Step 1: do not prepare carelessly in advance, take a picture with a large group of tools

Fresh coffee beans, hand flushing pots, scales or coffee bean spoons, filter cups and filter paper, glass pots

◎ Step 2: freshest taste, freshly ground coffee beans!

Whether you are asking the store for help or grinding with your own bean grinder, be sure to focus on the thickness of the "filter cup" in order to get the best extraction. The recommended ratio of coffee powder to water is 1:10 or 1:12, that is, 20g of powder should be accompanied by 200cc water, and so on.

◎ Step 3: coffee filter paper with coffee filter cup

Fold the filter paper at the edges so that it can be placed in the filter cup. The filter paper can be used for 2 or 4 people according to the size of the coffee filter cup.

◎ Step 4: add hot water for steaming

The water temperature can be caught at 85 / 52 / 92 degrees. Use a small pot to slowly inject hot water, soak the coffee powder thoroughly first, steam for about 30 seconds and then evenly inject water clockwise from the inside to the outside and then from the outside to the inside.

◎ Step 5: complete extraction, instant enjoyment

The length of cooking time will affect the extraction efficiency! After the coffee powder is completely extracted and the dripping is completed, remove the filter cup from the shelf and drink it.

After reading the above introduction, do you wake up a little bit of the blind spot you encountered when cooking? As long as you master the five-step tips, it is really not difficult to make coffee by hand, and it will even become very fun. As long as you think that the same coffee bean will change the flavor because of the change of brewing coffee, or even find a new state, this is the fun place of hand-brewing coffee!

The changeable method of brewing coffee by hand, there is no good or bad, only personal preferences, so their own coffee brewing, do not put too much pressure on yourself at the beginning, practice makes perfect, as long as there are more opportunities to brew, you will eventually find out and flush out the taste you like!