How much coffee powder do you put in the Coffee Pot? What degree of grinding?

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The skill of removing dregs from the kettle makes the kettle as clean as the hand.

French filter kettle

The French filter pot is referred to as the French pot. The French pot uses hot water to soak the coffee powder for a period of time to extract the coffee, so it can extract the sweet and sour taste of the coffee at the same time. Of course, in addition to the sweet and sour taste and aroma, all the other flavors of the coffee will be extracted together, the brewed coffee is closer to the original taste of the coffee, and the coffee taste is full-bodied and mellow. With a subtle oily and round flavor, in the current trend of drinking filter paper hand-brewed coffee, it is also a good choice to change the taste occasionally.

The tools needed for brewing

Hario French filter kettle (two cups)

Kalita coffee spoon

Hand bean grinder

Filter net

Ethiopian Sidamo coffee beans

Country: Ethiopia

Producing area: Sidamo

Manor: Shikisso Shakespeare Cooperative

Baking degree: medium baking

Treatment: washing

Extraction condition

Bean weight: about 20g (two coffee spoons)

Degree of grinding: medium roughness grinding (slightly thicker than hand punching)

Water temperature: 90 degrees

Ethiopia is the home of all coffee tree species in the world, with the richest coffee gene pool, with more than 90% of them planted by small farmers. Sidamo is a boutique coffee producing area in southern Ethiopia. The coffee produced in this area is characterized by lemon and citrus fruit aromas and sweet cocoa and apricot kernels in finish. This Shaquiso coffee has a soft sour taste and a long almond nut finish. Although the defective rate of raw beans is high, as long as you carefully pick out the defective raw beans and add good roasting, you can also get good quality coffee.

Water injection: Kalita filter kettle scale 2 cups, about 280ml

The brewing method of the French pot is very simple, but many people do not understand the main point. The coffee brewed may taste bitter and mixed. In fact, as long as you can master the grinding fineness, extraction time, stirring time, pressing the filter time, and changing the pot after the extraction, you can simply make delicious coffee in the French pot.

The disadvantage of the French pot is that when the filter is pressed, a little coffee powder cannot be completely filtered, and when poured into the coffee cup, it will flow into the coffee cup and sink to the bottom of the cup, which is less acceptable to people who pay attention to cleanliness.

The thickness of the grinding is also a key factor affecting the flavor, because the coffee powder is soaked for four minutes, which is longer than the hand-washed coffee powder, so it is necessary to collect the coffee powder with medium or coarse grinding, and at the same time remove the fine powder with a filter. If there is fine powder, fine powder is easy to be over-extracted, resulting in miscellaneous smell.

Pour the hot water into the warm pot before brewing the coffee, then pour out the hot water, and then pour the coffee powder into the French pot

When using a French kettle, you must use a timer in order to grasp the correct soaking time. Slowly inject hot water before starting, to the position of scale 1, about 140ml.

Gently stir coffee powder with a spoon, fresh coffee powder will release carbon dioxide and expand when hot water is injected. Proper stirring can combine coffee powder with hot water and discharge carbon dioxide. If you do not stir, the coffee powder layer is too high. Take the coffee powder layer height as the water height, the scale will be inaccurate, the actual injection of hot water will be less than the correct proportion of water. As a result, it is impossible to brew the coffee that is the most suitable for brewing.

It is best to use a spoon made of heat-resistant non-metallic material to avoid breaking the glass when the metal is stirred against the French body of the glass

After stirring, then pour in the remaining water.

When the injection of hot water coffee powder will rise to the position of scale 2, continue to inject water so that there is a waterline in the middle of the floating coffee powder layer, and when it is close to the position of scale 2, stop the water injection.

Then sit still for four minutes.

4 minutes after arrival, remove the coffee powder layer with a spoon and remove the yellow foam with a spoon

After that, press the filter down, and then immediately change the coffee pot. Although the coffee powder is pressed by the filter at the bottom of the pot, it will still come into contact with the upper water layer, and the miscellaneous smell of the coffee will increase with the increase of soaking time, so even if some of the coffee is poured into the coffee cup, the remaining coffee in the French pot should still be poured out of the coffee pot and should not be left in the French pot. Then you can start to enjoy full-bodied coffee.

After enjoying the coffee, remember to break down the filter and clean it, because the coffee powder is often hidden in the filter, if it is not cleaned, it will affect the quality of the next brewing coffee.

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