"beginner" hand-made Coffee course-how to brew ground coffee powder and how to cook it

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Although hand-brewed coffee looks simple, if you control it well, you can definitely make a professional and authentic cup of coffee. In the following, based on my own experience, I will briefly explain the steps and matters needing attention in making coffee by hand.

Brief introduction to the method of making coffee by hand:

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Weigh 15g coffee powder and pour it into a grinder to grind moderately. The ground particles are slightly thicker than salt.

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1. Fold the filter paper into the brewing upper seat:

2. Use the hot water in the hand-punching pot to cast filter paper in a clockwise circle for three purposes:

A. let the filter paper and the filter cup stick more closely and stick together to prevent the channel effect.

B, remove the smell of filter paper.

C, hot water will flow into the next pot, playing the role of warm pot, making the coffee more delicious.

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Pour the water from the coffee pot and warm the cup.

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And pour 15 grams of coffee powder into the middle of the filter paper, shake the filter cup horizontally, so that the coffee powder in the filter paper can be paved.

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Put the powdered upper seat back on the coffee pot, then use the hot water in the hand flushing pot to draw a circle clockwise around the center of the filter cup. Start the time when brewing, brew the coffee to 30g in 15 seconds, then stop the water injection, steam to 25-35 seconds, observe the powder layer, no bubbles appear, and start the second water injection.

The second time of water injection is the same as before, draw a circle clockwise with the center of the filter cup, the water flow should not rush to the place where the coffee powder is connected with the filter paper, so as to avoid the channel effect, the coffee powder can be washed to the outermost circle and set aside a circle. Then brew it in the middle again and again.

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About 2 minutes, to brew the coffee to the 230g-240g, make the coffee by hand.

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This is the whole process of making coffee by hand, and it seems to be quite easy.

The key to hand flushing: steaming

If the initial step of hand flushing is less steaming, a large amount of hot water will follow a local and a small number of waterways through the powder layer, so that the dripping time will be longer, which may lead to excessive extraction, because the extraction time is longer and more substances are dissolved. the taste may be more sour and irritating, or full of miscellaneous taste. However, once you can pay attention to the action of steaming and then start formal water injection, the hot water can pass through the filter layer evenly composed of coffee powder, and then achieve the purpose of uniform extraction.

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How coarse is the coffee powder such as hand punch, siphon kettle, French press, Philharmonic pressure, mocha pot and so on? [grindability] A picture allows you to understand the size of coffee powder!

A: this description is not intuitive in language, and many people still don't understand it after listening to it.

* rough grinding: the size is as big as coarse sugar, suitable for filter coffee.

* medium grinding: gravel-shaped, the size is between coarse sugar and granulated sugar, suitable for trickling (filter paper dripping) cooking.

* Fine grinding: size as fine granulated sugar, suitable for distilled coffee pot, electric coffee pot, mocha pot.

* very fine grinding: the size is between salt and flour, suitable for Espresso, Turkish coffee, because household grinders can not grind this texture, generally must buy ready-made grinding powder, so if you want to enjoy Espresso at home, it is best to drink a large amount of fresh coffee.

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