Why is it bad to make coffee by hand? why do beginners fail to make coffee by hand?

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Hand-made caffeine brewing methods and utensils are easy to use and are very popular in Europe, America and Japan in recent years. For hand-brewing coffee, you need to use a hand-brewing pot with a smaller spout, so as to avoid insufficient extraction caused by too much water during brewing; most of them are filtered by filter paper, but it will filter out the oil of coffee powder, and the flavor is refreshing, but the disadvantage is that the flavor is easily affected by the size of water flow and the length of extraction time, and the technique is simple, but it is difficult to master it.

[coffee brewing steps] 1 folding filter paper

Fold the ups and downs of the filter paper to the wall of the filter cup to reduce the bubbles produced during cooking, and then pour in the coffee powder to make the surface smooth.

2 water injection

Slowly pour hot water into the center so that the coffee powder absorbs water evenly, and the amount of water is mainly coffee without dripping.

3 stewed steam

After standing for about 20 seconds, the coffee powder absorbs water and releases gas, improving the extraction rate of the second water injection.

4 reinjection of water

Then inject water from the center, slowly draw a circle outward, the water can not be drenched on the filter paper, when the filtered coffee slows down, the filter cup can be removed.

Complete

Hand-brewed coffee is fat-free and tastes purer and clear.

Hand brewing coffee is recommended to use a smaller spout of hand brewing pot, it is easier to control the amount of water. The filter cup needs to be matched with disposable special filter paper, but it can also filter out coffee grease, and there is a flannel filter cloth that can be used repeatedly, with large pores and can retain coffee grease.