The three basic conditions for making coffee by hand should have proper brewing skills.

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"I also use my hands at home, but why is it not as good as yours?"

Many people think that hand flushing is an advanced technique, as long as the word "hand flush" is used, any coffee will taste better. In fact, to brew coffee well, you should not only have proper brewing skills, but also need high-quality coffee beans and suitable utensils. Without good quality coffee beans, it is impossible to make good coffee!

Brewing coffee is like cooking. You must have good ingredients before you can have a good flavor. For example, you are unlikely to make a delicious salmon sushi from a smelly salmon.

Then what is a good quality coffee bean?

From coffee raw beans with good flavor and extremely low defects

Proper baking

Fresh baking

How to identify high-quality raw coffee beans is usually a matter for cup testers and bakers, and it is often difficult for consumers at the brewing end to contact and master. Then why did we bring it up? Because the above principles are still applicable and important, no matter how good baking technology is, it is difficult to replace the quality of raw materials! The main dividing line between general commercial coffee and boutique coffee is also mostly here.

Raw coffee beans need to be roasted to be full of fragrance. Both shallow and deep roasting have desirable and appreciative flavors, but how shallow but not raw and deep but not charred depends on the experience and skills of the bean baker.

Although shallow roasting is now popular and good shallow roasting has elegant floral acidity, shallow roasting or inappropriate roasting can make shallow roasted coffee sour and unbearably sharp. Good deep baking can be as smooth as high-end chocolate with a long finish, but excessive baking is bitter and tasteless.

Fresh grinding

Coffee is not only tasting its "taste", but also tasting its "aroma".

If you don't have a bean grinder to grind today, it usually has to be ground by the shopkeeper, in which case most of the precious aroma of coffee escapes in the atmosphere and becomes an air fragrance.

So in order to retain more aroma and be boiled into the cup, it is necessary to have a qualified bean grinder! Even if it is a bean chopper of poor quality, fresh grinding is much more delicious than coffee powder that has been oxidized for several days.

Proper proportion & correct measurement

I wonder if you have ever made desserts or read recipes to cook.

The same is true of coffee. If the amount of coffee powder and the amount of brewed water used today are not the same as in the past, then the concentration alone will be very different, and more often you will not know who is the problem. Is the temperature not high enough, so it is very light? Or is the water injection too fast and too much?

So using electronic scales to help you measure how many coffee beans are used for brewing today or how much more water is used for brewing can effectively help you stabilize the results. If you don't have an electronic scale at hand, using a fixed-size coffee spoon and a measuring cup with a measuring scale can also help.

It is absolutely important to note that coffee beans with different roasting degrees have different densities. The same flat spoon of shallow roasting may weigh 3g more than deep roasting. If you cook it with two spoonfuls per person, the difference can be as high as 2Muffle and 6g. I have to pay attention! If there are two flat spoons for each cooking, remember to use the same bean spoon and the same amount of cooking every time to avoid sudden changes in size and size.

Of course, there are still many details to pay attention to in order to make delicious coffee steadily, such as water quality, equipment structure, and so on, and continuous practice is also necessary, but if you can master these three basic conditions, it is not difficult to make a cup of coffee with a smooth entrance.

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