What filter cups are suitable to buy for learning coffee? What brand is the best v60 filter cup?

New filter cups emerge one after another every year, and they not only have a variety of postures, but also have their own advantages: some can change the flow rate of the water, some can achieve bypass-free water, and some can even change their shape! Although there are many kinds of filter cups in ‍‍. But if you ask a knowledgeable high-end player to recommend a filter cup to beginners, then it is not surprising that this filter cup will be invented by Hario "V60"!

‍ and Qianjie is also a V60 "senior" player, after all, most of the beans in the store will be used for cooking, using it no less than a thousand times a year. So this makes many friends feel confused, it is clear that there are so many kinds of filter cups, why do people prefer V60 so much? So, today, Qianjie will reveal: what on earth is the reason to make V60 stand out!

The origin of V60 ‍ V60 filter cup is invented by Japan's Hario company, which was founded in 1921, mainly committed to scientific research institutions to design and produce heat-resistant glass instruments and equipment, has won hundreds of design awards, and V60 filter cup is his family's most famous invention. After World War II, Hario made use of the characteristics of heat-resistant glass and glass processing technology cultivated in the manufacture of chemical products to start the production of siphon pots, and officially entered the field of household products. Coffee utensils were one of the key areas of research and development at that time, such as the sharing pot that often appeared in the picture and text of Qianjie, which was the product of Hario.

But at that time, slow extraction was the mainstream extraction method in the Japanese coffee market. After all, what the Japanese were after was a cup of coffee with high concentration and high alcohol thickness. So at that time, most of the coffee utensils were developed around this concept! Either the operation is very tedious, or the launching speed is slow and the extraction time is long. Hario doesn't want to make a cup of coffee, so it wants to develop a filter cup that is easy to operate and takes less time to extract. Then, Hario began the manufacturing of V60! In 1964, Hario designers first tried to extract coffee with a laboratory tool funnel, but because it was only an experiment and was not used commercially, it did not leave much record. In the middle, a number of products have been developed according to this funnel one after another, but they have not received much response. Until 2004, Hario tried to stick several toothpicks to the original funnel-shaped appliance as a guide, and found that the effect was different. So in the following year, based on the prototype of this experiment, a filter cup was redesigned and sold! And this filter cup is now, everyone knows, everyone knows "V60"! ‍

The name V60 "V60" comes from the cone angle of the filter cup. Because the cone angle of 60 °is V-shaped, Hario directly names it V60, which is simple and easy to remember.

Compared with the fan-shaped and flat-bottomed filter cup, the cone-shaped filter cup has a completely different advantage, that is, its conical structure, which is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, not only gathers the coffee powder, but also guides the flow of water, allowing hot water to converge in the center and drip down the pot. This structure can increase the contact area between hot water and coffee powder, and the flavor substances in coffee can be better extracted.

But what we need to know is that Hario is not the first company to invent a tapered filter cup, so the success of the V60 is not just because of the conical structure of the filter cup. Here, Qianjie has to mention the other two features of V60! Because it is these two characteristics combined with the conical structure of the filter cup that makes the V60 still resistant 20 years later! First of all, let's talk about the most prominent feature of the V60, the spiral diversion ribs full of the whole cup! Many friends will think that this rib only gives coffee powder a breathable effect during exhaust, because the original ribs were designed for this reason. But it's more than that! We can see that V60 is different from other filter cups, its diversion ribs are not straight lines, but winding spirals.

The existence of the diversion bone will allow the surrounding hot water to flow along the diversion bone! The linear distance is the shortest, and the spiral design undoubtedly prolongs the path of hot water flow. to put it simply, it plays a guiding role in allowing hot water to pass through more coffee powder and extract more coffee. Whether it is a conical structure or a prominent spiral guide bone, V60 is strengthening the hot water extraction of coffee powder! Why? Because the V60 has a larger launching hole. The size of the aperture will change the exudation rate of the coffee liquid, and the hole of the V60 is notoriously large. Large holes greatly increase the speed of launching, so the flow rate of coffee depends largely on other changes. Under the rapid extraction framework of the V60 filter cup, the coffee brewed will be very layered because the extraction uniformity is not so high. ‍‍

Why would you say that? Because as said in front of the street, the original extraction methods and utensils tend to be soaked in slow extraction, which will allow hot water to "ask" for coffee powder for a long time! All coffee powder dissolves about the same amount of substance, so the coffee is thick, silky and well balanced. On the other hand, the rapid extraction of V60 shortens the extraction time, so that the hot water can not release all the coffee powder with the same quality, so some of the coffee taste will be more prominent, and some taste will be looming. Hierarchical, very comfortable! This kind of extraction is very suitable for shallow roasted coffee, which has just been transformed into the mainstream, so the "born at the right time" V60 immediately became popular!

Today, V60 is still the top player in the filter cup. Not only because the mainstream of this era is shallow roasted coffee, but also because it can make a cup of delicious coffee with rich layers in the easiest way. So, if you are a novice rookie and want to buy a filter cup for the production of hand-brewed coffee, then V60 will really be a good choice ~ ‍

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