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What are the necessary equipment for making coffee by hand? How to buy a complete set of hand punching tools? Differences between hand-cranked coffee mills at different prices!

Published: 2025-02-08 Author:
Last Updated: 2025/02/08, Compared with other extraction methods, hand-brewed coffee can better highlight the flavor and characteristics of the beans themselves. Therefore, now that the concept of high-quality products is prevalent, hand-brewed coffee has become one of the mainstream extraction methods. However, since the production of hand-brewed coffee is relatively time-consuming, the hand-brewed coffee prices in coffee shops are often tens, and the expensive ones are hundreds, which is enough to buy.

Compared with other extraction methods, hand-brewed coffee can better highlight the flavor characteristics of beans, so in the prevailing concept of boutique, hand-brewing has become one of the mainstream extraction methods.

However, as the production of hand-brewed coffee is more time-consuming, so the coffee shop hand pricing often dozens of, expensive hundreds, can buy several bags of beans to make themselves many cups. As a result, many friends plan to buy their own beans to do their own flushing, after all, there is some money, it is necessary to save. But the question arises: which utensils should be purchased to make hand-made coffee?

Because many friends usually see baristas brewing their hands offline, they use a lot of unknown gadgets in addition to regular utensils, so many people think that there are a lot of things to prepare for hand-made coffee. But in fact, a lot of things only play the role of assistance, to help us better make good coffee, dispensable. In fact, there are only a few rigid utensils for making hand-brewed coffee, not many. So today, Qianjie to share, novice beginners need to buy coffee in the end what appliances!

Bean grinder if we pursue quality and flavor, then the bean grinder must be an indispensable hand-flushing instrument. Because only when the coffee is freshly ground and brewed, can the coffee flavor be retained to the maximum extent. However, the price range of bean grinders in the market is very extensive, ranging from manual bean grinders of tens of yuan to electric bean grinders of tens of thousands of yuan.

It is only natural that price is linked to quality. But this is not to say that the more expensive things are, the more suitable they are. Some machines are expensive because they come with a lot of other functions that are not absolutely necessary for individuals. In the final analysis, we have to start from our own needs and find a bean grinder that matches the goal. If, as said at the beginning of Qianjie Street, our purpose is only to meet the daily coffee needs, or to enter the hand-made coffee, then a few hundred yuan of hand mill can already be satisfied, and it is more convenient to carry. The hand mill below 10 million gear will be different, but it will not be too big, so you can choose according to your preference and budget (but it is recommended that it should not be less than 200 yuan).

If we have a higher budget and want better grinding quality, then the selection of bean grinder can be set in the gear of more than 1000 yuan. In addition to the manual bean grinder, we can also choose the electric bean grinder for the gears above 1000 yuan. Electric mill will have better evenness and convenience, if you do not want to go outside to grind fresh coffee, then electric mill above 1000 yuan will be a very good choice.

The kettle is followed by the hand kettle! Although a conventional kettle can also be used to flush water by hand, it is well known that the size and location of the water flow will affect the extraction. The kettle can be used to inject water, but if you want to use it to make a good cup of coffee, it will test the water injector's ability to control the flow of water.

Therefore, if we want to make a good pot of coffee more efficiently and professionally, it is necessary to pour a professional hand into the kettle. When we decide to buy a kettle, there are many things to consider, such as whether the kettle is temperature-controlled, the type of spout, and the size of the capacity. Because the front street of the spout has published a special article to share, interested friends can directly look up → "the difference between the spout of the hand pot". Here we mainly understand the temperature control plate that affects the hand pot!

Hand injection kettle is divided into temperature-controlled version and non-temperature-controlled version, non-temperature-controlled version because there is no temperature control plate, so the price will be cheaper than a hundred yuan. If friends have other water-boiling tools around and don't bother, then we can choose the non-temperature-controlled version to save a few packets of beans, and then buy a thermometer to measure, so that the water temperature will be more accurate.

But if you don't have a water boil and don't want to be so troublesome, you can add a little money once and for all and buy a temperature-controlled version of the hand punch. Because we have our own water-boiling module, we don't need to do too much tedious operation. But the temperature control plate will increase the weight of the kettle to a certain extent, so we need to determine the capacity of the kettle according to our grip strength. Then there is nothing to say about the capacity of the front street. You can choose according to the amount of water you brew a pot of coffee every day. But keep in mind that whether it is the temperature-controlled version or the non-temperature-controlled version, the capacity of the kettle is better than the normal amount of water injection. For example, a regular single serving of coffee uses 15g beans and 1:15 powder-to-water ratio, that is, water that is injected with 225ml. Then we choose specifications around 300ml (or above) as far as possible, because only in this way can we better control the flow.

Filter cup filter cup not only plays a filtering role in hand-brewed coffee, different design of filter cup will have different effects on extraction. For example, the coffee layers washed out from the tapered filter cup will be more abundant, while the coffee from the cake filter cup will be more balanced; some will flow faster because of the large pore diameter at the bottom, while others will flow faster; a little deeper, the material of the filter cup will also affect the coffee. Because of this, the kinds of filter cups sold on the market are very rich, varied and varied.

But unlike bean grinders and hand pots, filter cups in front of the street can give specific recommendations, that is, the Hario home resin version of the "V60". There are three recommended reasons: the resin is resistant to falling and not easy to damage; the price is super close to the people, and it is not afraid to break it; it has a wide adaptability, can meet most of the current cooking methods on the market, and is very suitable for today's mainstream shallow baked beans. Therefore, V60 (resin version) is first introduced in the front street of the filter cup. If you want to experience more filter cups after getting started, it is not too late to start at that time, when there is a need to buy filter cups, you can move to this article to understand the difference between filter cups and filter cups → "transfer door" (most of the other filter cups purchased in front street have basically not been used after a few tests.) But don't forget to buy filter paper, the shape and size of filter paper should be selected according to filter cup (filter paper is also introduced, you can follow this article → "the difference between filter paper and filter paper") ~

The electronic scale is the last necessary instrument for making hand coffee! If we want to keep making delicious coffee, then the existence of electronic scales will be very necessary. Because delicious coffee not only has a suitable extraction rate, but also has an appropriate concentration, and the coffee concentration is mainly determined by the ratio of powder to water, that is, the amount of water injected! In addition, most cooking methods are very particular about the separation of water injection. Therefore, when making coffee, we need an electronic scale to see the amount of water injected visually.

One advantage of hand-brewed coffee is that it doesn't require as much electronic weighing as espresso (Italian powder needs to be accurate to the decimal point), so we don't have to buy professional coffee electronic scales. The electronic scales that cost tens of yuan in the kitchen and cake room can be used. If these calls do not have a timing function, it is OK to buy an extra timer for a few yuan or use a mobile phone. Of course, if you want to be convenient, you still have to buy professional coffee.

Then the above is the equipment that beginners must buy to make coffee. As long as there is no need for many people to drink coffee, it can be replaced by any container, such as a hand-sharing pot. Therefore, Qianjie will not repeat it too much, and we can measure it individually.

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