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What equipment does a novice Xiaobai need to buy to learn to make coffee? Filter cup electronic scale bean grinder manual flushing pot purchase guide

Published: 2026-01-09 Author:

Last Updated: 2026/01/09, Every once in a while, friends who have just come into contact with coffee leave messages backstage on the front street, asking questions that often arise during their novice period. Like yesterday, Qianjie received a message saying: If you learn to make coffee by hand at home, what basic equipment do you need? In order to help the majority of novice friends successfully "enter the trap", Qianjie will come today

Every once in a while, friends who have just come into contact with coffee leave messages backstage on the front street, asking questions that often arise during their novice period. Like yesterday, Qianjie received a message saying: If you learn to make coffee by hand at home, what basic equipment do you need?

In order to help the majority of novice friends successfully "enter the pit", Qianjie today comes to talk about the equipment selection guide for the novice period.

If you often go out to drink coffee, you should find that the equipment used by baristas can be said to be ever-changing. Various styles launched by various brands, or cool or simple shapes can be said to be everything. Many configurations make people feel very professional at a glance, but when you search the Internet, you will find that you can't afford it! Can't afford it at all!

From Qianjie's perspective, although hand-brewed seems to be a complex and professional process, its essence is very simple. A complete hand-brewed coffee appliance contains nothing more than a hand-brewed pot and thermometer, filter cup and filter paper, electronic scale, bean grinder, sharing pot (optional), plus a key raw material-coffee beans. Then we can easily find a affordable version based on our own budget and needs, and we can easily play hand-brewed at home.

1. Bean grinder

If you pursue the flavor and aroma of coffee, then an easy-to-use bean grinder is naturally indispensable. Although you get what you pay for, it doesn't mean that the more expensive the thing, the better. We still have to choose based on our own needs.

There may seem to be many choices about which bean grinder to buy for novices, but there may be certain restrictions for different groups of people. If you are still a student party with a tight budget or a migrant worker with a small budget, Qianjie recommends starting a hand-operated bean grinder with a price of 200-500 yuan, which can fine-tune the grinding particle size of the whole coffee, and then whether to advance according to needs later; If you are an office worker with a higher budget and have a higher frequency of making coffee, you may wish to choose the advanced version with a price of 500-800 yuan, which will save us a lot of effort in grinding;

When you have a sufficient budget in this regard, it means that there will be more types to choose from. If you are in the thousand-yuan range, you can close your eyes and start grinding, because the grinding quality will be better than that of the electric mill at the same price; if your plan is a few thousand yuan, you can directly start an electric bean grinder with better precision and quality.

Learning to make coffee by hand at home, an electronic scale with a timing function and a long-mouthed hand-brewed pot are equally indispensable. The good news is that the domestic market is rich enough, and you can find options that suit you with different budgets.

2. Electronic scale

Many friends would omit the electronic scale in the early days. They didn't care about the weight or the proportion. The water poured all depends on feeling. Therefore, the coffee brewed is always like drawing a blind box, sometimes fragrant, sometimes bitter, sometimes thick, sometimes light. In the extraction process, the electronic scale not only ensures accurate powder amount and proportion, but also allows us to judge the extraction situation through time and make corresponding adjustments.

There are many electronic scales with timing functions on the market. If you don't pursue appearance, the price will not be much expensive. Take the most commonly used "black name" on the street as an example. It is not only easy to use and carry, but the key is that it is also cheap (within 30 yuan).

3. Hand flushing the pot

In theory, a cup of hand-brewed coffee can also be made with a general kettle. However, due to factors such as the size, stability, water injection speed, and landing position, etc., the extraction will be affected. If you want to stably brew delicious coffee, we are more inclined to use a special hand-brewed pot.

As a water injection device, the ease of controllability of the hand-flushing pot is very important for novices. It is mainly reflected in the shape, capacity, and weight of the pot itself. The design of the spout affects the difficulty of water outlet and the shape of the water column. Qianjie recommends using a gooseneck fine-spout pot, which is more conducive to the novice's control of the water flow; the size of the hand-flushing pot determines the center of gravity of water injection. If the body is too small or too light, it will cause the center of gravity to tilt forward and the water flow will be unstable. The body is too heavy and it will be difficult to use. For daily use, you can refer to Qianjie's hand-flushing pot, with a capacity of 500 - 600ml.

Functionally, hand-flushing pots are divided into two types: temperature controlled and non-temperature controlled. If you have boiling water at home, choosing a hand-flushing pot without heating function can reduce some of the expenses. In addition, you can equip yourself with a quick-display thermometer for temperature measurement. Take the most common b-pot as an example. The non-temperature-controlled version can be owned within 300 yuan, and the quick-display thermometer is within 100 yuan.

4. Filter cups and filter paper

Everyone knows that a practical filter cup can stably present the flavor of each brewed coffee. Take the most common filter cups on the market for example, the coffee produced by the conical filter cup represented by the V60 has richer layers; the cake flat cup can show a sense of balance; the Kono filter cup highlights the mellow degree of coffee... Different materials will affect the extraction. If practicality is considered, Qianjie recommends a V60 filter cup made of resin.

The structure of the filter paper will directly affect the water discharge speed, thus changing the taste of coffee. A friend once found that water often accumulates when making coffee. After eliminating various reasons, he found that it was because of the thick filter paper given by the merchant when purchasing the filter cup. This caused the problem of clogging when replacing the filter paper. If you don't want the extraction to be disturbed by filter paper, Qianjie recommends giving priority to big brands, such as Kono filter paper used by Qianjie.

5. Share pot and coffee cup

If we want to "show off" when we go out or show off our skills in front of friends every day, then equipped with a good-looking sharing pot and coffee cup will definitely look quite photogenic, and the price is about 100 - 500 yuan. But putting aside the beauty value, if you drink alone and don't pay too much attention to it, then you can just grab a large-capacity cup.

6. Coffee beans

Qian Jie believes that beginners are still at the beginning of getting familiar with it. In addition to selecting a better bean grinder (investing more budget), other tools can actually make do with it first, and then try different types of coffee beans with a low-quality suit., and gradually improve the ability to brew and taste.

Hand-brewed coffee beans are generally single coffee, coming from a single origin, and the specifications are usually half a pound or less. Different production areas, different varieties, different processing methods, different grades, and different degrees of roasting will affect the final taste of the coffee. The most common problem encountered by novices is that they are easy to "blindly follow the trend" and buy some expensive coffee beans. They are often marked with words such as "competition grade","auction batch","rare variety" and so on. In the end, they consume the entire package of beans before they understand the flavor.

Judging from the experience of the former street, it is best to first choose newbie friendly ration coffee beans based on your taste preferences during the entry stage. On the one hand, it can help me quickly distinguish the flavor of the production area, and on the other hand, it will not feel distressed even if I practice it a few times. Take Front Street Rations for example. If you can accept the sour taste, you can try Front Street Ethiopian Yega Shefa first;

If you like soft and sour, you can choose Front Street Costa Rica Taraju and Front Street Rwanda Red Bourbon; If you want to have low sourness, you can try Yunnan grains; If you want to not sour and have nut and chocolate aromas, you can choose Front Street Brazil Hirado, Front Street Colombia Cymbidium; If you are afraid of acid and like mellow taste, choose Front Street Indonesia Mantelin... When you find a place of origin that suits your liking, you can continue to "dig deep" into the finer areas, manors, and varieties here.