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What is the difference between a hand-brewed coffee maker and an ordinary hot water kettle? How to make coffee with a domestic kettle?

Published: 2026-04-05 Author:

Last Updated: 2026/04/05, As we all know, hand-brewed coffee has a water filling bottle specially designed for brewing. Its handle, spout, body and other parts of the body are specially designed to better inject the ideal water flow, so we can use it. It is easy to "hit wherever you point" and stably inject vertical water. As for the shortcomings...

As we all know, hand-brewed coffee has a water filling bottle specially designed for brewing. Its handle, spout, body and other parts of the body are specially designed to better inject the ideal water flow, so we can use it. It is easy to "hit wherever you point" and stably inject vertical water. As for the shortcomings... It will be more expensive.

Compared with common household hot water kettles, the price of hand-brewed water kettles is usually much more expensive. For example, the price of ordinary water filling kettles from some brands has already gone up to 200 yuan. If a heating module is also installed, the price will double. So many friends are thinking, can the domestic hot water kettle be directly used to make coffee? No doubt, of course! The most important part in making a good cup of coffee is actually to find the right extraction parameters. As long as the grinding, water temperature, ratio, and time are used correctly, making a good cup of coffee is a piece of cake. The reason why we need to control the water flow when making coffee is not only to stir, but also to allow the hot water to come into full contact with the coffee powder and control the extraction time within the ideal range. These are also things that ordinary kettle can do, so ordinary kettle can also make a delicious hand-brewed coffee!

Just~no~too~It is a little more difficult than a professional water filling kettle, because after all, it is not designed for filling water, so it is still a little difficult for us to use an ordinary water filling kettle to fill water and make a cup of coffee. But it's not too difficult~

How to make a cup of coffee with a household kettle? If you want to make a cup of coffee in a kettle, then we first need to know the characteristics of the current kettle. Take Qianjie as an example. The kettle on Qianjie is a straight-tube filling kettle with a capacity of 1.5L. Its spout will be relatively short and wide in diameter. Such spout design will make it difficult for us to control the water flow when pouring hot water. The injected hot water tends to fluctuate between large and small, and erratic; Not only that, due to the large capacity of this kettle, if we use too little water, we need to tilt the body greatly when pouring hot water, which will easily further increase the instability of the water flow and make it difficult to inject a stable water flow.

If you want to use this type of kettle to brew coffee, there are two brewing methods to choose from. The first is to learn to control the water flow and then use the same water injection method to brew. In this way, we do not need to adjust the extraction parameters, but relatively, we must ensure that a stable water flow can be injected. The method is also very simple-just fill up the hot water... As long as the hot water is filled up, the kettle does not need to be tilted significantly to inject hot water, and the center of gravity will not fluctuate violently due to the tilt. We can inject a relatively stable water flow to brew coffee, making it difficult to control water greatly reduced. That shortcoming... If your kettle has a large capacity of 1.5L like Qianjie, it should be difficult to hold it for two minutes to make coffee after it is filled.

Therefore, if the grip strength allows, or if the kettle has a small capacity, you can stabilize the center of gravity of the kettle by filling it with water, so as to inject stable hot water to make a cup of coffee. If the strength is not enough and the pot is relatively large, then try the method previously shared by Qian Jie in the article "How to Use the Water from the Office Water Dispenser to Make a Good Cup of Coffee"-inject water in multiple stages. The method is very simple, that is, divide the total amount of water into multiple injection stages. Because of the reduction in water injection at each stage, we do not need to hold the pot for a long time, nor do we need to inject too stable water flow. We just need to ensure that all the hot water injected can pass through the coffee powder~

Cooking and sharing, then this time, we will use the front street Yejia Shefei Guo Dingding from the flagship store to share it! This bean is planted in the high altitude area of Yega Shefi, Ethiopia. Its long growth has allowed it to accumulate a lot of sugar and various substances. Therefore, it develops a rich and charming aroma when baked in medium and light, which is very suitable for hand-brewed. The production of various coffees such as single-piece coffee and American black coffee. The extraction parameters are as follows: amount of powder used: 15 g powder to water ratio: 1:15 Grinding degree: 75%~80% sieving rate of No. 20 screen Brewing water temperature: 90 ° C Compared with conventional brewing, the water temperature used here will be slightly lower, because we will divide more paragraphs and the extraction time will be longer, so we need to reduce the water temperature to reduce the extraction efficiency and avoid over-extraction of coffee. So first, still steam for 30 seconds.

After the steaming is over, we divide the remaining hot water into multiple stages and inject it. There are not many restrictions on the amount of water injected in each section. The injection can be stopped until the water level does not pass the powder bed, and then wait for the hot water to flow out before injecting into the next section. This is repeated until all the target water volume is injected. During the water injection process, we can properly control the water flow and then inject it in circles, which can make the extraction more uniform and allow the coffee to be fully extracted. If the size of the water flow cannot be controlled, just make sure that hot water can be injected from the center~

After injecting all the hot water, we only need to wait for the drip filtration to finish, and then we can remove the filter cup and finish the extraction. This way, the brewing time will be slightly longer, and it takes 2 minutes and 35 seconds on the front street. Although it is long, it does not have any negative taste. Not only that, the flavor of the coffee is also very prominent. You can obviously drink the fresh aroma of white flowers, lemon, and oolong tea. The taste is clean and solid, which is very good! So the above is all the content shared on Qianjie this time. In short, whether it is a professional hand-flushing pot or a household kettle for water injection, as long as we use the right parameters, it will not be too difficult to make a pot of delicious coffee~

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