Recommended for beginners to brew coffee by hand.

In recent years, Taiwan has set off an upsurge of hand-brewing coffee. It can be seen everywhere that they are taught how to make coffee at the beginning of the class, and some people buy a lot of equipment and want to try it at home, but they are always like headless flies and do not know the correct steps. GQ brought in Uncle Coffee this time, and what matters should be paid attention to during the process from selecting instruments to hand brewing. Step by step should give you the most correct hand flushing skills and common sense. Let every GQ reader enjoy the fun of making coffee easily at home!

GQ: what is the recommended hand coffee maker for beginners?

Uncle Coffee: two kinds of utensils should be prepared before making coffee by hand, one is the hand brewing pot, the other is the filter cup. Generally speaking, the hand punch I would recommend to beginners is the Shengyi brand "cotton can hand flush pot". This hand punch pot has such a title because it is shaped like an iron can filled with sterilized cotton flowers in the health room after hours. Of course, its biggest feature is that the inner diameter of the spout is only 4mm, so the water injection is small, stable and uniform, which can solve the situation that beginners are most afraid of water injection. When using the cotton pot, it is recommended to match the trapezoidal filter cup or the tapered filter cup to achieve the best extraction of coffee. However, in terms of filter cup, I will recommend the recently popular "Kalita wave filter cup", because its failure rate is very low, no matter how delicious it tastes good! The biggest difference between the wave filter cup and the ladder-shaped and tapered filter cup lies in the design of the water diversion groove, the general filter cup groove will be made on the filter cup, but the wave filter cup has a flat bottom, so it needs to be matched with wave filter paper when using. The groove is on the filter paper and guides the water down, making the water more smooth and easy to make a good cup of coffee.

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Uncle Coffee: when buying a hand pot, there are four main points to pay attention to: 1-choose the heating method, some hand pots can not use the induction cooker can only use the gas stove, on the contrary, some can not use the gas stove can only be used on the induction cooker, so make sure which heat source you can use before buying. 2-consider the amount of water in advance, such as the water used in 500CC, at least choose the hand pot with 1000CC capacity, so that it will not be difficult to control because the water is used in the end, so it is recommended to choose the hand pot with 4% full water after brewing. 3-wide mouth or small mouth, choosing a hand-made pot with different outlet size will, on the one hand, involve the use process, and on the other hand, the amount of water may affect the taste of the coffee. If you are a beginner today and it is not easy to control the amount of water, it is recommended to start with the small-mouth hand-made pot. 4-material selection, at present, there are three kinds of hand pots on the market, stainless steel, copper, enamel, you can choose according to your favorite style, but it should be noted that enamel is easy to collide, stainless steel can not be over-cleaned, it is easy to scratch, as for copper as far as possible to keep dry after use.

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