The correct technique of coffee cloth powder video course pull pattern embossing and shaking

The correct technique of coffee cloth powder video course pull pattern embossing and shaking

Put the ground coffee powder into a powder bowl

Single Espresso usually 7g powder, double 14g powder, triple 21g powder, with single handle and double handle to choose from, double head is the most commonly used, the amount of coffee powder is the first thing you need to grasp.

It usually takes a while to find a good bean grinder (usually very expensive) to ensure the quality of Espresso. Recommend three better bean grinders: Baratza Virtuoso and Rancilio Rocky and the Mazzer Mini.

When we put the coffee powder into the powder bowl, we finally need to ensure that the coffee powder is evenly distributed. As you can see from the photo below, the coffee powder has been piled into a hill so that there is enough coffee powder to fill the gap when powdered.

Cloth powder

Cloth powder is the process of putting the ground coffee powder into a powder bowl and distributing it evenly. The successful distribution standard of coffee powder is to make coffee powder evenly distributed, so that some areas will not be overextracted or underextracted during extraction.

When you put the coffee powder into the powder bowl, the powder will be piled like a hill in the middle, usually more in the middle and less around. In the extraction, due to the inertia of the water, the flow of water will be easier to pass through the middle, so in theory, the amount of powder in the middle of the powder bowl should be more than four weeks.

However, because the powder bowl structure of the double-headed handle is different from that of the single-headed handle, we need to treat it differently.

The middle of the handle itself is deeper than four weeks, so when filled with coffee powder, we use the tiger mouth of our hand or the lid of the grinder to smooth out the excess coffee powder and fill the gap in it at the same time. In this way, the amount of powder in the middle part will naturally be more than that around (at this point, some people will scrape off the middle part with the powder cartridge cover to make it sunken, so that if it is scraped off too much. On the contrary, it will cause uneven extraction.

Because the overall depth of the double-headed handle is the same, we need to increase the amount of powder in the middle when loading the powder, that is, to keep the shape of the hill moderately.

In addition, many people, whether after loading the powder or after pressing the powder, like to hit the four sides of the powder bowl with a powder hammer, which is actually a mistake, especially after pressing the powder, it is easy to cause the compacted pressed powder to be loose. on the contrary, it will cause uneven extraction.