We always get asked on the best coffee machine to buy for home/work. If you want an espresso machine you need to spend BIG money, so what are the alternatives?
Filter coffee machine? pity about the heating element ruining the coffee as it drips through, and with a very few exceptions, little control of brew strength.
Cheap home espresso machine? great except they don’t work. To make things worse optimising them involves purchasing a grinder costing waaaay more than the toy machine you bought and stuck in a cupboard
Moka pot? good especially when a grinder is involved, but you need to know how to use it in anger. Complicated, messy and involved.
Plunger, Again as with the Moka pot a little technique is involved, and many complain about the coffee solids coming through as residue in the cup.
What to do, what to do?
Try the ABID dammit. Cheap, around R150, easy to use and you can control brew contact time. too little contact between water and ground coffee and dull watery underextraction is the brew of the day. Too long and bitter mud is the joy produced. Abid solves that allowing you to accurately decide when to stop brewing (we have best results as with plunger of 3 minutes.)
Simple technique: Put it on the counter, insert a filter paper, put in just under 20g of coffee. fill with 250ml of just off boiling water (95°C is perfect). set a timer to 3 minutes or tap your fingers in a suitably irritating drumming fashion on a table… then place on a cup to allow the coffee to flow out automatically.
to wash up, tip into garbage, rinse with water. Done
It is microwave and dishwasher proof , but who cares?
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Brewing…
I love these drip/pore-over coffee makers. I actualy have a few of them that I have bought in secondhand stores, but I have never found new ones. Do you guys sell these or know who sels them.
we sell them, how many do you need? this ain’t no normal drip, there is no pour through until it is placed on the cup, allowing variable contact time.
Do you reccommend preparing this using a digital scale?
And does anyone have an opinion on the Capresso Infinity grinder? I have a gift cert. for Sur La Table and they have it. AND, do you guy’s use the Hario Kettle or does that not matter as much?
Thanks!