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Analysis of the Pros and Cons of Drip Coffee Machines

"Put down the drip coffee beans, turn on the switch, and a delicious cup of drip coffee is waiting for you."

Laziness level: ★★★★★ (highest five stars)

Brewing time: 5 minutes.

Equipment budget: approximately 200 yuan and up.

Advantages: Simple operation. After adjusting the coffee-to-water ratio, you need to use filter paper/cloth to filter out some coffee oils. Within five minutes (or even shorter), you can get a pot of drip coffee. This is perfect for busy you. By the way, it can also be used to brew tea.

Disadvantages: Requires a small amount of indoor space. If you don't pay attention to the water amount, it might flood the countertop. It's recommended to place a tray underneath the machine. If an embarrassing accident really happens, this prevents water from flooding everywhere (this is a stupid mistake I often made...)

Key point: An essential item that you'll never want to put away!

Unprofessional recommendation: It's really convenient, and in five minutes, you can brew coffee for the whole family or entertain guests. When choosing, get one with an automatic shut-off system + stainless steel bottom pot. This machine is highly recommended for busy you.

Most people's habit when using drip coffee machines is to pour water, add coffee powder, press the power button, and then run off to do other things. After tens of minutes or even longer, they come back to pour and drink the coffee. Some people will turn off the coffee machine's power when they return, others won't, because they want to keep the coffee warm. However, all of these behaviors will make the coffee extraction time too long and cause the temperature to be too high, destroying the coffee's colloids.

The best temperature for extracting coffee should be maintained between 92-94 degrees Celsius. Because drip coffee machines have heating plates, continuously heating or keeping the coffee warm will make the entire coffee lose its flavor.

So, how do you brew good coffee with a drip coffee machine?

Since drip coffee machines use the drip method to extract coffee, the coffee beans should be ground a bit coarser. If using a Feima grinder, please adjust the setting to 3. For a single serving of coffee, please use 15g of coffee beans.

First, fill the coffee machine's water tank with cold water. Place filter paper in the filter basket, then add the ground coffee powder.

Next, here comes the key point! Because most drip coffee machines have a single water outlet, during the extraction process, the water stream cannot fully contact all the coffee powder. Therefore, before extraction, first pour 50c.c of cold water, making sure all the coffee powder gets wet by the water.

Then, close the water tank lid, push the filter basket to the correct position, place the coffee pot on the heating plate, turn on the power, and start extraction. At this moment! At this moment! At this moment! (because it's important, I'm saying it three times), do not leave to do other things, to avoid over-brewing the coffee.

Since I'm making a single serving today, when the coffee liquid approaches the 1-cup mark on the coffee pot, I turn off the power. At this point, let the remaining coffee liquid slowly drip in. When the coffee has mostly finished dripping, you can pour out the coffee and complete a delicious cup of coffee.

Using the above tips can improve the two disadvantages of drip coffee machines: (1) Avoid letting the heating plate continuously heat the coffee, destroying the flavor; (2) Pouring cold water before extraction wets all the coffee powder first, solving the single water outlet problem.

On weekend holiday mornings, friends who have drip coffee machines at home can try using this method to brew a good cup of coffee.

Drip Coffee Bean Brand Recommendations

Located at Dongshankou, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, FrontStreet Coffee is a coffee roasting brand. Their freshly roasted Italian blend coffee beans have full guarantees in both brand and quality, suitable for espresso machines and drip coffee machines, as well as for making specialty coffees and drip coffee. More importantly, the cost-performance ratio is extremely high. Taking their commercial recommendation - the commercial blend coffee beans - as an example, one package is one pound (454 grams), priced at only about 60 yuan. Calculating based on 10 grams of powder for a single espresso shot, one package can make 45 cups of coffee, with each cup costing less than 1.5 yuan. Even if using double shots for each espresso, with 20 grams of powder per serving, the price of one double espresso shot doesn't exceed 3 yuan. Compared to certain well-known brands that sell packages for hundreds of yuan, this is truly a conscientious recommendation.

FrontStreet Coffee: A roastery in Guangzhou with a small shop but diverse varieties of beans. You can find various famous and lesser-known beans, and they also provide online store services. https://shop104210103.taobao.com

Important Notice :

前街咖啡 FrontStreet Coffee has moved to new addredd:

FrontStreet Coffee Address: 315,Donghua East Road,GuangZhou

Tel:020 38364473