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Pour-Over Coffee Technique: Introduction to the Meteor Shower Method - How to Brew Dark Roast Bitter Coffee Beans?
Today FrontStreet Coffee continues to share an interesting pour-over method with you - the "Meteor Shower"! This name comes from the deep crater-like formation in the coffee grounds after brewing, resembling a meteor impact crater. Let's take a closer look at how to brew with this method! This brewing technique is suitable for dark roast coffee beans, utilizing the characteristic fluffy and water-absorbent nature of dark roast beans.
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How to Use a Coffee Shower Dripper? Will Strong Water Flow Cause Blockage When Pour-Over Brewing? How to Use the Stirring Method?
Many novice coffee brewers, when starting to learn coffee brewing, often struggle to control the water flow, resulting in injected hot water having excessive penetrating power! Excessive penetration greatly increases turbulence effects, which easily causes fine coffee grounds to be carried to the bottom by the water flow, blocking the filter paper, ultimately causing the coffee to become over-extracted due to excessive extraction time.
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How to Clean, Maintain, and Service Your Home Espresso Machine? How to Clean the Shower Screen and Steam Wand?
When making espresso coffee, everyone pays careful attention to every detail to ensure a complete extraction! However, after brewing, people often overlook the maintenance and cleaning of their coffee machine. It's important to know that if the coffee machine isn't maintained promptly, after a period of use,
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How to Maintain and Care for Home Espresso Machines? How to Replace Espresso Machine Gaskets?
For professional coffee knowledge and more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). For more specialty coffee beans, please add FrontStreet Coffee's private WeChat account: qjcoffeex. With the widespread popularization of specialty coffee culture, more and more coffee enthusiasts are starting to purchase online.
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Why Does the Coffee Puck Stick to the Group Head? Does a Puck Stuck to the Shower Screen Affect Espresso?
A few days ago, FrontStreet Coffee shared "Reasons for Water Pooling in the Portafilter," and some friends asked, "What causes the coffee puck to stick to the group head after extraction?" Therefore, FrontStreet Coffee is here to discuss why this situation occurs. - Too much coffee dose This is the easiest problem to identify, and it's also the issue with the smallest impact.
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Espresso Machine Clean Backflush Procedure Semi-Automatic Espresso Machine Maintenance Tutorial
Machines that aren't properly maintained are prone to breakdowns. This applies equally to coffee machines. If one day you notice that your coffee tastes off or that the extraction seems unusual, it could indicate a serious problem with your coffee machine. Therefore, we should perform regular cleaning to prevent these issues from occurring. This can be divided into daily cleaning and
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Coffee Machine Maintenance: A Detailed Guide to Grinder Cleaning
We've discussed how fine coffee grounds affect coffee quality and shared tips to avoid producing excessive fines. Among these, grinder cleaning is particularly crucial. During coffee grinding, static electricity is generated, causing fine coffee grounds and silver skin particles to adhere to the grinder. Therefore, it's essential to clean the grinder thoroughly after each use to
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What to Do When Coffee Puck Sticks to Coffee Machine? What's the Purpose of Pressure Relief Function? Why Do Espresso Machines Explode?
Have you ever encountered this situation? After extracting espresso, we remove the portafilter and tap it on the knock box, but there's no sound of the coffee puck falling as expected. Looking back, we discover that the puck has adhered to the coffee machine's group head. In the coffee community, such an occurrence...
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Introduction to Espresso Extraction Mistakes and Standard Espresso Extraction Demonstration
When making espresso, it's easy to overlook seemingly minor details that actually gradually affect the coffee's taste. Today, FrontStreet Coffee will discuss those often-forgotten details and see how many you've encountered. - Forgetting to purge water before attaching the portafilter If there's a long interval between this espresso extraction and the previous one
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What is Espresso Extraction Channeling? What are the Consequences of Perforated Espresso Pucks?
Professional coffee knowledge sharing. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). Why does espresso taste sour and bitter? Let's discuss espresso extraction standards and uneven extraction. Uneven extraction typically combines over-extraction and under-extraction issues.
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What Causes Water Accumulation in the Portafilter Basket After Espresso Extraction and How to Solve It
A friend with an espresso machine asked FrontStreet Coffee, "I've been encountering an issue when extracting espresso recently. After extraction, when I remove the portafilter, I notice water accumulation in the basket, and the extracted coffee puck isn't intact—it's quite wet?" He then mentioned, "At first, I thought the coffee grounds were too fine, so I adjusted the grinder to a coarser setting, but still..."
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How to Use an Espresso Machine! Key Considerations for Espresso Extraction! What Should You Pay Attention to When Extracting Espresso?
From grinding beans to extraction completion, making a cup of espresso takes less than 60 seconds. It might seem that creating a delicious cup of coffee is not a complicated operation. However, as FrontStreet Coffee often says, although it may appear simple, there are actually quite a few details that require attention. As the saying goes: details determine
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Why Is My Espresso Puck Wet? Causes of Slow Extraction and Water Pooling in the Portafilter
Normally, after extracting coffee, the puck should be relatively dry and come out as a complete block. However, we often find that after coffee extraction, the portafilter accumulates a large amount of water, the puck is moist and loose, and the extracted puck cannot form a solid block. Although
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Precautions for Using Espresso Machines! What Are the Essential Factors Before Espresso Extraction? Why Should You Run Water Before Espresso Extraction?
While the process of making espresso may seem quite simple, there are actually numerous details to pay attention to during operation! This is a phrase that FrontStreet Coffee often mentions. Indeed, this includes how to distribute coffee grounds evenly when dosing, how to apply even pressure when tamping, or how to froth a proper portion of milk
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Can You Brew Pour-Over Coffee with an Espresso Machine? How to Make Pour-Over Coffee? What Grind Size Should You Use for Pour-Over Coffee?
It happened yesterday. When FrontStreet Coffee was replacing the gasket on their coffee machine, they discovered that the brew head size was remarkably similar to the size of a dripper. So they took out a V60 dripper for comparison. As it turned out, their diameters were identical—a perfect fit! Then, a bold idea emerged: let's just see if this works
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What's the ideal milk ratio for a SOE latte? What espresso beans are best for hot lattes?
What we now call latte coffee is a popular coffee beverage made of espresso combined with steamed milk. The addition of milk transforms the originally strong and bitter espresso into something sweet and delicious, making even those who don't typically drink coffee exclaim "This is amazing!" However, if the coffee-to-milk ratio is incorrect, it simply won't achieve
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Luckin Coffee Collaborates with Wutiaoren Band for "A Zhen Falls in Love with A Qiang"! Green Grape Latte Returns!
For professional coffee knowledge exchange and more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). For more specialty coffee beans, please add FrontStreet Coffee's private WeChat account: qjcoffeex. Yesterday, Luckin Coffee officially announced that they will collaborate with a band whose name contains the character (five), and...
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Moving Maggots Found in Luckin Coffee Drink! This Time, Three Vouchers as Compensation?!
For more professional coffee knowledge and coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). For more specialty coffee beans, please add FrontStreet Coffee on WeChat: qjcoffeex. What's happening! Another insect has been found in Luckin's coffee beverage! This time, they're even writhing maggots?
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What is Channeling in Espresso Coffee? How Does Espresso Channeling Affect Your Brew?
Reflecting on my early days learning to make espresso, I was tormented by channeling! For someone with terrible luck, every time coffee would channel during extraction, an experienced barista would suddenly appear behind you, with a chilling voice whispering in your ear, "You're... channeling..." This channeling effect
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How Does Coffee Machine Water Temperature Affect Extraction? How is Crema and Oils Formed? Do Oils Affect Flow Rate?
When FrontStreet Coffee mentions espresso extraction, the parameters emphasized are typically grind size, ratio, time, and pressure, with coffee machine water temperature rarely mentioned. This doesn't mean that the extraction water temperature of coffee machines is unimportant, but rather because many coffee machines' boiler water temperatures cannot be easily adjusted, so we directly use the water temperature
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