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What's the Purpose of Purging Steam Before Frothing Milk? Important Details to Note Before Latte Art!
Whenever we pass by a coffee shop, besides smelling the rich coffee aroma, we often hear the "whizzing" sound of milk frothing. Watching the busy baristas inside, have you ever noticed this particular action: before and after using the steam wand, baristas always let it run for a few seconds to purge steam?
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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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How to Adjust Extraction Efficiency in Pour-Over Coffee? Why Baristas Take a Sip of Your Coffee Before Serving?
In the world of coffee, there are always behaviors that seem incomprehensible to outsiders. For example, many people share one cup of coffee, or use a spoon instead of a cup to drink coffee, or make "whooshing" sounds while tasting coffee. Such phenomena leave those outside the coffee circle amazed and bewildered.
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The Best Time to Drink Coffee Daily: What is the Impact of Drinking Coffee Before or After Breakfast on Blood Sugar
From one episode to a billion episodes, and from one binge-watching session to countless more, the already scarce sleep time becomes even more insignificant in the face of these damn temptations. The result is clear to everyone: from struggling with the decision to call in sick or resign when the alarm goes off, to rushing into the office and gulping down coffee to stay awake and survive. In fact, regardless of whether you slept well the night before, there will be more and more
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Why Rinse the Grinder Before Brewing Coffee? How to Clean a Coffee Grinder? Will Not Rinsing the Grinder Cause Off-Flavors in Pour-Over Coffee?
Grinder rinsing, as the name suggests, is the practice of cleaning a coffee grinder. To extend the grinder's service life, we perform regular deep cleaning to ensure that its burrs and other components remain unaffected by external contaminants that could cause issues. However, grinder rinsing...
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Which is more important: coffee shelf life or best-before period? How should you properly store purchased coffee beans?
Here's what happened: a customer stocked up on coffee beans before the May Day holiday, but unexpectedly received several bags of coffee beans as souvenirs from a friend returning from overseas travel. With more coffee than she could finish in the short term, she asked FrontStreet Coffee three key questions: Can coffee beans be stored in the refrigerator? Should they be refrigerated or frozen? How should they be stored properly?
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Pour-Over Coffee Three-Stage Pouring Technique Algorithm: How to Determine the Right Timing for Water Flow Interruption
A friend once asked FrontStreet Coffee, "FrontStreet Coffee, for the final stage of three-stage pouring, should I wait until all the water has drained before pouring again, or should I pour when it's about halfway drained? Why do I see some people suggesting it's better to wait until all the water has drained?" This friend asked FrontStreet Coffee this question because FrontStreet Coffee teaches everyone about coffee brewing
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Should Ice Be Added Before or After Pouring in Iced Pour-Over Coffee? A Detailed Guide to Japanese-Style Iced Pour-Over Parameters
Recently, customers have asked, "How do you make your iced pour-over coffee? Is there a difference between adding ice before or after pouring?" In this issue, FrontStreet Coffee will conduct an experiment to compare the two methods, hoping to provide everyone with a reference. FrontStreet Coffee's Iced Pour-Over Parameters: For brewing iced pour-over coffee, FrontStreet Coffee uses 15 grams of coffee grounds with a coffee-to-water ratio of
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Should I Add Ice Before or After Pouring for Iced Pour-Over Coffee? Which Tastes Better?
Autumn has arrived! The first cup of milk tea has been finished! How can the weather still be so hot! Since summer isn't over yet, let's continue exploring a recent popular topic: For iced pour-over coffee, should you add ice before or after pouring? What effects does pouring over ice have? The cooling in iced pour-over comes from the ice, but unfortunately, iced pour-over
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Have You Noticed These Details in Pour-Over Coffee?
Many people find pour-over coffee difficult because although they set up a brewing framework, the taste is always unsatisfactory once they start brewing. The coffee is either tasteless or over-extracted, but they can't figure out the problem after much thought. As the saying goes, details determine success or failure! If the general direction of the brewing parameters is correct,
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What Preparation Steps Are Needed Before Coffee Cupping? What Are the Cupping Steps?
Professional coffee knowledge exchange for more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). FrontStreet Coffee briefly describes what needs to be prepared before cupping: 1. Roasted coffee beans 2. Coffee grinder 3. Kettle 4. Cups 5. Cupping spoon 6. Cupping forms. The eight steps of cupping:
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Coffee Defect Bean Classification Standards: What Are Common Green Coffee Defect Beans and Should You Sort Beans Before Brewing?
Since FrontStreet Coffee's main business is selling beans, in addition to questions about coffee brewing and preparation, we often receive feedback about bean-related issues through our backend. For example, questions about defect beans. Some customers approach FrontStreet Coffee with pictures, asking whether the beans in the photos qualify as defect beans. But basically, at Frontsteet
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The Correct Way to Use Coffee Filter Paper - Why You Should Wet Your Filter Paper Before Brewing Coffee
For professional barista discussions, follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). When brewing pour-over coffee, should you wet the filter paper first before adding grounds, or use a dry filter paper? This is definitely a question many people have. The reason for wetting filter paper with hot water is mostly due to white filter papers having issues with residual bleaching fluorescent agents.
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Coffee Extraction Basics: What Are the Detailed Requirements for Making Espresso?
Espresso, the "soul" of the Italian coffee system, can be extracted in just 20-30 seconds, but before pressing the brewing switch to officially begin extraction, any small operational details that aren't done correctly could result in poor-tasting coffee. Today, let FrontStreet Coffee break down
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Cold Brew Coffee Ratio & Method: Why Ferment Cold Brew Overnight Before Drinking?
Cold brew coffee has always been incredibly popular. During hot summer days, many customers walking into our coffee shop choose to order a cold brew. That first sip of chilled coffee delivers a clean, smooth mouthfeel that's truly satisfying. So how does FrontStreet Coffee make cold brew coffee? Are there any special techniques? What kind of coffee beans do we use?
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Espresso Brewing Process Considerations: Extraction Techniques and Tamping Pressure Standards
Tamping is a crucial step in the espresso brewing process. The importance and requirements of tamping have been previously discussed. But is greater force always better when tamping? What factors determine the appropriate tamping pressure? Theoretically, as the grind size of coffee beans varies - that is, as the coffee grind fineness changes
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The Correct Way to Use Coffee Filter Paper! What's the Difference Between Wetting and Not Wetting Filter Paper Before Pour-Over Coffee?
Astute observers may notice that FrontStreet Coffee adjusts not only parameters but also process steps when brewing different coffees. For example, the action of wetting filter paper. When making hot pour-over coffee, FrontStreet Coffee always wets the filter paper before adding grounds and brewing. However, when it comes to making iced pour-over coffee
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How Does Water Temperature Affect Pour-Over Coffee Flavor? What's the Ideal Temperature? What Happens When the Water Temperature Is Too Low?
Perhaps because FrontStreet Coffee has been joking about it for too long, Guangdong's temperature suddenly dropped overnight. Excellent, it finally feels like winter! But because of this, I'm sure everyone noticed a problem today - the coffee brewed didn't taste as good as before! Even when using the same parameters and methods...
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Should You Pre-wet Filter Paper Before Brewing Coffee? What Are the Benefits of Wet Filter Paper and How Does It Affect Extraction?
Pre-wetting filter paper before brewing has become a habit for most coffee enthusiasts and is widely considered an important detail. But is it really that crucial? Why do many brewing masters and champions not perform this step in their tutorial videos? This has inevitably left many coffee lovers wondering
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4 Important Pour-Over Coffee Brewing Tips: What to Prepare Before Brewing
To ensure your pour-over coffee brewing doesn't go wrong, you must minimize uncertain factors and keep everything on track. During the preparation phase before brewing coffee, there are many details that, if not handled properly, will amplify the uncertainties during the subsequent brewing process. FrontStreet Coffee has compiled some observations and practices from enthusiastic friends, sharing them below.
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