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What to Do When Drip Coffee Bag Gets Clogged and Won't Drain? How to Brew Drip Coffee Bags Without Waste?
After reading the title, many of you are probably nodding in agreement thinking "Yes, that's exactly what happens to me!" Scroll down quickly to solve your confusion. You clearly followed all the tutorial steps: tear open - hang - boil water - pour water - wait for it to finish dripping... Yet, so much time has passed, why is the water still floating on top, while the coffee...
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What Causes Slow Pour-Over Coffee Flow? How to Brew High-Density Light Roast Coffee?
"Blocked," "weak," "bitter," "thin"—these are common issues when brewing high-density beans. Many beginners find this frustrating, as no matter how they adjust their technique, it's often difficult to brew a delicious cup of coffee with these beans. Not because of excessive extraction time but
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What to Do When Your Coffee Grinder Gets Stuck? How to Fix an Espresso Grinder That Won't Dispense Coffee? Espresso Grinder Adjustment Logic!
"Dialing in espresso" is a workflow that gives every morning shift barista a headache. The difficulty of grinder adjustment doesn't entirely depend on the barista's experience level, but also on the condition of the beans and weather conditions. Even an experienced coffee veteran with years in the industry sometimes spends significant time on grinder adjustments due to these factors.
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What to Do with Too Much Coffee Fines? How to Brew with Fine Coffee Grounds? What's the Difference Between Fine and Coarse Grounds?
To better extract the flavor compounds from coffee beans, we grind the coffee beans to increase the surface area for contact with water, thereby improving extraction efficiency. However, whether it's a grinder costing hundreds of dollars or tens of thousands of dollars, without exception, the coffee grounds they produce all contain fine particles.
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Should Fine Particles Be Retained in Coffee Extraction?
Often, due to issues with grinding equipment, the ground coffee ends up containing many extremely fine particles (fines)! At such times, those preparing to brew coffee face a difficult choice! FrontStreet Coffee often says that too many fines become a double-edged sword. While retaining them may potentially yield rich flavors...
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Why is Cold Brew Coffee Filtering So Slow? How to Speed Up Your Cold Brew Drip Rate?
Summer heat... ah, let's just get straight to the point! When making cold brew coffee, many people often find themselves frustrated by filtration issues. The filtering speed of cold brew coffee can be incredibly slow! The root cause is that the extremely fine particles in coffee grounds clog the filter paper, reducing the flow channels for the coffee liquid, thus
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What to Do When Cold Brew Coffee Filters Slowly? Efficient Cold Brew Filtering Techniques
Making cold brew is delightful, but filtering can take forever. For those who enjoy making their own cold brew coffee, have you encountered this frustration: planning for convenience by brewing last night to drink today, only to find that during the straining process, the coffee drips slower and slower. After more than ten minutes, the cold brew still hasn't finished dripping—no need to guess, the filter paper is certainly clogged again by fine coffee grounds.
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What Causes Pour-Over Coffee Blockage and Poor Water Flow? Why Shouldn't You Tap the Dripper? How Do Fine Particles Cause Coffee Over-Extraction?
Like FrontStreet Coffee, many friends develop a temporary "perfectionism" when brewing coffee! When they notice irregularities during the process, they always want to step in and "fix" them to make everything neat and tidy. For example, during the preparation steps before brewing coffee—wetting the filter paper! When the filter paper doesn't completely adhere to the dripper
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Why Does the Same Grind Setting Produce Different Coarseness for Different Coffee Beans? What's the Relationship Between Brittleness and Density?
Recently, a friend sent FrontStreet Coffee a private message: "He used the same grind setting for two different beans. The first bean brewed normally with pleasant coffee flavor; but the second bean caused blockage during brewing! This led to over-extraction. Despite using the same setting, why did this happen?"
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What are the characteristics of pour-over coffee brewing methods? Detailed explanation of Rao spin pouring technique! What is the filter cup extraction control technique?
It is well known that the process of pour-over coffee brewing has always been a highly visual spectacle, as most pouring techniques combine both gentleness and strength. Baristas employ elegant movements while pouring water with powerful impact to extract flavors. During this process, the barista's movements and the agitated coffee grounds create a striking contrast
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How to Brew World-Class Yirgacheffe Coffee? What are the Characteristics of Yirgacheffe Coffee? What Flavor Does Yirgacheffe Have? How to Solve Channeling with Light Roast Beans?
When it comes to specialty coffee beans, many people immediately think of Yirgacheffe. This is not only because Yirgacheffe has extremely high recognition in the coffee world, but also because the coffee produced from Yirgacheffe has outstanding flavor characteristics, high recognizability, and an unforgettable taste. However, brewing Yirgacheffe coffee well is not an easy task.
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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 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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Essential Guide for Coffee Beginners: Understanding Bitterness and Over-Extraction in Pour-Over Brewing
Over-extraction is a common challenge for coffee beginners! This occurs when excessive compounds are drawn from the coffee grounds. Although approximately 30% of a coffee bean's composition is water-soluble, extracting all available compounds isn't desirable, as the remaining elements contain undesirable bitter compounds that can ruin your coffee's flavor profile.
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What Parameters Should Be Used for Chopstick Stirring Method? How to Enhance Flavor Sweetness in Pour-Over Coffee?
Everyone in the coffee community knows that pour-over brewing has many established schools of thought, as well as numerous techniques developed through practical experience. For instance, last weekend, a friend visited our café and enthusiastically shared a particularly novel extraction method he recently learned—the egg-beating brewing technique. He mentioned that the coffee flavors produced were superior to his usual brewing
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What Grind Size for Pour-Over Coffee: Selecting the Right Coffee Varieties
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). FrontStreet Coffee - Introduction to pour-over coffee grind sizes and single-origin bean varieties. When coffee particles are larger than the filter paper's pore diameter, they won't clog the filter. By screening out enough coffee particles of this critical size, you can create a delicious coffee with high extraction rate and no bitter or off-flavors.
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Can Coffee Beans Be Re-Grinded If the Grind Isn't Fine Enough? The Principles and Effects of Double Grinding Coffee Beans
Some friends shared an interesting approach with FrontStreet Coffee: "Sometimes I forget to adjust the grind setting, and the coffee grounds turn out too coarse, but I don't want to waste them, so I adjust the grinder to the appropriate setting and grind the coffee beans again." FrontStreet Coffee replied with a smile: "Which new grinder have you been eyeing recently?" This
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How to Brew Rich, Multi-layered Coffee
Body, aftertaste, and balance are coffee terms we can easily understand, yet descriptions about layering are rare. So what is layering? What exactly constitutes layers in coffee? When something is endowed with "layers," it stands out significantly compared to more singular items.
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Pour-over Equipment|Kalita Three-hole Trapezoid Dripper vs Bonavita Wave Dripper Brewing Performance
Professional coffee knowledge exchange For more coffee bean information Please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style) ▲ Click to follow | 6 years of focus on coffee roasting For more specialty coffee beans please add FrontStreet Coffee on WeChat ID: (long press to copy) qiannjie Some friends asked about the coffee taste difference between Kalita trapezoid dripper and Bonavita wave dripper
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The Impact of Fine Coffee Grounds on Flavor and Texture - Recommended Grind Coarseness for Single-Origin Coffee
When coffee beans are ground into coffee powder, whether using a premium grinder worth tens of thousands or an entry-level grinder costing a few hundred, the appearance of fine grounds is currently unavoidable. So naturally, brewing follows the grinding process—after all, that's what everyone does. Yet, the resulting coffee often tastes astringent and bitter...
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