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What is the optimal brewing time for pour-over coffee? Causes and solutions for slow drip rates
Brewing time for pour-over coffee is not a parameter that can be actively and precisely controlled. It serves more as an indicator to test whether your other parameter combinations are reasonable. In other words, if you can control the brewing time properly with minimal variation, it indicates that your parameters are appropriate and your technique is consistent. During extraction...
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Why is Espresso Extraction Pressure 9 Bar? How Does It Relate to Extraction Parameters and How to Adjust?
FrontStreet Coffee often says that once we understand the relationship between espresso extraction parameters, a delicious espresso is practically effortless (slight exaggeration). These extraction parameters include grind size, dose amount, brew ratio, and extraction time. But did you know? There's actually another parameter that's quite important as well
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Do Different Drippers Require Different Pour-Over Methods? What's the Ideal Extraction Time for Brewing Coffee?
A friend recently raised a question. He's been a long-time follower of FrontStreet Coffee's articles and pays close attention to brewing parameters. He noticed that FrontStreet Coffee recommends a 2-minute brewing time in their articles, but when he uses the parameters suggested by FrontStreet Coffee, his actual brewing time always exceeds 2 minutes, landing around 2 minutes and 30 seconds.
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What is the Ideal Extraction Time for an Espresso Machine? Requirements for Standard Espresso Coffee
When brewing any type of coffee, one parameter is unavoidable: extraction time. Compared to other brewing methods, espresso has much stricter time requirements. This is because espresso extraction is relatively short, and even a difference of one second can create significant variations. Therefore, extraction time is crucial for
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Causes of Inconsistent Espresso Extraction - Does Espresso Grinder Bean Hopper Pressure Affect Coffee Flavor?
This situation is particularly noticeable in busy coffee shops. After completing all morning preparations, filling the bean hopper, and adjusting the day's espresso extraction parameters, as espresso extraction volume increases, you'll notice the flow rate becomes faster and extraction time is several seconds shorter than the planned parameters. Normally, a stable reference point is expected...
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Espresso Extraction Parameters Guide: How Much Coffee, Time, and Temperature for Perfect Espresso
Introduction Just like pour-over coffee, extraction parameters have a significant impact on the flavor expression of espresso. Especially with espresso, slight variations in the amount of coffee grounds used, extraction time, pressure, and other factors can amplify certain flavors in the espresso, potentially leading to excessive acidity, bitterness, or burnt notes... Therefore, understanding espresso extraction parameters is truly crucial
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Pour-Over Coffee Basics: Grind Size/Water Temperature/Technique/Ratio—Which Parameter Matters Most?
Many readers visit FrontStreet Coffee after finishing our articles, and they take the opportunity to discuss various coffee brewing questions they've encountered, especially regarding pour-over parameters. Once, a friend asked FrontStreet Coffee a thought-provoking question: With so many parameters affecting pour-over coffee, which one is truly the most important? The reason this friend raised this question was...
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What is the Best Water Temperature for Brewing Guanxi Coffee? Hand Brewing Techniques for Guanxi Coffee
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). Recently, while adjusting a newly arrived washed Ethiopian Sidamo Guanxi coffee, I fixed the pre-first-crack curve and then only changed the length of the development stage and bean drop temperature to see how this affects the flavor profile.
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What are the extraction standards for espresso? How to adjust espresso grinding ratio parameters
A friend saw FrontStreet Coffee's shared espresso recipe and tried extracting coffee at home. However, they didn't achieve the desired taste and returned to FrontStreet Coffee to discuss this issue. Therefore, FrontStreet Coffee is taking this opportunity to share with everyone how to judge espresso during practical operation. First of all, any data is just
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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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How Long Should Hand-Drip Coffee Extraction Take? What's the Normal Extraction Time for Pour-Over Coffee? Must the Brewing Time Be Exactly Two Minutes?
When brewing coffee, time is the only extraction parameter that cannot be precisely controlled directly, as it is the result constructed by the combination of various other parameters. This also means that time can serve as a standard for measuring other parameters. So theoretically, as long as you can control the brewing time,
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What's the Right Coffee Powder to Water Ratio for Brewing? Expert Guide to Pour-Over Coffee Parameters
The coffee powder to water ratio is one of the most crucial parameters in pour-over coffee brewing. Simply put, with a fixed amount of coffee grounds, there exists an optimal water quantity that can perfectly express the coffee's flavor profile. Therefore, mastering how to find the right coffee ratio is an essential part of learning coffee brewing. What aspects of coffee does the powder-to-water ratio affect?
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Espresso Extraction Standards: The Espresso-to-Milk Ratio in Latte Coffee
Professional coffee knowledge exchange and more coffee bean information, please follow the Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account cafe_style). Espresso (in Italian, espresso, also called espresso) is essentially an infusion method using a precision metal filter. Compared with gravity infusion, the biggest difference is pressure
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Why Coffee Machine Coffee Isn't Strong & Why Espresso Needs Daily Calibration
"Why do we need to calibrate espresso extraction parameters every day? It's the same batch of coffee beans, the same machine, the same extraction plan, so shouldn't everything remain constant?" Actually, things do change! You might not notice it in just a day or two, but by the time you do discover the problem, who knows how many customers have already been served unpleasant coffee~
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Espresso Extraction Time Parameters Espresso Extraction Pressure Adjustment Tutorial
Espresso extraction method begins: First, remove the portafilter from the espresso machine. (Two important points to note: First, keep the portafilter locked in the group head to maintain temperature - don't place it on the cup warmer or elsewhere, as a cold portafilter during brewing will lower the water temperature and affect the coffee's flavor. Second, ensure
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What Factors Affect Coffee Brewing Time? How Long Does Hand-Drip Coffee Typically Take?
Extraction time is a crucial parameter for hand-drip coffee, but unlike other parameters, it cannot be set independently. Instead, it relies on the interplay of various factors that influence extraction time to achieve an optimal range. Therefore, whether the extraction time is appropriate also reflects the reasonableness of these parameters. So what are the factors that affect extraction time
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Espresso Extraction Tutorial: Parameter Adjustment and How to Judge Good Espresso
For those who run coffee shops, you probably understand the feeling of tasting espresso until exhaustion every morning, unable to achieve your desired flavor despite反复调整磨豆机. Outsiders might envy baristas for having endless coffee, but only those in the industry know the true struggle... Perhaps FrontStreet Coffee can offer everyone some small insights.
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Can You Re-brew Under-extracted Pour-Over Coffee? Four Key Parameters for Perfect Pour-Over!
Pour-over coffee has become part of most people's daily routine, whether at home or in the office. Whenever there's a moment to spare, coffee enthusiasts will brew a pot. However, frequent brewing inevitably leads to occasional mishaps, with coffee that's too strong or too weak being common "culprits" of these brewing disasters.
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Do Different Pour-Over Drippers Require Different Brewing Frameworks?
Yesterday, a friend who visited our shop raised an interesting question: "Do different pour-over drippers require different brewing parameters or methods?" After some conversation, I learned that this is because FrontStreet Coffee frequently recommends in our articles to control the pour-over coffee brewing time to around two minutes. However, although this friend uses FrontStreet Coffee's
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What Are the Advantages of Hand-Drip Coffee Stirring and Blooming Method? How to Use the Crazy Barista's Stirring Technique?
In the brewing process of hand-drip coffee, we continuously stir the coffee grounds by circling water injection, aiming to increase the dissolution rate of flavor substances. Compared to most other extraction methods, the parameters used in making hand-drip coffee are not so extreme, so it requires constant water flow to enhance extraction efficiency.
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