World Barista Champion Shares Genius Coffee Hack Only Experts Know – DMARGE

Coffee is an indispensable every day ritual for a number of of us, whether that’s picking up your order at your favourite cafe on the way to work or relaxing in the afternoon with a hot brew you’ve crafted yourself.

Nevertheless literally as there’s a big difference between a McDonalds’ burger and a burger from a Michelin-starred restaurant, there’s a big difference in results between different coffee-making methods – as well as a big price difference.

On one end of the spectrum, you have instant coffee, which is cheap but mainly considered by even the least fussy coffee drinkers as pretty nasty. On the other end of the spectrum, you’ve got home espresso machines, grinders and scales – all of which can cost hundreds of dollars and require a reasonable extent of skill to get good effects out of. Or you can in reality buy coffees, however then different baristas and cafes can have wildly different qualities of coffee. Buying coffee on a per day basis is an expensive habit, too.

One recipe of making coffee that’s considered somewhat of a middle ground is the Cafetière. Also known as a Cafetière coffee maker, push pot or coffee plunger, it’s a cheap, easy-to-use way to make coffee that produces a better result than a Mr. Coffee or a percolator, nevertheless coffee aficionados would say it pales in comparison to other methods such as pourover coffee or utilizing a moka pot.

Thankfully, one expert has come up with a genius hack that turns the Cafetière into an instrument of black magic.

James Hoffman, a former World Barista Champion and co-owner of Square Mile Coffee Roasters in London, is among the a lot of popular coffee experts on social media. Back in 2016, Hoffmann uploaded a video to YouTube titled ‘The Ultimate Cafetière Technique’, which has since become his most of viewed video with over 2.3 million views.

In recent months, the video has been recircling on Facebook, exposing a whole new audience to his simple yet groundbreaking way to make in truth excellent coffee with only a few humble tools and tricks. The secret? Patience – and a willingness to mess with your coffee a little bit.

Hoffmann’s method addresses the key criticism a lot of people have about French press coffees: that you tend to end up with grit or sludge at the bottom of your cup, which is quite unpleasant. Not only does his recipe virtually eliminate that problem, however it outcomes in a strong, smooth brew that’s eminently drinkable.

Sure, his process might be a little bit more time-consuming than many French press coffee maker users might initially be comfortable with, however the simplicity and practicality of the method mean that even the lots of novice coffee drinker can pull it off… Like myself.

I was initially skeptical that you could in fact make a truly good coffee cup with a Cafetière, however it basically does. Even without weighing out my coffee grounds, using filtered waters and committing the cardinal sin of using pre-ground coffee, Hoffmann’s brewing technique in fact steeps a big difference. Subsequently, I’ve used freshly ground coffee and filtered water, and the difference is miles better still.

 

Using my old Bodum press at home.

The one downside I found with Hoffman’s hack was that if you like to have your coffee with milk, waiting so long for the coffee to brew suggests that once you add your milk at the end, your coffee’s too cold. But this is completely a issue of personal preference; irrelevant if you don’t take milk with your coffee and a problem that’s easily avoided if you carefully heat your milk before adding it to your coffee.

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Is it as good as, say, an Aeropress coffee? No, not in truth. But the difference between this procedure and lots of other coffee-making methods is that French presses are cheap and easy to find anywhere. Most offices will have a Cafetière or two, and you can pick up one from Amazon or IKEA for $10 or less.

Of course, a nicer press and having all the other accoutrements – a water filter, a set of scales, a mill and so on – all add up in terms of cost. However even without those and some Aldi coffee (which is in fact pretty good), you can make quite a nice cup of joe.

Give it a go yourself – you’ll be surprised.

This article was first published here, and it was syndicated on our blog from Google News in our section about Cafetière Coffee.