Melitta vs Hario V60

Here we review two popular pour over methods. The Hario V60 and the Melitta. Check the Links below. Thanks! Subscribe mkay!

[mthivier]

The Melitta pour-over is the most perfect (and idiot-proof) method, and it makes the best cup of coffee. Over the last 40-odd years, I've tried literally EVERY method of coffee making (French press, standard issue drip machines, old school percolators -- which I would NOT recommend -- wacky microwave contraptions, etc.), but I always end up going back to the Melitta, because there is nothing better. They're super-cheap, and they make a perfect cup of coffee every time.

[orrinbelcher]

Super great review, the Melitta filter cone, great value, thankyou for showing truth in the Melitta quality cup of coffee that so often overlooked.

[ryanmelander]

I started pour over off a whim when I saw a the same Melitta for $4 at Fry's. I have since switched to Hario for a couple years and after upgrading my grinder ( Cuisinart burr to Breville dose control pro) revisited the Melitta. I was surprised to find that Melitta had a much better taste than the Hario. I found the sweet spot for grind size (bigger grind size for Melitta) to get the 2.5 to 3 minute brew time. The Melitta is much more consistent for each brew. The Hario just made me question myself all the time if the result differed.
I also use a 16:1 ratio.
Thanks for the honest review.

[rjltrevisan]

Nice to know it, because Melitta is omnipresent here in Brazil, 99% of coffee here is pour over using Melitta filters and filter holders. Few know other methods here, except for the cloth filter which older people and people from the countryside still use.

[sjb]

Very helpful. You reinforced my thoughts on the superiority of the Melitta. James Hoffman had me looking at the V60, but that hole . . . Thank you.

[fortyoneshades]

Sweet! Helped me decide on getting the Melitta! Filters are more readily available too!

[lizcademy]

I'm an old bird ... started using a Melitta in the early 1990s after breaking too many Chemexes. Never bothered with Third Wave technique, just made the family pot of coffee every morning.
In 2012 I bought an Aeropress, focused on improving my methods and made some nice coffee. Until late 2019, when the plastic cylinders crazed ... in desperation, I broke out my "Grandma Melitta" — and was shocked at how good the coffee was!
I'm still using Grandma, and improving the rest of my gear and technique. And moving from very good coffee to sublime.

By the way, Melitta was the first name of the woman who invented the device.

[capedoryus]

Melitta had the alternative coffee market locked up. Was not a big market, pre Starbucks. Great to see some Melitta love. I used to travel for work with a ball jar, two immersible plug in heaters, a grinder and my Melitta. This was when even nice hotels were serving Robusta shit coffee. Love my Melitta. Made two cross country motorcycle trips and never had to worry about breaking it. It's the best. Thanks for doing this video. Seems now your coffee apparatus has to cost more than as tank of gas before you see a review.

[englematics]

Seems to me that the optimal grind for the Hario and the Melita is different. Maybe the Hario would perform better with a slightly finer grind.

[ecrosland]

I have a Melitta pourover brewer that's identical to the one in this video. I got it for $5 at the grocery store before I really knew anything at all about brewing pourover coffee.

Fast forward a year, and I'm watching a lot of videos about coffee culture, and how to really achieve a great cup of coffee with different pourover brewers. In all of this up until now, I had just assumed that my little Melitta was looked down upon by anyone who knows more about coffee than I do, since I never saw it featured alongside brewers like the V60, the Origami, the Kalita Wave, or what have you.

So I must say I'm a little pleasantly surprised to hear that this man prefers a cup from the Melitta to one from the venerable V60. It gives me to think that perhaps after all I can focus more on experimenting with grind size, water temperature, and brew ratio, rather than try a huge variety of upscale pourover brewers in search of the perfect cup.

[bartleby]

Great review! Longer brew makes stronger taste. In Germany we have been raised with the Melitta filter but ours is out of porcelain. Today Hario is prefered by young hipsters because Melitta is the grandma style to make coffee. But our grandmothers knew how to make coffee! They celebrated coffee.

[SquidandCatAdventures]

Yes, nice to see this. Not only are the Melitta cones super cheap and available all over, filters are also super cheap. Also, for a brew that's easy and fast to do in the morning when you're trying to get ready and everything, I think it's very forgiving - i do the initial bloom, but after that, I dump the rest of the water in quickly and it all brews in there for a while anyway, so I'd argue there will be more even brewing than if I was sitting over it pouring in circles.

[thsc]

I've enjoyed Melitta pour over coffee for decades. It's a great, no millennially-overthought hoity-toity way to brew coffee. Just a dependably great cup every day. I also brew with an Aeropress and Moka Pot, depending on what I feel like drinking. But the first cup of the day is always from a Melitta.

[bluesfool]

Shouldn’t you have rinsed/ pre-wet the filter first to eliminate the flavors of the filters? I’ve been using the malita for years but have ordered both the v60 and a ss kalita 155. Try em all and appreciate the differences🥰

[billisnice]

I think the Melitta pour-over is more forgiving than the V60.

[bakkermaarten]

Also nice to mention that the Melitta pour-over comes in ceramic versions too. Just for those worried about plastic taste.

[Anthony-kjdi]

The Melitta is a wonderful brewing method. But is funny how some hipsters in the comments forget that at one point in history, the Melitta was also something new and strange. If back then everyone had rejected Melitta Bentz new ideas, you wouldn't had this beautiful coffee maker in your kitchen.

[patriotcam]

The mellita was 5 bucks at the store. I may be pretentious in my coffee but I'm not spending a ton of money on a funnel

[loriosterweil]

I like the Melitta too, but I was wondering that since you just roasted the beans the day before, maybe they should have had a resting period.

[elcapitanian]

The Melitta works best with a light roast like the one you used. The beauty of the Melitta is that you can make the same cup of coffee all the time since the brewer determines the pour rate. Since it takes longer to brew in the Melitta than a brewer like the Hario, if you pour both at the same rate, a light roast will be extracted to almost perfect flavor. For medium or dark roast then the Hario and correct pouring technique wins every time.