How to Make Pour Over Coffee with Ashley Moore

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[janetmoore]

I've used this method for over 20 years and prefer it to most other means. Yes, it does take time and yes, you do need to pay attention to the details, but if you are really interested in the final product rather than just a cup of java, it is worth it.

[Galiuros]

I've been using a Melitta cone and filters for almost twenty years. It's also the method I use while backpacking in the wilds. The result is consistent and always good. "Coffee should be served hot and black. Anything else is just a drink."

[vickieheather]

My favorite since college. Always use this method.

[longhairbear]

Love this, as my husband does pour over every day. I swap out different coffee makers for my morning brew. One is a pour over America's Stainless Kitchen Thermalloy Pluramelt coffee maker that is part of a complete set of stainless pots, and pans my mom got as a wedding gift in 1947. I have that set now. The top brewer pot has a water spreader, over a chamber with a stainless mesh filter disk. The original instructions say to bring water to a boil, and immeadiatly pour into upper pot, set entire double pot over low flame until all the coffee is drained. the results are heavenly.

[dianer]

I tried a Blue Bottle Dripper doing a blooming pour and this dump method.

I suggest going back to a bloom and the 4 multi pours circling from center out back to center, gee it takes about 1:40 minutes per Blur Bottle’s instructing.

What I got with a dump pour, at least in a wavy paper filter, was coffee grinds pushing to the sides, hidden in folds, water channeling down through the center, a weaker brew.

The slow circular pour was more smoother, balance, rich, and with the Blue Bottle dripper, sweet tasting.

The Kalita Wave 185 filters fits the Blue Bottle, or you can easily modify a cheap flat bottom filter to fit it, use a 1.5 mouth pill bottle or piece of PVC, doesn’t matter, push the bottom in to reshape it, with a wooden 1 inch dowel, to fit the round 4 cm dripper bottom, doesn’t need to be a neat job. Water added to the dripper, the filter will wet fit down fine into the dripper.

My only gripe is having to have a gooseneck kettle for circle pours,

Those stainless steel kettles from China, either they don’t clean the stainless steel well or they are overheating it when they weld them and and they rust.

Not cleaning it, heat too high removes some of the Chromium which causes the rusting out at the weld seams. Welding, which evey method, stainless steel right is tricky skilled stuff.

[joycesciola]

I love pour over coffee, I’ve used this method for over 20 years..thank you

[hollym]

Great video, thanks have been considering buying one of the new pots.

[RavenBlaze]

You can use a small sifter and your paper filter as well.

[Patback]

Time, temperature, and technique are important.

[flyfliker]

Been doing this pour over process for as long as i can remember. Mom used a chemex and I watched her. I use a single 12oz pour. Never thought about rinsing the paper filter prior, will give it a try.

[jimfererro]

You didn’t rinse the filter! Wetting the filter washes away the paper or cardboard taste. Discard the water from the rinse, then add the dose. Use a scale. 1:16 weight ratio. Easy to monitor by setting the vessel and filter stacked on a scale, tare it before adding the dose, then tare it again before adding the water. Three stages of the pour over. The bloom, the first pour, then a second pour. Look at your watch/clock/cell and shoot for 3 1/2 minutes for a 10 oz cup. And yes a burr grinder is easier to maintain a proper grind.

[gillibby]

Consider a finer grind for the beans for better flavor. Also, freshly roasted, 1-2 days, coffee beans proudce a foam that can be a quarter inch or more in heoght. Time and storage steal floavor from the beans.

[pokes]

Grind size is the single most important part and most never talk about that

[zefareu]

How is this different than just using the automatic coffee maker? Isn't this what the machine is doing anyway?

[Angelcatsun]

I’ve done our over for about 5 years. Love it because I don’t like coffee machines that get funky on the inside ... if you haven’t seen the videos of guys opening kurigs take a look

[Jam-mm]

I stir my pour over coffee in the blooming stage and then let it set or a while it intensifies the flavor

[HOLLAHfoDOLLAH]

Trying not to bash or hate. But I got anxiety with the blade grinder and the oily dark roast coffee.

[mattock]

Ardent coffee enthusiasts are probably screaming in pain from the moment they saw the blade grinder.

[jrep]

Expected more than this from you guys. I heat the water to a precis temperature of 88 degrees C, and i sure as H dont use a mixer grinder, that smashes and cuts unevenly and produces an uneven grind, big pieces and powder together. Use a real coffe grinder with ceramic grinding plates, so all the coffe grind is the same size.

[mofa]

0:45 if you don't have a funnel you can use a strainer.