thanks for sharing. i have a lever machine too. after watching yours i have a few questions.
1) when you do the pre-infusion , the coffee starts dripping even before you apply pressure. is that good or bad ? in conventional sense it is not the way of doing it because you want your coffee to be extracted evenly at ~9bar of pressure. However there's a modern way of brewing called pressure profiling which encourages variation of pressure throughout the extraction. did you do that in purpose ?
Hello! I'm glad that this has been of some help! First, I always fresh-grind beans for the day, I just store them in a airtight can for convenience. Secondly, I've noticed if the drips occur before lever pressure, it signifies a loose tamp-- it has been tough for me to tamp it perfect every time so I use the rate of dripping as an indicator of when to use the lever and with how much pressure I'll need, I suppose it's my own way of pressure profiling, albeit unconventional.
2) why dont you fresh-grind the beans ?
nylchan 7 months ago
thanks for sharing. i have a lever machine too. after watching yours i have a few questions.
1) when you do the pre-infusion , the coffee starts dripping even before you apply pressure. is that good or bad ? in conventional sense it is not the way of doing it because you want your coffee to be extracted evenly at ~9bar of pressure. However there's a modern way of brewing called pressure profiling which encourages variation of pressure throughout the extraction. did you do that in purpose ?
nylchan 7 months ago
@nylchan
Hello! I'm glad that this has been of some help! First, I always fresh-grind beans for the day, I just store them in a airtight can for convenience. Secondly, I've noticed if the drips occur before lever pressure, it signifies a loose tamp-- it has been tough for me to tamp it perfect every time so I use the rate of dripping as an indicator of when to use the lever and with how much pressure I'll need, I suppose it's my own way of pressure profiling, albeit unconventional.
goodsandsrvcs 7 months ago