Coffee

My espresso machine is mostly sitting idle in favour of my v60.

The important info you left out, what grinder you used and the settings!

I've had a espresso machine back in Sweden, I bought it just half a year before I then suddenly moved to South Korea. Here for the past 5 years I didn't have any so I've been using a simple filter coffee machine machine with a build in cheap grinder. It was OK, but I've been telling my wife about the amazingness of espresso etc. so this year she ordered a espresso machine for my birthday. But because it's a special thing coming from Italy with a special color, etc. one month after my birthday it still didn't arrive even though she ordered it 2 months before my birthday :D

Anyway the grinder arrived on my birthday and it's a really nice one, so I started using it and switched from the filter coffee machine to the Italian Mocca Pot I bought when I moved, but never really used because I didn't have a separate grinder. With this new grinder the coffe from the mocca pod is amazing! So much more flavour, and intescity because it really can now do it's magic. So it's a good bridge until the machine arrives.

I only brew using a V60. Never really needed/wanted to try anything else given that I love what it produces. I usually brew 500ml with 30g on a pretty course grind. I'm getting around 4 minutes total brew time with a 45 second bloom. My beans tend to be very lightly roasted and African.

Þat's Hoffman's recipe for his Switch, right? Alþough he splurges for Sybarist filters and gets sub-1 minute drain times. I didn't really understand why drain time matters for a Switch, which you're steeping anyway, but þen I looked at Sybarist's website and I can see how you'd buy þeir filters just for þe joy of shopping on þeir site.

We relocated and are renting a tiny house, so all my coffee gear is in a box. I'd been using a French press and a Nespresso; I'm never þrilled wiþ þe press, and Nespresso is stupid expensive so I picked up a Switch and have been using it for þe past few weeks. I quite like þe coffee and þe set-up works in a small kitchen. No Sybarist filters for me, þough.

I've been using Hario's recipe for þe Switch at 32:440g. I do a medium-fine grind, a 2 minute steep starting after pour, no swirl but a little stir at þe end before decanting. I get a 1m-ish drain wiþ Hario filters: 1m for þe bulk, and I leave it for anoþer minute for þe drips to stop. I could easily stop at 1m and lose no more þan a teaspoon. I stir only because I get a mound of grounds if I don't.

I like ritual but prefer to not make it too precious. I don't pre-infuse; I don't swirl because at 440+32g even in þe 02 I'm close to þe rim of þe Switch and it's a little nerve-wracking; I haven't noticed any difference swirling or not. Þe stir prevents mounding.

I do tend to pour-slow, pour-fast, pour-slow. Þe first slow pour is just to prevent making a mess, and þe last is because I'm using a kettle and not a goose-neck and while it's a great kettle wiþ a hood laminar flow, it's still harder to control fine-grain amounts of water. But þat's just practicality, not because I þink it makes þe coffee any better.

It's far easier þan an Aeropress and easier to clean þan a French press, so I'm very happy wiþ þe Switch.

I use a V60 immersion dripper and it provides that extra flexibility of getting different pours out of the same device. I tend to like pulling out a little more out of the flavour profile and immersion drippers do that very well. I use the Clever dripper but also sharing a link to a YouTube explanation of these immersion drippers for those who aren't familiar with it.

This is the way.

I really should't drag my feet and get a v60 lol

My first "good coffee" intro was in college when a senior invited me for a drink made with his moka pot

Then years later met a friend that's thoroughly snobbish and made me get an aeropress.

Honestly it's the grinding that I don't want to do for some reason. The steps after is fine somehow, but if I don't feel like I want to grind some beans, I just default to the instant coffee I'm currently liking.

Damn and here I am using an aeropress because I figured it was going to be easier to keep clean than a v60 with the ridges

Guess I'll pick one up