UNDERRATED: 3 Coffee Accessories I Can't Live Without
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- Опубліковано 22 кві 2024
- They don't get enough love, but these coffee accessories will make everything easier.
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Aeropress Lid: aeropress.com/products/aeropr...
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CURRENTLY ON MY BREW BAR
☕️ FILTER
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Burrs (for filter grinder) amzn.to/3FVgMeB
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🚀 ESPRESSO
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Trad. espresso grinder: amzn.to/3Kb9EgI
Machine: www.breville.com/us/en/produc...
Mini scale: amzn.to/3lBKcri
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TDS pen 1: amzn.to/4b22kix
TDS pen 2: amzn.to/3JxUYHq
Vacuum Cleaner: amzn.to/3w7jZG5
Aeropress Lid: aeropress.com/products/aeropress-go-mug-decorative-lid?variant=43659664785651
Plus my favorite espresso accessories here: coffeechronicler.com/espresso-machine-tools-and-accessories/
I installed a "glass rinser" in my kitchen - like the ones you will see in bars. You press the glass down and it shoots strong streams of water inside to do a quick rinse/clean. It helps SOOO much the cleaning everything out after a brew. I Love it.
I used to have that as well. It's such a nice touch!
I take my coffee to work ground in a little jar that fits in my aeropress go. To get it in the jar i made a funnel out of a paper filter.
Here are a couple for me: 1) Liquid absorbing mat for any spills (yes, clean it once in awhile!) 2) Air blower (ones made for cameras) to help blow out retention in hand and electric grinders.
The vacuum cleaner throw me for a loop, but I get it.
One hidden feature of the Aeropress lid that makes it even more perfect for dosing, is the fact that it weighs exactly 50.0g. very convenient for the times that you forget to tare your scale and start pouring beans
True! Forgot to mention that. It's almost too perfect.
I bought a small stainless steel sauceboat at a kitchen supply store for measuring the beans and transferring to my grinder
I use a small paper cup as a bean doser, works wonderfully. I usually get a stamped one from a local cafe so it also looks nice.
4" Behr interior paint brush; so very handy for cleaning the coffee counter where the hand vac can't reach.
Great list. Since you mentioned the vacuum cleaner, I can also recommend getting a small electric air compressor / blower. I keep finding use cases for it, it's especially useful to clean your hand grinders. No need to take it a part or anything, you just take it outside and blow it clean.
I recently got a dedicated bean doser. Worth it. I was using a cheap demitasse for a while and because the mouth was too wide, I would occasionally drop some beans. My favorite accessory right now is a tamping box w/ a drawer and spot for my tamper. It has kept my countertop a bit more organized, and espresso pucks don't mold and stick onto the bottom of the knock box like my Breville Mini did
I like to use a silicone muffin cup for dosing beans--works just like the lid :)
Good idea, probably a lot cheaper as well :)
My two favourite items:
1. my selfmade dwt tool from a champagne cork fitted with 3d printer cleaning needles. Inexpensive and works magic!
2. The comandante jar. I use it both to weigh out beans and to store ground coffee when taking it to work. This way I don’t have to worry about a scale at work as I know up to where I need to fill my aeropress up to have a decent brew ratio.
Love this video. Quite though-provoking. A few unsung heroes on my coffee bar (UA-cam doesn't allow links in comments ☹ Sorry.)
1. Silicone pinch bowls (available on Amazon) for dosing. Made for cooking. They come in different colors, so you know who you're dosing for. Usually sold in packs of four. Get the larger ones. IMHO- better and cheaper than the Aeropress caps.
2. Stainless steel stir sticks (also available on Amazon) for pourovers. I've broken quite a few glass ones, so I've turned to stainless. Made for stirring cocktails.
3. Rubber bar/coffee mat (also available on Amazon) for drying. Great for drying coffee gear after use and leaving out on the countertop for future use. I like the ones with the little fingers sticking up, such by S&T Inc.
4. Not on my bar, but useful = 3 cu ft (85 liter) stand-along (dorm-size) freezer. Great for freezing beans in vacuum sealed containers. Tired of my wife complaining about my taking over part of the freezer for beans, so I got my own freezer. Quiet. Compact. And MINE.
Keep up the good work!
Great tips! I also have 2 and 3. And keep debating with myself whether I should get #4 😄
@@coffeechronicler - go for a small freezer! You'll never look back!
I pour beans into my hand grinder with the dry filter I weigh the beans in. Then I do my wetting of the filter.
I’m up here in Laguna Beach and recently purchased a TDS meter and was shocked to find our water at 500 ppm. I was using a Brita filter but immediately switched over to bottled water for my coffee
I use the lid from my old Baratza grinder (I now use the Fellow Ode2) to weigh beans and drop into a grinder. The lid is less useful to use with a manual grinder because it is so wide. But using it with the Fellow is great as it is wide enough to also give the beans a quick inspection for stones before dropping into the Fellow.
Instead of the lid i use an elastic children bowl for dosing. I totally agree, the ability to bend it to whatever you need is simply great for dosing.
Interesting about the lid, ever since Hendon et. al told us to wet the beans a lot more I have been searching for a good vessel that will prevent the beans from getting stuck...
A small double-sided brush for dusting off the grinds catcher. Remarkably useful.
Biggest and cheapest livesaver is a sheet of newspaper. Put it in the empty knockbox and it will make cleaning so easy.
Also special shout-out to anti vibration feet/mattress from washing machines to put under the grinder. Helped in my case against noise (mazzer major)
Good one!
newspaper idea is genius!
Wacaco pipamoka is pretty great for my work needs. It doesn't use any filter paper and you can buy extra baskets for it.
Also, it comes with a ring for pouring grounds into the basket and that ring fits perfectly on the hopper of my X-Ultra
Although kinda crude ive used a small baking sheet pan under my knock box and grinder. U use a puddy knive to scape up grounds. You can find stainless steel sheet pans to class it up bit but think i will get vacumm
I need a little vacuum cleaner for sure
Thanks for the tip about a portable vacuum cleaner. I hadn't thought of that. My favorite gadget, though it's not as much a gadget as a product that will need to be replaced, is "canned air," the same as used for cleaning computer keyboards and such. It makes cleaning a grinder a whole lot easier as it will blow fines out of the last hard to get grooves and channels.
Be careful with the type of compressed air you use. Lots of compressed air cans have a bitter agent to prevent people from using it to get high (yes, it's a thing), so it's not suitable to use it on a grinder, as it can get into your beans. I've never used compressed air, but I've read some comments about it on Reddit. I prefer a manual air blower, and got mine as a makeup accessory; it was way cheaper than the same thing but targeted as a coffee gadget. 🙃
Like in Spaceballs?
@@cybrcow 🤣 Perri air
I am careful and, as a secondary process, after I clean everything manually, I run cleaning pellets like Grindz through the grinder, then follow that up with old coffee. I've never had an issue with that.
I use the little plastic tamper thing from my Flair neo as a dosing device for my ESP even though I don't use the Flair anymore. I suppose a 35mm film canister would do as well though, lol.
I like your videos. Very down to earth. I’ve got an aeropress go, so I’ll give the lid a try as a doser. I’ve also been using your switch recipe with great success depending on the beans. I tried cupping my current beans to get a baseline flavour profile, but I think your switch recipe brings out more flavour with these particular beans.
TDS: Bottled water in France has to carry a TDS breakdown. I get one with 3 mg calcium per litre, which is the lowest I've heard of. Some of them have nearly 500 mg.
Vacuum cleaner: I put a sheet of kitchen paper down on the working surface and do everything on that, then roll it up, use it to clean the shower screen and bin it once done.
Dosing cup: I use a glass.
You’re better off getting a water titration kit than a TDS meter. They’re generally cheap, come with 50 or 100 test strips and will actually give you a useful breakdown of your water rather than TDS will is relatively useless other than just knowing an approximate range as you said.
Drop kits, test kits and TDS meters each have their own use case. For every day use, the TDS meter is hands down faster and more efficient. Let's say you're blending a known mineral water with RO: Are you gonna count drops or compare light blue vs "slightly darker" light blue in the early morning before you had your first cup of coffee? Or just look at a number that reads in 1 second? I know what I'd prefer :)
@@coffeechronicler that’s true, for specific situations like that it’s a great option. I meant that a titration kit is more widely usable for testing tap water, that’s all.
Nice accessory picks! All very useful, especially the silicone lid for dosing. I also love your accent :3
Water! Yes! But: These TDS meters are usually pretty inaccurate unfortunately. Honestly I´d rather get a bag of coffee for the 13 bucks this TDS pen costs. Bean dosing vessel: I use a repurposed glass jar which was meant for candles. Or a Comandate jar, which I own a handful of anyway.
WDT Tool, a brush to clean the grinder, Melodrip, Aeropress funnel, ...
I see this type of comment about TDS-meters once in a while.... but my experience with this particular one is that it's surprisingly consistent in its reading and a lot more convenient than any alternatives there might be out there.
For example, I'm very likely to take several readings with a coffee sample in a refractometer and get different readings each time. But this one will usually show the same. So if I want to get a general idea of a bottle of water or local tap water source - I trust this.
Weirdly I use the aeropress cup that the lid goes on for dosing my pour overs and always have.
What about brush. I think it's indispensable even when we already have the vacuum
Tusen tack för denna videon! Inte alla som tar sig tiden att göra något sånt här, men det är precis lika värdefullt som en typisk high end gadget review 🙂
Tack!
Tack så mycket :)
Will you be making a video about the shaker?? We need one!
Maybe... Probably :)
Will you be reviewing Fellow's new Aiden coffee brewer soon?
Haven't heard anything from Fellow (yet) so maybe you should ask them instead :)
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I dose my coffee with a rice cooker cup. 😂
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How many grams of beans will the Aeropress lid hold?
Around 40 g - more than that and it's tricky to do the diagonal fold
What tds level do you prefer. I hear people use 2/3 or 1/2 Third Wave water.
Check out my video about Advanced pour over tips, I talk about TDS there. I'd also start with diluting TWW.
@@coffeechronicler thanks. I will.
I quite enjoy TWW @ 35TDS, so ~23% strength compared to their ridiculous 150TDS recommendation
@@RegrinderAlert thanks!
Third Wave Water packet dissolved in a gallon of RO water plugs up a pour over like Hoop or a drip filter. Plain RO water … smooth drip!
what is this manhattan roast tho lol
Hehe, I sometimes store my own espresso roasts in random leftover bags. This might not be something they want to be associated with LOL
@coffeechronicler I used to do this but wondered if the old remnants and smell could taint the beans (?) so I moved to jars. Anything else you use?
@@nickabrams1111 I also use reuse big ziplock bag as well as tupperware. You can wash the bags and let them dry over night. For the regular coffee bags, just hold your thumb over the valve, so it doesn't get messed up.
my girldfriends ceramic cup is pretty high up there