I am currently using 40g coffee to 500g water which is 12.5g coffee to 1g water but I have seen things like this https://www.olympiacoffee.com/blogs/blog/how-to-brew-like-olympia-coffee#:~:text=For those of you who,use 16.7 grams of water. which suggest using a little more. Does it even matter to adjust the ratio precisely if I don’t have a precision grinder and am using a Krups blade grinder? I am trying to get things as precise as possible.
- UTJD16 ( @UTJD16@lemmy.world ) English3•1 year ago
Depends on the recipe I’m using, but generally between 1:15 and 1:17 grams coffee:water. I use a manual conical burr (1zpresso KMax) for my pour overs.
- NotTheVacuum ( @NotTheVacuum@lemmy.world ) English3•1 year ago
I started with 60g/L scaled down to a 28g dose because it’s a good amount of brewed coffee for me and it means a bag of 12oz coffee is 12 cups with a little cushion. That works out to 466g (or ml) of water, but I have found I like it slightly better closer to 450g.
- pimeys ( @pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io ) English3•1 year ago
With blade grinder, ratio has an effect but the grind quality is definitely effecting more. I go with the 16.7 ratio for years with coarse grind and the coffee is really good every morning.
I’d suggest getting a good burr grinder. That has the biggest effect for getting a quality cup every morning.
Which burr grinder is a whole thread worth of a topic and hand crank vs automatic too
- smokelessndepressed ( @smokelessndepressed@lemmy.world ) English3•1 year ago
I’m enjoying the V60 recipe from the last James Hoffmann book (The best coffee at home). 60 gr per liter. I experienced a lot with other recipes and ratios during the past few years, but this one is super easy to reproduce and makes great coffee every time you are awake enough to follow a 3 step guide. 😪
Does it even matter to adjust the ratio precisely if I don’t have a precision grinder and am using a Krups blade grinder?
Yes. Your coffee uniformity and your ratio are different things. You should check this video from the one and only Mr Hoffmann.
In any case, if you are enjoying your pourovers, you may want to invest in a better but cheap hand grinder. Timemore makes great products at an affordable price.- pixiecata ( @pixiecata@lemmy.world ) English2•1 year ago
Same here, or 15g for 225ml water per cup. I use a Timemore C2 grinder.
- smokelessndepressed ( @smokelessndepressed@lemmy.world ) English2•1 year ago
I have the old C2 with the plastic wheel and it’s an excellent grinder tbh. I think I paid around 50€ and it’s more than enough from a hobbyist perspective.
- pixiecata ( @pixiecata@lemmy.world ) English3•1 year ago
I upgraded the plastic parts to metal parts last year. Very happy with that decision.
Well yes I very much know I need to upgrade, but to what? I am usually making cups for 1 to 2 people so 500-1000ml. Actually nvm, I am using a Fellow kettle so it only holds 900ml
- infraredcactus ( @infraredcactus@feddit.de ) English2•1 year ago
It depends. I bought a good but not really fast hand grinder (commandante c40) and despite myself being lazy I really like it for single person pour overs, which I do most of the time since my SO doesn’t drink coffee. However, when I have guests and need to grind a bigger dose (>30g), I get a little bit annoyed at how much work it is. So I’d probably recommend getting an electric grinder if you do those portions all the time.
My uncle thought his Hario Skerton Pro and siphon setup was elite, I just thought it took ages.
- smokelessndepressed ( @smokelessndepressed@lemmy.world ) English2•1 year ago
Ok, those are big cups. I usually made around 250 to 300ml of coffee. Timemore and 1zpresso have big grinders now, you may want one of those. I bought a C2 a few years ago and even though I have a good electric grinder, the Timemore is miles better and because it doesn’t make almost any noise, I can make coffee early in the morning.
In my case, I am the only one at home that drinks coffee so I rarely need more than 25g.thanks for the rec yeah I like it strong but maybe I should just be brewing less coffee
- Ilmi ( @mifilmi@lemmy.world ) English1•1 year ago
I’m using 60g/L, the best ratio in my opinion. I grind it using Timemore C2 and brew it using Hario Switch.
- relicax ( @relicax@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
I typically go 18g coffee for 300g water with a finer grind. Stolen from James Hoffman’s recent v60 recipe. Before that I was doing 20g to 300 with a bit coarser grind but a similar process to what Hoffman describes.
- Whooping_Seal ( @Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.works ) English1•1 year ago
I personally do a 20g:300ml for hot coffee or 20g: ~320ml for iced coffee (only approximate because of the ice cubes)
So that ends up being a 15ml per 1g
Also i think you mixed up coffee and water in your post, isn’t it 12.5g water to 1g coffee.
Does it even matter to adjust the ratio precisely if I don’t have a precision grinder and am using a Krups blade grinder? I am trying to get things as precise as possible.
Consistency allows for reproducible results but there’s diminishing returns at a certain point. My grinder is the type that has a big hopper and runs for χ amount of seconds and I don’t notice a difference even though it can be up to 1g up or down.
- Evkob ( @Evkob@lemmy.ca ) English1•1 year ago
Like most basic entry-level coffee nerds, I do whatever James Hoffman tells me to, so I use ~15g of coffee to 250g of water (which is equivalent to the 1 to 16.7 ratio suggested in your link).
I think it’s still worth playing around with ratios regardless of grinder, it definitely could still make a substantial difference in your cup. However, switching to a decent burr grinder would be a massive difference both in quality of results, but (perhaps more importantly) reproducibility. Blade grinders make it harder to achieve the same grind size every time, and even within a single dose the ground consistency won’t be great.
A caveat I’d like to add: blades are known to produce a lot of fines, which causes higher extraction. So maybe the lower-than-typical ratio you’ve ended up on “compensates” a bit for the high extraction. At the end of the day though, remember: who cares what some website/James Hoffman/random Fediverse users have to say? Do you like the coffee you make?