The Ultimate AeroPress Technique (Episode #3) — Transcript

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1. 0:00- In this video, I'm gonna be talking
2. 0:01through my recommended AeroPress technique.
3. 0:04Now this is a technique
4. 0:05that I think will be a great default technique.
5. 0:07You may want to vary from this,
6. 0:09you might want to do other things.
7. 0:10I would recommend exploring the world of AeroPresses
8. 0:12but this is a technique designed
9. 0:14to do sort of the least amount necessary to get
10. 0:17to fantastic coffee reliably every single time.
11. 0:21A technique designed to set you up for success
12. 0:24whenever you brew coffee with your AeroPress.
13. 0:26So let's start at the beginning
14. 0:27with the recipe or ratio that I would recommend
15. 0:30and this, immediately, has a little bit of choice.
16. 0:34I'm using a light roasted coffee
17. 0:35and I like a high extraction here
18. 0:37that will give me quite a strong cup with a lower ratio.
19. 0:40So I'm using 55 grams per liter
20. 0:43or in this brew: 11 grams to 200 grams of water.
21. 0:46Darker roasts, you may not want to extract
22. 0:48to the same extent so I might recommend 60
23. 0:50or 65 grams a liter
24. 0:52and not extracting quite as much from it.
25. 0:54In terms of setting up your AeroPress, not much to do.
26. 0:57Pull your plunger out, put a paper into the paper holder,
27. 1:02there's no need to rinse your filter paper here,
28. 1:04pop it in, lock it in and place it on top
29. 1:07of whatever you're gonna brew into.
30. 1:08You don't have to brew into a carafe.
31. 1:10You can brew into a mug, cup,
32. 1:11whatever you like as long as it's pretty sturdy
33. 1:13'cause you're gonna be pressing on it in a second.
34. 1:15Now, let's talk about grind size.
35. 1:17For this brew, I'm actually grinding really pretty fine,
36. 1:19finer that I would even brew for, say, a pour over.
37. 1:22So getting a little bit closer
38. 1:23to that kind of nearly espresso range.
39. 1:26If you're using a medium or darker roasted coffee,
40. 1:28you may not want to grind this fine.
41. 1:30It will certainly increase your extraction
42. 1:32and strength but it may not taste good.
43. 1:34So there's no one answer on grind size here.
44. 1:37I'm gonna load this coffee into the AeroPress
45. 1:40and I'm gonna boil my water.
46. 1:41Now, one more note on water temperature.
47. 1:43Again, with lighter roasts,
48. 1:45you can go all the way up to boiling
49. 1:46and I would recommend that, however,
50. 1:48for medium or darker roasts,
51. 1:50I would drop my temperature the darker the roast is.
52. 1:53For a really dark roast, I'd be brewing even
53. 1:55under 90 degrees Celsius, down maybe at 85.
54. 1:58For a medium roast, 90 to 95 might be a sweet spot
55. 2:01if you have a temperature-controlled kettle.
56. 2:04Start your timer then you're gonna add 200 grams of water.
57. 2:08Try and get the coffee wet as quickly as you can
58. 2:10as you pour and if it's all wet just pour in the middle
59. 2:13and get up to 200 grams or whatever ratio you're using.
60. 2:16Now, you don't have to use a pour over kettle
61. 2:19like this one, a gooseneck kettle.
62. 2:20You can use a regular kettle, you could use a pot
63. 2:22that you boiled on the stove; it doesn't really matter.
64. 2:24It's just about getting the water in
65. 2:25and getting all the coffee nice and evenly saturated.
66. 2:29Obviously we're gonna move this off our scale,
67. 2:30we're not gonna press on the scale, there's no need for that
68. 2:32and we're just gonna wait for two minutes.
69. 2:37Here's one I started earlier.
70. 2:42When you get to two minutes
71. 2:43what we're gonna do is start to swirl
72. 2:46and it's gonna be a very gentle swirl.
73. 2:47Make sure that you're holding both the piston
74. 2:49and the base of the unit and just give it a gentle swirl.
75. 2:52That's it.
76. 2:53You're not trying to create a vortex in there.
77. 2:56You're just trying to gently knock the ground coffee
78. 2:58that's formed a crust down
79. 2:59so it starts to sink to the bottom
80. 3:01and then you're gonna wait for about 30 seconds
81. 3:04and then you're gonna start to press.
82. 3:06Now when it comes to pressing,
83. 3:07I would recommend being relatively gentle.
84. 3:09You shouldn't be leaning into this.
85. 3:11You should be able to do it comfortably
86. 3:13with your body away from the AeroPress.
87. 3:14So not pressing too hard at all.
88. 3:17Press gently, press evenly
89. 3:18and once you've waited 30 seconds
90. 3:21you're gonna press all the way
91. 3:24until you've pressed every drop of greatness out
92. 3:26of this press, down into the carafe or the cup below.
93. 3:30(coffee dripping)
94. 3:33For a 200 ml brew for this grind size,
95. 3:35that takes me about 30 seconds.
96. 3:37Once you've pressed pull back just a little bit,
97. 3:39that'll help prevent drips, turn it upside down.
98. 3:42Obviously you can clean up now, pop the coffee out,
99. 3:44give it a rinse, give it a clean, reset for the next day
100. 3:47and you've got, I hope, a great cup of coffee.
101. 3:49Now, if it's not a great cup of coffee,
102. 3:52again, it's gonna be the grind size
103. 3:53and maybe the temperature that you're gonna tweak.
104. 3:55If you've got too much bitterness in your cup,
105. 3:58chances are you might have ground a bit fine
106. 4:00or brewed a bit hot for the coffee that you're using.
107. 4:02If you've got a bit of sourness
108. 4:03in your cup, well, the opposite.
109. 4:05Feel free to get to maximum temperature
110. 4:07and try grinding a little bit finer.
111. 4:09Now this, I think, gets you to a great cup
112. 4:11of coffee in the simplest, neatest way possible
113. 4:13with no additional unnecessary steps
114. 4:16but it's not the one way to brew the AeroPress.
115. 4:18So down below, I've linked to a bunch
116. 4:20of other AeroPress recipes.
117. 4:22If you want something that is your kind of daily driver,
118. 4:24your regular brew method, I hope this is it
119. 4:26but if you wanna play and explore and have some fun
120. 4:28with an AeroPress which I think is kind of half the point
121. 4:31then I would recommend checking out how other people use it.
122. 4:34Explore those recipes.
123. 4:35They're all linked in the description box down below
124. 4:37but now I wanna hear from you.
125. 4:39How are you making your AeroPress these days?
126. 4:41What do you like?
127. 4:42What don't you like about the AeroPress?
128. 4:44Do you still have questions?
129. 4:46Because don't worry, there's another video coming.
130. 4:48We'll be looking at both accessories
131. 4:50and all of the filtration options for the AeroPress
132. 4:53but, for now, I'll say thank you so much for watching.
133. 4:56I hope you have a great day.
134. 5:08That is good, that is, that is good.
135. 5:10I mean, I don't know why I'm surprised.