I love the style of these tutorials, and the accompanying infographics. The accent is also full of win. From Hasbean.
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Coffee Video Friday: Chemex with James Hoffman
This is great.
Videocast #3 – Chemex/Pourover from James Hoffmann on Vimeo.
He uses 30gm of coffee for 500mL. Interesting.
Coffee Video Friday: Pourover style
I love clear kettles.
Making Coffee is Easy from Mike Devlin on Vimeo.
Weigh your coffee. Before watching this video I wasn’t washing my chemex filters. Now I am. If you’re looking for a pourover kettle, check this post out.
Where to get a kettle for your pourover brewer
I fell in love with Chemex coffee on the Coffee Crawl. So I bought one (from Bunker Coffee… I love Bunker Coffee). Bunker doesn’t sell them online – but Wolff Coffee Roasters does (I’m the proud owner of a 6 Cup). Readers outside of Brisbane should check their nearest specialty coffee place.
Getting hold of the Chemex was only half the battle. Proper pourover coffee needs a special kind of kettle – a kettle that produces a slow, but sustained, flow of water for a long enough period.
Here’s Intelligentsia’s brewing guide.
Intelligentsia Chemex Brewing Guide from Intelligentsia Coffee on Vimeo.
So. I went kettle hunting. The cafe kettle of choice is the Hario Buono Kettle. Which looks like a beehive. It retails for $75 (not including postage) (from CuppaCoffee, or BeanDrinking).
It’s a nice looking kettle – and you’ll notice it looks exactly the same as the kettle in the Intelligentsia video. Because it is.
But I didn’t want to pay $75 plus postage for a pouring kettle.
I had read rumours of a cheap kettle you could find in Asia somewhere. And that oil pourers were also an option.
Peters of Kensington have some interesting looking oil pourers. This one is 250mL, and $16. I wanted slightly more capacity. And the ability to put the kettle on a stove if we’re camping or something.
So I took the search to Hong Kong. Online at least. And I found these bad boys on Homeloo.com.
This 700mL bad boy is $23 (US). It’s the one I picked.
This slightly smaller kettle is just $18 (US).
Postage on the bigger one was just $13.20. Bargain. And it pours like a charm.