Make Better Coffee At Home On A Breville Espresso Machine

The million dollar question is , is there a standardized recipe for your home Brel machine ?

We recently got a question through our Instagram for one of our subscribers .

He asks in the Breville brew to touch .

Could you please do what number to put the grind ?

Sitting on ?

How long to grind for with each cup size and port a filter and how long to brew for each ?

Thanks for the message , Kobe .

We're gonna try and answer that for you today .

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I'm here in the artist Roy .

We're playing with a revel or a sage you might call it .

And this isn't a machine that we generally endorse .

We don't even sell them .

It's just a machine that we're fully aware that heaps of people have in their homes .

And we get so many questions about uh the best recipe and how to use them to get the best flavor coffee now , I'm used to using lazos .

I'm used to using commercial machines .

And when I get on a home machine , I just have to make some adaptions to make sure that I can uh expect what I can truly expect out of a machine .

You can't expect highest quality um best version of that coffee , but we can do our best and teach us some tricks .

Today , I'm gonna use our Champion House blend here at artist medium roast , really easy to work with very versatile .

Um I've set up my own little recipe in this particular bre touch .

Um And you know , there's a few different variations of these machines .

So , but I've got my settings in there right now .

I have my grind setting to six .

I've got my grind set to a nominal amount of time .

Cos I'm gonna teach you how to minimize the variations between your grind so that you're not dictated by having a hop of fall and just how however much coffee lands in your basket .

I've also got my brew time setting to 30 seconds .

Now , I'm not even sure that that's the right time because I'm gonna slightly manage for that manually .

So I've got it set to 30 seconds .

That's really the most time I'll do .

But I'm gonna weigh my yield .

I'm also gonna weigh my dose .

I'm gonna bring in some of the commercial things that we teach .

Uh And there is some other videos on that .

You can go back and you can listen to uh see the videos that Luke's talked about time in , in extractions .

That would be really helpful you at this stage .

Um I am gonna use the single wall basket .

I'm not gonna use this duel wall .

There's a whole another video that we've got on which basket to choose .

We'll put all the links below to videos uh in the description below .

Uh I went through their guide , I checked it out , see how they teach you .

They do introduce this uh razor tool .

I'm not gonna use that one .

because it really questions how much dose you've got in your basket .

So , and I will spin some milk .

So let's get started .

Firstly , dose , one variable that I can maintain is my dose and a little trick that I do with this so that I'm not filling up my hopper and kind of guessing and uh whatever time I put in there , I'm actually just gonna do a single dose straight in the top and then I'm gonna grind straight into my basket and let all of that grind out once I've set to select Jimmy .

So that's gonna grind out the 4 18 g that I've weighed in there .

Now , I've done some tests and I'm pretty happy this grinder actually doesn't have a lot of attention .

So that was pretty impressive for me .

This means that I can weigh in that's gonna give you a bit of spillage there , not ideal .

Um You can see by the clumping in my grind , I'm quite fine .

That grind setting of six is quite fine .

You're , you're changing your grind settings on the side , but you can actually change even more settings .

I am .

Um So I've changed my settings up in the chamber by taking out the bis .

I haven't done that .

I'm just going off factory settings .

So , um I've got it set to six .

I've got my 18 g in there .

Potentially less cos it actually made a bit of a mess .

I'm gonna use their little tricky tamp here , a little bit of pressure .

Not too much , little spinoff and we're good to go .

So what you are gonna need is a decent set of scales because this is really gonna dictate your flavor .

Now , I will mention that II I did lots of ran lots of tests .

I did so many dosing dose out and , and it pretty well worked out that 18 g is the most coffee that I can fit in this basket where it's not actually where I've got enough room for expansion .

I'm , I'm not underdosing and that's giving me the optimal amount of coffee in my basket to get a good flavor .

Now , I drank every single one of these coffees .

Some of them were horrible .

Some of them were so hard to drink .

I just wanted to know what each flavor was like .

So I landed on 18 g of coffee gives me a good amount of coffee to work with and it can handle the pressure , especially once you don't want to just keep going finer and finer .

You wanna work with your dose as well .

So let's get that up there .

Chuck that in .

I'm gonna tear off my cup .

I'm gonna start my brew .

Now , my recipe that I came to was actually 20 seconds .

So we're heading up , we've got a couple of seconds in , we should see that drop .

Now , I definitely found the best flavor .

Part of this shot was always in the first start of a shot .

So when we talk about no , and we talk about a 1 to 2 ratio , I actually found that was somewhat too much coffee in my basket .

So I really actually want 30 g of yield , which means I kind of need to stop that brewing early and you'll see that roll up to that 30 g .

It took me 25 seconds .

So my next adjustment cos I got 25 seconds .

The one that I tasted earlier that I was most happy with was more like 20 seconds .

I find that whenever I use commer um domestic home machines , I just can't get the same extraction time that I do commercially .

I don't have pre infusion .

I don't have good , you know , pressure control in my heads .

So I do find that I , I'll tend to run faster shots more than slower ones .

On the home machine .

So you will find that the flavor's better for that .

So there we go .

We've got a 25 2nd extraction , 31 g of coffee .

It's actually not bad at all .

And I , I can taste the nuances that I'm used to tasting and championing those sweet flavor profiles .

There's a good body there in trying to get that balance .

There's maybe a bit of a high acidity and bitterness there from going what I would say over extracted if my bre recipe is 20 seconds and I got 25 seconds .

So I'm currently on six next one , actually gonna speed up that extraction .

So I go slightly coarser just one click cosa I run another shot .

I'd keep my 18 g of basket , 18 g of coffee into my basket .

I'd still weigh my shot out so that I know I can turn that off when I get my 30 g of yield .

And once I know that I've actually achieved that in 20 seconds , I could actually change this setting to be a 22nd brew .

So that tomorrow I could pretty well chuck that in .

Do the same thing , hit my brew and walk away and I'm gonna pretty well nail that 30 g of yield in the cup again .

And that's what these machines are good for .

They're built for not necessarily consistency because there is always variations in coffee , but they're built for automation and speed and they just make your life easier .

So if you want to make the best version of coffee , of course , upgrade to a , an even better home machine , go , your boiler , go into the more nitty gritty , but you'll find that they actually become more manual because you're needing to be more hands on and , and the more you learn about coffee , the more videos of ours you watch and you see lots of great um you just learn more about coffee .

You'll actually find that you want to break outside of the pres settings and the manual , the , the way that they come out of the box and you've gotta learn , you've gotta play and you've got to drink it all .

So let's all say just do some milk .

Now , this is one thing that this is totally out of my area um is automation on milk .

So I'm gonna chuck that in there .

I've got enough for my small cup .

Hit that button and this is nice .

I just feel like I'm cheating a little bit .

It goes against everything I and stand for .

I did put a thermometer in an early one and I was pretty impressed that the temperature was good .

And , and this is where if , if you're a new to the home barista area , this is gonna , this is potentially gonna help you make a more consistently well heated milk and , and froth .

But again , you're not learning that skill as a barista .

And if you , if you want to do that as a career or really improve your skills or just show off to your friends .

Uh , this is not how to do it .

So , let's have a look .

What ?

And there is our milk .

Of course , we've got to get that a plant self purging .

To be honest , I'm actually pretty impressed with that .

Milton .

I've gotta say I've seen a lot worse on some other machines .

It seems a lot worse out of , um , bars .

So let's have a look how she pours .

Yeah , she's pretty frothy .

I didn't , I did put it on a latte setting .

Yeah , helps if you can pour a nice little pattern there .

And that is a latte .

If I got up in the morning and I got to make a coffee on that , I'd be impressed , but I'm not necessarily gonna get that cafe experience that in my flavor that you might be chasing because I didn't get that full 1 to 2 normal ratio .

I'm a little bit lighter on .

So I would find that you'll really struggle to get a really strong cup of coffee out of a domestic machine because you don't have the dose to play with commercially .

We're working with 22.5 g of coffee .

Remember ?

So you've got a , you , you're missing out a lot of , um , punch and , and body there , but I'm not here to review the Brel .

I'm here to give you some tips on how to uh make better coffee at home .

If you've got any questions about this particular video or uh you've got a Brel or if you've got any tricks that you think are helping you make better coffee , put them in the comments below .

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I hope this has helped you make better coffee at home .

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