How To Make Great Coffee At Home _ MR PORTER

How to make great coffee at home .

In this film , Mr Mike Go Thorpe of London's Fernandez and Wales Cafes demonstrates how to blend a cup of perfect coffee for this .

You will need some freshly roasted beans , a filter , some filter papers , a weighing scale a hand grinder , a kettle and a cup .

Step one as a rule allow about 60 g of coffee per liter of water .

If you're making two small cups , you need about 400 mL of water which makes 24 g of coffee .

Well , near enough .

Step two , the key to making the perfect cup of filter coffee .

It's all in the grin , the finer the grounds , the more slowly the water percolates through the coffee leading to a more intense brew for great tasting filter coffee , your ground should be fine enough that they still look like powder but coarse enough that they feel slightly gritty between your fingers .

Use a hand grinder with an adjustable grid setting to turn your beans into grounds .

Trial and error is your friend here .

Step three , set your coffee filter on top of your cup and put a filter paper in place .

Now , before you do anything else , pour some boiling water through the empty filter paper .

This is an important step for two reasons .

Firstly , it warms up the filter and the cup , this means that your coffee will stay warm for longer .

Secondly , it washes away the taste of the filter paper .

Trust us , you don't want that or away the water and it's on to the next step .

Step four , put the grounds in the center of the filter paper then using water that's just off the boil between 90 95 degrees .

Centigrade pour about 1/5 of the water over the coffee .

Wait for 30 seconds , allowing the grounds to settle before slowly pouring in the rest of the water .

The coffee should take no longer than three minutes to brew .

And if he does the grind may be too fine .

Step five , add sugar to taste stir and there's nothing left to do but enjoy .