Filter Coffee
Coffee brewed by hot water passing through ground coffee in a paper or metal filter. Clean, balanced, the everyday backbone of specialty coffee.
Method
Filter
Typical volume
240 ml
Caffeine
95 mg
Caffeine is a reference value for this drink and brew method, not a measurement of your cup.
Filter Coffee technique
- Weigh 60g of coffee per litre - 30g for a 500ml brew - at a medium grind.
- Rinse the paper filter with hot water and discard the rinse.
- Fill the reservoir with filtered water and run the machine; a good one holds 92-96°C at the bed.
- Level the bed with a spoon if the grounds have climbed the sides during the brew.
- Decant into a preheated carafe if it will stand more than 20 minutes - a hotplate stews coffee.
Machine drip lives or dies on dose and water quality. If the cup reads thin, grind finer before you add more coffee.
What makes it
More filter drinks
Log it, and the caffeine with it
The app records every filter coffee you make, estimates the caffeine, and writes it to Apple Health so your daily total counts every source, not just coffee.
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