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Blew $120 on a gooseneck kettle for pour over and it fixed my worst cup
I fought my pour over for a year with a regular tea kettle and could not figure out why half my cups tasted bitter and thin at the same time. A guy at a shop in Portland watched me brew once, said nothing, then just poured a slow circle with a gooseneck and the difference was obvious. So I dropped $120 on one and the control over the pour changed everything, my water hits the grounds even instead of dumping in one spot. The first cup I made with it tasted so much better I checked the bag twice to make sure it was the same beans. Now I brew at 200 degrees, 30 seconds bloom, and three slow pours, and my cheap beans taste better than the fancy ones did before. Anyone got a method for timing the pours without standing there staring at a scale the whole time?
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dakota81122d ago
Buddy of mine went through the same thing, fought his kettle for months and swore his beans were bad. Turns out he was pouring straight down the middle like a waterfall and just drilling a hole through the bed. He grabbed a cheap gooseneck off amazon for like 30 bucks and said it was night and day, same exact thing you're describing. For the timing thing he just counts in his head now, like one one thousand, two one thousand between pours, and checks the scale at the end instead of staring at it. Honestly once you do it enough your hands kind of learn the pace on their own. Maybe try timing your pours with your phone stopwatch once or twice and then just trust the feel after that.
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