# Share your pour-over coffee technique! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** coffee\ **Created:** [December 11, 2024, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-pour-over-coffee-technique/1011508 "2024-12-11T18:59:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-pour-over-coffee-technique/1011508/41 "2024-12-14T00:12:47Z")
That’s the exact one I mentioned directly above your post. Works great! We originally bought it for camping and loved the output so much we started using it exclusively. > [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > But I pre-warm it with scalding hot water, as well as the mug that I’m serving into, and use a double-wall insulated press. That mostly solves the problem, but it’s definitely not hot enough to nurse all morning, it needs to be finished up in 10-15 mins at most. I also have a little $10 mug warmer that helps with that. You like your coffee HOT! I don’t preheat the press (I used to but found with the double-walled version, it made little difference) but I do preheat my cup (we use old school small cups, not mugs). That first cup of coffee is hot and it takes a while to drink. The next two go down faster, but are still plenty hot, but I’m not needing scorching hot. My wife prefers hotter coffee. When we get coffee out and about, she is drinking hers like it is nothing while my tongue is burnt to a crisp. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-pour-over-coffee-technique/1011508/42 "2024-12-14T00:19:30Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > That’s the exact one I mentioned directly above your post. Works great! We originally bought it for camping and loved the output so much we started using it exclusively. And we also have the Baratza Encore, that plus the Bodum is the perfect coffee set up. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-pour-over-coffee-technique/1011508/43 "2024-12-14T00:24:24Z")
As I bought the Bodum for camping, I also had a manual grinder. I used that manual grinder for at least 5 years until I got tired of grinding for 10 minutes each morning (I was reading the newspaper at the same time, but still). Finally spent the money and got the Encore. Now, 28 seconds and the grind is done. And yes, I time it. Not into weighing like my coffee snob relative who also insists on a Moccamaster. Yeah, he makes good coffee but is it better than mine? Debateable. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-pour-over-coffee-technique/1011508/44 "2024-12-14T00:25:37Z")
Stanley also makes a great double walled French press. We have that one at our cabin. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-pour-over-coffee-technique/1011508/45 "2024-12-14T00:31:12Z")
Dang - they have a big 48 ouncer. That would come in handy when we have friends and family staying over. And it would match my thermos I take to work every day 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-pour-over-coffee-technique/1011508/46 "2024-12-14T14:22:24Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > You like your coffee HOT! I don’t preheat the press (I used to but found with the double-walled version, it made little difference) but I do preheat my cup It’s more about… coffee that’s hot off the… er… press is ideal temperature for drinking, but that doesn’t last long if you’re answering emails and whatnot. So I have to do extra heating things to make sure it’ll stay warm for longer. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-pour-over-coffee-technique/1011508/47 "2024-12-15T12:45:52Z")
Yes. Coffee is either hot, or useless. My method is preheat the cup, preheat the cream, and use a drip maker with heated carafe. And keep the cup on a mug-warmer when I’m not drinking from it. First sip from the first cup from a full pot hot every time. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-pour-over-coffee-technique/1011508/48 "2024-12-15T12:55:30Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Maybe start with this video: Looks like a stripped-down Mr Coffee to me. > [@snowthx](#): > > Cowboy Coffee. All I know about cowboys and coffee is Louis L’Amour’s description of coffee “strong enough to float a horseshoe”. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-pour-over-coffee-technique/1011508/49 "2024-12-15T13:48:51Z")
So it’s not just ambient air temperature that you like hotter than i do. 😆 The best temperature for brewing coffee is far hotter than the temperature i am comfortable drinking, so any preparation needs some way to cool off a bit between flavor extraction and touching my skin. In my mind, one of the virtues of adding cream is that it will cool the drink a bit. I sometimes dump a little coffee from a coffee shop to add more milk just so i can drink the stuff without waiting too long. ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-pour-over-coffee-technique/1011508/50 "2024-12-15T15:21:48Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > The best temperature for brewing coffee is far hotter than the temperature i am comfortable drinking, so any preparation needs some way to cool off a bit between flavor extraction and touching my skin. This. I use an insulated mug that I fill with ice water while waiting for the coffee to brew. I pour the water out when the coffee is ready. I want to drink the coffe immediately. I’m not interested in scalding my mouth or tongue to begin drinking. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-pour-over-coffee-technique/1011508/51 "2024-12-15T15:32:16Z")
I mostly brew tea at home, and i use a heavy ceramic mug that’s no warmer than room temp to drink out of. (In the winter, it’s cooler, because the cabinet the mugs live in is on a poorly insulated external wall.) So i brew my tea in a hot vessel, and then pour it into a heat-sink of a mug before drinking it. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-pour-over-coffee-technique/1011508/52 "2024-12-15T19:01:16Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > All I know about cowboys and coffee is Louis L’Amour’s description of coffee “strong enough to float a horseshoe”. Lucky Luke vol. 29: “To make a good cup of coffee, put a pound of ground beans in a pot with water and boil for half an hour. Then throw in a horseshoe. If the horseshoe doesn’t float, add more coffee.” ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-pour-over-coffee-technique/1011508/53 "2024-12-15T22:06:09Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > put a pound of ground beans in a pot Not that I expect popular novelists or cartoonists to be accurate, but what was the coffee supply chain like 150 years ago? It’s not like a cowboy could pop down to Walmart to pick up a couple of pounds of Peet’s every other day. Cowboy coffee was probably pretty weak, since cowboys are known for being skint after a night of saloons, gambling halls, and whorehouses. And yeah, cream needs to be as hot as the coffee. I hate going to a coffee shop that has the cream pitcher sitting on ice. Who the hell wants cold cream in their hot coffee? ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-pour-over-coffee-technique/1011508/54 "2024-12-15T22:32:25Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > Not that I expect popular novelists or cartoonists to be accurate, but what was the coffee supply chain like 150 years ago? It’s not like a cowboy could pop down to Walmart to pick up a couple of pounds of Peet’s every other day. Cowboy coffee was probably pretty weak, since cowboys are known for being skint after a night of saloons, gambling halls, and whorehouses. On the other hand, coffee was a standard part of US army rations during the Civil War, plus AJ Folger started his company in San Francisco in 1860, so it wasn’t a rarity either. I’d think it was present in the supply chain like whatever other staples cowboys were buying. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2024, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-pour-over-coffee-technique/1011508/55 "2024-12-16T11:59:10Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > The part I’m not understanding about French press, pour over, or cowboy coffee is how any of these processes produce hot coffee. I was curious, so this morning I took the temp of my coffee after steeping in a French press for 4 minutes. It was 182f. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2024, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-pour-over-coffee-technique/1011508/56 "2024-12-16T12:11:10Z")
Color me amazed. And informed. Thanks for making the effort. I’ll need to take some temp readings of my own, albeit probably not this morning. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2024, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-pour-over-coffee-technique/1011508/57 "2024-12-17T16:58:36Z")
A question for those who wet the filter paper first: why? I understand the bloom and wetting the grounds, but what is the intention of wetting the paper? Does it make a difference? ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2024, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-pour-over-coffee-technique/1011508/58 "2024-12-17T18:08:41Z")
Supposedly: 1. Gets rid of some kind of “paper taste” 2. Makes the coffee flow more easily through the filter (it is said) 3. Pre-heats the cup That said, I only found two sites that did any actual testing, and both of them concluded there was no benefit to pre-wetting, though the second only tested white (vs brown) paper filters: [To Wet or not to Wet? - Coffee Magazine](https://magazine.coffee/blog/1/1524/to-wet-or-not-to-wet) [Should You Wet Paper Coffee Filters - The Counter | Trade Coffee](https://www.drinktrade.com/blogs/education/is-rinsing-paper-filters-necessary?srsltid=AfmBOoqmU1_z5xP2Z-KkBfg5woUwX53A70lcyXZAQuCpY3mXv7S54YnQ) ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-pour-over-coffee-technique/1011508/59 "2024-12-27T16:25:21Z")
Just updating to note that the more I slow down the process, the less coffee I need to use, and the better the cup. So now I do wet the filter, but then I pour that first bit of water to wet the grounds, and I walk the dog while it sits. Then I pour some more in and do some other chore. Then the rest of it goes in at whatever speed fills the cup. Works quite well. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2024, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-pour-over-coffee-technique/1011508/60 "2024-12-28T18:50:56Z")
When i make jelly, i wet the cheesecloth before filtering the juice through it, because otherwise the dry cheesecloth soaks up a significant amount of the juice. Dunno if that’s an issue with coffee. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-pour-over-coffee-technique/1011508.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-pour-over-coffee-technique/1011508.md?page=4)