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The Struggle for a Steady Kettle Flow

In this post I discuss recent developments in my efforts to stabilize my kettle flow rate.

Posted byjgagneastroJanuary 2, 2020April 16, 2020Posted inBrew Methods, Brew Temperature, Experiments, Tools, V60 BrewsTags:Flow Restrictor, Kettle Flow17 Comments on The Struggle for a Steady Kettle Flow

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I will be teaching my second class on the physics of coffee during WOC Milan this summer ! The class will be on June 24, 8-11 AM in a beautiful room owned by @bwtglobal.

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Here is yet another beautiful infographic created by @pullandpourcoffee, based on a graph from my book The Physics of Filter Coffee. This graph shows how the height of your kettle, and the pour rate affect agitation, which in turn affects extraction, clogging and flow evenness in pour over coffee. My personal preference is to generally stay just below the breakup height (the height at which you start hear splatter sounds) to maximize turbulence which can be seen as random small-scale motions in the slurry. This encourages each coffee particle to encounter water, but can also cause filter clogging with some grinders or coffees that produce more fines. My strategy when that happens is to pour a bit slower and still stay just below the breakup height. If you still experience clogging issues, it can be worth exploring pouring from much lower than the breakup length.

Thanks to @pullandpourcoffee for making a very nice and simple schematic that explains the long-steep @aeropress recipe that I prefer !

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