A New Wave of Home Coffee Machines Are Producing Perfect Pour-Overs
A trio of countertop revolutionaries (including one from a former Apple designer) are about to change your mornings.
Quality home pour overs made easy by Ratio Four.
Source: Ratio FourI’ll admit it. I’m an absolute sucker for evocative tasting notes on a bag of good coffee. Promise me hints of apricot marmalade, candied walnuts, honeysuckle or milk chocolate, and I’m in. Throw in a mention of Lambrusco and Grape Nerds? Even better. But having then shelled out some exorbitant sum of money for a bag of magic beans (even cheap coffee is getting very expensive lately), I’ll go home, start brewing and, more often than not, think to myself that it tastes more than anything like, well, coffee.
That’s not to say those tasting notes are a scam. There is an art to coaxing those promised flavors out of beans. Pour-over is the process tailored to do the job best, but executing it well demands a level of focus and precision I often lack, particularly first thing in the morning before I’ve had any coffee. You need to weigh and grind the beans just so, heat water to the precise temperature recommended for that roast and then pour just the right amount of it over the grounds, at the right speed, at the right intervals, sometimes even in the right pattern. It can take longer to make a cup of pour-over than it does to drink it.