How do you make coffee with a cafetière? Every kitchen has one and there are plenty of ways you can approach brewing coffee with the humble cafetière. Here's how we make the very best coffee with this piece of brewing equipment.
Pact coffee (60g to a litre)
Boil a kettle and leave this to sit for around 30 seconds.
To figure out the capacity of your cafetière, fill it to just below the spout with water and pour this into a measuring jug.
Round this up to a whole number, and use a ratio of 60g of coffee to a litre. As ours is a 1 litre cafetière, we’re using 60g of coarse-grind coffee.
Pour your required amount of just off boiling water into your cafetière.
Allow your coffee to brew for 4 minutes.
A crust should have formed on the top of the coffee. Stir through this and allow the ground coffee to sink to the bottom of the cafetière over another 4 minutes.
Meanwhile, use a spoon to remove the crema from the top of the coffee to get rid of any unwanted bitterness.
Place your plunger over your cafetière but do not plunge.
This is best used as a filter to pour your coffee through.
As you continue to pour, cup by cup, push the plunger down to the level of liquid coffee without plunging.
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