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Drip Batch Technivorm Recipe

At Conscious Cup, the Technivorm is our go-to office coffee pot. We make a fresh batch every morning to get the whole warehouse crew going. The machine heats the water to the right temperature and showers it evenly over the bed, so the only variables you control are the dose, the grind and the flow rate. Get those three right and a Technivorm makes a pot as good as any pour over.

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What you'll need

  • Technivorm Moccamaster · Any model with the manual drip stop
  • Paper Filter · Size 4 · white or natural
  • Burr Grinder · Medium-coarse setting · sea salt texture
  • Gram Scale · 1g precision is enough
  • Filtered Water · Cold, straight into the reservoir

Directions

  1. Fill the reservoir | Setup | Make sure the machine is clean, then fill the reservoir with 1,000 grams of cold filtered water. The machine heats the water itself, so it should go in cold.
  2. Weigh and grind | Setup | Weigh 62.5 grams of coffee and grind it medium-coarse, about the texture of sea salt. For a half pot, 31 grams of coffee to 500 millilitres of water; for three quarters, 47 grams to 750 millilitres.
  3. Rinse the filter | Setup | Place a paper filter in the brew basket and rinse it with hot water from the kettle or the tap. The rinse removes the paper taste and warms the basket. Tip the rinse water out of the carafe.
  4. Add the coffee | Setup | Add the ground coffee to the filter and shake the basket gently so the bed is level. An even bed brews evenly.
  5. Set the flow | Setup | Set the drip stop on the basket to the middle position. The half open setting slows the flow through the bed, which draws more sweetness and body from the coffee than the fully open setting.
  6. Brew | 0:00 → 5:30 | Switch the machine on. It heats the water and showers it over the bed through the nine hole outlet arm. Leave it alone; the cycle takes five to six minutes for a full litre.
  7. Stir and serve | Finish | When the basket has finished dripping, stir the carafe once. The first coffee out of the bed is stronger than the last, and the stir evens the pot. Pour and serve within thirty minutes for the best flavor.