Great vid - very informative. I've always made great coffee on my home machine (Breville dual boiler with a Eureka Specialita grinder) but lately for some reason they've been on the bitter side. No idea why. This video will make fixing it easier. Thanks!
I watched both parts but I still don't know what coffee bitterness tastes like. I get a really dry sensation on my tongue. I always clean the basket, screen after every shot with hot water. I use a filter paper on top of the puck to keep the screen much cleaner than with a bare puck. I can do this at home but I'm sure it's impossible commercially.
yes, I think what you're describing you're tasting is bitterness. The dry sensation might be from the tannins and is common in an over-extracted(bitter) coffee. So it is a form of bitterness, also known as astringency. Have you ever tried very dark chocolate, like 95% cocoa? If you haven't, see if you can get some to try and compare the tastes to what you experience in the coffee.
Good question! Chocolate is a flavour that's in virtually every coffee ranging from milk to dark chocolate. If it's dark chocolate I would expect more bitterness, but if the coffee is medium roasted you shouldn't have much bitterness anyway. Avoid dark roasted or any term that relates to being on the darker side of medium, they will be bitter. Also, flavours like: bakers chocolate, dry cacao will be astringent/bitter.
When you say ‘chemicals’ which cleaning products do you actually mean? Also my Sage/Breville porter filter has a plastic insert in it. Should I take that out?
Oh the chemicals I use are Cafetto Evo powder. It's cheap and you can buy it almost anywhere online. The plastic insert you refer to, is it a grey rubber disc? If so, you use that to block the holes to build pressure when you're backflushing.
@@Rydecoffeecoach nope, not a back flushing aid, it’s an integral piece of hard black plastic lining the inside of the porter filter’s base. I’ve read that people are removing some of these. Thanks.
Oh yeh, you can remove that. It's just to keep the heat on your espresso as it pours. So just make sure you preheat the portafilter (which you should do anyway) and it's fine.
How about a video on home brewing? We have a auto drip and a French press but since I love lots of cream and sugar I don’t know how to make a good cup of black coffee as I’m trying to learn to enjoy the coffee not the milk and sugar.
Yep great ideas. I'm not sure there's too much you can do with the autodripper other than using fresh and high quality coffee grinds. For French press, there's a lot you can do. I have a video on it already but I'm going to do another improved recipe. 👌
Great question! There are lots of little bits of oil that get stuck in the machine and overtime go rancid and taste horrible. If you don't chemical your machine every now and again, the taste will be noticeable.
That's super cool thanks for sharing. I thought it changed the coffee on a molecular level but it just blocks the receptors that perceive bitterness. Thank you!
You have good content and a good voice. Please get rid of the obnoxious background music, which is so distracting and irritating then I finally just gave up watching the video.
Yes I'm sorry. This was an old video but I can't remove the audio without deleting it and uploading it again. Sorry! I could rerecord the video I guess.
Coffee too hot atm. Let it cool down. I don’t know why you want to drink hot hot coffee-burning your lips. If you need it to warm you up, you probably should consider eating healthier for better blood circulation.
I could taste that salty coffee just from looking at your face!! 🤢 I think cleaning your machine regularly is much better than adding salt to your espresso 😁
Really like your education’s videos. Really learnt alot from them. Keep up the good work.
Thanks so much! I love sharing everything I know so it's so nice to hear how it helps! 👌🤗
Great vid - very informative. I've always made great coffee on my home machine (Breville dual boiler with a Eureka Specialita grinder) but lately for some reason they've been on the bitter side. No idea why. This video will make fixing it easier. Thanks!
Yeh the Breville is great! Just check how the shot is pouring. If it's too slow and runs for too long it will cause bitterness.
Well sir. If your grind size is great/ optimal you need to extract less. And if it goes sour you need to extract more.
Hope this answers your question
Very valuable information, thank you!
You're welcome! ☺️ Thank you for watching!
I watched both parts but I still don't know what coffee bitterness tastes like. I get a really dry sensation on my tongue.
I always clean the basket, screen after every shot with hot water. I use a filter paper on top of the puck to keep the screen much cleaner than with a bare puck. I can do this at home but I'm sure it's impossible commercially.
yes, I think what you're describing you're tasting is bitterness. The dry sensation might be from the tannins and is common in an over-extracted(bitter) coffee. So it is a form of bitterness, also known as astringency.
Have you ever tried very dark chocolate, like 95% cocoa? If you haven't, see if you can get some to try and compare the tastes to what you experience in the coffee.
When you read a coffee bean has a chocolaty taste, how bitter/sour should we expect from it? Never really know if it tastes what it should...
Good question! Chocolate is a flavour that's in virtually every coffee ranging from milk to dark chocolate. If it's dark chocolate I would expect more bitterness, but if the coffee is medium roasted you shouldn't have much bitterness anyway.
Avoid dark roasted or any term that relates to being on the darker side of medium, they will be bitter.
Also, flavours like: bakers chocolate, dry cacao will be astringent/bitter.
When you say ‘chemicals’ which cleaning products do you actually mean? Also my Sage/Breville porter filter has a plastic insert in it. Should I take that out?
Oh the chemicals I use are Cafetto Evo powder. It's cheap and you can buy it almost anywhere online. The plastic insert you refer to, is it a grey rubber disc? If so, you use that to block the holes to build pressure when you're backflushing.
@@Rydecoffeecoach nope, not a back flushing aid, it’s an integral piece of hard black plastic lining the inside of the porter filter’s base. I’ve read that people are removing some of these. Thanks.
Oh yeh, you can remove that. It's just to keep the heat on your espresso as it pours. So just make sure you preheat the portafilter (which you should do anyway) and it's fine.
@@Rydecoffeecoach Thanks so much for your advice.
Thank u ❤️☺️☺️☺️
You're welcome! Thank you!
How about a video on home brewing? We have a auto drip and a French press but since I love lots of cream and sugar I don’t know how to make a good cup of black coffee as I’m trying to learn to enjoy the coffee not the milk and sugar.
Yep great ideas. I'm not sure there's too much you can do with the autodripper other than using fresh and high quality coffee grinds. For French press, there's a lot you can do. I have a video on it already but I'm going to do another improved recipe. 👌
My (machine) bits look and smell clean but I’ve never done chemicals, are they in fact clean?
Great question! There are lots of little bits of oil that get stuck in the machine and overtime go rancid and taste horrible. If you don't chemical your machine every now and again, the taste will be noticeable.
Salt does not change anything with the coffee but actually fools the taste buds into not detecting bitterness.
That's super cool thanks for sharing. I thought it changed the coffee on a molecular level but it just blocks the receptors that perceive bitterness. Thank you!
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You have good content and a good voice. Please get rid of the obnoxious background music, which is so distracting and irritating then I finally just gave up watching the video.
Yes I'm sorry. This was an old video but I can't remove the audio without deleting it and uploading it again. Sorry! I could rerecord the video I guess.
Coffee too hot atm. Let it cool down. I don’t know why you want to drink hot hot coffee-burning your lips. If you need it to warm you up, you probably should consider eating healthier for better blood circulation.
Not sure I understand. Are you saying my coffee is too hot? Or just coffee in general is hot?
I could taste that salty coffee just from looking at your face!! 🤢 I think cleaning your machine regularly is much better than adding salt to your espresso 😁
Definitely! It was so bad🤢 but yes, it's much nicer to have clean equipment than adding salt 🙌😂