Make amazing pour-over coffee with this espresso portafilter basket!
Channel: Decent Espresso
Date: 23/08/2023

Did you know that your Decent Espresso machine can also make pour-over coffee? We worked with Scott Rao to design the ideal pour-over basket for the portafilter of your Decent Espresso machine. In fact, we think the water distribution in this specialized basket is more precise than pouring water by hand from a kettle.  We'll show you how it works in this video.

0:00 How the pour over option happened on our DE1
0:31 John wants to convert Scott Rao to espresso
0:42 Rao creates a pour over option for the DE1 instead
1:23 The pour over basket and how it was engineered
2:41 Jonathan Gagné’s insight: perfect height for pour over
3:34 Grinder settings for pour over
4:25 What you need to make pour over on a DE1
4:35 Pre-wet the paper to get rid of paper taste and pre-heat
4:45 Using a plastic cone for temperature stability
5:26 Check flow before you get started and clean
5:52 Use drip tray or not?
6:25 How to dose coffee for pour over
7:13 How to homogenize the coffee grounds for pour over
7:48 How to put the grinds into the cone correctly
8:16 Make a small dent into the grounds
8:42 Use a milk jug as a carafe
8:55 The importance of clearance between filter and edge
9:21 The profile used for pour over
9:28 How to agitate the grounds during the pour
10:31 How automatic can the agitation/swirling be?
11:44 What’s the optimal brew time?
12:30 How to know if you could have increased duration
12:43 Are grounds sticking to the side good or bad?
13:46 How to know if grind, brew duration were appropriate
15:02 Why Paul picked this coffee for the pour over
15:52 The taste testing
16:46 How maturing benefits light roasts
18:58 What coffee filter did we use?
19:38 Could we have prolonged extraction here?
20:06 The advantages of using a DE1 for pour over
21:17 Outro