How to Make Pour-Over Coffee at Home: Gear and a Simple Recipe
Everything you need for great pour-over coffee — dripper, kettle, scale and grinder — plus a simple recipe to start with.
Pour-over coffee gives you a clean, bright cup and full control over how it's made. It needs only a few pieces of gear, and all of them fit in a cupboard.
What you need
The pour-over kit
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Fellow
Stagg EKG Electric Gooseneck Kettle
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Baratza
Encore Conical Burr Coffee Grinder
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A simple starting recipe
- Heat water to just off the boil (around 93–96 °C / 200–205 °F).
- Grind 15 g of coffee medium-fine and rinse the paper filter in the dripper.
- Pour about 40 g of water to wet the grounds and wait 30–45 seconds.
- Pour slowly in circles until the scale reads 250 g.
- Aim to finish draining at around 3 minutes. Too fast? Grind finer. Too slow? Grind coarser.
Hario
V60 Ceramic Coffee Dripper Size 02
The classic cone pour-over dripper, handmade in Japan from Arita ceramic, with spiral ribs and one large opening.
Why a gooseneck kettle helps
A narrow spout lets you pour slowly and exactly where you want, which keeps the coffee bed even. A kettle with temperature control also removes the guesswork about water temperature.
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Kettle pick
Fellow Stagg EKG Electric Gooseneck Kettle
An electric gooseneck kettle with to-the-degree temperature control, a hold mode and a built-in brew stopwatch.
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