Espresso
Espresso
Seven grams, twenty-five seconds, twenty-five millilitres: Italian espresso has a written specification, and this is it.
- Dose
- 7 g
Recipes
The preparations, with their numbers.
Dose, yield, temperature and time for every preparation, with the source next to it. Choose how many people you are making it for: the quantities are recalculated, and the parameters that do not depend on quantity stay as they are.
Espresso
Ristretto
The same dose as an espresso, less water in the cup. No institutional source fixes its volume — so here you will only find what is documented.
- Dose
- 7 g
Espresso and milk
Cappuccino
25 ml of espresso and 100 ml of steamed milk, in a 150–160 ml cup. The cappuccino has a specification too.
- Dose
- 7 g
Espresso and milk
Caffè macchiato
An espresso and a stain of milk. How much milk, exactly? No source declares it — and we do not invent it.
- Dose
- 7 g
Espresso
Caffè americano
An espresso lengthened with hot water. The amount of water is set by no standard: it changes from country to country and from bar to bar.
- Dose
- 7 g
Moka pot
Moka pot coffee
The moka is not dosed in grams: it is dosed by volume. Water up to the valve, funnel filled level, never tamped.
Briki decoction
Greek coffee
Ellinikós kafés: very finely ground coffee boiled in water in a briki, with the grounds left in the cup. Measured in teaspoons, not on a scale.
- Time
- 6 min
Pour over
V60
Thirty grams, half a litre, 97 °C. The most widespread pour over in the world has no single recipe: it has signed ones.
- Dose
- 30 g
- Water
- 500 g
Immersion
AeroPress
Seventeen grams, water at 85 °C up to the 4 mark, sixty seconds and a slow press. Under two minutes, start to finish.
- Dose
- 17 g
- Time
- 2 min
Automatic drip
Filter coffee
Fifty-five grams per litre at 93 °C: the only method in this section backed by a genuine technical standard.
- Dose
- 55 g
- Water
- 1000 g
Immersion
French press
One rounded tablespoon per 118 ml, water at 92–96 °C, exactly four minutes. The simplest method there is, and the easiest to ruin at the last step.
- Water
- 118 g
- Time
- 5 min
Briki decoction
Turkish coffee
One teaspoon of very fine coffee per cup, the water measured with the cup itself, two minutes on the heat. The foam is served first.
- Dose
- 6 g
- Time
- 2 min
Pour over
Chemex
One rounded tablespoon per 5 oz cup, medium-coarse grind, water just off the boil. The thickest filter of them all.
- Dose
- 5.4 g
- Water
- 148 g
Gravity percolation
Neapolitan flip-pot coffee
The cuccumella gets turned over, and from then on only gravity works. Seven grams per person, ten minutes of patience.
- Dose
- 7 g
- Time
- 12 min