avoidcrowds wrote:
Someone commented about using boiling water to pour over the grounds, using a brewing cone. Does that make a good cup of coffee? If it is too weak, do you just add more coffee to the filter the next time? Can you pour coffee over the grounds again, or put fresh grounds into the filter, then pour coffee over them to make stronger coffee?
Thanks for any insight.
My good buddy is a roaster. So he'd tell you:
1) Yes, it (called a Pour Over) makes a great cup.
2) Yes, add more fresh fine ground to the next round. You can always add hot water to make a strong cup weaker.
3) You can pour the water over used grounds (and my wife does because she wants a splash not a cup) but a coffee lover would punch you. The filter traps some of the harsher oils. The filter costs $0.0000000001 or something like that. Just grab a new one.
4) See #3. Just grab fresh grounds, a fresh filter. Use a dedicated tablespoon measurement thing and keep track of how many tablespoons make a cup you enjoy
From a "Return on Investment" point of view, the labor is so low and the coffee good. :)