Suppose you’re suddenly working from home full-time and cut off from your favorite cafe. In that case, figuring out how to make coffee at home can be overwhelming. Fortunately, most items can be easily purchased and shipped online (thank you for that, Amazon). While there may be some shipping delays, you’ll be ready to bring your coffee home quickly. Still, coffee is one thing that is best served fresh. Learning how to brew your coffee at home can become simple and easy with just a little effort. Or upgrade and make your specialty coffee after learning the basics of brewing coffee at home.
Continue to Patronize Your Neighborhood Coffee Businesses!
We still encourage you to support your favorite local cafés and coffee shops whenever and wherever possible. This might take several forms, including purchasing gift cards for future use, delivering freshly roasted beans to a loved one, buying your beans for delivery or pick up, and more.
While we certainly make the majority of our coffee at home since economics favor it, we still enjoy coffee shops for a variety of reasons that cannot be matched with a home brew system. A sense of community, a gathering spot, a change of scenery—not to mention access to more cutting-edge equipment (espresso machines) and the general pleasures of supporting locally owned businesses.
Get out there and support your neighborhood coffee shop!
What You Should Know About Brewing Coffee at Home
It is feasible to make coffee shop-quality coffee at home and occasionally even better coffee. You only need to supply your kitchen with the necessary tools and be prepared for a learning curve. Don’t worry, it’s not that difficult.
While you can make coffee at home just as easily with a Keurig machine or similar simple coffee maker, we prefer more hands-on or involved methods. The steps may appear complicated initially, but we all have at least some spare time, right?
Precision is the key to producing good coffee at home. Fortunately for you and me, there is inexpensive coffee equipment available to accomplish precisely that.
6 Pieces of Equipment Required to Make Coffee at Home
Because coffee is necessary and you can experiment with new brewing methods, here are our at-home coffee kit recommendations for beginners.
1. A Kitchen Scale Digital
We love digital kitchen scales for just about everything. Not only does it make baking and portion management much easier, but it also makes brewing coffee at home much more accessible.
It isn’t easy to make a great cup of coffee at home without measuring accurate amounts of beans. Guessing and eyeballing are for the birds. Some measurements and ingredients may require more precise and accurate levels to achieve that flavor profile. Purchase an electronic scale that can convert between ounces and grams and, ideally, measures in decimals rather than fractions.
Buy an electric scale with a pull-out display. It is handy, especially when adding delicious components to large mixing bowls.
2. A Coffee Mill
There will be no settling for electric blade grinders. It’s time to invest in a hand burr grinder, which requires a little more effort and elbow grease but works great and is incredibly portable—perfect for future camping excursions or travels! Or invest in an electric burr grinder.
Electric burr grinders are more expensive upfront. Still, they will allow you to master brewing various coffees at home (French Press, Aeropress, Espresso, and so on). An electric burr grinder can make preparing coffee at home more convenient due to the precision of its grind and the convenience of switching between different grind sizes. More on the relevance of variety while grinding coffee beans at home can be found here.
Remember that using freshly ground coffee is always worth the extra work because it will nearly duplicate your coffee shop experience at home.
3. A Kettle (Electric)
A hot water kettle is essential for preparing bomb coffee at home. To be more accurate in both your ability to reliably pour water and heat water to optimal temperatures for various coffee extraction methods, we recommend that you solely consider electric gooseneck kettles.
Beyond the benefits of the longer gooseneck spout in steadying the water flow, our electric kettle makes switching between brew methods a breeze.
4. A Method for Brewing Coffee
We enjoy exploring and testing new ways to make coffee at home (it’s why we established this website in the first place!). Still, we’ve come to prefer a few brew methods over others. You can read my in-depth examination of simple at-home coffee brewing methods here.
You might also improve your skills by learning to brew using a Chemex or cold brew. Take advantage of your extra time at home to learn a new brewing process. Once you’ve mastered a few steps, you’ll be rocking your morning coffee routine in under 10 minutes.
Because I have yet to memorize numbers since we all had landlines in the 1990s, we utilize this helpful chart in our house.
Remember to buy coffee filters for your home coffee brewing!
5. A Mug That Makes You Smile
It’s not 100% necessary for your coffee to taste as wonderful as a fresh pour from your favorite local hangout. Still, there’s something special about appreciating the conveyance as much as the contents. We need to find joy in little and simple ways, especially during the pandemic, so we strongly advise you to sip your home-brewed coffee from a mug you adore.
We’ll be drinking it from our favorite double-walled mugs, but now and again.
6. BEANS
The last piece of the brewing coffee-at-home puzzle is coffee! You can buy a variety of coffees on the internet or at your local grocery store, or you can use this opportunity to support local roasters by purchasing freshly roasted beans directly from their stores.
We advocate light roasts whenever feasible for individuals new to buying beans so that you may better experience the flavor nuances. We also like single-origin roasts that are natural rather than moist-processed.
Making coffee at home is easy.
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