Make amazing pour-over coffee with this espresso portafilter basket!

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