Chemex, is named after the company (Chemex). A machine invented by Dr. Peter Schlumbaum in 1941 through the company Chemex, and its idea was inspired by the glass laboratory equipment that he as alchemist, knows well.(Chemex and how make coffee)
Coffee is prepared with a chemex tool by filtration through a glass jar, the tool is one of the most common methods in the world, thanks to its design and attractive shape, purity of coffee; due to the thick filter, which pulls out a lot of coffee oils.
And that the chemex tool is one of the oldest tools for preparing filtered coffee, to prepare coffee with the chemex tool may need some tools necessary for the preparation process, such as the electronic scale to calculate the preparation time and the amount of extraction. We will mention in the following recipes for preparing coffee with chemex in detail:
Recipe 1 for preparing coffee by chemex
- 20g coffee
- coarse grinding degree
- Time 3 minutes
- Water temperature 92 °C
- Ratio 1:15
Preparation
Weigh 20 grams of coffee and grind it to a medium coarse degree, put the filter for the Kimex, add some hot water on the Chemex tool; to wash the filter and to heat the tool a little before use, then pour it. After that put the grounded coffee on top of the filter, and then the first pour by moistening through pouring 40 ml of water for 30 seconds evenly, the second pour up to 180 ml of water and then the third and last pour up to 300 ml until the extraction process of the coffee is finished.
Method of pouring water into recipe 1
The first casting: moisturize from outwardly to the ends by 40 ml and wait for 30 seconds.
The second casting: with a low flow from the inside to the ends up to 180 ml.
The third casting: with low flow and rotation around the middle up to 300 ml.
Recipe 2 for preparing coffee by chemex
- 23g coffee
- coarse grinding degree
- Time 3 minutes
- Water temperature 92 ° C
- Ratio 1:13
Preparation
Weigh 23 grams of coffee and grind it to a medium coarse degree, put the filter for “Chemex”, add some hot water on the “Chemex ” tool to wash the filter and to heat the tool a little before use, then pour it, then put the ground coffee on top of the filter and start the first pour by moistening through pouring 46 ml of water for 30 seconds evenly, the second pour up to 180 ml of water and then the third pour up to 275 ml and the fourth pour to 345 ml until the extraction process of the coffee is finished.
Method of pouring water into recipe 2
The first casting: moisturize from the inside to the ends by 46 ml and wait for 30 seconds.
The second casting: with a low flow from the inside to the ends up to 180 ml.
The third casting: with a low flow upright in the rings of the ends up to 240ml.
Fourth casting: with a low flow rotating around the middle up to 300 ml.
Time must be taken into consideration in the process of preparing coffee, because if the preparation time is much longer than three minutes we must make the grinding a bit coarser until we reach the wanted degree, that the correct extraction in three minutes of coffee we get out the best flavor in coffee. If the extraction is more than four minutes the coffee may be bitter and not suitable for most of prepared coffee types.
Now you can prepare chemex coffee and enjoy preparing it with ease and at home, all you have to do is: buy a chemex tool and its filter. You may find two sizes of it: a size that prepares from one to two cups, and a size that prepares from two to four cups of coffee.
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