The Invisible Element That's Ruining Your Espresso
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2024
- Most of us don't put much thought into the water we use for coffee, but it makes a HUGE difference.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:05 Tap Water
03:22 Filtered Water
04:45 Bottled Water
06:07 Mineral Solutions
09:36 Which is Best?
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Thanks so much for checking out this super nerdy gastro-science video. What do you want me to dig deep on for the next Better Espresso Episode?
Haha, what a coincidence. I’m just now seeing this video, but it turns out the day you posted this. I was visiting Houston and a coffee shop I went to was selling Third Wave mineral packets. Picked up a few and have been trying it the last few days. However, I think I’ve concluded the water from my Samsung refrigerator filter is pretty decent. I don’t taste a huge diff between it and the third wave.
So glad that i have very good local water supplier (galon refill) with the reverse osmosis here.
soft water with balanced pH always give me nice tastes of coffee.
by the way thank you for your kindness to always share coffee knowledge! 🙏🏻
I'm having flashbacks to maintaining water for tropical fish with all these additives. Our water is hard as hell here so the BWT filters work just fine. I'm done playing with water chemistry, hut I will have that stovepipe hat I've had my eye on for a while.
Wow! What an amazingly informative video! Thanks Charlie!
I knew it. Water matters! Thanks for experimenting lol!
I always hated Contrex water when growing up, so yeah I wouldn't be surprised of the result!
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I've had good luck with BWT water filters
Great vid! Would have loved to know your thoughts on making own water from scratch like they recommend at Barista hustle with Distilled water, Baking soda, Epsom salts, citric acid. Probably way cheaper than ordering 3rd Wave or Lotus, at least here in Japan.
Maybe cheaper but man I don't wanna play with that. Too many unknowns. Third wave water tasted amazing, and it's not expensive considering how much I spend on coffee beans 🤣
Great video, can I ask what bottomless portafilter you’re using with the Pro X?
It's the official Rancilio one. I think they have it on their official site.
Good video, but did you consider doing a blind taste test? Since you have a bias after knowing which water you’re drinking…
That is a good point, I'll invite a barista friend over next time to make the coffees for me. But honestly it's such a big difference that I was kinda shocked. I love the flavour I got after using custom water instead of just filter.
Great video, I found it very informative! Question, what was the TDS for Third Wave Water? Unless my TDS tester was off, with the Third Wave espresso profile I was getting 118 PPM. Do you think I should reduce the dose then since it well exceeds the recommended PPM?
I forgot to include it, thanks for noticing. The TWW water was around 105 for mine. It is higher than the recommended, but not significantly and it just tastes so much better. I also heard since I posted this video that there are many different measurements and recommendations for water hardness. TWW is not too high, just don't go putting that Contrex crap in your machine 🤣
@@homecafecharlie haha fair, thanks for the response! Looking forward to more of your videos.
But you missed well water. In the country we get water from the ground!
Oops, I didn't test that as I don't know where to find a well in Japan 😅
@@homecafecharlie try Hokkaido lol
Love our well water!
Btw I know handmade soba shops need very clean mountain water. I went to one near Fukuoka once.
Espresso is definitely not 98% water
How much % do you think it is? Most of the flavour of espresso is just dissolved solids 😎
@@homecafecharlie 87-93 ish. Considering the dissolved solids are 7%-13% . A filter coffee is more like 98 or more
I’m all fairness Tokyo has some of the worst water I’ve ever tasted, it stinks of chlorine, just nasty.