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Filter 3.0

by Scott Rao

I’ve all tried to make good filter coffee in an espresso machine. It makes sense, right? Every espresso machine provides access to hot water, a spray head, a filter basket, and usually automatic volumetric dosing. Unfortunately, the flow and pressure provided by espresso machines is generally excessive for brewing great filter coffee. If cafes could brew amazing filter coffee in an espresso machine, it would be the Holy Grail of brewing coffee by the cup. After almost three decades of thinking and tinkering, I have finally found a method to brew extraordinary filter coffee in a (Decent) espresso machine in three minutes or less. I’ll call this Filter 2.0 until someone suggests a better name. Much credit goes to Jonathan Gagné for sparking part of this idea with his long-steep aeropress technique, and John Buckman for his relentless improvement of the DE1 machine.