Pro Chefs Make Their Favorite Coffee | Test Kitchen Talks @ Home | Bon Appétit

it makes it a lot easier to be like trapped in the house with these little monsters cuz they keep me busy right what's going what's going on Vito you cool here we go you want the full view [Music] papi hey everyone I'm not in the Test Kitchen I am in my home kitchen in the desert I'm here at home still at my parents kitchen in South Jersey we're working from home these days and I'm going to show you my coffee routine this is the first thing I go in the morning okay very important I'm gonna show you how I make my at-home coffee how I make coffee I also put the knife down so little aggro as the kids say today what we're gonna be doing is making my perfect coffee just so happens I've recently invented you might I don't know someone must have done it for God's sakes but I'm gonna just say I recently invented a coffee drink called I call it the cafe ooh la la okay I only drink coffee in the morning okay I'm not an afternoon drinker every now and then but I like my two cups in the morning so I usually do a drip but then I got this little machine here a little special machine and I don't really drink too much espresso but I really love is this is the UM is the steam barista Brad makes an apple no big deal so the cafe la la is just drip coffee steamed whole milk and then I get brown sugar dark brown sugar or light whatever you're into and a shade there in little shavings and I just drop it onto the steamed milk on top of the coffee yeah we've got to make it Dan you got the drip coffee you already made check this out this thing's great gonna steam some milk fill this up about you know a little bit over halfway okay lactose-free my one kid lactose-intolerant we're gonna do then we're just gonna steam it I'm gonna go on a little angle just there we go we're out you don't want to go getting all bubble you want a frothy right now big bubbles but like mousse I don't know if you're supposed to use cold no oh all right I think I did it look at that nightly that nice frothy this is great guys maybe that beautiful nice broth so here we go got my cafe la la mugs okay my coffee fill that up Oh leave a little room for our Lala okay this area is where I always screw it up it's getting a nice Oh I nailed it oh my god I did such a good job so what I do sometimes everybody does this I don't care and that's your really good and look I just oh my god and a little brown sugar oh my god that's it right there little brown sugar it just sits in there little pillows okay good angle huh I'm a good camera guy Oh take two look at that that's the stuff it's like a dessert you can't have this for breakfast that's like eatin that's like eating candy for breakfast look at this this is it there is this a delicacy I like this yeah look at these guys huh you guys working hard or what I did a good job too oh man it's heavenly suitable for King that's it perfect perfect my perfect coffee cafe ooh la la camera cuts if you know me you know I don't drink coffee I drink our national drink from Argentina that is mati I love the smell the really do mati is a traditional tea drinking a special matter cup and Matt they won't be yeah what is something that is strange in South America the south of Brazil Argentina Uruguay and in some parts of Chile see magmatic car collection they are very interesting-looking cover with silver with very intricate work this one is made of glass and covered in leather with like cute little doggies around this guy is the one I love so the one beer has two holes one is that where you want to drink like any other straw and the other it has all these tiny holes like the tea baskets you will use when you make loose tea it's the same idea if you were going to compare it to something I will compare it to like a green tea it does have caffeine but it doesn't have the same amount of octane like coffee dance so to make the matter you are not supposed to fill up this cup all the way to the top so I put four of these because you're gonna be out in the water and the math is going to expand you don't want it to overflow the one thing that we like to do in Argentina is shake it to remove any excess powder if you can see it in my hand and then you're ready you have to tell them not a little bit so you have a little diagonal and then you insert the straw snow stream you don't boil the water I put it at 180 degrees in one side and then you're ready to rock and roll the dry matter goes up and the wet matter stays in one corner it's not that you put the water and you drink it once perfect you continue to drink throughout until the Matty leaves just don't get flavor any more this is a mood guy you don't know it oh I missed it shooting my coffee routine is actually my husband's coffee race team I drink black tea in the morning with milk and my very nice husband often brings it to me while I'm still in bed because I'm the queen of the house and that's how that goes so when I want to be really nice to him and repay some of this tea in bed that I've been getting I make him a really nice Aeropress we've been making coffee with this thing for many many years and it's also amazing if you're ever on the road or camping and I actually take a lot of pleasure in doing it with the timer and the scale and the whole kit and caboodle it's got the kind of main chamber thing they sell paper filters but we switched over to this like fine mesh stainless steel filter and that sits on top of this so you put the filter into the bottom tray you attach that to that and then the other piece is a plunger and it's got like a hard rubber stopper majiggy and then the other piece is this paddle which you use for stirring the grounds into the water I feel like I read something about the inventor like is he like an aeronautical engineer type of guy yeah I keep thinking I'm gonna come up with some great invention I just haven't come up with it yet okay so the first thing I'm gonna do is preheat the cup preheating the cup makes a huge difference in how hot your coffee is when it hits the cup and how hot it stays I'm just gonna fill that cup up so now I need 18 grams of coffee nailed it the cup feels hot on the outside dump out the water set the thing I'm a jobber on top of the cup I am gonna start the timer so the first thing is just a little bit of water to bloom the grounds it's important that's been about 10 seconds I'm gonna pour this is supposed to take about 30 seconds it gets stirred for five and then you use your little stopper Bopper to just create like a vacuum seal so now we wait 90 seconds no one's really timing me but I think that was about 90 seconds take the plunger off but keep it nearby take the stirrer guy give it another stir that's done and then you plunge one thing to look for is that the coffee grounds form a mound when you get to the bottom and then listen for the hiss as soon as you hear the hiss you're done alright so that's it regular cow's milk a delicious cup of coffee it's the color he likes Fred Fred he's on a call should drink his coffee are you gonna do I truly believe that once you experience truly exceptional coffee it's very hard to ever go back and I'm not saying that I won't happily get some Dunkin Donuts on a road trip that's a beautiful experience that I don't mean to minimize that for anybody when I left my apartment in New York City I had to choose the things that were very important to me things that I felt very passionately about and clearly my entire pour-over set up what was one of those things so I make my coffee with a little ceramic pour-over cone this is a haria v60 ceramic filter holder I like a Hari Oh v60 they make a glass version I've been traveling around Mexico for the last six months so I found this a silicon collapsible v60 here's the thing about great coffee it's a little bit about the coffee well it's a lot about the coffee beautiful lovely coffee never by pre-ground coffee the minute you grind a coffee bean the flavor is essentially leaking out and it's a little bit about the equipment but actually it's a lot about the equipment this is my kettle I do find it really important to use a kettle that has this particularly thin kind of spout is very hot I don't have my kettle at home so all right right now I have my kettle set to 207 degrees let's call it 206 a little bit below boiling I am going to grind coffee beans this is a burr grinder a burr grinder means that their actual circular burrs that turn in opposition to each other think of it like a pepper grinder this is actually Chris Morocco as old grinder which she gave to me because he like didn't wanted him anymore he probably bought some like much fancier one I have a Breville burr grinder even this is key when it comes to coffee I don't have an electric grinder I have this guy you could grind other things in here if you want it to but this has only been used for coffee I would like to go on record saying that I generally use about three tablespoons I'm going to measure my beans by weight by using a scale I keep a little scoop in my jar two of these is roughly like 21 grams I'm not a fanatic about my coffee in the way that some other people are I know like Delaney and Chris maracas would freak out if they knew I wasn't using a scale I'm using 20 grams of beans so anyway that's how you grind the beans this guy just comes off there's a bunch of ground coffee it's not super fine it's not super course it's so good okay back in my coffee cabinet this is also where I keep my coffee filters I like these ones they're the brown ones so I love pre-wetting my filter sometimes the filter can have a little bit of a papery taste which is not pleasant it kind of just flushes it out so beans are going into the filter holder pot my beans in here so now I'm gonna bloom the coffee I want to wet the grounds but without actually pouring water through them it basically opens up the coffee and gets it ready to actually be brewed this I usually let hang out anywhere between 40 seconds to a minute and now I'm gonna start my first pour we want to go to 350 two grams 22 times 16 is 352 I guess in total I feel like this takes about two minutes try and go in a circular motion although there are mornings where I just kind of dump it in it's sort of a nice meditative time and it's nice to just normally I guess what I would be doing is not not staring into my coffee I would be like frantically emptying the dish rack or unloading the dishwasher or something but almost there Oh nailed it 350 to the touch of a pro all right so our extraction went to about 3 minutes 10 seconds inclusive of the bloom it smells so good it smells like morning even though it's noon it's 5:20 if I drink this right now I am NOT going to bed until like 3:00 a.m. okay all the waters through the most important step when it comes to coffee is drinking it out of a mug that you like and that's for me like a novelty mug something you'd buy at a souvenir shop or the airport or whatever or your local public radio station my director informs me that Delaney said something about the best mug being like a shitty novelty mug with something stupid on it Delaney this is a Lael ceramic mug it's from upstate New York in the condom grater Kingston area I hate a fancy coffee mug look at that perfect amount this size is perfect for a 320 gram pour over it smells so good and I cannot drink it right now it would be so bad it's 5:20 I'm gonna drink a little bit that is so good and I'm gonna have to stop drinking on kind of green apple flavor with a little bit of milk chocolate fish that tastes like [ __ ] blueberries and it's incredible Wow so good that's a perfect cup of coffee today we're making one of my favorite morning beverages I'm not much of a coffee drinker but I love chai this is kind of a shortcut way that my mom makes it at home because when we're in the morning and we need our boost of energy we like it fast it usually involves black tea milk spices the spices vary but the way that we make it home we focus on one spice which i think is the star of chai and that's cardamom so you're gonna start with black tea and then you're gonna just crush cardamom pods you don't need to remove the shell or anything you're just gonna give them a nice pounding so that they've released the seeds so I just put these shells in all chai is traditionally sweetened we got quite a bit of sugar like a heaping heaping teaspoon but you do you some boiling water on top it's nice and steamy so we're gonna let that steep for like a minute this is like that weird downtime in the videos where I say stupid things that end up in the video so maybe I should not say anything we're done steeping just top it off with as much milk as you want that's what it's supposed to be a dark tan but you can make it more or less milky mm-hmm this is probably not anything the aunties back in India would approve of it's a very short cut version but I think it's delicious it's a nice little alternative to coffee and yeah I drink it every day mmm use fresh cardamom people hmm I like to start every day off with a cup of coffee I'm pretty particular about it I don't really love espresso unless it's like a cappuccino but that's to me more of an afternoon coffee I like my first morning coffee to be American drip coffee with hot whole milk in it sometimes half-and-half depending on the coffee this tiny corner of my kitchen is the coffee and tea area this is my Chemex it just makes a drip coffee this cone I like because it's metal with tiny perforations and so I don't have to reuse a paper I don't use a paper filter every single time I can just wash this and reuse it which is wonderful and then I have krokov tools so I'll move it out of the way a burr grinder I just eyeball this part and in fact I am guilty of making coffee that's too strong constantly I bought this part - I do a couple of tablespoons this is how much I filled it I can't imagine what Chris Morocco's coffee routine is at home but one of the most endearing most Chris Morocco thinks ever was when he brought his whole coffee set up did Cape Cod when we shot making perfect and then opened like a little coffee bar in the morning he's in the hotel I like to heat up the milk so that the milk doesn't bring down the temperature of the coffee I'm always shooting for this very particular temperature for coffee where you can it's really hot but you can kind of gulp it it's just perfect so I'm gonna pop this in the microwave for maybe 30 seconds and while that's heating I'll start to pour the water one thing I've learned from watching people in fancy coffee shops is that it's good to sort of moisten all the coffee grounds first in a circle I don't know why I just seen people do it whatever my thing is like who has the coherence and clarity of mind to do all that in the morning before you've had coffee to do all the weighing and the proportions that seems crazy that's plenty for one cup I'm gonna grab my milk and then I slowly look poor I love this little pour spout in the Chemex that makes it very precise I'll hold this up so you can see and then I like pouring the coffee into the milk because then I stop once I get the right kind of color I like it to be pretty light I love milk I've always been a milk drinker that looks perfect and then that's it I'm gonna drink this whole cup of coffee because I've been waiting until I've had to show you to have my coffee this morning even though it's almost 2 o'clock but this is the life of self isolating so drink coffee any time of day perfect temperature all right when I'm at home I have an espresso machine and every morning I make an almond cappuccino I'm not home there's no espresso machine here it's also a little bit warmer here because I'm in the desert so today I'm gonna make a cold brew soda which is basically equal parts cold brew coffee and tonic water with a squeeze of lime over ice my tonic got a lemon and then this has just been straining cold brew for the last couple of hours it's concentrate it's really intense I'm cutting one lemon into wedges cuz I'll have that as a garnish and then squeezing the juice of half a lemon into this cup of ice catching the seeds and then I'm gonna fill it about halfway with my cold brew and if you can't find tonic water right now what you can do instead is top it with soda water or seltzer sparkling water and then just sweeten it a little bit with like agave or honey or simple syrup to balance the acidity of the citrus so there it is my coffee soda tastes just like the Test Kitchen mr. Test Kitchen I really do we are all demonstrating our favorite ways to make coffee but I don't really drink coffee so I'm gonna make a White Russian nowadays I'm drinking a lot more so a White Russian in the morning doesn't seem totally out of reason by working from home drinking rules is I still don't start until like maybe instead of five like four I'm one of those people when I have a lot to drink I seem exactly the same but nothing in there is working so I don't really like to drink and work but I like to know that it's here for me so a White Russian is usually Kahlua vodka and cream I think all of those things are disgusting so now I'm gonna show you how I like to make a White Russian with coffee craft coffee that then they turn into booze like how can that be bad and then in place of the vodka I prefer to use bourbon equal parts of both and then a splash of cream this is an antique [ __ ] it's completely inaccurate I just like using it makes me feel old-timey I think this might be an ounce so I'm gonna crack my ice cube in there so it kind of melts a little bit while it's chilling this drink so I'm gonna stir that up you want to stir your drink so the spoon moves along the outside of your glass you're kind of just pushing the ice through the drink and we're just gonna do that syllables mixing glass feels cold that's how you know that your drink is cold now I need a second giant ice cube once again oh my dogs are really into this there we go so I'm gonna strain this into this glass now and then finish it with a little bit of cream just a little drizzle on top so this is not your classic white Russian I'm sure people will get mad at me but it's the one that I want to drink it's the coffee drink I want it's really tasty the coffee liqueur is so so good it just tastes like cold brew whiskey the cold version of an Irish coffee my normal coffee routine is very very simple I just do 8 cups of water on the base cover that the filter over here just goes on top like that I'll do 8 scoops one scoop per cup for the top on slide that in lock it and then just turn it off then we wait this is Goldie she's perfect she's beautiful and she's a natural smoky eye hmm okay I would say the biggest difference between the coffee a drink back in New York and at home is that I usually drink it with like a splash code if I don't have it I'll do almond this is a half and a half house so I've been drinking half and a half and I have absolutely no regrets and it feels [ __ ] fantastic so okay coffee time everybody so I'm going everybody I'm in my home little everybody I'm in my home kitchen and I'm gonna make a pot of coffee the way that I do pretty much every morning and every afternoon the thing that I care about the most is making sure my coffee stays hot for as long as possible so here I have like a vacuum insulated carafe because I like to drink like a little cup of coffee and then like wait a half an hour and drink another little cup of coffee just filled that with like nearly boiling water one of my biggest pet peeves is making coffee into a cold carafe because then it's just sucking all the heat out of your coffee and like your first cup is lukewarm so I've got a little brown paper number four filter my trusty Malita plastic dripper I used to have the like fancy ceramic or glass ones but they all broke so gonna rinse that dump this hot water we're gonna grind our beans I really think the biggest thing is just making sure that you're brining your coffee fresh every day okay cool sling that into our clean filter the first thing I'm gonna do is just pour a little bit and kind of like bloom them okay so now we're just gonna keep on refilling this right around the sides keep on adding water as it drains out oh I'm gonna take this time to preheat my mug this is non-negotiable I love having really hot tap water for this reason I'll just fill this up and let it sit until I'm ready to pour into it so our grounds are dry now all the coffee's dripped off close the lid dump the water from my preheated cup and that is how I make a pump and that is how I make a pot of coffee [Music] hmm mica I'm like waiting for someone to cut for me

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Id: yssNu8Eynb8

Length: 24min 3sec (1443 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 31 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/gwenflip]

The editing on this video is fantastic. When they have it juxtaposing Delany and Chris fangirling over coffee to Christina I died laughing.

[u/UtterlyConfused93]

I’m in love with Chris Morocco. That’s all I have to say about this one.

[u/whytealeaf]

I love how serious Chris is about his coffee. Setup goals.

[u/PM_ME_WUTEVER]

No spoilers, but how THE FUCK does Sohla not have her own show?

[u/steveofthejungle]

I'm all about Delany's crappy souvenir mugs. I'm starting a collection of the same style of mug from different ski resorts. Black on the outside, orange on the inside. So far have one from Copper Mountain in CO and Sunshine Village in Banff. Was gonna get Whiteface Mountain in NY but then COVID happened...

[u/PerfectlyRespectable]

Is Andy with a bunch of gays in an AirBNB somewhere?

[u/LouBrown]

A little surprised nobody went with the French press. I've never tried coffee made with an Aeropress, though. I wonder how much different it really is.

Also I would love to see a Pets of BA montage from everybody working at home.

[u/intenselyseasoned]

When Brad was topping off his coffee, it reminded me of this.

[u/manhattansinks]

I was hoping someone would just come out with an old Hamilton Beach coffee maker - "so anyway 6 cups of water 6 scoops of coffee and that's it ok bye"