Switch Hybrid
Open in appFairul Azonan's upright AeroPress adaptation borrows the Hario Switch valve idea and Tetsu Kasuya's split-pour logic. Alternating immersion and percolation across two water temperatures aims for a floral, fruity, structured cup.
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Parameters
- 20 g
- Coffee
- 240 g
- Water
- 1:12
- Ratio
- 90 °C
- Temp
- 5 medium
- Grind
- 3:30
- Total
- ~240 ml
- Yield
Method
3:30 · total-
Bloom 1 / 110:0014s
Pour 60g.
+60g→ 60g 6g/s 10s 90°C -
Swirl 2 / 110:1416s
Stir gently. Let it steep.
4s -
Pour 3 / 110:3014s
Pour to 120g.
+60g→ 120g 6g/s 10s -
Swirl 4 / 110:4431s
Stir gently. Let it steep.
4s -
Pour 5 / 111:1510s
Pour the final 120g gently to 240g. Let it steep.
+120g→ 240g Fill gently 70°C -
Prepare 6 / 111:255s
Rest the plunger on the surface — don't press down.
-
Steep 7 / 111:3015s
Let it steep.
15s -
Prepare 8 / 111:451m10s
Remove the plunger. Let the water drop through.
-
Prepare 9 / 112:555s
Insert the plunger to create a vacuum seal.
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Press 10 / 113:0030s
Press until you hear the hiss.
30s -
Done 11 / 113:30
Press complete.
Notes
Grinder
Medium — about 44 clicks on a Mischief M40.
Original source
Recipe by Fairul Azonan, published at aeroprecipe.com.
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Definitions, ratios and protocols behind this recipe.
- AeroPress The AeroPress is a plastic cylinder, a plunger, and a paper filter — sold as a travel brewer in 2005 and quickly adopted by people who'd never travel with one. Its trick is that it sits across the filter/immersion line. Closed at the bottom by the filter and your stand, it's an immersion brewer. Once you press, water and grounds separate fast. The grind range it accepts is enormous, and the cup is clean but with body.
- How coffee is roasted Roasting is the chemistry that turns a green seed into something that tastes like coffee. A green bean is dense, vegetal, and sour — undrinkable in any meaningful sense. Heat applied for the right amount of time transforms it into the aromatic, brown, brewable thing on the shelf. Almost everything you taste in a finished cup was either created or shaped during the eight to fifteen minutes the bean spent inside a roaster.