Stop drinking instant coffee! Make your own brewed coffee in just 2 and a half minutes!

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►Hand-brewed coffee requires grinding, steaming, brewing, and extraction. It may seem complicated, but it is not as difficult as you think. If you are used to instant coffee and chain store coffee, you can try the fun of hand-brewed single-origin coffee by following the coffee experts at home on weekends. It only takes 2 and a half minutes.

First take 15 grams of beans (one serving), put them into the bean grinder, and grind them at a uniform speed. The grinding degree should be as coarse as that of white sugar.

Open the filter paper and put it into the filter cup. To make the filter paper fit better on the wall of the filter cup, it is recommended to cut off the excess edge of the filter paper or fold it along the edge.

Before brewing, wet the filter paper evenly with hot water. This will remove any odor the filter paper may have and also warm the teapot.

Pour in the ground coffee and gently tap the edge of the filter cup to make the coffee grounds flat.

Use water at about 92 degrees to brew, and note that the ratio of total water to coffee beans is 15:1.

First, steam the coffee. Use twice as much water as the coffee beans. We chose 15 grams of coffee beans, so the first water injection is 30 ml. Inject water to wet all the coffee powder, and control the time within 30 seconds.

Next, add water for the second time, with a volume of 100 ml. Start from the center and make circles clockwise. Be careful not to touch the edge of the filter paper. When the liquid surface is about 80% dry, add water for the third time in the same way, with a volume of 95-100 ml.

After water is poured in, the coffee extraction begins. From the first water pouring to the end of the extraction, the entire production time is controlled at about 2 minutes and 30 seconds.

Pour the extracted coffee into a warmed coffee cup and a cup of drip-filtered single-origin coffee is ready.

► This issue’s guest: Lu Yao, coffee taster and founder of the independent coffee bean roasting brand Beluga Coffee.