My family and I drink pretty much every style of coffee regularly, but the favorite by far is iced coffee brewed hot into ice using a Hario switch. (James Hoffman’s recipe that includes the ice in the recipe). It tastes the best to everyone and it can be made cold in less than 10 minutes (unlike cold brew, which has to be made ahead of time).

The problem I have now is that everyone enjoys it so much that I make a minimum of 6x 500ml batches per week and it’s just labor intensive. All I really need is a machine that does immersion brewing and lets me set a “steep time” after pre infusion. I love my regular coffee machine but it has no mechanism to hold the water in.

Does such a thing exist? I can’t find anything that is not manual. I’ve tried a larger French press with a paper filter but that gets messy quickly. Any suggestions?

Thanks ☕

  • beeng@discuss.tchncs.de
    3·
    16 days ago

    I do cold coffee a few different ways per week.

    Cold brew the night before. 50g in 900ml soaked over night, then through a V60 filter into a glass in the morning. If it doesn’t filter well at the end, I stack 2 filter, a metal mesh filter cone on top of the v60.

    Aeropress into a cocktail shaker (Boston small side, metal) then float it and spin it in cold water inside the bigger side. Metal Conducts the heat real well and pulls down the heat fast. But this is small batch.

    If you’re making so my much per week, not sure why you couldn’t pre batch some cold brew.

    • psilotop@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      15 days ago

      I appreciate the suggestion, but we all just prefer the flavor of coffee that is brewed hot and immediately chilled (measured amount of ice is part of the recipe). Also, sometimes I don’t realize how fast it’s running out and I want to make a batch to drink on the same day.

      • beeng@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        14 days ago

        I’ve just ordered copper pipe that I’m going to coil and put through my cocktail shaker with cold running water.

        Ok I get it. But if you’re already doing ice why not just filter machine with ice after?

          • beeng@discuss.tchncs.de
            1·
            13 days ago

            I’ve tried it, I don’t mind it. Didn’t taste the difference too much, but my favourite is aeropress and cooled in the cocktail shaker with running water over the walls, strong, then over ice.

            But I’m only making 1 or 2, big batch I can see would be annoying. Big batch I cold brew pre batch with ice pour over and a touch of salt.

            Maybe my copper coil will be revolutionary :D