Flower coffee
Below, we thought we’d explain what it means to bloom the coffee. One of the tricky things about brewing fresh coffee is what happens when water and coffee meet. As soon as water comes into contact with the ground coffee, it releases a lot of trapped gases, mostly in the form of carbon dioxide. These gases have quite an impact on the resulting brew. When we pour water over the ground beans, it gets sucked into them slowly, drawing all the different flavors out of the coffee. To get good results, it’s important to make sure that this happens relatively evenly across the whole ‘coffee bed’ otherwise there’s a risk of large areas where not all the flavor is extracted. This means not only weaker coffee, but also coffee that tastes more acidic or salty. This is, for example, part of why the Ratio’s wide showerhead is so useful. With a manual pour over, you usually wait 30 seconds for the CO2 to settle. Luckily, your Ratio handles this for you, whether you knew it or not. The Ratio coffee maker delivers a small amount of water to moisten the powder in preparation for the entire brewing cycle. The distributed water then allows the freshly roasted coffee to breathe and the coffee will begin to “bloom.” The coffee will bubble slightly to signal that it is ready for the next phase. With Ratio, you get all the benefits of a bloom In this way, Ratio is more like a barista pour over than traditional coffee makers. Ratio’s bloom phase simulates what you would do by hand and gives you the flavor benefits together.
