Brewing Guide: Pods.
Brewing Guide.
Written by WatchHouse .
Guide
Equipment.
- Pod machine
- Fresh water
- Coffee pods
- Coffee mug or server
Liquids
Water
Milk
Milk
Preparation and brewing.
- First, ensure your pod machine is on and suitably full of water.
- Select the coffee pod you’d like to brew.
- Open the lever and insert the pod.
- Close the lever, securing the pod, and place a cup or mug underneath.
- Select the setting you’d like to use for brewing, then brew.
- Take the cup away, release the pod by lifting the lever and closing it again.
- Enjoy.
Recommendations.
- Descale your machine. Removing limescale ensures the longevity of your pod machine and ensures the flavour of your brew is uncompromised. We recommend descaling your machine every 600 coffees or at least every six months. In areas with particularly hard water, such as London, consider descaling every 4–6 months.
- Use filtered water. Water generally makes up 90% of your cup of coffee, so being considerate of the water you use contributes to a great final cup. Filtered or bottled water contains the best balance of minerals needed to achieve coffee’s fullest potential when brewing; it’s why we use filtered water in all of our cafes.
- Many pod machines have programmable buttons that dispense a pre-set volume of water, giving you a certain weight out. If there’s an ideal weight out for a specific pod, you can programme the buttons accordingly to get a great result every time. See your machine’s manufacturing instructions for details. For our coffee pod ranges, we recommend:
- Rituals: Short 25–30g weight out, Long 70g weight out. Ventures: Short 25–30g weight out, Long 80g weight out. Horizons: Short 25–30g weight out, Long 60g weight out.
Morning Machine.
- The Morning Machine is the world’s first specialty pod brewing technology, integrating commercial and professional coffee machine features. It’s our machine of choice for an elevated at-home experience, with unrivalled technology including a built-in TDS meter to help you calibrate water to optimum brewing levels, and a second separate water spout that dispenses clean water to prepare a variety of beverages aside from coffee.
- The inbuilt scale helps you personalise brewing recipes easier than ever, and with the help of the fully integrated Morning Mobile app, you’ll find an incredible archive of recipes from some of the best specialty pod producers from around the world.
- If you are a Morning Pod Machine user, our recipes can be found on the Morning app; the perfect Rituals, Ventures, or Horizons brew is already in the palm of your hand.
