Do you put your Switch on the decanter on the scale? Do you pour into the Switch and then move the Switch to the decanter? Do you measure into another container then pour that into your Switch?
After relocating to California into a house less than half the size of our mid-West house, I’ve correspondingly downsized my coffee set-up to just a Hario Switch. I’m struggling with the best process for managing the moving parts.
I decant into an insulated coffee mug. The Switch isn’t light, and with the mug, 440g of water, and 36g of coffee it’s well over a kg on a little scale designed for fine measurements. Plus it all feels a bit precarious balanced on the scale. Consequently, I pour into the Switch while on the scale and then move it to the mug for decanting. This too is precarious, as the glass of the Switch is too hot to handle without mitts, and lifting it by the rubber base is treacherous: I once didn’t lift the Switch high enough and bumped the mug and splashed hot water on my hand. Alternatively, I could measure the hot water into yet another handled glass decanter and then pour that over the grounds in the Switch on the mug.
So what are your tricks? Do you use an oven mitt to handle the water-filled Switch, or do you just balance by the base, or do you do something else?
Postscript: I discovered that if you pick a community and then switch the post type, Piefed resets the community to the first one in your subscription list. Which for me is !3dprinting@lemmy.ml. So that’s where I posted this first. Sorry, !3dprinting!
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Until my glass carafe broke in an unfortunate marmite incident, the carafe, switch, grounds, and water all went on the scale. Didn’t seem to affect the accuracy of the scale using ~1kg on it each day.
Now, if I’m using it as a steeping method (closed) it can go straight on the scales with no receiver, and taken off when time to get the coffee out. If I’m using it as pourover, the glass/mug takes the place of the carafe and the whole thing goes on the scales.
I have a small(?) 250ml Switch, so grabbing it by the rubber base and moving it doesn’t feel precarious
I have a small(?) 250ml Switch
Yeah, I think this is what makes the difference. Since I posted I’ve been moving the Switch immediately after pouring, and I’ve found that I can do it before the glass heats up enough to be uncomfortable. Holding a full large Switch by the top feels much safer than trying to balance it from the bottom!
On my cup on my scale. I used to do “switch on scale then transfer to cup” but the number of times I’ve forgotten to close the switch before pouring is embarrassing…
How big was your previous coffeemachine that you had to change it after moving?
It took up a fair bit of space.
Even if I didn’t have the grinder or tamping stuff there, we don’t have countertop space to put the Elektra. It sticks up past the bottom edge of the cabinets in this house, too, so it’d have to be perched out on the edge of the counter.
Perhaps a bigger scale would help you feel more stable? I used to brew into the mug with a 3d printed riser (the switch silicone dips pretty low into most mugs). I now use a Hario 03 decanter and it helps cool the coffee down too which is nice. I brew to completion into the decanter all on the scale and I’m using a glass 03 switch which is a real beast! I brew for two with this sometimes too. Ive been doing this for years with no issue. It may just be an acclimation thing.
I think I thought I had a 02 but I just checked and it’s an 03.
I’ve been trying to move it immediately after I finish pouring, and I’ve found if I’m prompt and move quickly, and grasp the rim, it’s uncomfortable but not painful.
I wish I had access to a 3D printer. What I need is to print a big hoop, slightly smaller in diameter that the rim, with a handle. I’m surprised nobody makes an after-market one TBH. Something like this:
Have you tried just grabbing the rubber? One thing I love about the switch is that if I turn it off I can just pop it directly on the counter top and I usually don’t get as much as a single drop coming out of it.
Yes; it’s just the 03 is really top-heavy when it’s filled to the rim, which is almost is at 440ml of water and 36g of coffee. I mean, most of the time it’s fine, but as I said, I bumped it once moving it like that {grasping the rubber base) and sloshed near-boiling water on my hand. It was the motivation for my post :-)
I put it above my cup directly (I have a smaller one). I would pour some water in, enough to cover the grounds, then wait 30 seconds. Then I would put the switch half way (to reduce pull speed), empty it, refill until grounds, wait for it to empty, I would repeat this a few times (enough to use up half the water). Then I would close the switch, fill up the switch with the water left and let it sit for 4 minutes, then I would drain at half speed the rest.
I switched for a French press a week ago because mine has a rubber base and even though it was technically food safe, the thought of running hot water through rubber a few times a day didn’t really sit well with me.
Hah! When we first moved here I was using a French Press, because I had it. It doesn’t make my favorite coffee, though, so I went the other direction and got a Switch. That’s funny.
