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I just joined your server as a lemmy.world migrant and I’m a bit hesitant to resurrect old threads. 🥹
I’m getting started with Cold Brewing and the recipe I’m following says steep for 10-12hours, while the comments here says 20hours.
Is there a chance of over-extracting using the cold brew method? I’m usually either using dark roast robusta or dark roast arabica.
Thank you!
No worries, a week old in a not overly active community means nothing ;-)
I’ve yet to overextract a cold brew, though I guess it’s possible. What you could do to try is getting those small tea eggs (you know, those egg-shaped metal thingies meant to infuse water with tea) and break down the coffee to water ratio onto single cup volume. That way if you overextract at last you don’t waste a whole carafe.
You could even run an experiment with 5 cups or so and sample them in 4h intervals until you reach your personal sweet spot.
Oh and it also makes a difference whether you’re extracting at room temperature or in the fridge. Some people here commented 12h @room, others 20h in the fridge, so that might also apply to your recipe.
I do mine in the fridge, so it seems that 20h is the way to go.
I love the tea egg suggestion! I’ll definitely try this tonight! I drown my failed attempts in milk and chocolate syrup, it never occured to me to make smaller batches 🤦
Thank you so much and will update with the results tomorrow.
I’ve definitely drowned a bunch of failures as well in the past… Some were so vile I had to dump them altogether, but most were salvageable with some creamer… I found that oat milk actually works better to lift them up than regular milk. Somehow it adds to the texture.