一些人来到店里看到吧台上的花，会赞赏花的美丽，那是要归功于我们的老主顾小宁同学坚持赠花；一些人来到店裡吐槽说浆果太任性，竟然用「它」来做插花瓶！当然，后者应该是骨灰级咖啡人，因为他们知道，那个瓶瓶叫做CHEMEX。喜欢Ian Fleming 007系列的朋友都知道，邦德的最爱就是拿CHEMEX冲咖啡；美国经典肥皂剧「Friends 老友记」的背景中，CHEMEX也曾出现过。
好了，言归正传，浆果就把所学关于CHEMEX的知识和故事分享给大家。希望对它有兴趣的亲们可以了解到更多关于CHEMEX。中英文对照的喔！The Chemex Coffeemaker is a manual, pour-over style glass-container coffeemaker, which Peter Schlumbohm invented in 1941, and which continues to be manufactured, by the Chemex Corporation in Chicopee, Massachusetts.CHEMEX是一种手冲壶，它将过滤杯和滴漏壶组合在一起，全部玻璃材质，腰身由木头环在玻璃最细的腰处，以羊皮系之固定。它是由德国著名发明家彼得史洛姆波在1941年发明的。并由位于美国麻省的Chemex公司投入批量生产。In 1958, designers at the Illinois Institute of Technology said that the Chemex Coffeemaker is "one of the best-designed products of modern times", and so is included to the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. 在1958年，伊利诺伊斯理工学院的设计师们曾说“Chemex咖啡壶是现代社会最好的产品设计之一“，也包括收藏在纽约城布鲁克林的现代艺术博物馆。The Chemex Coffeemaker consists of an narrow-waist glass flask and uses proprietary paper filters, made of chemically bonded paper (of thicker-gauge paper than the standard paper filters for a drip-method coffeemaker) which remove most of the coffee oils, and so brew coffee with a taste that is different than the taste of coffee brewed in other coffee-making systems; also, the thicker paper of the Chemex coffee filters might assist in removing cafestol, a cholesterol-elevating compound found in coffee oils.CHEMEX咖啡滴滤杯是一个中间小蛮腰，两边宽的类似烧杯一样的玻璃瓶，其滤纸并非通用，而是专有的特制化学键合成纸，其特点是要比普通的滴滤纸密度小而厚实。因此，CHEMEX冲泡出来的咖啡与其他手冲器具相比，油脂过滤得更透彻，口感明亮干净。另外，它还可以过滤掉一些不溶于水的化合物，如咖啡胆固醇等等。CHEMEX冲泡咖啡步骤如下：1. Fill your kettle and set to boil. 烧水。
2. Weigh out whole bean coffee. 量豆。浆果建议：做12盎司的咖啡用415克水、26克咖啡豆、冲泡时间4分钟；做16盎司的咖啡用525克水、33克咖啡豆、冲泡时间5分钟；24盎司的咖啡用800克水、50克咖啡豆，萃取6分钟。
3. Place a filter into the top compartment of the Chemex making sure the 3-layered side is facing the spout. This will allow air to escape during the brew process. 将滤纸对折，再对折，形成圆锥状（如下图，萌妻的小胖手超可爱啊有木有！），并打开。把有三层纸的那一面开在CHEMEX有豁口的地方，这是为了在萃取咖啡过程中释放瓶里的气体。
4. Rinse the filter with ample water, around 16oz, to prevent any papery taste from affecting the brew. This also preheats the Chemex. 用热水清洗滤纸，以免滤纸中的纸浆味和萤光剂影响咖啡口感，也起到了温壶的作用。
5. once thoroughly saturated, tip the Chemex over a sink to dispose of the rinse water. Don’t be tempted to remove the filter to empty faster; it can be difficult to secure back into place once removed. 当滤纸全部浸湿，将CHEMEX壶里的水顺著豁口倒入水池。不要到的太快，否则滤纸会脱落。如果脱落了就会很难再将滤纸放入上部分瓶中了。6. Place your Chemex, complete with rinsed filter, on the scale and tare to zero.将做完以上准备工作的CHEMEX壶放到称上，归零。7. Grind your coffee and add it to the Chemex filter. Check to see that the coffee weight hasn’t changed after grinding—then tare to zero again.开始磨咖啡豆，并将其导入滤纸中，查看一下称上显示的咖啡重量与想要冲泡的咖啡克数是否一致，如果没问题，归零。
8. Start your timer and pour twice as much water as coffee (i.e. 26g coffee x 2 = 52g water) over the grounds. The goal is even saturation, so pour slowly in a clockwise pattern. Don’t worry if you see a few drips falling through. This bloom allows the coffee to de-gas, enabling the water to yield the full potential of the coffee. This is an essential step that should never be rushed.开始计时，首先缓缓画圆注入咖啡粉重量两倍的水，加入26克咖啡粉的话就是加52克水，目的是为了焖蒸咖啡从而排除危害口感的二氧化碳以及在烘焙热解反应中生成的藻气。不要担心会滴下去几滴，反正，不用担心。这一步骤太重要了，千万别急，它会影响你的咖啡的味谱是否明显，干净。
9. After about a minute, add water in stages (around 70–100g at a time) until you reach the desired final brew weight, making sure that the grounds are never exposed to air until the brew is finished. Concentrate the pour towards the center of the Chemex, working your way outwards to about a centimeter from the edge of the slurry. The water stream from the pouring kettle should be slow enough to fall straight down, not at an angle.一分钟之后，每一次加入70-100克的水，知道达到目的水量。切忌咖啡粉脱水，不用画圈，往中心点缓缓流下即可。水柱应该与CHEMEX垂直。水壶口与水面之间的水柱要达到1厘米以上。
10. once the drips stall to every couple of seconds, your brew is finished. If your grind was correct, and you poured at the right speed, this should have taken between 4-5 minutes. Remove the filter and discard. Enjoy!4-5分钟正确萃取后将滤纸同咖啡渣拿掉，就可以享用一杯美味的CHEMEX咖啡啦！
哦，对了，还有最后一步，就是要把吧台收拾干净，否则又要被舒展骂了。浆果夫妇上次去日本东京浅草那边自带了3个CHEMEX，一个在插花，一个卖了，还有一个。面对国内猖獗的仿货，我们只把那仅有的一个卖给真正懂它的人。
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