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Recipes for Switch

The advantage is you can use immersion AND pour through as you want.

If you replace the cone with a V60 03 (bigger cone), you can do a larger amount.

Current Go To

Steals a bit from Tetsu’s 4:6 and different temperature methods 30g coffee 400g water

  1. Preheat Mugen and grind
  2. Open switch
  3. Bloom with 60g water, let draw down and/or 30 seconds. Whichever is longer.
  4. Slowly pour 140g water (200g total). Let draw down
  5. Slowly pour 100g water (300g total). Let draw down.
  6. Close switch - add 250mL of cold or room temperature water to kettle to cool. Swirl in kettle to help cool it down to ~70C
  7. Pour 100g water. Let sit 1 minute
  8. Open

Hario

16g coffee
50g water, bloom for 30 seconds
210g water (240 total)
Let immerse 2 min. Hit switch at 2:30 and drain

Eight Ounce Coffee

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XXwrrGWOINQ

20g coffee
60g water, let steep 1 minute
Drain
Close, 40g water (100g total), open
Close, 50g water (150g total), open
Close, 50g water (200g total), open
Close, 100g water (300g total), open

Total brew time is 4-5 minutes.

Tale’s Stall the Fall

https://youtu.be/4wMyaw0FoZs

  1. Boil water
  2. Rinse filter and heat Switch
  3. Close Switch
  4. Pour 260g water (just off boil)
  5. Add 20g coffee (very fine grind)
  6. 40 sec clockwise stir with chopstick (vigorous to start, gentle after all grounds are wet)
  7. Open Switch
  8. 5 sec vigorous clockwise stir
  9. Total brew time should be 1:30-1:40 (max 2:00)

Hoffmann

https://youtu.be/QjIvN8mlK9Y

Tetsu Kasuya - 2023

20g coffee 280g water (93 C) Using 13 on an Encore (normally use 15 for V60)

Leave Switch Open

  1. Pour 60g water
  2. Wait 30 seconds
  3. Pour second 60g water (120g total)
  4. Cool down to 70C
  5. At 01:15 - close
  6. Pour to 280g
  7. 30 seconds later (01:45) - open
  8. Remove at 03:00 - if too much water left over - try a more coarse grind

References the 4:6 method he also came up with.

4:6 Method (Tetsu Kasuya)

2016 V60 winning recipe

40g coffee 600g water

  1. (00:00) Bloom with 100g, wait 45 seconds
  2. (00:45) Add next pulse (140g), wait 45 seconds
  3. (01:30) Add next pulse (120g), wait 45 seconds
  4. (02:15) Add next pulse (120g), wait 45 seconds
  5. (03:00) Add next pulse (120g), wait 45 seconds
  6. (03:30) Remove

The basic is 5 x 120g pours But tweak the pours slightly for sweetness (long second pour) or acidity (longer first pour). Last 3 pours affect the strength of the coffee - 4 x 90 instead of 3 x120 can increase. 2 x 180 would reduce.

The advantage is you can use immersion AND pour through as you want and has become my daily driver at home - especially using a mix of immersion and pour over / pulse

Generic

16g coffee
50g water, bloom for 30 seconds
210g water (240 total)
Let immerse 2 min. Hit switch at 2:30 and drain

If you replace the cone with a V60 03 (bigger cone), you can do a larger amount.

Sherry Hsu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCNxPYyGWoo 16g coffee 90C water 50 g water, bloom for 30 seconds Circular pour to 150g At 1:00, close switch, pour to 240g At 1:30, open switch and let drain. Total time should be 1:45-2:00

Iced Version

https://www.reddit.com/r/Coffee/comments/nnfs3d/iced_coffee_using_hario_switch/

23g coffee (finer than normal)
375g total liquid - 125g of ice into your brewing vessel, 250g hot water

Alt for the cubes at home.
33g coffee
540g liquid = 180g ice, 360 hot water

Rinse filter + preheat switch over the sink.

Bloom with 45-50g water for 45 second. Switch up.
Add rest of liquid (~200 grams to reach total of 250 grams)
Stir / Rao swirl
Let sit till 3 minute mark. Drop switch
Swirl vessel after full drawn down.

Mix of Immersion and Pour Over

30g coffee
50 g water, bloom for 30 seconds
210g water (240 total)
Let brew for 90 seconds, hit switch
Pour slowly the next 260g as normal for a v60

CoffeeChronicler https://coffeechronicler.com/hario-switch/

1:15 ratio
20g coffee
300g water

Pour 150g with switch open At 00:45 - Close switch, and pour rest of water Wait until 02:00 and then open.

For a sweeter version - close at 00:25

Should take 02:45-03:15 total

Switch with Mugen Hack

Background

I learned about using the Hario Mugen instead of the standard V60 cone with the Hario Switch from CoffeeGeek.

The tl;dr for why is that with a no-bypass brewer it can be a lot easier to do things consistently when you can’t or won’t give pour over the attention you should.

Testing

20g coffee 240g water

  1. Pour 40g. Wait 30 seconds to draw down and bloom
  2. Close. Pour remaining 200g water.
  3. Wait 60 seconds.
  4. Open and let draw down.

Reddit Recipes

https://new.reddit.com/r/pourover/comments/zzpc4y/hario_switch_base_with_mugen_cone_best_setup_for/

14g coffee (1:14)
Standard V60 grind
200g water

  1. Preheat and rinse paper
  2. Close Switch
  3. Bloom with 50g
  4. Swirl
  5. Add remaining 150g
  6. Let steep 2 minutes
  7. Swirl
  8. At 02:15 - open

CoffeeGeek Recipe

1:20 ratio
15g coffee
300g water

  1. Preheat/saturate filter
  2. Close switch
  3. Pour 150mL quickly
  4. Stir for 3-4 seconds
  5. Wait 60 seconds and open switch
  6. Pour last 150 mL slowly (~5g/s)
  7. Let draw down

Total time around 4 minutes

Other

Coffee Chronicler recommends same recipe as regular switch set up. Maybe a touch coarser grind

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