Oxo has a new rapid brewer that is supposedly good at making soup shots. I’ve seen some videos from Lance Hedrick recently talking about this and it seems pretty compelling for such an inexpensive piece of coffee gear. I’m curious if anybody here has tried this out, what your experience has been, and if you recommend any additional pieces of equipment in addition to the brewer to make good soup shots.
What’s a Soup Shot?
It’s from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GeFEwNfLZg
I watched the video when it came out. The soup shot is a high extraction (similar to espresso), quick pull, low pressure shot with relatively fine grinds.
I’m intrigued but not enough to replace my aeropress atm.
I think you make a shot with coarse coffee and no or nearly no pressure
So, the thing that happens when you forget to reset your grinder size and severely underextract espresso?
I actually bought one last month, but I haven’t had a chance to use it yet. I’ll try to bust it out this week and let you know what I get from it.
Lance seems quite smitten. I haven’t used my RB much, don’t take me to the bank, but the soup shots I have tried are surprisingly espresso-like: thick, viscous, engaging. Most surprisingly, they have (edit: can have) that curious espresso flavour, but specialty bean characteristics are submerged in mud, to my palate.
Maybe I’m not doing it quite right? Nor have I done it drastically wrong. The soup program seems to be foolproof on the RB at least for the basics. Personally this is not usually the coffee I want to drink. Pour-over is my mania, but RB scratches the itch for straight espresso pretty effectively.
