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I love stuff Stuff Michael Loves Kalita Wave # 185, stainless steel Michael Harwood Sales & Training, Mahlkönig Carrboro, North Carolina Why do you love it? I love the Wave for its small footprint, quick cleanup, sharable brew size, durability, evenly extracting flat-bottom bed, no-rinse and slurry-insulating wave-shaped filter, low-conductivity stainless steel, a never-stalling draw down, and its good looks! Is it well suited for a café environment? The Wave's stainless-steel construction keeps it structurally sound through drops, dings, and travel. Most impor tantly, by draining the brew deliberately through three small holes, the Wave allows a busy barista to produce consistently delicious coffee. What kind of baristas would you recommend it to? Baristas who value an even extraction, ease of use, and sturdy construction from their pourover. Any special features you love? The waves of the filter are what's up. seconds until you hit 300 grams. At 1:45, pour 100 grams in 15 seconds until you hit 400 grams. Continue this 15 seconds on, 15 seconds off, pulse-pouring method until you've hit 600 grams at 3:00. Drainage takes 20–30 seconds for a total brew time of 3:30. Compost the spent grounds, rinse and scrub the dripper, then you're ready to brew again! Does this method make the coffee taste especially clean/sweet/etc.? Overall balance with a sweet acidity are the dominant features of my Wave brews. How do you use it? Rinse the Wave dripper with a little hot water, then shake it out. Insert a white Kalita #185 filter. (Keep your filters dent-free with careful handling.) No filter rinsing is necessar y. I dial in my grind to a medium, medium-coarse grind, about #4.5 on a Mahlkönig Guatemala Lab grinder. I start with a 1 to 1.5 recipe, which for the volume I want, works out to 40 grams coffee to 600 grams water. Clean the dr y grounds, chaff, and any fines picked up by static. Dose the cleaned grounds into the filter, then shake the bed to level. With your water at 207 degrees Fahrenheit, start your timer and pour 80 grams in 15 seconds in outward concentric circles to wet the coffee evenly. When the clock shows 0:45, pour 120 grams water in 15 seconds with the same pattern to arrive at 200 grams total. Use your pouring water to incorporate any high and dr y grounds stuck in the filter's ridges. At 1:15, pour 100 grams in 15 www.baristamagazine.com 49