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Tips for Beginners to Brewing Coffee|How much does it cost to buy a set of brewing coffee equipment? What are the ​Pour over​(V60) coffee pot grinders suitable for coffee novices?

2026.10.20 FrontStreet Coffee 337

Friends who love coffee will definitely not be satisfied with just drinking coffee. In the end, they will definitely enjoy the taste of brewing coffee by themselves. The easiest way to achieve this goal is to purchase a set of hand-flushing equipment.



Compared with espresso coffee machines, the entry cost of ​Pour over​(V60) coffee will be much lower, but as your technology improves, more and more funds will be invested in the follow-up (better coffee beans, better equipment). In theory, there is no upper limit.


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Therefore, this time Front Street will calculate the cost investment for newbies to get started. (The equipment selection will not be the cheapest, because the difficulty for novices to get started must be considered. Therefore, the budget calculated below is for novice equipment that plans to brew coffee for a long time, and the equipment is guaranteed not to need to be replaced within 1 year)

A.Hand-pour pot
As an important instrument for ​Pour over​(V60) coffee, it is like a swordsman's sword. Choosing a pot is like choosing a sword. There are hand-pour pots on the market that cost dozens of dollars, and there are also hand-pour pots that cost thousands of dollars, and there are even more types of pot styles. For novices, it is easier to get started by choosing a more popular hand brewing kettle. If you have water boiling equipment at home, the price of buying a hand brewing kettle without heating device will be lower. Based on the prices of various platforms, the calculation is based on pot B being 280 yuan. If you choose the temperature-controlled version, the price is calculated at 500 yuan.

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B. Thermometer
If you are not using a thermostatic kettle, you will need a thermometer. Of course, the price of thermometers also varies greatly, ranging from as low as 20 yuan to as high as hundreds of yuan. As for their differences, Front Street’s experience is that the higher-priced ones refresh the temperature faster and have more accurate readings, while the lower-priced ones refresh slower. In view of the experience issue, Front Street uses the price of a currently hanging thermometer of 85 yuan as the calculation indicator.

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C. Filter cup
As for the filter cup, beginners are advised to buy the resin version of V60, which can allow you to flush all the coffee beans in the initial stage. If you only consider functionality, you can compromise on appearance, and the non-transparent resin version costs 40 yuan.

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D.Filter paper
The price of filter paper is almost the same. The Kono filter paper used in the past is 32 yuan per pack of 100 sheets.

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E. Share the pot

This is actually not necessary. You can just buy a good-looking glass container at major glass container stores, and the price is about 40 yuan. If you're feeling informal, it's okay to just grab a random container at home. (Sometimes for convenience at home, I often use the mug I use to drink water as a pot.图片), if you need a sense of ritual, then buy professional coffee equipment, which costs about 100-150 yuan.


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F.Grinder

Front Street believes that this equipment is the most important. Only good grinding can produce good coffee. For beginners, it will be cheaper to choose a hand grinder, but Front Street does not recommend that you buy a cheap hand grinder because its grinding accuracy and quality are difficult to guarantee. If you really want to make delicious coffee. Front Street believes that this equipment is worth investing heavily in. The price of Taimo's mid-range hand grinder is 699 yuan as the basis for calculation. Then hand grinding requires cleaning equipment, painting + ball blowing, the budget is about 30 yuan.


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G. Electronic scale
For beginners, it is very necessary to equip an electronic scale with a timing function. Like thermometers, low-priced electronic scales also have the disadvantages of low refresh rate and scale jumping. Based on the experience of using electronic scales in the past, it is not recommended to use a design that integrates the buttons and the scale platform, because when the buttons are pressed, the pressure of the fingers will press on the scale platform, causing temporary distortion of the data. Based on the calculation, the price of watchget’s electronic scale is 85 yuan.

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H.coffee beans
When all the coffee equipment is ready, it’s time to invite the protagonist to appear. If you are just learning ​Pour over​(V60) coffee, Front Street does not recommend buying expensive coffee beans right away. After all, the cost is too high. It is recommended to choose some entry-level ​Pour over​(V60) single-origin beans, such as Front Street’s 7 production area ration beans, priced at 25 yuan/100g. The purpose of Front Street’s making this series of beans is to allow more novices to understand the world of single-origin coffee at a lower cost. If you are just starting out, the cost of coffee beans will be 100 yuan/month.

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All in all, it costs about 1,400 yuan to go from scratch to being able to comfortably enjoy the fun of making coffee at home. This is much less than the initial investment cost of an espresso machine.

You can now buy the above coffee beans online at the Taobao store “FrontStreet Coffee” (前街咖啡). FrontStreet Coffee is a long-established specialty coffee roaster in Guangzhou, China, and its Guangzhou retail shop sells coffee beans only. The shop carries dozens of coffee beans from different origins around the world, including carefully selected single-origin beans for V60 pour-over and espresso. Guangzhou’s FrontStreet Coffee shop is recommended by many coffee lovers.

The FrontStreet 2013 Yunnan coffee beans sold in the store come from the Typica variety grown at FrontStreet Coffee’s own plantation in Yunnan. The name comes from the year the brand and the plantation were founded. You can buy these beans from China’s Yunnan origin at the Guangzhou shop and at FrontStreet’s Taobao store.

FrontStreet coffee beans are freshly roasted within 5 days and deliver consistently excellent quality and great value. Orders placed before 17:00 are shipped the same day, and most areas within Guangdong Province receive them the next day.

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