Orea O1 recipe at home: 1:18 pour-over step by step
Orea O1 recipe at home (1:18)
Looking for an Orea O1 recipe? Our house pour-over on the flat-bottom Orea O1 uses a 1:18 ratio (20 g / 360 g), a 60 g bloom, and three even pours at 93 °C. The step-by-step also lives under How to brew — Orea O1; this note explains why the flat bed behaves the way it does and how to dial it in at home.
What you need
- Orea O1 dripper and flat-bottom paper filters — we carry the Orea O1 in the shop.
- 20 g medium-ground specialty coffee (600–800 µm).
- 360 g water at 93 °C, gooseneck kettle, and a scale.
The 1:18 house recipe
- Rinse the paper filter with hot water to remove papery taste and preheat the Orea; discard the rinse water.
- Add 20 g medium-ground coffee, level the bed, and tare the scale.
- Bloom: pour 60 g of water at 93 °C and gently saturate all the grounds.
- Once the bloom has drained, pour in slow spirals up to 160 g.
- When that pour has drained, add water up to 260 g.
- When it drains again, add water up to 360 g and let it draw down fully — the flat bed drains evenly.
Why flat-bottom extraction is forgiving
A flat coffee bed keeps depth more even from edge to center than a steep cone, so flow is less dependent on a perfect pour. For the cone-vs-flat trade-offs (Orea, Kalita Wave, V60), see our flat-bottom vs cone dripper guide. Water chemistry still matters: the SCA Coffee Standards summarize target ranges for brewing water, and World Coffee Research publishes origin and quality research we use when talking about green coffee.
Dialing grind and pour
- Grind: start medium (600–800 µm). If the cup tastes thin or sour, grind a notch finer; if it tastes harsh or muddy, go coarser. Particle-size basics are in The science of grinding.
- Pour: slow spirals, no aggressive agitation. The Orea’s flat bed rewards even saturation over height or swirl tricks.
- Water: at Toluca altitude water boils near 91 °C, so use it freshly off the boil for this 93 °C target, or see perfect water temperature for coffee.
Try it at TOLO
Whole-bean coffee and filter gear are in the TOLO shop. If you’re in Toluca, taste it at the bar at TOLO Pino Suárez, Blvr. José María Pino Suárez 800, Col. Cuauhtémoc.
