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originally it was borrowed from the materials production industry, like wood
pulping.”

However, what started out as a way to reduce mess slowly morphed into a more
sophisticated way to obtain a better brew — or at least so people thought. The
theory was that by reducing static electricity, water not only kept the ground
coffee from flying around or sticking to the insides of the grinder, it also
prevented microscopic clumps from forming during brewing.

Why are clumps bad? Because water flows around them, leaving untouched coffee —
and therefore flavor — behind. In barista parlance, they decrease extraction
yield, or the amount of coffee that ends up in the cup, dissolved in the liquid.

“If you have clumps forming, there’s going to be significant amounts of void
space, kind of like when you stack watermelons,” Hendon said. “As a result when
you push water through you end up with less surface area touching the water and
therefore lower extraction.”

The study, published December 6 in the journal Matter, tested this more subtle,
harder to see potential benefit of adding water to the beans: getting rid of
flavor-robbing microclumps.

Start with a single drop of water and build up from there, experts say.
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PUTTING ‘ROSS DROPLET’ TO THE TEST

The research team included two volcanologists, who repurposed a tool usually
employed to measure electric charges on wildfire and volcanic ash. They weighed
coffee before adding water — using a pipette for precision down to the microgram
— and then ground it in a professional grinder, one of the fastest on the market
and a popular choice in cafes.

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“The addition of small amounts of water — ranging from one droplet upwards —
passivates, or turns off, the static charge and it does it in a way that the
coffee exits the grinder never having been charged,” Hendon said. It’s unclear
what exactly the water is doing, but he said it’s perhaps absorbing the charge
or changing the temperature inside the grinder, reducing the effects of
friction.

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“If you add a sufficient amount of water, you can also remove the formation of
the clumps,” he added. “You will in principle achieve higher extractions or less
waste. That’s exactly what this does, because you’re now providing more
available surface area for the same amount of water.”

Without clumps, all of the brewing water comes into contact with the ground
beans, reducing the amount of coffee that goes effectively unused and giving a
more consistent brew.

The ideal amount of water can change based on parameters such as the type of
roast and the coarseness of the grind, so there is no one-size-fits-all rule,
but on average, the study found that adding water increases the extraction yield
by 10%. Hendon warned that this doesn’t necessarily equate to a tangible
difference in flavor, but it does confirm the benefit of the “Ross droplet”
technique.

“(Since the study published) I’ve been receiving a lot of emails from people
telling me how grateful they are, because from just a cleanliness standpoint,
this is a massive, massive upgrade,” Hendon said. “What I would recommend for
the home user is to start with a single drop of water and build up from there —
there is a substantial amount of nuance in this process.”

There’s also a catch: The water improves cleanliness regardless of your brewing
method, but a brewing benefit only occurs with espresso and, to a lesser extent,
filter coffee. When using a cafetiere, French press or AeroPress, nothing much
changes because, given the coarser grind required with these, “all of the water
is already touching all of the coffee,” Hendon said.


THE QUEST FOR A BETTER BREW

Lance Hedrick, a coffee expert and professional barista who wasn’t involved with
the study, has tried to replicate the study’s findings and discussed his results
in a deep dive on YouTube. He said the work makes a valiant attempt to demystify
what is going on when beans are spritzed with water, but for more conclusive
evidence, more tests with different grinder models should be performed.

However, based on his own tests, he said he thinks the benefits are plausible.


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“I found that the amount of water needed for the purported benefits varied
wildly from grinder to grinder,” he added. “So, although I don’t think there is
currently a practical catch-all implication from the study to immediately
improve coffee brewing at home, I think it is an important addition to the
attempts at hand trying to understand the extremely complex process of grinding,
which is arguably the most important aspect of brewing a cup.”

François Knopes of the Independent Coffee Lab, a professional coffee roaster and
taster who also was not involved with the study, said he routinely sprays his
beans before grinding for tasting evaluation and would recommend doing so to
anyone in a home setting. However, he thinks doing so elsewhere might be
impractical.

“It would be highly time consuming for most professional setups, such as a
coffee shop serving hundreds of espresso-based drinks per day,” Knopes said. “To
improve and increase extraction, professional baristas are better off looking
for improved grinding technologies or ‘de-clumping’ devices, little needles used
to whisk the grounds and break the small boulders generated during grinding.”

Hendon agreed. “For the time being, it is a little impractical in the sense that
you’d have yet another step,” he said. “But I suspect that there will be
technologies that will be developed around this idea that adding water on demand
is a very powerful technique.”

Correction: An earlier version of this story misspelled Lance Hedrick’s last
name.


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