Benetti’s Ben Helt wants to help you make the perfect cup of coffee
Ben Helt knows that there’s a perfect cup of coffee out there. That’s why the 38-year-old co-owner of Benetti’s Coffee (6109 Blue Ridge Boulevard, Raytown) went to Panama in January (where he visited coffee farms and helped a friend’s bed and breakfast with its barista program). And it’s why he has spent six years perfecting styles – drip coffee, pour-over coffee, and cowboy coffee (a pot of grounds and water over an outdoor open flame) – for his Raytown roasting business.
“The idea was to strip away every toy,” Helt says of the campfire experiment, conducted during last year’s Caffeine Crawl. “We wanted to really focus on all of the variables that we manipulate to make coffee.”
Fat City asked him how coffee perfectionists might begin their own quest at home.
