Coffee utensils compete for ingenuity

Nowadays, not only white-collar workers, but many urban consumers regard coffee and coffee making as a kind of enjoyment of "slow life". In the process, some people found that coffee was delicious and fun, which further promoted the sales of coffee utensils and accessories. Statistics show that sales of coffee machines alone increased by more than 30% year-on-year last year.

Beijing Old International Exhibition held on August 8,"2014 China International Coffee Show" for consumers to bring what fun coffee equipment?

□ Reporter Zhao Xi/Wen

Chen Liguang/Photographer

Coffee bean roasting pan

From instant coffee to freshly ground coffee, as consumers gradually understand coffee culture, everyone's requirements for coffee taste are becoming more and more "demanding". Therefore, many people choose to grind their own beans and make coffee. Now, there is a group of consumers who are beginning to get involved in the forefront of coffee making, trying to roast their own coffee beans.

At the exhibition, the reporter saw a lot of related appliances, there are five or six thousand yuan of household small automatic baking machine, there are also 280 yuan baking pan. The latter is shown in the picture. According to the staff, this product can be used on ordinary gas stoves. Although the specific baking situation needs to be observed by the user at any time, the price is low. The reporter noticed that the opening reserved above this pot is very small, which is not convenient for pouring coffee beans. The staff member gestured to the reporter to carefully look at the position of the pot handle, this part is hollow, coffee beans are put in from above, handle position poured out.

Vintage hand grinder

For many people, grinding coffee beans with a hand grinder is definitely a chore, but this retro style of hand-cranked products is still selling well.

At the exhibition, an enterprise from Beijing, its agent's hand-operated bean grinder is full of a whole wall, large wheel, ceramic grinding core, cast iron accessories, adjustable thickness... all kinds, everything. Staff on-site demonstration: Take a spoonful of coffee beans, put them in the grinder, turn the wheel to grind them carefully, and the faint coffee fragrance slowly disperses in the air.

Above, brazilian coffee farmers grind coffee on site.

syphon pot

The siphon pot is definitely the top accessory for consumers to make coffee. By top-notch, it doesn't mean the price, but the degree of play.

At first glance, the siphon pot is more like a complex combination of various test tubes. The base is heated with water, and the coffee liquid rises with the water vapor, and then flows along the glass wall to the drip port, and the coffee is extracted.

At the exhibition, an exhibitor was making iced water extract coffee with the simplest convection siphon pot. Because this coffee pot was slow to make but strong to watch, a huge crowd was formed in front of the booth, enjoying it while waiting to taste it.

Pump type high pressure steam coffee machine

For consumers who love Italian coffee, the pump high pressure steam coffee machine is a must-have for making coffee. This product dissolves the oils and colloids in the coffee beans through emulsification under pressure of 15 Pa, and the essence of the coffee beans is completely extracted due to pressure. However, the pump type high-pressure steam coffee machine price is generally higher, the mid-range is at least nearly a thousand yuan.