Barista novice must know: a guide to the selection of coffee pots

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The coffee pot is an utensil for brewing coffee. It was produced in 1685 and became popular during Louis XV. With the continuous development of coffee, there are many kinds of coffee pots. The principle of coffee extraction from each coffee pot is different, and the taste of coffee is also very different. Today, let's learn about five kinds of coffee pots. Coffee lovers should not miss it.

The American coffee machine is a classic trickle filter extraction; when the power is turned on, the high heat element in the coffee pot quickly heats a small part of the water flowing from the water storage tank to boiling, and the steam pressure pushes the water into the aqueduct in turn, drips evenly into the filter containing coffee powder through the distribution plate, and then flows into the glass; after the coffee flows, the power will be cut off automatically. Switch to heat preservation; the insulation board at the bottom keeps the coffee at about 75 ℃.

Features: simple and fast, convenient and practical, suitable for office.

Palate: the coffee tastes light.

Tea maker-French pressure coffee pot

Originated around 1850; a simple brewing apparatus consisting of a heat-resistant glass bottle and a metal filter with a pressure bar. At first, it was often used to brew black tea, so it was also called tea maker. The principle of the pressure pot: the essence of coffee is released by soaking and stewing through the full contact between water and coffee powder.

Features: easy to operate, simple, necessary for business travel, first choice for office work.

Taste: it can best reflect the flavor of individual coffee and brew the Blue Mountain.

Balanced air stopper-siphon kettle

Siphon pot (Syphon), commonly known as "glass ball" or "siphon", is a simple and easy-to-use method of coffee brewing, and it is also one of the most popular coffee brewing methods in cafes. Although the siphon pot has the nickname of "plug wind type", it has nothing to do with the siphon principle, but uses water heating to produce water vapor, causing thermal expansion and cold contraction, pushing the hot water from the lower sphere to the upper pot, and then sucking back the water from the upper pot after the lower pot cools. I made a cup of pure coffee.

Features: manual operation is fun, suitable for friends gathering.

Taste: stewed and extracted, the best single cooking product, mellow, strong fragrance.

Mocha coffee maker

The mocha pot is divided into two parts: the water is placed in the lower part to boil to produce vapor pressure; the boiling water rises and passes through the upper half of the filter pot containing coffee powder; when the coffee flows to the upper half, turn off the fire (the mocha pot is rich in oil because it is extracted from coffee under high pressure). It's a good coffee pot for espresso.

Features: easy to operate and convenient; brewing espresso is the best.

Palate: the coffee is mellow and full-bodied with a slightly bitter taste

Belgian royal coffee pot

Also known as "balanced plug Pot" (BalancingSyphon); the inventor is James Napier, the British shipbuilder. Belgian pot, not only beautiful, gorgeous and become a high-end handicrafts, but also its working principle is strange. Drinking coffee is a rational and emotional game. If you want to drink coffee at home, you have to know the Belgian coffee pot. It was already the royal coffee pot of Belgium as early as the 19th century. In order to show the royal style, Belgian craftsmen took great pains to create this elegant kettle, wrapped in gold and cast copper, to make the originally ordinary coffee pot dazzling and dignified, as if it had brought a breath of aristocracy.

Features: brewing coffee is like an art performance, automatic brewing.

Taste: stewed and extracted coffee, the coffee tastes neither bitter nor astringent.

Five kinds of coffee pot, five kinds of extraction methods, five different coffee flavors, coffee lovers can choose their own coffee pot according to their own needs. If you want to know more about coffee pots, please continue to follow the Coffee tasting column of China Coffee Network.

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The arbitrariness and Freedom of the United States of Coffee Culture

In the United States, coffee has become a part of people's lives. In the classic American TV series Friends, the six protagonists will go to the coffee shop for a drink after work or when they have nothing to do, which can be said to be the epitome of American coffee life. American coffee originated in Italy, but it is very different from Italian coffee. Compared with Italian coffee, American coffee is more free and accompanied, which has created today's American coffee culture.

Before World War I, the United States did not have a high status in the international arena. Its history is very short and its cultural heritage is not deep. But it was not until after World War II that the world began to find that because of its unique inclusiveness and strong comprehensive national strength, the United States has a unique and trend-leading strength in the field of culture.

In this context, people begin to pay attention to American culture and development, including American coffee culture. American coffee with its own unique taste is gradually known by more and more people.

Simple American coffee is divided into two categories: the east coast of the United States is stronger than the west coast, and the south is stronger than the north. Ethnically speaking, immigrants from southern Europe and Latinos prefer strong coffee to those from Britain, Germany and northern Europe. Americans don't care about all kinds of exquisite coffee made by Europeans. Americans drink coffee freely, at the same time, coffee is so deep in their lives that it is difficult to separate, and the influence is so deep that it is not considered a life without coffee.

Americans can't do without coffee almost 24 hours a day, whether at home, in the office, in public, or at a roadside vending machine. In this way, it drinks 1/3 of the world's coffee production, making it the largest coffee consumer in the world.

It is said that the Apollo 13 spacecraft, which made its third manned landing on the moon, is said to have encountered a life-and-death failure on its way to the moon for the first time. At that time, the ground crew comforted the three astronauts by saying, "come on!" delicious hot coffee is waiting for your return! "

Americans drink coffee like an impromptu speech, which is not very purposeful and unprepared, but can infect people because they are "all the same". The unrestrained character of Americans and the pursuit of freedom, so that as long as they speak, they can win a large audience for themselves.

Similarly, the casual nature of brewing coffee also gives people a deeper sense of their unique culture. Of course, this kind of casual at the same time, American coffee is also the pursuit of refinement, is not without any pursuit of beauty.

In the United States, people come to have a cup of coffee in the morning and start a new life. The fast-paced life in the United States makes coffee more simple and capable, thus developing its own style, accompanying, free and refined, just like the American mind.