(pseudo) Literary and artistic youth must have! No matter how bitter it is, I would like to enjoy the mocha pot coffee.

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When it comes to the logo of literary youth, Xiaobian first thinks of "manual".

For example, the camera should use a film machine, must manually focus; cigarettes only smoke cigarette paper rolls, the best tobacco also grow their own; single coffee must be freshly ground, Espresso is no exception, must cook by themselves!

To cook Espresso by hand, of course, you need a mocha pot. In foreign countries, mocha pot is called "Espresso pot", literally translated as "espresso pot". So it's no surprise when we taste the rich flavor of mocha pot coffee. In Italy, a good mother must be able to brew good espresso coffee, so almost every family will have a family mocha pot, and nearly 90% of Italian families choose the "Bialetti" mocha pot.

Bialetti mocha pot

Bialetti was founded in 1919 in the small town of Omegna, Italy, mainly producing aluminum semi-finished products and foundry, and later set up a design department in line with entrepreneurial spirit, making the world's first mocha pot in 1933. Mocha pots have greatly changed the lives and eating habits of Italians.

Bialetti Brikka mocha pot

The most famous mocha pot in the coffee world is this model Brikka mocha pot, also known as the "double pressure valve" series, because it has a special design called "pressure valve", which can extract the legendary "crema" comparable to the Italian coffee machine.

The appearance of the aluminum pot body is not easy to maintain, and the inner wall looks more crude, but in fact this is intentional, not because the process is backward or cut corners_because the aluminum pot body is easy to absorb coffee grease, more coffee grease flows down, just like raising purple clay pot, the older the coffee brewed, the more delicious it is. (That is, the dirtier the pot, the better the coffee tastes...)

Bialetti Brikka mocha pot

Bring the pot. Registered trademark is uncle moustache. The image was laser-engraved and could never be erased. off

Spout design that doesn't leak when pouring coffee.

Transparent cover, many people say it is glass, but it should be acrylic. (Or is the old model really glass?)

Stainless steel accumulator valve, removable for cleaning.

On the bottom of the pot, the rubber band can be removed for cleaning.

Coffee powder tank.

Lower pot, that navel is a pressure relief valve.

Inside the pot.

Bottom of the pot. Made in Italy. The new model appears to have been made in Romania.

Making coffee with Bialetti Brikka mocha pot

Add water into the kettle, and the water volume shall not exceed the bottom of the water stop line and pressure relief valve.

The powder trough is filled with coffee powder. The use of mocha pots does not require compaction with a tamper.

Clean the coffee powder around the powder trough. Filter paper is optional.

Lower pot and powder trough combined. All units combined! Lock the upper and lower pots tightly! Lock it very tight!

Induction cooker or open fire can be cooked so that even if it is finished!

Italian household gas stoves have a burner that is specially designed for mocha pot use in a size. Of course, there is no domestic gas stove, the stove mouth is too large to use directly, so it is recommended to buy another small stove or cook directly with an induction cooker, there are some electric bases, usually a treasure is easy to find.

Of course, if conditions permit, it should be recommended to burn firewood to cook, so that it is in line with the manual spirit!

How to determine the authenticity of "Bialetti" Mocha pot?

1. There are machine prints of origin, designer name and company name at the joint. The image of "Uncle Moustache" was engraved with laser light, and it could not be erased at once.

2. All octagonal pots are made of aluminum alloy. The starting point should be smooth and textured. There will be trachoma or slight burrs in some places, but they will not cut hands. In general, they should be absolutely smooth and angular.

3. Complements are welcome.

Mocha pot coffee operation skills

First, do not easily use mocha pot to make single-item coffee. Because in terms of making a single product, the control of water temperature is the first important condition, followed by the control of grinding degree. These two basic conditions are prerequisites for making a single product coffee, which can be summarized in one sentence as "constant temperature and normal pressure". The brewing principle of the mocha pot determines that its temperature cannot be controlled at will, and there is even no good way to cool it.

Therefore, mocha pot to do single-item coffee is usually easy to high temperature extraction and coke bitter.

Second, the correct choice of coffee beans suitable for mocha pot. From the manufacturing principle of the mocha pot, it is the use of steam generated by high temperature and high pressure to extract coffee, and "high temperature and high pressure" is precisely the most unsuitable for making single coffee, but only suitable for Espresso (here Espresso does not refer to Italian coffee machine that kind of "constant temperature, high pressure, fast" extraction of espresso coffee), it should be the correct choice of coffee beans Italian mix beans, its requirements for roasting and grinding are completely different from single coffee beans.

Third, mocha pot is an easy to learn coffee brewing tool. Mocha pot itself is a popular, family-oriented simple brewing coffee tool, its technical operation requirements are very low and easy to master, otherwise it will not be well-known in Italy, women and children will be the degree, so the brewing process of mocha pot coffee should be simple and easy to use. If it's too complicated, you must be doing something wrong.

Fourth, do not attempt to use mocha pot to make espresso coffee machine. A lot of people see mocha pot is also the same as the Italian machine is the use of steam pressure, so try to use mocha pot to make Italian machine that kind of espresso coffee, this is still due to lack of in-depth understanding of mocha pot and Italian machine brewing principle of the huge difference, one is "high temperature and high pressure", the other is "constant temperature, high pressure, fast", so this attempt is completely futile, just like a digital card small camera trying to shoot a SLR full-frame camera large aperture that kind of background blur fantasy effect, Although the principle is similar, but because the hardware conditions are completely different, the final effect will be completely different.

Fifth, if you want to avoid too high water temperature and over-extraction, you can heat the pot separately to reach more than 95 degrees, and then put it into a cold powder bowl and coffee powder for normal extraction. Reducing the soaking time of the powder in the water will achieve the purpose of preventing over-extraction, so that the coffee cooked is full of sweetness and bitterness is reduced!

At the same time, the heat source needs to be controlled, that is, the time between hot water passing through coffee powder is controlled. If the heat source firepower is too small, and the extraction time is too long, it will also be easy to over-extract.

6. Don't be fooled by dazzling production tools. The biggest mistake and flaw of the newcomer It lies in the correct understanding, identification and selection of different coffee appliances. Their love for all kinds of exquisite coffee tools, especially Italian machines, far exceeds the coffee beans themselves. In the randomness and inaccuracy of the operation procedures, the coffee brewed by the mocha pot is bitter and difficult to swallow. Therefore, it is difficult to master the mocha pot.

In fact, no matter how exquisite the coffee making tools are, they are all for coffee beans, and their ultimate goal is to have a cup of good coffee. The ultimate goal of a true coffee master is a good cup of coffee, not a tool.

Finally, send mocha pot coffee operation video, for your novice reference:

Video Source: Food Desk