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Today, Qianjie Coffee shares with you how to use this coffee brewing apparatus that is popular all over Europe, that is, to teach you how to brew a cup of coffee in a mocha pot to your satisfaction.

Moka Pot is a tool for extracting espresso, which is widely used in Europe and Latin America. It is called "Italian dripping pot" in the United States.

The mocha pot was invented by Italian Alfonso Bayerlati (Alfanso Bialetti) in 1933 and brewed coffee by heating the pedestal. It is a kind of distilled coffee. It is one of the most civilian machines for making espresso and is widely used in Italian families. Alfonso Bialetti was an inventor and designer. After returning from his studies in France, Alfonso worked in Italy's thriving aluminum industry at that time.

In 1918, Alfonso founded his own factory and opened Bialetti, which began to sell aluminum-related metal products, including household cleaning appliances. Until one day, Alfonso observed the operation of the washing machine at that time and was inspired, so he had this coffee brewing apparatus.

Extraction principle of mocha kettle

Mocha pot is a common coffee brewing appliance in European families. Alfonso Bialetti invented the mocha pot in 1933 and rose in Italy, and now it is known as a must for every Italian family, and Bialetti mocha pot also accounts for half of the mocha pot market.

Qianjie has learned that many friends want to make espresso as thick as espresso at home. However, not everyone has the money and space to accept an espresso. As the most economical choice, there is no better choice than the mocha pot.

If you want to know how to make a good pot of mocha coffee, you first need to be familiar with the structure and working principle of the mocha pot.

The mocha pot is divided into three parts: the upper pot, the powder trough, and the lower seat. The lower pot is a sink for holding water, the powder trough is used to hold finely ground coffee powder, and the upper pot is to hold the extracted coffee liquid. The principle of the mocha pot to extract coffee is very simple, that is, using the vapor pressure produced in the next pot, when the vapor pressure is high enough to permeate the coffee powder, it will push the hot water to the upper pot and brew the strong coffee.

What kind of coffee beans is the mocha pot suitable for cooking?

Because the coffee that can be brewed by the mocha pot will be more thick in taste, the coffee with deep roasting degree can better reflect that mellow feeling. In addition, what we usually call the oil of espresso is actually composed of countless small bubbles of carbon dioxide. The deep-roasted coffee beans will be more rich in carbon dioxide gas. When you brew the deep-roasted coffee beans by hand, you can find that the exhaust activity of the coffee powder is very active during steaming.

Many people's imagination of the coffee brewed from the mocha pot is mostly rich and mellow and rich in oil. Therefore, the mocha pot is suitable for boiling some deep-roasted coffee beans. There are many kinds of deeply roasted coffee beans on the bean list of Qianjie Coffee, such as Queen Manor of Brazil, PWN Gold Manning of Indonesia, Blue Mountain of Jamaica and so on.

If you want a strong nutty tone, the sun-tanned yellow bourbon coffee beans at Queen's Manor of Brazil must be right. Due to the thicker pectin layer, the sweetness of yellow bourbon is more obvious. In the process of sun treatment, the intact peel and pulp must be retained to allow more sugars to penetrate into the raw coffee beans. This Brazilian Queen's Manor coffee beans are sweet and delicious with a thick taste.

Front Street Coffee Brazilian Queen Manor Coffee Bean production area: Brazil Morgiana Manor: Queen Manor elevation: 1400-1950m Variety: yellow bourbon treatment method: sun flavor description: nuts, cream, sugar, fermented fruit

Front Street Coffee steps to make a cup of espresso from a mocha pot:

1 / pour the purified water into the lower pot of the mocha kettle, and the water level is about 0.5cm under the pressure relief valve.

2 / Coffee grind is slightly thicker than Italian coffee. You can refer to the size of the filter gap in the powder trough to ensure that the coffee particles will not fall into the pot. Slowly pour the coffee powder into the powder trough, gently pat to evenly distribute the coffee powder, and smooth the coffee surface in the form of cloth powder in the shape of a hill.

The purpose of filling the powder trough is to avoid extracting a bad defective taste. Because when the density of coffee powder in the powder trough is closer, it avoids the phenomenon that some coffee powder is overextracted or underextracted, resulting in uneven flavor or bitterness.

3 / put the powder trough in the lower pot, tighten the upper and lower part of the mocha pot and heat it on the electric ceramic stove.

4 / when the mocha pot heats up to a certain temperature, when the mocha pot makes an obvious "whining" sound, set the electric ceramic stove to a low fire and open the lid of the pot.

5 / when the coffee liquid in the pot is halfway out, turn off the electric ceramic stove. The residual heat and pressure of the mocha pot will "push" the remaining coffee liquid into the pot.

6 / when the coffee liquid is extracted into the pot, you can pour it into the cup and taste it. The coffee extracted by the mocha pot is so rich that it can even extract Crema fat. Can also be mixed with the right amount of water or milk, the flavor is better!

Notes on using mocha pot for coffee in Qianjie

When filling water under the mocha kettle, you should pay special attention to the position where the water level does not exceed the pressure relief valve.

In addition, because the mocha kettle is used to heat the lower pot to produce steam to squeeze the hot water upward. Therefore, there is a pressure relationship, when using a mocha pot to make coffee, we need to pay attention to the control of heat and grinding degree.

The finer the coffee powder is, the more intense the coffee will be, which raises a question: when the coffee is brewed in a mocha pot, how much coffee should be ground?

If you have another chance, you can observe the powder bowl of the espresso machine and the powder bowl of the mocha pot. It can be found that the gap of the mocha kettle powder bowl is larger. To prevent the coffee powder from falling into the bottom pot, the coffee beans used in the mocha pot need to be thicker than the Italian coffee maker, between 0.3 mm and 0.55 mm.

Of course, it is challenging for the human eye to measure the difference directly. The easiest way is to use a powder ruler or mocha special powder for comparative reference. In addition, you can also start debugging directly. Judging the grinding by observing the coffee liquid gushing from the upper pot, if the grinding degree is too rough, the coffee liquid will gush out like a fountain; if the grinding degree is too fine, you may hear the "whining" sound of boiling water, but the coffee liquid does not gush out. At this time, Qianjie suggests turning off the fire immediately and taking good safety measures.

The coffee extracted from the mocha pot has a strong taste, both sour and bitter, and has a grease layer. It is the coffee utensil closest to Italian espresso. It is easy to use and becomes a symbol of family production of Espresso. If you have a milking machine at home, you can still play tricks.

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