Introduction to common coffee utensils at home: do you prefer colorful coffee or stable coffee?

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There are many kinds of coffee brewers all over the world, such as hand brewing / siphon / mocha pot / French filter / Philharmonic pressure / smart filter cup / Italian / Turkish / ice drops. Even the capsule coffee machine likes a lot of people.

So what is the difference between these tools? We know that coffee brewing can be divided into several factors, namely, powder-to-water ratio, grinding degree, water temperature, brewing time, water quality, and utensils.

The powder-to-water ratio, grinding degree, water temperature, brewing time, and water quality can all find ways to make it a fixed variable, so today the editor is going to introduce several common coffee utensils at home, and how they are different.

one

Hand flush--

I just want to taste different every day.

If you like the taste that is different every day, in addition to drinking fancy coffee, another way is to use hand brewing coffee, excluding the unstable taste caused by coffee not yet raised beans, when coffee beans gradually stabilize, hand brewing allows you to show a slightly different taste of coffee every time you brew, the taste is very diverse. Because of the water temperature, steaming time, flow size, circle technique, water cut-off or not, water cut-off times, grinding scale … Wait, these small details are the factors that affect the flavor of hand-brewed coffee, so that you can brew a different coffee every time.

two

French filter pressure

If you like the taste of coffee grease

If you pay attention to the surface of the brewed coffee, you can find that the coffee itself contains oil. The French filter pressure is to put the coffee powder into the French filter pot and soak it in hot water for a certain period of time before extraction. The French filter pressure is not like the hand filter paper will filter the coffee part of the oil, so it will have a more different aroma and taste than the hand filter paper.

In particular, because the coffee powder is soaked in hot water and extracted, it is necessary to pay special attention to the weight and extraction time of the coffee powder. It is recommended to use electronic scales and timers to accurately measure the coffee powder to avoid the problem of excessive extraction. And French filter pressure is more likely to have residue residue-just don't drink it.

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Philharmonic pressure--

Five minutes of coffee in the busy morning

If you are tired of drinking a cup of coffee and have to buy complicated utensils, such as hand brewing, siphon and so on, you need to prepare more equipment, then consider taking a look at Philharmonic pressure, which is made for convenience. There are positive pressure and reverse pressure brewing methods.

After grinding 35g with a coarse degree of grinding, place the coffee powder in the Philharmonic pressure, mix the coffee powder with 84 degrees water, pour 150g water and wait for 20 seconds, then cover the filter paper and the lid to reverse the Philharmonic pressure and shake it gently, finally, the coffee is hydraulically released, and the coffee liquid can be drunk after adding water, the advantage of Philharmonic pressure is convenient, very easy to clean and fast, and easy to make the same taste. But the disadvantage of Philharmonic pressure is that it has a small capacity and can not be boiled too much at a time.

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Mocha pot--

Another option for espresso

The espresso machine is expensive and not suitable for ordinary families, so give it to the mocha pot.

There are three spaces in the mocha pot, the bottom space is filled with water, the middle is filled with coffee powder, and the top layer is filled with brewed coffee liquid, and there is a metal filter in the middle of each layer. when the mocha pot is heated on the stove, it will produce water vapor to increase the pressure at the bottom, so that the water passes through the coffee powder layer in the middle, and finally stays on the top layer to become brewed coffee, while the coffee at the end of the mocha pot is usually not used.

Compared with the 9 atmospheric pressure of espresso, although the mocha pot uses 1.5-3 atmospheric pressure to brew coffee, but compared with other ways of brewing coffee is still more mellow and rich, and can retain oil (Crema), but the mocha pot is difficult to control the temperature and the time for the water to pass through the coffee powder, which often makes the brewing water too hot to produce a bitter taste.

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Siphon coffee--

A brewing performance that amazes you.

If the hand-made multi-layered taste, in the light baked beans can taste the obvious sour taste.

But do not like sour taste like bitter coffee also has a certain weight supporters, if you do not like acid, might as well try siphon brewing, siphon is based on steam attraction pressure change principle for extraction, water in the lower pot heating through the heat source to let the water run to the upper pot, coffee powder in the upper pot gently stirred, soaked, remove the heat source coffee liquid attracted by pressure to automatically flow back to the next pot, seemingly simple, but hidden a lot of devil-like details It's a gorgeous process that pays attention to the details of cooking.

The advantage of siphon is that it can remove acid and taste clean and mellow, so the performance of shallow roasted beans is better, but medium and deep roasted beans are easy to have the problem of extraction, so fewer and fewer people use siphon and need more coffee beans to brew. And the equipment will be covered with grease and it is not easy to clean, and the filter cloth needs to be changed regularly.

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Smart filter cup--

Fast, simple and convenient

The smart filter cup is another convenient, simple, fast and stable choice in addition to the Philharmonic pressure. The coffee utensils invented by the Taiwanese brew coffee with a concept similar to tea, first put filter paper on the smart filter cup, wash the paper with hot water and warm the cup, and drain the water through the smart device (the middle gate is pushed up and the valve opens automatically, so it is called smart filter cup) Then put in the ground coffee powder of about 20cm 22g (usually similar to the manual scale, small eagle\ Kilita nice cut scale 3.5or Fuji\ Pegasus scale 4), then pour into the water temperature 8895 degrees Celsius hot water 50~100C.C steaming for 30 seconds (the principle of completely covering the coffee powder is the principle), then add the hot water to the filter cup full of 9 minutes. Wait a minute and then put the filter cup on the mug or take the pot to enjoy a quick and delicious cup of coffee.

Of course, if you use a smart filter cup, you can also choose not to steam and directly add the water to the full and wait for 2 to 3 minutes. No matter which method is used, use the smart filter cup to let the temperature and time change under the instructions of the extraction, so you can brew stable coffee. Therefore, more and more shops use the smart filter cup for its stable taste. Although the smart filter cup is convenient, it is like making tea. Therefore, both good and bad flavors are easy to extract, and the sense of layering is slightly worse than that of hand flushing.

The above is a general introduction to household appliances.

If you like coffee with a stable flavor, you can choose Philharmonic pressure and smart filter cups.

If you like changeable taste, you must try hand flushing and siphon.