What kind of American coffee do you have? On the Love and hatred between American Coffee and Italian Coffee

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How would you like your American coffee? There are too many ways to make American coffee. The easiest thing is to make a French pot, add two spoonfuls of coffee powder, and pour in hot water. In retrospect, this is the way I did when I took part in learning American coffee more than a decade ago, but a whole cup of qualified American coffee is by no means as easy as pouring hot water and pressing down the pressure bar.

Does the French coffee maker look like some teapots?

If it's just a pick-me-up, the easiest thing to do is to buy an American drip filter. Here, just the sauce!

Because the filter paper filters out the coffee oil, the coffee made by the American drip filter is relatively "simple" in taste, strong or light is related to how much coffee powder you put, the baking depth of the coffee powder, and of course the most important thing is related to the quality of the coffee powder. I can't finish it all day. The variety of coffee beans, roasting, grinding thickness, is a complex knowledge, so, in fact, there is a book devoted to coffee systematics, generally people who are not interested can not read it.

American drip filter coffee machine, you can really have it. You can chop a hand on a treasure at will. But we can't take it everywhere. There are always times when we get to Xing Dad's door, sometimes to McDonald's, sometimes to the Pacific Ocean; sometimes we are attracted by the refreshing fragrance, so we can't help but go in and look at the menu on the wall, touch the shy pocket, and order a readable Americano. Hehe, America, many people know its name, but why add an o at the back? Become an American slave? It turns out that there is a reason in this. Think about it, many of the names of Italian coffee have o tick, such as espresso;cappuccino and so on, so this Americano actually means that this American coffee is a change from Italian espresso.

Standard Italian espresso, namely espresso:8g--12g fine grind deep roasted coffee powder, 15 atmospheric pressure, steam extract 25-30ml thick coffee liquid, inside the whirlpool of tiger skin color change, and finally the 5mm thick fat floating on top of the coffee-crema. Coffee without Crima is definitely not Italian coffee.

Americano is a change from espresso. When you go to the Italian coffee shop, you can pay attention to how the American coffee you ordered is made. It turns out that a cup of espresso is pressed out by an Italian coffee steam engine, and then hot water is added to it! Add! Hot! water!

How much hot water do you add? Mm-hmm, the exquisite coffee shop is according to the standard, which is required. Americans drink coffee, not taste, belong to cow drink, so the quantity must be more. Espresso+ water, finally a total of 250ml. Wait, wait, I dare not talk nonsense. Next time you go for a drink, you can ask to see if you will be knocked out of the store.

Look at the picture above. It says AMERICANO OR LONG BLACK, that is, 1 cup of coffee (preferably double espresso) and 2 servings of water. If you write it in this way, do you want to say that Americano and this god horse long black, called long black in Chinese, are the same? The person who made this picture must have misunderstood, the two are very different from each other. Long black is a popular name in Australia, which is also coffee plus hot water, but because coffee and water are added in the opposite order from Americano, the result is different.

These two cups, one big and one small, are injecting espresso into it. The yellow one is the coffee grease Crima, and most of the aroma of the coffee comes from it. The big cup is ready to make Americano, first inject espresso and then heat hot water; in the small cup, add hot water first, and then inject espresso into the water.

Thump, I can tell the difference. The Americano of the mug was washed into the espresso with 220ml's hot water, and Crima was washed away and turned into a sparse foam. While the original hot water in the small cup is very safe to catch the espresso Crima, the thick grease ripples and seduces in front of your eyes, while long black, from Australia, has more British shadow: elegance, so its weight is generally only 150ml, it is used to taste, or between taste and drink, Aussie appears more calm, right?

Speaking of crema, I think of someone who described that the good and rich Crema slid down the throat like velvet, and then the aftertaste was full of sweetness.

After a long time, the difference between Americano and longblack becomes more obvious. So, of course, I made long black at home.

Related to long, there is also something called Lungo. Let's not talk about it this time. If you want to know more about coffee, you have to pay attention to me. You'd better pay some tuition fees, uh-huh.

Guess what kind of coffee is being made?