Teach you to buy coffee making utensils suitable for home use, home coffee machine

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This time, I intend to recommend several types of coffee equipment: handmade kit, cold bubble / ice drop, drip filter coffee machine, capsule coffee machine, and semi-automatic coffee machine. Before you buy household coffee equipment, let's get this straight:

1. Price budget

Many people who are new to coffee may not be very sure about the type of coffee they like. At this time, they can screen the coffee equipment they want to buy according to the price. Generally speaking, the price of each category of equipment: hand-made, cold bubble

2. Type of coffee

If you know something about the type of coffee you prefer, you will be more targeted when choosing equipment. Generally speaking, it is a cup of black liquid coffee in appearance, which is called black coffee. For different reasons, many people prefer black coffee, such as its low calorie to help lose weight, or feel that drinking coffee with milk is not enough hardcore.

In black coffee, there is a distinction. For high-quality coffee beans from a single origin, we often use hand flushing or dripping to slowly experience the different taste of each step from grinding to brewing in front of us in a few minutes. Or, sometimes in order to get a more unique and pure aroma and taste, we use a cold bubble pot or a curling kettle to make a slightly lighter cup of black coffee.

If you are more looking forward to the rich and heavy coffee, you can use a capsule coffee machine or a semi-automatic coffee machine to make a cup of Italian espresso with high temperature and high pressure in about 30 seconds. Others prefer the sweetness of the blend of coffee and milk. Some models of capsule machines support foam, and almost all semi-automata come standard with steam foam, so you can mix milk with espresso to make a coffee latte or cappuccino.

3. Degree of convenience

In fact, it has nothing to do with learning ability, but some people just want a good cup of coffee, while others enjoy the making process. Hand brewing and semi-automatic coffee machines are both chain-repairing and upgraded weapons and equipment, and extensive handling can also make coffee, but if you want to drink well, you have to practice your skills in every step. For example, in the design of different hand-flushing equipment, some place special emphasis on diversion and speed up the extraction speed, while others increase the soaking time on the contrary. These designs vary from person to person, and the corresponding equipment is selected according to the operation methods they are good at.

On the other hand, the semi-automatic coffee machine needs to consider how to evenly distribute the coffee powder, how to compact it, and how to observe the best completion when the machine is extracted for a few seconds. These are the so-called joys of operation, but not everyone likes it.

Automatic drip filter, ice drop / cold bubble followed, only need to prepare their favorite coffee beans, slightly adjust the grinding thickness, powder amount, the operation process is quite simple; capsule machine close to zero operation is suitable for people who are willing to enjoy the coffee itself.

4. Personal preference

After determining several of the first three indicators, you can determine the type of coffee equipment you want to buy, and finally choose details such as color and shape according to your preferences.

Next, we will introduce several types of equipment by category.

First, hand flush

First of all, I recommend a hand filter bowl that I also use, Kalita's cake cup (wave cup).

The texture of stainless steel is very bright. Compared with the common conical filter cup, the extraction flow rate of the cake cup is slightly slower, the grinding powder is slightly thicker, leaving some soaking time, and the fault tolerance rate for technical errors is higher.

In terms of price, the price of Kalita Wave is about 06170. In addition, the price of Hario Yunduo pot for hand water injection is slightly higher, but you can choose some domestic brands for about 06100 yuan.

Also recommend the product of a Taiwanese company, Mr. Clever Smart Cup

The shape of this gadget is the same as that of a hand filter bowl, but it is a bit like a French kettle. It has long been well received in foreign coffee circles and related magazines.

There is a piston valve at the bottom. After water injection, the piston valve is closed, soaked for about three minutes, then picked up and placed on the mouth of a cup or other container. The piston valve opens and the coffee flows into the container. Just drink. Cleaning is also easy, throw the filter paper with coffee grounds, Bashi.

The requirement of skill is much lower than that of hand flushing, and the taste is cleaner than that of French kettle. It is really a good choice for people to be lazy and clever, with a price of about 06130.

Cold extraction / ice droplets

What was hot last year was not only the hand rush, but also the cold extract. Because it is extracted at low temperature for a long time, the taste of cold extracted coffee is unique, with introverted aroma and slightly fermented flavor. Very well received. Coffee shops all over the country have launched their own cold coffee. I followed a wave of my own:

For household use, Hario has a cold bubble pot that is more suitable. Put coffee powder in the filter, put a mixture of ice water in the pot, put it in the freezer for one night, and then take out the filter and coffee grounds the next day. The price is 06190.

Put the coffee powder in the filter, put the ice-water mixture in the pot, put it in the freezer for one night, and then remove the filter and coffee grounds the next day. The price is 06190.

In comparison, the tool I introduce below is obviously much higher. Cold bruer ice drop coffee maker, ice drop is not a new concept, but the previous ice drop coffee equipment is generally bulky, time-consuming, and expensive, so it is not very common in cafes.

But Cold bruer's small coffee maker can fit even in a household refrigerator. Put ice and water in the upper pot, put coffee powder in the middle powder bowl, put it in the freezer the night before, and drink ice-cold coffee the next day. Unlike the extensive practice of cold extract soaking, ice drop coffee is iced water that filters the coffee powder without soaking, so it tastes clearer than cold extract, and the weather gets warmer. If you are excited, get one now and wait for summer. The price is 06600.

3. Automatic drip filtration

When buying large household appliances at home, have you ever encountered a coffee maker? Generally, it is an American trickling filter that can make black coffee by plugging in water and adding coffee powder.

But according to the slogan, not all American drip filters have SCAA certification, and not all American drip filters can make a "golden cup" perfectly extracted coffee. Down here, this guy says it can. Bonavita filter coffee machine, players all know, for a while without a bonavita hand pot go out embarrassed to say hello. The temperature control is well done, the uniform nozzle and the simulation of the hand flushing process are completely reversing the inferior image of the American trickling filter in the past. It can be said to be the most like a hand-made drip coffee machine.

In fact, hand-made coffee has become hot in recent years, and everyone wants to learn to make it at home. But start with the temperature of the water, boil the water, cool it, measure it with a thermometer, and then look at the watch for 30 seconds, and then inject water, draw circles, and the arms are high and low, and the water flow is bigger and smaller, so it's really not fun. After all, I just want to have a cup of coffee with obvious flavor at home. Buy the beans and leave the rest to the machine. (go to the cafe when you don't turn on the phone, so that the baristas who are counting on this to eat and practice their skills every day have something to eat, )

However, if you buy a refrigerator and color TV for other drip filters, you can give them away. Bonavita is a high-end American brand with a price of 061200. Where do you think it is made in? Smile.

In addition, a Philips face is recommended to act as HD5412.

Needless to say, put it on the table to watch the hot water purring and bubbling, maybe how to drink this cup of coffee and how to feel stylish, right? The price is 061200.

Fourth, capsule coffee machine

As a coffee shop owner who gets along with the semi-automatic coffee machine day and night, I am also a fan of the capsule coffee machine. There is no other reason, but it is really too convenient. I have been in Amway for the past year or two. Many of my friends have bought capsules. I just remembered, I'm still a coffee bean seller. I've all bought capsules. Who wants to buy my coffee beans? Hey!

However, I have a capsule machine at home in case of "emptiness" from time to time. Sleepy tired, plug in, turn on, water, put capsules, button, wait a minute or two, a cup of coffee will be fine. There is nothing to worry about about the brand. Nespresso is the most common one with a wide range of models, which is basically based on the budget. From seven to eight hundred dollars to four or five thousand. The picture below is the Inissia series.

If you have a good budget, you can match it with a milk foam machine suit and make your own cappuccino at home, which is also excellent. The official bare metal price and foam machine price are 06888 and 061688 respectively.

Or, Nestle has a slightly more fashion-focused brand called Duoqu Cool. it is a more stylish model with a more stylish appearance and a different capsule model, which has been evaluated by Polar Fruit Network before. The characteristic of Duoqu Si is that the milk is also made into a capsule. As long as there is a capsule, you don't have to worry about the rest. The price is 061000.

The choice of god: teach you to buy the most suitable coffee machine for home use

Don't worry about the capsule machine. Apart from drinking and using it, you don't have to preheat the machine or anything. The noise is small and the space occupied is small, so it is of decorative value. The most important thing is that for families, if coffee beans are not consumed a lot quickly, storage will become a problem. Always be prepared for fear of losing flavor. If you are not always ready, you may not find beans when you want to drink them. And capsules generally have a much longer shelf life than coffee beans or powder, often with a few boxes, even if the consumption of a box a month, but also more worry.

Only. Perhaps the cost per cup of capsules is higher than that of coffee beans. But when it comes to comprehensive storage costs, there's nothing to complain about.

5. Semi-automatic

If the above can not meet your needs, maybe you are waiting for semi-automatic, right? The so-called semi-automatic means that you grind the coffee powder, manually fill it into the powder bowl on the handle of the coffee machine, spread it evenly, and compact it. As soon as you press the button or pull the handle, the machine will pump water to extract the coffee.

When talking about the capsule, we said that, in fact, it is more time-consuming and laborious to use semi-automatic at home. The machine has to warm up, you have to practice the skills of each step, and you have to think about tedious things like how to pick beans, how to grind them and how to adjust the thickness. However, if you want to try coffee flowers or something to please yourself or your partner, you can only use semi-automatic. Other machines, or milk foam machines, are not very effective.

Because semi-automatic coffee machines are widely used in cafes, there is a wide variety of brands and models. The price is almost uncapped. For example, I use a boxy La Marzocco single-ended small machine, the price is 06 40000. So although it is officially labeled as a home model, it is too inhumane to use it at home.

So what I want to recommend to you is a well-received model with a more pro-people price. Huijia WPM KD 310, with a price of 068000, has a more accurate PID temperature control. Because it is heated by a heating block, it takes a very short time to start the preheating process that I mentioned earlier. The extraction is relatively stable and the steam is enough. It's not a problem to learn to pull flowers. The rest is the excessive consumption of beans! It is said that many shops who buy this machine will carry out activities to send beans, of course, beans for practice. If you drink the beans, you will have to choose them later.

After talking so much about coffee equipment, I hope you all know that what we want to drink is the nutrition that coffee beans absorb in the environment in which they grow all their lives, the sun and rain they experience, and the unique charm of life produced by them, which is what we call flavor. This flavor is retained and highlighted by the roaster during the baking process, contained in the coffee beans, and finally we present it in a cup of coffee with the help of equipment. So even with the most high-end equipment, you can't make a good cup of coffee if you use beans that have been roasted for too long, or defective coffee beans grown in areas that are not suitable for growing.

In order to have a good cup of coffee, but also to really verify whether they have learned the skills to make good coffee, or hope that everyone will choose freshly roasted high-quality coffee beans.