Which is better to make coffee, a French kettle or a mocha pot? What kind of coffee is the mocha pot suitable for making?

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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 middle layer of coffee powder, 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 Mel 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 not suitable for brewing shallow roasted beans, usually used to brew medium and deep-roasted coffee beans, and the boiling water temperature is too high to produce scorched taste.

French filter-if you like the taste of coffee grease

If you have ever paid 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. Because the coffee powder is extracted after soaking in hot water, special attention should be paid to the weight and extraction time of coffee powder. It is recommended to use scales and timers to accurately measure the coffee powder to avoid the problem of excessive extraction, and the French filter pressure is more likely to have residue.