How to use Italian coffee beans to make all kinds of Italian coffee _ how to drink Italian coffee beans No. 2

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What is espresso?

Use an Italian coffee machine to make

Use Italian coffee beans

High pressure extraction of espresso

Three typical manifestations of espresso.

● tips: traditional espresso is made from a mixture of several coffee beans. With the popularity of boutique coffee, many coffee shops are now offering SOE (Single Origin espresso) espresso, that is, using a single coffee to make an concentrate.

The soul of ● espresso "espresso"

Use 7g coffee powder

92 degrees hot water

20-30 seconds

At 9 atmospheric pressure

Espresso liquid extracted from 1oz

As you can see in the picture above, the thick layer of cream floating on the surface of coffee is the by-product of espresso-Crema. Freshly roasted coffee beans are rich in carbon dioxide. When making coffee, due to poor pressure, carbon dioxide expands and becomes the so-called "grease / crema", which is actually bubbles.

The composition of the espresso family

Black coffee series

● [Espresso] single concentrate uses 7g coffee powder to extract 1oz (about 28.35ml) espresso in about 25 seconds; double concentrate uses 14g coffee powder and 2oz espresso in about 25 seconds.

● [Ristretto] ristretto means limit, so ristretto is actually espresso that limits the flow rate, which means that the flow rate of ristretto will be slower. The same time as espresso extraction, but only 18g of espresso, so ristretto will be very strong.

● [Lungo] 'Lungo' means "long" in Italian, so this black coffee is extracted for a long time and finally extracted with a liquid equivalent to 5 times the amount of powder. its concentration will be relatively low, close to that of American coffee.

● [Americano] when American soldiers fought in Europe during World War II, they could not get used to espresso and had to mix it with water. Today's americano, which is equivalent to the concentration of coffee made by American trickling filters / handbrews, is commonly used by Americans. So American coffee is espresso with water in the espresso series, while drip coffee and hand coffee can be called American coffee.

Milk coffee series

● [Macchiato] macchiato = espresso + milk foam.

Macchiato in Italian means "mark, stain". The classic way is to add a little bit of milk foam to espresso, which can be regarded as milk to brand the coffee. Starbucks caramel macchiato should actually be called latte macchiato, which adds milk to the foam.

● [Con Panna] Campbell blue = espresso + light cream

Campbell blue is whipped cream on top of espresso. Imagine that cream is imported with coffee. Isn't it special?

The next three kinds of coffee are all composed of espresso + milk + milk foam.

● [Cappuccino] Orthodox cappuccino practice is an espresso, plus steamed milk, the thickness of the foam will be about 2cm, accounting for about 30% of a cup of coffee.

● [Flat White] Starbucks is popular with Fragrance White, whose milk is thinner than lattes and cabs, and then added to espresso, demanding the quality of concentrate and the quality of the foam.

● [Caffe Latte] Italian latte (Caff è Latte) requires a small cup of Espresso and a cup of milk (150ml / 100ml). The latte contains more milk and less coffee, which is very different from the cappuccino.

● [Piccolo] Piccolo lattes restretto+ a small amount of milk because many people don't like to drink large amounts of milk, so there is a scaled-down version of the latte, but the overall concentration is higher than the latte.

● Italian coffee bean brand recommendation

The freshly roasted Italian coffee beans of Qianjie Coffee, a coffee roaster brand located in Dongshankou, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, are fully guaranteed in terms of brand and quality. And more importantly, the performance-to-price ratio is extremely high. Take the commercially recommended style of commercial blended coffee beans as an example, a pack of 454 grams, the price is only about 60 yuan. According to the calculation of 10 grams of powder for a single cup of espresso, a packet can make 45 cups of coffee, which costs less than 1.5 yuan per cup. Even if you use two heads per cup of espresso and 20 grams of powder per serving, the price of a cup of double espresso concentrate is no more than 3 yuan. Compared with the price of hundreds of yuan a pack sold by a well-known brand, it can be described as a conscience recommendation.

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