How do I use the French kettle? What kind of beans are suitable for pressing pots? What are the characteristics of the French kettle?

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If you want to have a cup of coffee at home, using the French kettle may be a good choice, for the editor, this is the first coffee utensil, so the French kettle will be especially favored! Except for some trouble to clean it up.

The French kettle is a simple brewing apparatus composed of a heat-resistant glass bottle (or transparent plastic) and a metal filter with a pressure bar, which originated in France around 1850. Can not only make tea and coffee, but also make milk foam, it is like an artifact, all right? By the way of soaking, the essence of coffee is released through the stewing method of full contact between water and coffee powder, which is simple and convenient without paying attention to technology.

To make coffee in a pressure pot, the coffee is completely soaked in the pot, and then a pressure bar with a metal filter is used to separate the coffee from the coffee grounds. The coffee obtained by this brewing method is very mellow and can increase the price, texture and oil. And the final coffee is quite clean.

Matters needing attention about the French kettle!

Grinding degree

If the grinding degree is too fine, too much ultra-fine powder will pass through the metal filter to make the coffee drink less clean and affect the taste.

Warm pot

Remember to warm the pot with hot water before brewing, because it is made of glass. If you don't warm the pot first, the water temperature will drop faster.

Coffee brewing ratio

The coffee brewing ratio is the ratio of coffee to water. The common brewing ratio is from 1:15 to 1, which means 15 grams of coffee need to be brewed with 225g of water. If you want to use a pressure kettle at home, you can adjust the brewing ratio according to your own taste.

Compression bar

After soaking, when pressing down the pull rod, it must be at a uniform speed and press to the end. If you pull it up and down repeatedly, the coffee powder will come out easily, resulting in dregs.

How to choose the coffee suitable for the French kettle?

We use light-baked [Panamanian Alida], medium-baked [Hartman] and deep-baked [Tiger Mantning] beans with different degrees of baking to try what the flavor will look like.

Arida: wet fragrance is sweet fermented fruit, imported jackfruit, passion fruit flavor is obvious, with bright acidity, sweetness is not very obvious.

Hartman: red wine is fermented with strong aromas, tropical fruits are sour and sweet, and the whole is round.

Tiger Manning: balanced taste, mellow texture, good fat, obvious dark chocolate, caramel, cream flavor.

After this experiment, the editor thinks that nothing is more suitable for the pot than the deep-baked beans. Because of soaking and extraction, the coffee made by the pressure pot has a mellow taste and a balanced flavor. Therefore, if it is extracted with some beans with rich flavor levels, it does not highlight the characteristics of this bean, while the mellow taste and balanced flavor of deep-baked beans can be well explained by the soaking extraction of the French kettle.