I heard that the coffee brewed in the mocha pot is like American coffee. How do I use the mocha pot? What's the difference?

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The beautiful and exquisite appearance of the mocha pot attracts many people. It can brew a strong aroma of coffee. Some friends will think that the coffee brewed from the mocha pot will be very similar to American coffee and taste like it, so what's the difference between them?

Although the mocha pot does not use a very high pressure to inject hot water into the finely ground coffee powder, but strictly speaking, this is not a concentrated extraction, but is closer to the dripping type, but the coffee made by the mocha pot still has the concentration and flavor of Italian coffee Espresso.

Mocha teapot came out in 1933, its structure has never changed, but its appearance, shape and use of materials are constantly changing. The earliest mocha pots were made of aluminum, but aluminum easily interacted with the acid in coffee, producing a bad taste, and then gradually changed to stainless steel or even heat-resistant glass. In recent years, the shape design of the mocha kettle has become more and more diverse, so many people can't help but buy a few and put them at home. They are not only practical but also can be used as decorations, killing two birds with one stone.

The mocha pot causes the pressurized steam to pass directly through the coffee pressed powder and through the coffee pressed powder to extract the inner essence of the coffee, coupled with brewing the medium-and deep-roasted coffee beans, so the coffee brewed has a strong aroma and strong bitterness. the general situation of the coffee and the emergence of a thin layer of coffee oil, this layer of oil is the attractive and delicious origin of Italian coffee. Because it is espresso, it is generally tasted in small coffee cups when tasting this kind of coffee.

The mocha pot can be divided into single valve and double valve, and the double valve mocha pot can produce more coffee oil than the single valve.

Many Italian families have small two-gallbladder mocha pots, which are easy to operate and can make aromatic coffee. Most of the mocha pots are in the shape of an hourglass, but you can also find different styles, but the principle of operation is the same. Heat the water in the bottom pot, and steam close to 2 atmospheric pressure flushes the hot water into the filter. After grinding the coffee powder, it turns into coffee liquid and leaves it in the upper pot.

It's that simple, but it also needs some practice. You should carefully control the degree of grinding of coffee powder to avoid grinding too fine. And use low heat to make sure the coffee is not overheated.

Make mocha pot coffee:

Fill the bottom pot with cold water to the valve position. Cover the filter.

Completely fill the filter with the ground coffee powder without compaction

Make sure the filter and rubber gasket are in place and screw the upper and lower pots tightly together.

Put the mocha pot on the stove and make sure it is heated over a low heat.

When the coffee pot starts to make a sound of boiling water, remove the coffee pot from the fire and don't wait for the hot water to pour up before stopping the heating to make sure the delicious coffee is extracted.

Stir the coffee well with a spoon before pouring it into the cup.

How do you make American coffee?

The extraction principle of Italian concentration is the short-term extraction of high temperature and high pressure by semi-automatic coffee machine, the pressure is 9-10bar, the temperature is 90-93 degrees, the extraction is about 30 seconds, and the powder is very fine. These factors add up to make Italian concentration very thick and contain a lot of oil, and then add water.

The American coffee from the semi-automatic coffee machine looks like the coffee from the mocha pot. Everyone has fat.

But there's a big difference.

Among all the portable devices, the concentration of the mocha kettle is the closest to the Italian concentration, and the pressure of the mocha kettle is also relatively high, but it is far from the pressure produced by the Italian machine's more than a dozen liters of boiler, and the grinding scale is also very thick. it can only prolong the extraction time to make the coffee fully extracted, and the concentration is stronger than that of the hand-made machine, but it can not reach the concentration of the Italian machine.

The oil content is different.

The most obvious thing is that the production method is different.