What's the difference between the French kettle and the Philharmonic press? Which is better, French kettle or Philharmonic?

They are also convenient and fast coffee brewing utensils, and there is a "pressure" in the name of the French kettle and the Philharmonic press. What's the difference between the two? Today, the editor is going to make a comparison. What is the difference between these two kinds of instruments?

Let's first get to know what the French kettle and the Philharmonic pressure are.

French kettle FrenchPress

A simple brewing appliance composed of a heat-resistant glass bottle (or transparent plastic) and a metal filter with a pressure bar originated in France around 1850. The French kettle can be said to be quite friendly to beginners. After all, just pour the powder, pour the hot water and soak for a few minutes, then use the pressure bar to pour it out and drink it. 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.

French kettle assembly

The Philharmonic beat Aeropress.

Aeropress, invented by Aerobie in 2005, is a simple coffee brewer similar to a syringe, which combines the soaking extraction method of a French filter kettle, the filter paper filtration of hand-brewed coffee and the Italian pressure extraction. After mixing the coffee powder with hot water, the coffee is squeezed into the air with a pressure cylinder, and the coffee is filtered out through the filter cover.

Through pressure extraction, it can have both the richness of espresso, the purity of hand-brewed coffee and the smoothness of a French kettle. The Philharmonic pressure, which combines the advantages of three coffee brewing methods, can also be said to be an artifact. And it is light and easy to carry, so it is necessary to travel at home.

Philharmonic pressure assembly

Well, in general, we introduced what the French kettle and the Philharmonic pressure are. Let's start our comparison now.

Comparison of brewing and cooking

Let's first compare the same bean with the same parameter, what is the difference between the coffee brewed by these two utensils?

By comparison, it is found that the taste of gold mantenin made by Philharmonic pressure is not as solid as that made by French kettle, but tends to be light, with rich changes in flavor level, with obvious fruit acid. although the flavor level of gold mantenin made by pressing pot is weak, it is balanced and sweet as a whole.

Although both the French pressure kettle and the Philharmonic pressure have immersion extraction, the main difference in the extraction lies in the pressure. Although the name has the word pressure, the Philharmonic pressure uses air pressure to extract coffee, especially in the case of reverse pressure. When the coffee powder is reversed and pressed down, the coffee powder will be extracted again. At this time, some ultra-fine powder will be easier to extract, but also because of this. There will be more changes at the flavor level.

On the other hand, the pressure kettle is evenly mixed after being soaked at high temperature for a long time, the light pressure bar separates the coffee powder from the coffee liquid, and the coffee powder is pressed and filtered out by the pressure bar to extract the coffee liquid. in the process of soaking, some coffee powder has been absorbed and sunk, so it will not cause another extraction in the process of pressing the rod, so the whole will be more balanced.