American coffee is single coffee? What's the difference between single serve coffee and American coffee?

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Cafe Americano

If you are in Australia, order a long black coffee (Long Black). In some states of the United States, it is called "Italiano" when it is ordered. But in most parts of the world, this coffee is called "American coffee" (America), and American coffee is the hottest coffee in the world, second only to espresso (Espresso).

The name is simply called "American coffee", but interestingly, it is not invented by Americans, it is invented for Americans.

The name only means' America', but it was not created in the United States. It was actually created for Americans.

According to the "Wild History" textual research, during World War II, American infantry stationed in Europe, especially in Italy, heavy Italian concentrated black coffee was too powerful for them, so they added hot water to dilute it. and use dripping coffee as you drink in the United States.

According to popular history, American infantry stationed in Europe during World War II, especially in Italy, could not fully cope with the intensity of strong black espresso. They add hot water to dilute the flavor and emulate the dripping coffee they are used to drinking home.

So the Italians provided American soldiers with this diluted coffee, which was called "American-style" or "American Coffee" or "Cafe è Americano" before it was simply called "Americano".

When Italians serve coffee for American geographical indications, they call the diluted coffee "American" or "American coffee"-coffee American coffee-and shorten it to American coffee.

Single cup of coffee

Usually a single product of coffee beans is used as the raw material, and the roasting degree of coffee beans varies from light roasting to medium roasting to deep roasting. Most hand-brewed coffee is brewed in a filter cup. First, the coffee beans are ground into powder and then put into filter paper. After slowly injecting hot water, the coffee liquid extracted through the filter paper and filter cup drips slowly down, and a cup of hand-brewed coffee is finished.

As hand-brewed coffee usually wants to show the regional flavor characteristics of individual coffee beans, it is recommended that there is no sugar and no milk, which is also a kind of black coffee.

But if you want to make a good cup of hand-made coffee, the key lies in grinding, water temperature, the ratio of coffee to water and so on. There will be more exquisite than machine making.

What is the difference between American style and hand flushing?

Espresso is ground into a finer powder than hand-brewed coffee, which is brewed under high pressure in an espresso machine and can dissolve more coffee substances and filter out higher concentrations of coffee than other ways of making coffee.

In terms of brewing time, the extraction speed of Italian coffee machine is extremely fast: an average of 30 seconds can produce a cup of coffee, the steps are simple, making a set of standard specifications is easy to learn, and it has become the preferred brewing method for almost all chain coffee chains. Of course, "Bad Street" does not mean mediocre quality, the extraction of Italian coffee also needs to adjust the fixed brewing parameters regularly according to the state of coffee beans to better show the flavor of coffee beans.

The grinding particles of hand-made coffee are thicker, and the whole brewing process takes about 3 to 4 minutes, paying attention to skills and techniques, from the degree of grinding of coffee beans, water temperature, water quality, water flow, extraction time, and even the technique and timing of water injection, the change of each small factor, will have an impact on the final flavor.

Compared with the Italian concentrated machine, it can use fixed parameters to steadily provide coffee of the same quality, while hand-brewed coffee needs to master more details to fully show the level and flavor of each cup of coffee.

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