Your own coffee is not good? Pay attention to 10 details to help you improve the quality of coffee!

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Do you think that no matter how much you brew, the coffee you make at home is not as good as the coffee you drink in a cafe? It is naturally easier to make a good cup of coffee with the freshest coffee beans and expensive equipment, but sometimes you may not notice that there are many tips and details that can help you effectively improve the quality of your own brewing coffee. and it doesn't cost a lot of money at all!

The coffee in the cafe costs tens of yuan a cup, so it is not so expensive to brew it at home, but that doesn't mean you can't make this quality coffee at home. First of all, you should pay attention to these five mistakes that are most likely to make coffee at home. Have you been tricked?

The five most common mistakes of making coffee at home

1. Directly use tap water to make coffee

Unless you live in a city where the water quality is just right for coffee (there is little chance), the water from your tap may not be suitable for making coffee. 98% of a cup of coffee is water, which means that the chemical composition of the water will have a great influence on the taste of the coffee. If your water quality is good, too many carbohydrates will mask most of the sour coffee, coffee will easily become bitter and insipid; if your water quality is too soft (lower than 100ppm), coffee may be too sharp and irritating.

The best solution is to buy a water purifier, water softener, or barreled mineral water, but not all mineral water is suitable.

2. Using the wrong degree of grinding

The most common situation is that the grinding is too fine. Unless you are making Turkish coffee, the coffee powder you brew should never look like mud. Most filtering and extraction appliances are suitable for grinding the size of fine sugar, and if it takes more than a minute to complete the flow after you finish the water injection, it proves that the coffee powder is too fine to clog the filter pores. no, no, no.

3. The water is not hot enough

It is a bit funny to say, before always remind everyone not to use just boiled hot water to make coffee, lest the water temperature is too high. But later, it was found that many people did not have the habit of preheating the pot. When boiling hot water was poured into the normal temperature hand-flushing pot, and after washing filter paper, pouring powder and other steps, the water temperature may have dropped too low to fully extract the flavor of the coffee.

It's better to have a thermometer. You really can't save a little money.

4. Visual measurement of powder quantity and water quantity

Without the help of an accurate electronic scale, the coffee can easily be strong and weak. Even a small difference, even a deviation of only 1 gram of coffee powder, will have a significant impact on the final brewed coffee, especially if there is no weighing assistance during brewing, and the amount of extraction is only observed by the scale.

You might retort that the old Japanese-style coffee makers also rely on visual observation to determine the amount of flour. The problem is, you are not one of those veteran coffee makers who have been making coffee for decades. If the coffee brewed according to the amount of coffee tastes good, wouldn't the coffee brewed with precision taste better?

5. The coffee beans used are of poor quality.

Even if you already have the best brewing equipment on the market and master the world champion brewing skills, rotten beans can only make rotten coffee. The quality of coffee beans determines the upper limit of coffee quality.

With the promotion of the concept of boutique coffee, it is not difficult to find high-quality coffee beans on the market. Pay attention to the origin of coffee beans. Coffee beans with clear traceability information can help you find your favorite type of coffee more easily.

If you are sure you have completely avoided the above "pits", congratulations, no matter how bad the coffee you make can't be any worse. Next, share a few simple, practical and low-cost tips to quickly improve the quality of your coffee.

Simple, practical and low-cost tips for improving quality

1. Flush and refill the water tank every day

Many people use small coffee machines such as American machines and automatic coffee machines to make coffee at home. Then before using it every day, quickly flushing the water tank and pouring it back into the drinking water is a step that can not be ignored. Even if the capacity of the water tank is large enough, it is not necessary to fill it all at once, just enough for each day. Whether you use filtered water or bottled water, like coffee beans, drinking water needs to be kept fresh and clean.

2. Keep the filter screen and filter cup clean

In order to get a clean cup of coffee, you must keep the coffee brewing utensils clean. Clean up the residue and dirt in time after each use. Glassware and metal strainer can be cleaned with mild detergent and then drained.

If there is a scorched bitterness or fuel consumption in your coffee, it may be the problem of residual oil. The screen in the filter apparatus is the place where grease is most likely to remain, especially the reused filter cloth and metal filter. All parts that can come into contact with coffee should be cleaned and removed regularly.

3. Regular descaling of the machine.

According to different water consumption and water quality, it is recommended to remove scale every 3 to 4 months. The filter element in the water filter, the scale on the inner wall of the kettle, the scale in the coffee machine, the boiler and the pipe. Brewing coffee is not suitable for pure water, which leads to the accumulation of all water containers over time, will inevitably produce scale, regular descaling to avoid the accumulation of minerals inside the machine and reduce the performance, while prolonging the service life of the machine.

4. Preheat the coffee cup with hot water

If your brewed coffee is not very hot and you are not going to finish it in a couple of mouthfuls, try preheating the coffee cup. Just soak in some hot water for a few seconds before picking up the coffee. This seemingly simple step can significantly affect the aroma experience of the coffee, help in the taste (as long as it doesn't burn the mouth), and keep the coffee warm for longer when it's cold in winter.

5. Choose the correct baking degree

Choosing the roasting degree of the right taste when buying coffee beans is the most practical strategy to improve the coffee experience. Whether it is to buy boutique coffee beans, or ordinary daily rations, choose the right roasted coffee beans in order to brew coffee that suits the taste.

If you like strong and bitter taste, you might as well choose deep-roasted coffee beans; if you like balanced and mild coffee flavor, you can choose medium-roasted coffee beans; if you like bright and strong floral acidity, lightly roasted coffee is perfect. Especially when buying a certain brand of coffee beans for the first time, choosing the roasting degree of your favorite coffee is the most practical.

In fact, as long as you follow the above practical skills and master some basic brewing techniques, it is not particularly difficult to make a delicious cup of coffee at home. Don't think that only experienced and skilled baristas can brew delicious coffee. As long as you pay enough attention, you can too!

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