Alcohol lamp or gas stove for siphon coffee production | introduction to siphon coffee production details

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Alcohol lamp or gas stove for siphon coffee?

The siphon pot, derived from the Kip generator in the laboratory, uses the siphon principle to increase the pressure and push the water to the upper pot to make coffee. Siphon plays not only with technology, but also with sentiment. And because Mao most people like hand flushing, a large part of the reason is that hand flushing is simple and siphon pot cleaning is troublesome. Don't talk about too much siphon pot introduction and history, after all, it is all over the street. It's more practical to talk about technology. I thought you wanted practical information. It's coming now. )

Siphon is not just about temperature and stirring, which is at best an outline. In my eyes, siphon has more details than hand flushing, maybe this is the reason why siphon is not common? Mm-hmm?

First of all, we need to know that siphon is different from hand washing, siphon is the whole production process is soaked in water, until the formation of coffee liquid to the end of extraction, the temperature is maintained, or only rise and do not drop. As a result, we must have good control over time, otherwise anxiety will become inevitable.

About the details of siphon, it can be divided into: control firepower, temperature, stirring time, stirring times, stirring angle, stirring intensity, complete release of flavor, complete fusion of water powder, integrity of extraction, oil absorption, water evaporation control, powder water absorption control, water level control, mixing time.

The temperature comes directly from the heat source, and now there are only two commonly used heat sources, the direct fire heat source and the light wave heat source. Light wave heat source is our common light wave furnace, also known as halogen lamp and so on. The heat sources of direct fire are mostly gas stoves and alcohol lamps.

Alcohol lamp disadvantages: easy to be affected by the wind fire source, the fire source is not concentrated enough, fire control will be more difficult.

The advantage of alcohol lamp: slow life? I really can't make it up when I talk about the advantages of alcohol lamps. But it is good for beginners to practice controlling and feeling the source of fire.

Disadvantages of the light wave furnace: it is difficult to control the temperature point, the heat source is still constant when the heat source is turned off, and it is dazzling for a long time.

Advantages of light wave furnace: good-looking when taking pictures, no need to add gas or alcohol, plug in and use, the temperature rises quickly.

Disadvantages of gas stove: burning gas is more expensive than in the long run, gas filling is troublesome, and it is easy to burn.

Advantages of gas stove: concentrated firepower, intuitive feeling of firepower, convenient firepower adjustment.

Characteristics of siphon coffee

Full-bodied taste: combined with the full-bodied espresso and hierarchical hand-brewed coffee, it is suitable for brewing individual coffee.

Difficult to operate: because the coffee powder will be scorched when the water temperature is too high, the coffee powder will taste bitter, soaking for a long time will produce astringent taste, and excessive stirring will produce sour taste, so the siphon pot needs considerable experience to be able to use the appropriate tool.

Full demonstration of siphon coffee-extraction of coffee for 2 people

Step 1:

Pour 2 servings of coffee powder (25g) into the upper pot. When pouring into the upper pot, the coffee powder is easily attached to the inner wall of the upper pot, so you must be very careful. Mr. Kira, the siphon barista, pours the coffee powder into the pot in a stainless steel cup with a diameter of 6 centimeters. Because it is made of stainless steel, the coffee powder will not be electrostatically attached to the pot wall.

Pour the hot water into the pot of 160ml, ready to begin to extract coffee. The hot water in the next pot is boiled and inserted into the upper pot. After the hot water rises, the firepower is reduced a bit and stirred for the first time.

The first stirring: take the stirring rod as the axis, like holding a pen, holding the stirring stick with the thumb, index finger and middle finger, stirring against the clock, using the flat part of the end of the stirring bar to mix the coffee powder floating on the water into the water.

When stirring, you should avoid forming a whirlpool, with the mood of completely dissolving the coffee powder into the water, fix the wrist, take the hand-held part as the fulcrum, draw the ellipse with the mixing stick, and complete the mixing operation quickly.

If you stir too much, it is easy to form a double-layer structure of coffee powder and coffee liquid due to the excessive release of gas, and the whitening foam, coffee powder and coffee liquid form a three-layer structure from top to bottom, which means that the first stirring operation was very successful.

Step 2:

Replenish hot water immediately after the first stirring, replenish approximately boiling 95 degrees hot water, it is recommended to use a kettle that is easy to control the hot water temperature, through the thin spout to avoid damaging foam, coffee powder and liquid layer, gently inject hot water (replenish hot water: at least one whole pot (320ml), but enough to extract 2 people (300ml) coffee liquid), so that the whole layered structure can rise, impregnation time is 15 seconds. The replenishment of hot water must be completed within time.

Step 3:

Set the soaking time (the extraction time of siphon coffee is basically set within 60 seconds, turn off the heat at the end of the time, stir again after removing the heat source, the mixing direction is the same, the extraction is handled properly, and the coffee powder accumulates into a hill.

Complete the extraction of coffee solution for 2 people.

Siphon pot skills: pressing method, stirring method, pendulum method, cross method

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