The Story of the Mocha Pot | introduction to the unpopular Mocha Pot Coffee | Operation method and process of the Mocha Pot

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How to have an espresso at home? Buy an Italian coffee maker? Or. Qianjie Coffee today to introduce a very common coffee utensils in European families, mocha pot! So you can simply make a cup of espresso at home!

The mocha pot is unpopular in an environment where hand brewing, siphon and espresso are highly respected in China, but it is actually a common coffee utensil in European families and a must-have for every Italian family. The rise of mocha pot in Italy has something to do with the Italian political, social and economic environment in the 1920s and 1940s. At that time, the espresso machine had been invented and initially popularized, but few families in Italy would make coffee at home, mainly because the espresso machine at that time was too big, bulky and expensive, so if you want to drink coffee, you have to go to a coffee bar.

The invention of the mocha pot

Alfonso Bialetti was an inventor and designer. After returning from his studies in France, Alfonso worked in Italy's thriving aluminum industry at that time. I worked in someone else's factory for ten years. In 1918, Alfonso founded his own factory and opened Bialetti, which began to sell aluminum-related metal products, including household cleaning appliances.

Alfonso is a typical Italian man with a moustache and serious clothes. In his spare time, he will go to the counter of the coffee bar and raise his hand to ask for a cup of espresso. Alfonso loved coffee very much, and he had thought about making espresso machines, but it was already a mature industry at that time, and the competition was so fierce that it was difficult to enter the market unless he had a lot of money.

One day, Alfonso saw a local laundry, washing clothes by throwing all the clothes into a large sink, the bottom of the sink is hot water and foam, and there is a water pipe in the middle of the sink, which pulls out hot water and soap and sprinkles them on the clothes to wash. Alfonso looked at it and suddenly found that it could be applied to the production of coffee.

So Alfonso began to study a new coffee-making system in the 1920s. At the same time, more and more manufacturers are engaged in the production of espresso machines. They are constantly improving the espresso machine to make it more powerful, more efficient and faster, but it also makes the espresso machine bigger, bulkier and more expensive, and the operation is becoming more and more complex. Most families can't afford it at all and won't use it.

Alfonso decided to take a different approach, and after thinking about it for a long time, he decided to set the core of the design as: "so that ordinary people who have not learned the operation of Italian coffee machines can easily make coffee at home." "after numerous failures and retries, Alfonso invented the mocha pot made of aluminum in 1933.

Anyone who has seen the mocha pot can not help but admit that the design of the mocha pot is simple and perfect, which is divided into three layers: the upper layer is filled with coffee liquid, the middle layer is filled with coffee powder, and the lower layer is filled with water. Stand on the gas stove, a pot of coffee can be easily completed in 5-7 minutes without any extra operation. The design is simple and powerful, elegant and exquisite, and most importantly, it weighs less than 1 kilogram and is about the size of a teapot. Compared with the coffee machine which weighed hundreds of kilograms at that time, it was an epoch-making invention.

A total of 300 million mocha pots have been sold since 1950, and a survey shows that up to 90% of Italian households now have a mocha pot in their kitchen. Mocha kettle can achieve unique success, in addition to Alfonso's son, Renato Bailati (Renato Bialetti) in the business world, the biggest reason is Alfonso's classic design. The mocha pot was invented in 1933. More than 80 years later, the mocha pot still retains its original design with almost no change. Just imagine how quickly science and technology has progressed over the past 80 years, but the design of the mocha pot is still unchangeable after a lot of training.

To this day, Bialetti is still the world's leading brand of mocha pots, with an unimaginable global market share of 95% and almost no competitors. Alfonso died in 1970, while Renato died on February 11, 2016. Foreign media reported that Renato's ashes were placed in a mocha pot at the funeral on February 16, 2016, at the request of family members.

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 with deep-roasted coffee beans, so the coffee has a strong aroma and strong bitterness. the general situation of coffee and the emergence of a thin layer of coffee oil, this layer of oil is the 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 is divided into three parts: the upper seat, the powder compartment, and the lower seat. The lower seat is a sink for holding water, and the powder compartment is used to hold finely ground coffee powder. The upper seat is used to hold the extracted coffee liquid.

Operation method and process of mocha kettle:

Step 1: hand flushing pot, mocha pot, bean grinder, coffee beans, coffee spoon, dry towels.

Step 2: heat the water in the hand flushing pot until it boils.

Step 3: adjust the scale of the bean grinder and grind it in medium and fine size.

Step 4: place the base of the mocha pot on the towel and inject hot water to submerge the safety valve.

Step 5: install the powder bin bowl.

Step 6: cover the freshly ground coffee powder and fill it with towels for thermal insulation.

Step 7: install the upper seat and tighten it to prevent steam leakage.

Step 8: put the mocha kettle in a heat source, such as gas stove, induction cooker and bar stove.

Step 9: observe the brown hole in the upper seat to ensure that the coffee is extracted normally and smoothly.

Step 10: place the finished mocha pot on a semi-dry towel or coaster.

Step 11: the mocha pot has finished a cup of delicious concentrated coffee.

Although the espresso made by the mocha pot does not have a thick layer of oil like the espresso machine, its concentration and oil performance are already the best of all kinds of utensils that make a cup of concentrate cheaply, easily and quickly at home. Of course, you can also try a manual espresso machine if you can.

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