What are the hand-milled coffee tools suitable for household use? How to grind your own coffee at home?

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We all like freshly ground coffee, but we can only drink instant coffee or buy a cup of coffee in a coffee shop for many reasons, such as tools, brewing skills, time, and so on. Qianjie Coffee has talked to you about brewing skills before, which can also be regarded as a solution to the problem of skills. The problem of time can only be arranged by everyone, so now let's talk about the problem of tools.

Part.1 bean grinding tool

Ordinary families can use this hand-grinded coffee machine, the way of use is very simple, put the coffee beans from the top, and then turn the upper handle, and the ground coffee powder falls into the small drawer at the bottom.

The price of this kind of bean grinding machine generally starts at 30. If the average family uses it, it is recommended to choose a price of about 50 yuan, and the quality is very sufficient.

With regard to the problem of powdered coffee beans, of course, it is to find a mill. There are three situations to choose from:

1. Buy a hand mill, the price is more than 200 yuan, and a simple one is more than 100 yuan.

2. Electric mill. It's OK to play with a hand mill, it takes a long time to make a cup of coffee, and the particles of the powder may not meet the requirements you want to cook. The grinding process itself is also the process of coffee bean flavor loss, the longer the grinding time, the worse the coffee flavor, so the electric mill is the first choice. However, the electric mill is very expensive. It usually costs about 1800 yuan for Taiwan-made Flying Eagle and 2,000 to 3,000 yuan for Swiss SOLIS. Ordinary families use some luxury.

3. The best way is to go to the local coffee shop for a cup of coffee and ask them if they can grind it. There is usually professional equipment, powder can be thick or fine according to your requirements, of course, this requires communication. However, some stores provide these services and do not charge for processing.

Part.2 hand punching tool

Generally by hand punch pot, filter cup, filter paper several parts, filter cup, then there are no special requirements, filter paper according to the filter cup to choose the shape of the filter paper. But if you hand-punch the pot, it is recommended to use a slightly slender hand-flushing pot, which will be easier for beginners to control the current.

Hand brewing has been pushed to the altar in the coffee brewing world, and it has not come down so far!

It is recommended that these tools should be bought at between 100 and 200 yuan.

Part.3 pressure kettle

It is a simpler way to brew coffee than by hand. Put the coffee in the pot and then press it to extract it. This method is very suitable for use at home.

The price of the French kettle is also very cheap, about 50-80 yuan to meet the family use.

Part.4 American coffee maker

The drip filtration extraction method of American coffee machine is similar to that of hand-punching tools, but it is more intelligent and often does not need to be controlled by man, so it has always been very popular.

Our office uses a coffee machine with a price of about 300 yuan, which is very easy to use, you can also refer to it.

Part.5 mocha pot

It can also be called "Italian trickle filter pot". It is a tool for extracting espresso. It is a two-layer structure, the lower part is filled with water, and the upper part is a website filter for coffee powder. Although its brewing method is not concentrated extraction, it is closer to dripping type, but the coffee made by grinding coffee pot is closer to the concentration and flavor of Italian espresso, so it is very popular.

These coffee machines are easy to complete the coffee brewing skills at home, and the brewing skills required are also very simple. In the choice of appliances, you can first choose the price is not particularly high, the performance price is relatively high to practice, generally can meet the needs of the general public.

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