Which is better, the mocha pot or the semi-automatic coffee machine | analyze the working principle of the mocha pot

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Mocha pot, which has a very long history of coffee utensils, is the Italian national treasure coffee utensils. As we all know, Italy is a romantic in literature and art. At the same time, Italy is also a coffee-loving country. Mocha pot is such a cultural symbol that can not be ignored, there are quite a lot of mocha pot enthusiasts all over the world. Before the espresso machine was developed, people in Italy used it to make espresso.

Mocha pot

Italy is the birthplace of espresso, and the standard for each household to extract espresso is a mocha pot. With the trend of boutique coffee, more and more people turn their attention to hand brewing, siphon pot or very high-end Italian coffee maker, and mocha pot is not the mainstream coffee brewing equipment of modern people. In addition, the pressure of the mocha pot is much lower than that of the Italian machine, so it is not easy to extract the complete coffee oil, but its advantage is also obvious that it completely abandons the huge size of the Italian machine, and it is very convenient to extract Italian coffee.

The history of the mocha pot dates back to 1933, when it was run by Alfonso, an Italian aluminum factory. Biloti design and production, has been a hundred years of history of the Bilody brand founder is Alfonso. Mr. Biletti, Italy's favorite company registered under his own surname, is currently headquartered in Brescia, in the Lombardy region. The Don also devoted his whole life to this work, and after his death, his son buried his ashes in a Mocha pot-shaped urn in order to admire the great father.

Alfonso. Biloti, the father of the mocha pot, was originally a worker. After learning how to weld aluminum alloy, he began to think about the utensils for making coffee. Finally, in 1933, he invented the mocha pot, but the smell of the wine was also afraid of the depth of the alley; until after World War II, the annual production of the mocha pot was only 70,000. But in 1946, the 23-year-old Renato took over the family business. Young Renato has ambitions, after taking over the continuous improvement of technology, efficiency, the premise of its own technical excellence, Renato began to promote, in 1953, Renato commissioned cartoonist Paul. Campani's "Beard" has become a symbol of Biloti, eye-catching logo and various publicity has become a standard for Italian families. With incomplete statistics, mocha pots have sold nearly 280 million units worldwide.

Principle of mocha pot

The mocha pot is divided into two parts, the lower pot holds hot water, and after heating on the stove fire, the hot water boils and volatilizes steam, and the steam will pass through the pressure to filter the hot water from the tube of the coffee container in the lower pot through the coffee powder to filter the fragrant coffee and leave it in the upper pot. When it comes out, it's espresso.

Semi-automatic coffee machine

The first commercial coffee machine appeared in an exhibition venue in Paris in 1885. Loysel showed a coffee machine that claims to reach 10000 cups a day, which uses the principle of steam pressure to extract coffee. Although the machine did not reach the said output, there is already the most preliminary prototype for the future extraction form of the coffee machine.

Luigu Bezzera proposed the form of the first Italian commercial coffee machine and applied for a patent for the use of the machine.

The commercial coffee machine was officially produced by Bezzera in 1906 and was unveiled at the World Exposition in Milan. The first milestone for commercial coffee machines is the form of coffee making, which uses handles and filter cups to fill coffee powder to make coffee, and emphasizes the point-and-click approach of making only one cup at a time to achieve the best coffee extraction.

In 1961, the "FAEMA E61", an epoch-making coffee machine jointly developed by Italian and Spanish teams, used electronic pumps to replace the less stable spring pistons as the pressure source of the coffee machine in the future. And the use of the principle of heat exchange to extract coffee with hot water can achieve a more stable water temperature and freshness.

Since the advent of the E61 brewing system, the design of the future Italian coffee machine has been laid down. Under the demand for temperature accuracy, coffee machines with double boilers or even coffee machines with multiple boilers, or the concept of coffee machines that can change the extraction pressure arbitrarily during brewing, are all designed by the E61 system.

The semi-automatic coffee machine belongs to the commercial coffee machine and is the first choice of the coffee shop, because of the specialization of production, the stability of the extraction system is guaranteed, and all the tools of the town shop as a coffee shop prefer the semi-automatic coffee machine. The mocha pot belongs to household coffee utensils, because it is convenient to make and easy to carry, it is an indispensable instrument for making coffee in Italian families. As for how to choose the two, of course it depends on your use!

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