What is the way to make espresso cloth powder? What is the difference between hand cloth powder and cloth powder?

Guide reading

In the production of espresso, there is an important process, which is cloth powder. It is one of the required skills of baristas. So, how to learn to make powder?

What is the use of cloth powder?

The biggest purpose of cloth powder is to make the coffee powder in the powder bowl evenly distributed and the surface smooth, which is conducive to the uniform extraction of coffee. Coffee grinded into powder from the bean grinder naturally falls on the powder bowl, there will be two problems, one is that the static electricity produced by the electric mill causes the coffee powder to agglomerate, and the other is that the overall density of the coffee powder falling on the coffee powder bowl is uneven.

To solve these two problems, the effect of cloth powder is to break up these caked coffee powder, so that the density of coffee powder in the powder bowl tends to be similar.

The way of distributing powder

Traditional espresso cloth powder is distributed directly by hand, but with the development of science and technology, appliances such as powder dispensers have emerged.

Finger cloth powder

Hand-to-hand cloth powder is the most traditional way of cloth powder. its advantage is to distribute coffee powder evenly (simple and most useful way), but it also has many disadvantages. for example, homogenizing with hand cloth sounds very simple, but it takes a lot of practice to learn to use hand cloth well; it will get your hands dirty (some people think there are unhygienic ingredients).

Powder distribution process: the general skilled finger powder distribution method is to use the index finger in a straight line, parallel to the surface of the powder bowl, to flatten the coffee powder by gently "sweeping" back and forth, of which the most important key is to avoid squeezing the powder down.

Powder distributor

Because the learning cost of finger cloth powder is high and relatively "tedious", the utensils represented by the powder distributor have appeared. The common powder dispensers are divided into one-word paddle type, three-blade type and four-blade type. Its function is to flatten the powder layer.

The general cloth powder dispenser can adjust the height, its height is actually the degree of extrusion of coffee powder, the front street is recommended to use the minimum height. The difference between the powder distributor and the finger powder distributor is that while the coffee powder is evenly distributed, the coffee powder will be squeezed, which indirectly leads to a lower degree of uniform distribution than the finger powder distribution.

The advantage of using the powder distributor is that it is very simple and convenient to operate. You only need to put the powder distributor vertically and rotate several times to smooth the surface distribution. It is suitable for partners who are not proficient in hand cloth powder or shops with large volume of cups. Especially reflected in the need for a large number of products at a certain time, the advantages of the powder distributor can be reflected, which can increase the production speed and stability.

So, how to choose?

Qianjie believes that the appliances are simplifying the technical content we need, which is undoubtedly a good thing. However, the consequence of over-reliance on appliances is that you will not be able to master it when you return to the original way. Therefore, "you don't have to, but you have to know it. Children only make choices, and adults want them all!" "