Why do so many people use mocha pots? Can you add milk to make coffee in mocha pot?

Recently, many friends have been asking Qianjie, "what coffee beans are suitable for mocha pots?" So Qianjie took a look at the mocha pot sales of the online store, and summed up, the monthly sales of the top 4 mocha pots are 2000 yuan, and the sales of coffee utensils worth more than a few hundred yuan are high.

The mocha pot appeared as early as 1933, and then it was loved by the Italian people because it was easy to brew espresso because of its simple utensils. "there is not such a mocha pot at home, so it is embarrassing to entertain guests." In the movie Love Rome, there is a picture of a mocha pot making coffee.

In addition to Italy, the places where mocha pots are more frequently used are Australia and the United States, where there are more Italian ethnic groups. A few years ago, the mocha pot was still a very unpopular appliance in our country. Except for those who went out of their way to learn about coffee, most people probably never heard of the mocha pot. A few years ago, it was almost difficult to find a complete process of searching for mocha pots on the Chinese Internet.

So far, sales of mocha pots are huge, and today, dozens of video tutorials on mocha pots can be found in a casual search. What is the reason why more and more people use mocha pots to make coffee? Qianjie sums up several reasons.

-an alternative to espresso machines

Qianjie learned from a friend that when he bought the mocha pot, he took a fancy to the coffee, which is simple and small, can make grease, and is also cheap. He bought a mocha pot, usually like to add milk to drink, by the way to pull flowers.

Qianjie wrote an article about "can a mocha pot make espresso like an espresso machine", which said that there is a significant gap between mocha pot and espresso (espresso) in terms of fat quality and coffee concentration. This point of view is from the barista's point of view. From the point of view of the average household consumer, the mocha pot can be a substitute for an espresso machine. Because a professional espresso machine costs tens of thousands of yuan, an ordinary household coffee maker costs thousands of yuan, and spending a few hundred yuan on a mocha pot can reach 60% to 70% of the coffee machine's level.

Another important point is that baristas and consumers see coffee differently. The coffee made by mocha pots may not meet the espresso standards that baristas think, but for consumers, this device is stronger than home coffee utensils such as hand brewing, legal pressure and Philharmonic pressure, and has been selected compared with the same period last year. In addition, in the front street, "can coffee made from a mocha pot pull flowers?" The article says that the coffee brewed from the mocha pot can pull flowers, but it is necessary to pull out a good-looking pattern to test the basic skills.

New pressurized mocha teapot launched and promoted at the beginning of last year, the famous brand Bialetti released the new pressurized double-hair mocha kettle, which is introduced to extract richer and more delicate oils. This also makes up for the lack of oil and coffee concentration in the previous version of the mocha pot. Also since the launch of this mocha pot, more and more people began to promote the mocha pot and introduce it. It also makes a large group of people who drink coffee but don't know much about coffee begin to notice the gadget of the mocha pot.

Finally, what coffee beans are suitable for mocha pots? As in the stills of Love in Rome, Italians generally buy coffee powder for mocha pots that have been ground. In the domestic boutique coffee development is relatively rapid, there are many domestic coffee roasting manufacturers to provide fresh roasted coffee beans, the purchase is more convenient. Freshly roasted coffee beans have a richer flavor than ground coffee powder.

If you want to use a mocha pot to boil a lot of oil, and you need to add milk to drink, Qianjie recommends buying medium and deep-roasted coffee beans. For example, espresso beans specially used in espresso machines. This kind of coffee beans are used in the coffee machine itself, so the roasting is relatively deep, so it is also suitable for mocha pots.

Of course, you can also choose medium-and deep-roasted single-product coffee beans, such as Mantenin in Indonesia, Brazil and Colombia, which are seasoned with chocolate nuts.