Coffee beginners have a limited budget! Coffee rookies how to choose cost-effective coffee utensils?

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Nowadays, there is a dazzling variety of coffee utensils, which is not an easy task for coffee beginners. Looking at a bunch of coffee equipment, I want to buy it, but I can neither pick nor use it. Every coffee rookie must have had the same mood. In this case, what we need to do:

"Don't pick the expensive ones, don't pick the fancy ones, just pick the real ones."

For coffee beginners, the coffee utensils we choose do not need to have too many complex functions, just choose conventional, ordinary and practical ones. Coffee is extracted in a variety of ways, but there are only two common and easy to operate: pressure extraction (Italian coffee machine, mocha pot) and trickling extraction (hand coffee, drip filter coffee machine).

Selection of Italian coffee maker

In general, code clerks do not recommend people to buy espresso machines.

People will want to buy an Italian coffee machine, one is easy to operate, the other is strong enough to mix dairy products / water / other drinks according to their own taste, and one wants to learn to pull flowers in coffee.

At present, there are many small and lovely espresso machines on the market, but the extraction pressure of most coffee machines can not reach 9bar, and the final extraction taste is thin, and the coffee liquid also feels like water, which is difficult to achieve the rich flavor produced by coffee shops and with golden oil.

In the feedback of coffee lovers in the past, the steam sticks attached to these coffee machines would be a little short, and the steam was not enough to beat the milk into light and delicate bubbles, which were usually thick and rough. In this case, it is impossible to make a good-looking coffee flower.

In the end, many espresso opportunities are left to accumulate dust because they can't get rid of satisfactory foam and the trouble of cleaning.

Whether it is the purchase of an integrated semi-automatic espresso machine (the coffee machine has its own bean grinding function), or the purchase of semi-automatic coffee + Italian bean grinder, it usually requires a budget of more than 7,000 yuan to buy products that are easy to use.

The choice of mocha pot

If you want to drink strong coffee, the mocha pot is more suitable for small partners with limited budgets. Compact and convenient, as long as there is a heat source, it can be heated and extracted, and the coffee after extraction can also be prepared by adding other materials according to your own taste preferences.

For the choice of mocha teapot brand, it is suggested that we should choose Biloti. The quality and quality of the old brand can be trusted. Although the price is a little expensive, as long as we pay attention to daily cleaning, drying and storage, it is no exaggeration that a pot can be used for three generations.

At present, the mocha kettle on the market has single valve and double valve. The biggest difference between the two is the outlet of the mocha kettle. There is no limit to the single-valve mocha pot, while the double-valve mocha pot will have a booster valve at the outlet, which requires more pressure to push the valve open so that the liquid can flow out, and the espresso produced will be more full-bodied.

But beginners suggest choosing a mocha pot with a single valve. The double-valve mocha pot is more difficult to produce, requiring more details and more accurate parameters. The novice can easily turn over when using the double-valve mocha pot without a good understanding of the extraction principle.

Selection of hand brewing coffee utensils

When the budget of "bean grinder" is not much, it is recommended to choose hand mill and domestic well-known brands.

There are many kinds of hand grinders on the market. Frankly speaking, if you want something durable, you can choose something that costs more than 700 or 800 yuan. If you don't use it frequently, you can choose 500-600 yuan. Some bean grinders between 100 and 400 yuan are still not recommended. After all, it is difficult to use frequent grinders and cost more.

"Coffee filter cup" A hairo resin material V60 can be used. Light, cheap, not fragile, high playability, high degree of freedom! The 1st is to make 1-2 coffees, and the 2nd is to make 2-3.

Its 60-degree cone design can prolong the contact time between water and coffee, and the bottom large aperture filter design allows you to control the coffee flavor extraction time by changing the size of water injection, which is very friendly to beginners!

The "hand punching pot" chooses a gooseneck thin mouth pot with a lid and a capacity of 500-600ml. There is no need for temperature control, just an ordinary one. Just buy a quick-display thermometer to measure the water temperature.

The capacity of the hand pot determines the center of gravity when cooking, and the center of gravity also feels the stability of the flow of water. If the capacity is too small, the hand pot will lack the center of gravity and will float when filling water.

Coffee filter paper should look at the model of the filter cup when buying filter paper, and then buy the same model. Filter paper suggests that you choose the white one.

Nowadays, coffee filter paper brands of well-known brands (such as hario, Kono) use advanced enzyme bleaching. Different from traditional chemical bleaching, enzyme bleaching uses bioactive enzymes for bleaching without peculiar smell and paper smell, so it is widely used in the field of medicine.

"Electronic scale" ordinary kitchen household electronic scale, and then use mobile phone timing ~ feel troublesome can also choose a quick display electronic scale with timing function, do not have to choose too expensive.

"Coffee sharing pot" when choosing a sharing pot, check whether the pot itself is heat-resistant and whether it can withstand a large temperature difference! Some poor quality sharing pots are prone to cracking because of low hot spots when brewing coffee, or when making ice hands to make coffee, one cold and one hot can easily lead to cracking.

Selection of Coffee drip filter

If you want to drink stable and clean coffee, it is very convenient to choose a coffee drip filter. There is no need to worry about the method of water injection, water injection temperature will affect the taste of coffee performance.

Coffee drip filter is a kind of coffee which is filtered by brewing coffee powder with hot water. It is very familiar with hand-brewed coffee, but the hand is replaced by machine, so the appearance of drip-filtered coffee is very similar to that of hand-brewed coffee.

However, unlike hand-brewed coffee, the American drip filter does not pay too much attention to dripping mode, which is completely set by the manufacturer, so it is not playable, but it is really very convenient. Many well-known brands have launched coffee drip filter, the price difference will not be too big, we can feel at ease to choose.

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