What does single coffee mean? Share the basic knowledge of making coffee by hand! Why should single-piece coffee be made by hand?

Guest: "Boss, have a single item!" Qianjie: "would you like hand flushing or ice drops?" Guest: "doesn't a single item refer to hand flushing?"

Just like the guests in the above conversation, in daily life, many friends bind individual coffee with hand-brewed coffee, believing that a single item is a hand-brew and a hand-brew is a single product. But in fact, the two have completely different meanings. So the question is: why do people confuse "single product" with "hand flushing"? Before the answer is released, you might as well go to Qianqian Street to review what is "single coffee" and what is "hand-brewed coffee".

What are individual coffee beans? The so-called "single coffee" actually refers to the coffee made from coffee beans from a single origin, which is now the boutique coffee that people spread by word of mouth. Whether it is soaked or filtered, it can be called a single product as long as you only use water and single beans to make it.

What we mainly want to feel from the individual coffee is the regional flavor of the producing area. Coffee beans grown in different places will develop completely different flavors. To take a simple example, if the same variety is planted in Yega, then the bean may have the fragrance of lemon and jasmine, while if it is planted in Sidamo, it may have sweet and sour fruit flavors such as mango and pineapple. And this is what we call "regional flavor". But what we need to know is that single bean only refers to a single plot, a single treatment, a single batch of coffee beans, does not include a "single variety". Because the mixture of different varieties is an unavoidable phenomenon in coffee cultivation, unless there is human intervention, it is easy to mix different varieties in a batch.

What is hand-made coffee? Hand-brewing coffee is easier to understand, which is a specific way of brewing coffee! Through the use of a filter to hold coffee powder, combined with artificial water injection, so as to achieve a coffee extraction method of extraction and infiltration. Because of this, hand-brewed coffee is classified as trickle extraction.

The reason why friends often confuse individual coffee with hand-brewed coffee is that most people choose to use hand-brewing to "cook" single beans!

Why do all items like to be flushed and cooked by hand? Although coffee is made in a variety of ways, there are few ways to be a hexagonal warrior with outstanding abilities like hand-brewed coffee.

As long as the parameters are correct, it doesn't matter which extraction method it is to make a good cup of coffee. But hand coffee is not limited to this, in addition to coffee tastes good, it can also do a lot of other things!

Take the major coffee shops as an example, the production of a cup of coffee should not only ensure the stability of the taste, but also the speed of production. With the exception of espresso, there is almost no way to make a cup of coffee with good flavor in a short time. Either because the preparation is very tedious, or because the extraction time is too long. For example, the smart cup and the French kettle, although the operation is very simple, but the soaking time is much longer.

And because hand-brewed coffee needs to be extracted for intervention in the whole process, it can steadily extract a cup of delicious coffee with excellent taste and appropriate concentration in a very short time of two minutes.

Special point 2: the upper limit is high precisely because the production of hand-brewed coffee requires manual participation, so it gives us complete control over this cup of coffee. By changing the grinding, adjusting the water temperature, or replacing the brewing method, we can use the same bean to make two cups of coffee that feel completely different.

For example: if we want the coffee to have a more prominent sweetness, then we can focus on the front and middle part of the extraction to reduce the exudation of the bitter taste at the end, while if we want to balance the taste of the coffee, then we can balance the taste by lowering the water temperature, roughing and grinding, prolonging the extraction time and so on. Although other extraction methods can also achieve this adjustment, but relatively speaking, it is more unstable and more difficult to adjust.

Feature 3: playability is not only that, in terms of accessories, we also have a lot of different options. For example, on the filter cup, we can choose different shapes, different characteristics, and different materials. Each difference will have an impact on cooking, so just the filter cup, we have a lot of playability.

In addition, in the coffee production process, we can also add a variety of auxiliary props to the taste of coffee, the difficulty of extraction to adjust. For example, can lock the flavor of "Paragon ice hockey", auxiliary cooking of "Lily Drip" and so on. Therefore, the playability is very high.

Special point 4: excellent flavor performance compared with other extraction methods, trickling extraction such as hand-washing can not make all the coffee powder in the filter cup be extracted completely evenly, so it leads to the coffee powder because of the different extraction rate. dissolved different amounts of substances. This promotes the coffee to eventually show a very rich sense of hierarchy and perform better.

And, thanks to the full coverage of the filter paper, there are not too many insoluble substances in the coffee, so the coffee has a very clean performance, and the flavor can be more easily caught by people. So we can know why people prefer to cook individual beans by making coffee by hand. Not only because it can better show the flavor characteristics of coffee, but also because of short extraction time, strong playability and high upper limit.

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