What is black coffee? What is the difference between hand-brewed coffee and American coffee? Is American style better or hand-washing better? How to make espresso?

American style and hand brew are the two most popular black coffees on the market today. Because of the difference in production mode and price system between the two. Therefore, it is inevitable that friends will often compare the two with black coffee. In the end, many people have come to a conclusion based on "various considerations", that is, "the American style is not as good as the hand rush". This relationship is shown in the picture of the chain of coffee disdain, which has been popular on the Internet for a long time.

Although Qianjie often says that the chain of disdain should not exist, there are actually not a few friends who have these misunderstandings. Therefore, today Qianjie will come to share with you why some friends think that American coffee is not as good as hand-brewed coffee. First of all, let's have a brief understanding of what is American coffee and what is hand-brewed coffee!

What is American coffee? American coffee is a member of the espresso system, which is made by adding a certain proportion of water to espresso extracted by a coffee machine. It was born during the war, and because American soldiers were not used to drinking high concentrations of Italian concentration, they asked stores to dilute it with water. Because the main group that would drink like this at that time was American soldiers, people named such a cup of coffee "American coffee".

Because of its suitable price and refreshing effect, American coffee has now become the carrying handle in most coffee shops and the daily rations of many office workers.

What is hand-made coffee? Hand-brewed coffee is a way of coffee extraction, through artificial injection of hot water to dissolve the flavor substances in the coffee powder, and the coffee liquid will be released at the same time, so it is also called dripping coffee.

Since hand-brewed coffee needs to be extracted artificially during the whole process, its variables are basically controlled by people. Different utensils, different parameters will change the final coffee performance, high playability, coupled with the price of people-friendly appliances, excellent flavor performance, hand-made coffee has become the favor of many friends. Well, when we see here, we can already know that there is no comparison between hand-brewed coffee and American coffee due to the different ways of making them. It's like discussing whether an egg is delicious to be steamed or fried. So why do so many friends think that American coffee is not as good as hand-brewed coffee? Qianjie believes that it is mainly composed of three aspects.

Use beans differently: the first reason comes from the difference between the beans they use! The beans used in making hand-brewed coffee are basically single beans, while those used in making espresso are generally blended beans. Since most of the blended beans are made of commercial beans, traditionally, commercial beans are not as good as single beans, so the Italian style of blending is naturally not as good as hand-flushing. Price comparison: the second reason is the price problem! Usually, the price of hand-brewed coffee is higher than that of American coffee. In the past, for example, the lowest price of hand-brewed coffee in Qianjie was 30 yuan, while the price of American coffee was 23 yuan. Because quality is often linked to price, people will think that more expensive hand-brewed coffee must be better than American style. The difference in practice: the last reason is the difference in practice! As mentioned above, American coffee can be extracted from a concentrated portion and then directly added with water. On the other hand, hand-brewed coffee needs to be brewed manually, which looks more exquisite. Then naturally, people will think that coffee made with more effort will be better than coffee made simply.

That is to say, but the quality of things cannot be judged by the surface alone. Although American coffee uses mixed beans, what we need to know is that mixed beans do not necessarily mean low quality. Most of the time, merchants use blending because a single product of coffee beans cannot have a perfect performance. For example, although No. 1 bean has outstanding flavor performance, but its taste is thin, while No. 2 bean has a mellow taste, but the flavor intensity is slightly weak. For this reason, if we want both flavor and taste, we can combine the excellent flavor of No. 1 bean and the mellow taste of No. 2 bean, so we can take all the advantages in the bag.

The former street warm sun match, for example, although it is a match, but it is made of Honduran Shirley and Ethiopian red cherry two single beans, the proportion is 7:3. The flavor shows not only steady aromas such as whisky and butter cookies, but also a few lively berry notes of Essel beans, with rich layers. Although it is not a single product, it performs very well. Even if not many people do so, we can see from here that the mixed beans of espresso are not necessarily worse than those made by hand.

To answer the price question, generally speaking, the amount of beans used in a pot of hand-brewed coffee will be about 15g, plus washing beans may also go to 16g. On the other hand, the extraction of an American espresso starts with 18g (20g powder used in the front street powder bowl). If we follow the practice of Qianjie, the cost of American coffee will actually be higher. But even so, Qianjie chose a lower price to sell American coffee. Why? Because it has more audiences, the sales volume is more! As a result, there will be more restocking, and the price can naturally be reduced to a cheaper price (other costs will also be reduced). At the same time, because the extraction of espresso mainly depends on machines, it can save people a lot of time. Therefore, taken together, the price can naturally be lower.

Finally, there is the problem of operation. although the operation process of American coffee is very simple, it is not easy to pay behind it. Baristas are not only required to pre-grind, but also to control the distribution of coffee powder, extraction time and liquid volume in the extraction process. If you use the same bean for American and hand-brewed coffee respectively, it will be more difficult to make a good cup of American coffee than hand-brewed coffee. As Qianjie said in terms of taste, because the two are extracted in different ways, each kind of coffee has its own unique meaning, so it is impossible to compare it at all. And this is the reason why Qianjie has always stressed that the chain of disdain should not exist.

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