The meaning of Mocha (basic knowledge of Fine Coffee)

Sitting in a cafe, flipping through recipes and reading coffee magazines, you will inadvertently come across a lot of Mocha, which is a simple word for mocha, but has many meanings.

1. Refers to coffee beans

The earliest mocha refers to a kind of coffee beans exported from the Yemeni port of Mocha. It is produced in Ethiopia in Africa and is one of the most sour coffee. Mocha coffee is also known as Ethiopian coffee.

Second, refers to coffee

When used in flavored fancy coffee, mocha refers to hot coffee with hot chocolate and whipped cream, because mocha originally means chocolate.

Refers to the coffee pot

In terms of coffee brewing utensils, mocha refers to a delicate and small mocha pot, which uses steam to quickly extract coffee, which is famous for its changeable shape.

The mocha pot was invented in 1933, and its structure has never changed, but its appearance, shape and material are constantly changing. The earliest mocha pots were made of aluminum, but aluminum was easy to interact with the acids in coffee, producing a bad taste, and then gradually changed to stainless steel or even partly made of heat-resistant glass. The mocha pot consists of two parts, which are combined together by rotation. The lower part of the pot is a chamber for holding water, there is a safety air hole on the upper end of the chamber, and above the chamber is a filter full of small holes filled with coffee powder. The top half of the pot is a covered container with a handle for holding coffee liquid, and at the bottom of the container is a filter mesh with a rubber ring on it. In the center is a hollow metal tube that allows coffee to seep out. When brewing coffee in a mocha pot, first fill the lower chamber with water, but do not exceed the safety air hole. Then fill the filter with coffee powder. The filters are carefully designed by experts, so there is no need to measure the amount of coffee powder, just fill the filter. Then put the upper and lower chamber into the tight, you can put on the fire to cook.

The mocha pot belongs to the apparatus for extracting coffee with high pressure steam, which has the characteristics of small size, elegant appearance, simple operation, fast brewing and so on, so the mocha pot is very suitable for family use. Mocha pot brewed coffee, also known as mocha coffee (Mocha), although not really espresso, but can be said to be doubly powerful coffee.