How to use the mocha pot

The mocha pot is now the first choice for many coffee lovers to make espresso. Although the atmospheric pressure of the mocha pot is not high enough for the professional Italian coffee machine, and the extracted Espresso is less thick, the mocha pot is cheap and often can buy a group of very good mocha pots for a few hundred yuan. Why not use it easily and make a cup of cappuccino with your own hands? Today, the editor brings you how to use the mocha pot and some tricks.

Here are the steps for the use of the mocha pot: (note that the editor uses a compact mocha pot, that is, there is no filter paper)

1, open the mocha pot, add water on the base, the amount of water can not reach the safety line; it should be noted that there is no recommended amount of water in the mocha pot, you just have to pay attention to the amount of water not exceeding the pressure relief valve to add water.

2. Add the coffee powder, pour the coffee powder into the powder cup until it is full, and gently pat the powder cup so that the coffee powder is evenly distributed. It should be noted that after the coffee powder is added to the powder cup, do not press the powder. After loading the powder, pat it with your hand and flatten it.

3. Put the powder cup into the lower seat.

4. When you screw up the upper seat, you must tighten the upper seat and lower seat as much as possible, so that it will not cause pressure leakage. What should be paid attention to here is not to apply force to the handle of the mocha kettle, so that it is easy to break the handle.

5, put on the gas stove to heat, pay attention to the goods not too large, so that the flame does not exceed the bottom of the mocha pot, the editor reminds you: each brand and shape of the mocha pot for the control of the heat is not the same, the editor's experience is that the initial firepower can be slightly larger, as soon as the extracted coffee begins to pour into the cup, immediately turn down the heat.

6. When you hear the sound of patting, it means that the coffee is extracted.

Editor's experience: when extracting coffee with a mocha pot, prepare a wet rag when you hear the sound of slapping. Put the kettle on the wet rag right away. That's all right. After several times of extraction, I became familiar with the time of coffee extraction. Taking the mocha pot away from the gas stove before the popping sound is about to show that the control of heat and time is in place.

Tips for using mocha pots:

Tip 1. You can also adjust the taste of coffee by how long it stays in the pot. For example, when you use lighter roasted coffee beans (the color is closer to light brown and there is no bright oil on the surface,), you can let the coffee stay in the mocha pot for an extra minute to a minute and a half after the extraction is finished. On the contrary, if you use deep-grown coffee beans (dark brown and sometimes with shiny grease on the surface, most of the Italian Heidi beans we buy on the market fall into this category), you don't need to stay in the pot. You can just pour it into a cup that's already warm.

Tip 2, the mocha pot is best to use a gas stove or induction cooker, or a black crystal stove for eating hot pot. The heating rate must be fast enough to produce enough steam to brew the coffee and extract the Italian coffee. If the mouth of the gas stove at home is too big, it is not suitable for mocha pots. There is a kind of gas stove. Put it on the gas stove to make the mocha pot suitable for the kitchen at home.