The Hot question of making a Cup of Coffee

In the dead of night, when I rush to work overtime in the movie DotA, I have a cup of delicious instant coffee, and it seems that my hand speed has also improved a lot. However, you have to fight for a ladder to play games, and drinking coffee naturally has a higher pursuit.

Coffee, as one of the most popular beverages in human society, is famous for its bitter taste and excitement caused by caffeine. Before leaving home in Africa, the first coffee beans were simply peeled off and boiled to drink. In the long process of spreading, coffee came to the Middle East, came to Turkey and Europe with the war, and finally became known all over the world with the advent of the era of great navigation. In this process, a variety of cooking methods with their own characteristics have been formed, and on the basis of these, a variety of coffee drinks have been produced.

There are many places in the world where coffee can be grown, including Chinese mainland in Yunnan and Hainan. Numerous producing areas have produced numerous coffee bean brands, such as Blue Mountain Coffee, Kopi Luwak and so on. Supplemented by a wide variety of fermentation and baking methods, the price is also very different. But today we don't study how to buy coffee beans, we study how to make coffee.

First of all, we change the past tradition, do not sell, directly step by step, from shallow to deep, step by step to introduce the various ways of drinking coffee. Of course, it is also carried out in the order of the degree of entry from easy to difficult.

Quench thirst

Instant coffee is a good and inexpensive choice for most people. Nestl é is officially the most famous instant coffee brand in the world with the slogan "delicious". As the name implies, instant coffee can be drunk with water. the coffee powder in the bag is made by spray drying or freeze drying after roasting and grinding coffee beans. In order to facilitate drinking, instant coffee is generally directly added to plant fat powder and sugar, and in recent years, "cappuccino" instant coffee which can directly bubble milk has been introduced.

Instant coffee is not undrinkable, but the processing method is too simple and rough, so that the aroma of the original coffee is lost, and the coffee beans made into instant coffee are not of very good quality, so it can only be used as a thirst-quenching drink. Of course, bottled coffee sold in supermarkets also falls into this category.

To insert a short story, instant coffee was not originally invented for convenience, but to cope with the oversupply of coffee beans.

Have a taste

After drinking enough instant coffee, you can try to cook your own coffee in a slightly more complicated way. There is a way to make it easy for you to buy a French filter press. The French filter press has a simple structure, which is a high glass cylinder with a piston with a filter screen. When using, add the ground coffee powder to the tube, heat the blister for four to seven minutes, and finally press the coffee powder to the bottom of the tube with a plug strainer, and the top coffee is ready to drink.

In fact, this method of soaking coffee powder in hot water can be divided into one category, and the form of utensils may be slightly different. French filter press is simple in structure, easy to operate, and the price is naturally not expensive. Brands such as HARIO and BODUM can give good consideration to both gridding and function, with a price of about 200 yuan.

If your request is simpler, then that kind of electric coffee maker may be more suitable for you. This kind of coffee pot is the most common. There is usually a transparent glass pot at the bottom of the machine. Coffee powder and water are added from the top, and the coffee is extracted into the glass pot below. Such an electric coffee pot can also be done for about 200 yuan.

If you want to add "anytime, anywhere" to drink fresh coffee, then there is a very original way: filter coffee bags. This kind of coffee bag is very similar to instant coffee, but after opening the package, there is a small cloth bag that can be hung on the cup. Hot water is added to the cloth bag and mixed with coffee powder, and the extracted liquid will slowly drip into the cup. In this very primitive way, the equipment cost of drinking coffee is basically negligible, but the effect is much higher than that of instant coffee.

In addition, I would like to talk about the problem of coffee powder in particular. Now it is very convenient to buy freshly ground beans in e-commerce, unlike making coffee, the more mechanized and modern technology, the more uniform the bean powder, the better the taste of the beverage. Of course, you can also buy a small bean grinder to DIY coffee powder, but because the other methods of cooking coffee we are going to introduce below have higher requirements for coffee powder, and the bean grinder is also a price per cent, so I suggest saving the money to buy a bean grinder and directly buy better finished coffee powder.

Taste

At this level, drinking coffee may not just taste such a simple thing, the process may be more fun. The coffee cooker that meets this condition must be a siphon pot.

The siphon coffee maker, also known as Syphon, which originated in Germany, is a method of using the pressure caused by boiling water to help cook coffee. The coffee pot is divided into two parts, which are connected by a catheter in the middle. Water is converted into water vapor, and the pressure on the water surface increases. So the boiled water enters from the catheter to hold the ground coffee. Then re-enter the bottom with filter paper or filter cloth, and then drink it.

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Here is how my good friend Baryn feels about the siphon pot.

This siphon pot is called Kono Syphon, which is made up of Jia? The product is produced by Coffee Syphon Co., Ltd (English name, convenient for writing, hereinafter referred to as "CS"). Founded in 1923, CS specializes in manufacturing medical devices, and later began making tea and coffee utensils in 1925, with the brand name Kono, the first president of Konobin (Kono's Roman pinyin is Kono). The club name was changed to Jia in 1963. During the decades before and after the company, the business of the company was mainly focused on coffee, and later joined the roasting and selling of coffee beans. Although the siphon theory has long been used in the coffee cooking process, the industry generally believes that the siphon pot from theory to practice and the final stereotype can not be separated from Mr. Kono's efforts, so there is no objection to his company's name Cofee Syphon.

This siphon pot model is SKD-2, served for two, solid wood handle, matching source of fire is alcohol lamp. Unlike other siphon pots, Kono Syphon uses spherical ceramic filter elements. Compared with stainless steel filter elements, the speed of coffee reflux from the upper pot to the lower pot is relatively stable and the filter element itself mixes less coffee smell. The set comes with an alcohol lamp with a wind shield and a cotton wick. Other accessories include a pot lid and a mixing rod.

First of all, the ratio of powder to water is about 1:15, and some people suggest that there is a little more water, because the coffee powder will be diluted during the extraction process, put the powder in the upper pot and the water in the lower pot. Then, the Kono Syphon official suggested that the upper pot of the coffee powder be placed obliquely in the lower pot. When the water in the lower pot is heated by an alcohol lamp to produce continuous bubbles, straighten the upper pot, stir the coffee powder well by drawing a figure of 8, and finally rest for a period of time according to the characteristics of the beans and each person's taste, and then turn off the fire, then the coffee from the upper pot will flow back to the lower pot naturally, and a cup of handmade coffee will be finished.

How's it going? Isn't it a very different experience like a chemical experiment? This kind of coffee entrance must also have a different feeling. The e-commerce price of the Kono Syphon SKD- 2 is about 800yuan.

Appreciate

We know that in fact, many types of coffee sold in coffee shops, such as American style, mocha, latte, cappuccino, macchiato and so on, are all based on conscious espresso Espresso. To make Espresso, the key condition is not only hot water, but also pressure.

It is generally believed that espresso requires 8.2 atmospheric pressure and 95 ℃ of hot water. To meet this condition, it must be an electrically pressurized automatic or semi-automatic coffee machine. The more famous brands facing Volkswagen are Delong and Cankun.

The essence of espresso lies in the uniform and not too fine coffee powder, which is evenly filled in the powder trough, supplemented by appropriate pressure and extraction time. To meet such conditions, the general manual bean grinder is a joke, which is why it is recommended to buy finished coffee powder directly.

Since filling coffee powder is an experiential job, great foodies have invented a more "automatic" coffee machine: the capsule coffee machine. The characteristic of this coffee machine is that there is no traditional powder trough that needs to be filled by hand, but provides a separate coffee powder "capsule", which is already pressed. When making coffee, you just need to open the package of the capsule, put it in the capsule slot of the capsule coffee machine, press the switch, and a cup of espresso covered with rich oil is ready.

Under normal circumstances, you do not drink all the segments of this 25ml espresso in half a minute. Therefore, coffee with cream such as cappuccino is obviously more suitable for taste. But that's the story of another article about how to make foam.

The popular models of capsule espresso machines are basically produced by Nestl é. The nespresso of Nestl é is about 2000 yuan, and a coffee capsule is about 5 yuan. There is also an ILLY brand to choose from.

State of mind

In fact, "brewing" coffee is an untenable thing. It does take sophisticated equipment to make a good cup of coffee, but spending money is not all. If you can't really taste the bitterness of American black coffee after you go to Starbucks and brazenly say "American black coffee without sugar", then no matter how expensive the coffee maker can make you really happy. What the Chinese say comes after all the hardships, but it seems to be perfect in coffee, a foreign drink. A pot and a fire can make a cup of coffee, maybe what you really need is to taste its bitter and sweet heart.