How to make an almost professional cup of coffee at home?

I often go to cafes to taste the delicacies of lattes, cappuccinos and caramel macchiato, but the price of more than 30 yuan a cup is still too much for my urban white-collar workers. I can't help it. I can't do without the temptation of coffee. Sometimes I make a cup of instant coffee in the office. I've finished drinking coffee, but that taste really makes me frown. The flavors and additives in three-in-one instant coffee make me a little worried about my health.

I can't always put a big coffee machine in my office and at home, acting like a coffee shop, and I can't afford it at a price of tens of thousands of yuan. I go to the coffee machine market and visit the coffee professional website. At present, there are only two convenient ways to make your own cup of coffee: a fully automatic coffee machine and a capsule coffee machine. There are many varieties of automatic coffee machines on the market, with prices ranging from more than 1,000 yuan to more than 10,000 yuan. There are many domestic imported brands. In fact, they are basically made in China, which is already a global coffee machine manufacturing base. The advantages of a fully automatic coffee machine are convenience and low cost of making a cup of coffee, but the biggest disadvantage is also obvious, that is, it cannot make a good cup of coffee. At present, any fully automatic coffee machine on the market can not make a complete standard espresso extraction, because the high degree of automatic and quantitative coffee machine can not make a tailored quantity for different varieties of coffee beans, different coffee freshness, and different roasting degrees. In addition, almost all automatic coffee machines cannot avoid "insufficient extraction", which should be related to the powder quantity setting of the factory and the tightness of powder and powder. . With this major premise, I certainly can not use too high standards to require a household automatic coffee machine to reach the standard of a coffee shop. For lazy people like me, the fully automatic coffee machine has another fatal disadvantage: it needs to be cleaned frequently. Many of my friends bought thousands of yuan worth of full automata at home, and after using them for a few months, without frequent cleaning, the coffee production was not smooth, so I just put the machine aside and go to sleep. This problem is also a big problem for us office workers. Capsule coffee machine is a very popular way of homemade coffee in Europe and the United States. after all, people have a much longer history of drinking coffee than we do, and there are many innovations in the coffee industry. the key is that the coffee made with coffee capsules already has so much professional coffee flavor. The Green Mountain Coffee Company in the United States is listed on the stock of coffee capsules, and its share price has increased several times in a short period of time. Coffee capsules sold by Nestl é have reached 1 billion a year, and coffee capsules launched by Nestl é are also popular in Europe. George Clooney's TV commercials let Europeans know the power of coffee capsules. What on earth is capsule coffee? In fact, white-collar workers like me need a cup of coffee to refresh themselves to a large extent when they drink coffee in the office or at home. Families in Europe want to make a quick cup of espresso in the morning, while families in the United States are americano, while the Asia-Pacific region cares more about a cup of coffee with milk on the table. In fact, even many good baristas are gradually abandoning their semi-professional coffee machines at home. Because, this kind of coffee machine often takes more than 20 minutes to preheat, and no matter how good the barista is, they have to constantly wipe the powder dregs spilled when receiving the powder.

A cup of coffee is good or bad, so for the average household, it should be a good thing to drink as much as possible like coffee in a cafe. The capsule coffee machine seems to have condensed the professional coffee machine and made it standardized. A friend asked me: is the coffee capsule swallowed? Ha, of course not! This product is generally called "bullet coffee" in Taiwan, which means that each coffee capsule is like a bullet and has to be put into a special coffee machine (like a gun chamber) to make a cup of coffee. Coffee capsules have been developed since the late 1970s. It is said that coffee capsules were first used by American astronauts in space, and it was not until nearly 10 years that coffee capsules developed rapidly. In the past two years, the sales of coffee capsules in Europe and the United States have increased rapidly. began to change from a fashionable product to a household must-have coffee equipment. Coffee capsules actually modularize the quantity of coffee. About 8 grams of coffee powder, through the matching capsule coffee machine to extract about 30ml espresso. Coffee capsule through the coffee machine, can make a cup of coffee with a strong crema, and the thick sense of espresso is also obvious. If you are not a coffee tasting expert, you can't tell whether such a cup of coffee is made by a professional semi-automatic coffee machine. At present, in the domestic market, capsule coffee machines can be seen in some 5-star hotel rooms to replace the previously untasty instant coffee. A very small number of imported supermarkets can also see some coffee capsule brands on sale, the price is basically more than 5 yuan per tablet. There are also some coffee capsules sold on Taobao, many of which are purchased by overseas purchasing agents. They are bought from foreign stores and shipped to China. It has been a long time since they were sold, so there will be some problems with freshness.

In fact, there are different types of coffee capsules in the world, which can be roughly divided into several types: one is a hard capsule, that is, the capsule shell is made of plastic, very hard, barrel-shaped, and there are plastic filter pressure tablets in the capsule. The capsule itself does not have a fresh-keeping function, so it is necessary to wrap a soft bag filled with nitrogen on the outside, which looks like the kind of French bun sold in the supermarket. This kind of capsule has been launched for a long time and is relatively common. Famous brands include illy, Lavazza point and so on. At present, many small brands in Europe also have this kind of hard capsule. Due to the use of plastics, this kind of capsule inevitably has environmental protection and safety concerns when encountered with high temperature and high pressure. In addition, the outer packaging needs to be inflated, so it is easy to break in transportation. Once broken, this capsule is almost worthless. So at present, the European market is gradually phasing out this product. Its advantage is that the capsule coffee machine is easy to buy and cheap because the internal structure is relatively simple. In addition, due to the need for outer packaging, this product is easy to copy. I drank an illy coffee capsule in China, but it was very bad. Look carefully, the outer packaging is not very fine, so it is hard to say whether it is true or false.

Second, K-CUP, this is a very good variety sold in the North American market, the reason is very simple, large quantity and make American coffee, that is to say, there is almost no crema in the coffee, that is, we often say Black Coffee, because it does not need a good extraction, the coffee machine is even simpler, almost a water heater, of course, it is also cheap. The Green Mountain Company in the United States made a lot of money from it and sold it to North America. Americans originally had no pursuit of coffee, and some could drink it, but now Americans seem to like espresso, after all, they have better taste.

Third, Nespresso, that is, Nestle's coffee capsule, it should be said that Nestl é makes the greatest contribution to the coffee capsule. This product should be first officially developed and launched by Nestl é. Nespresso follows a fashion route, the capsule is wrapped in all-aluminum material, it looks very beautiful, the coffee machine is also very beautiful, in some high-star hotels, European flights also see from time to time, Europe also opened a lot of stores Several stores have also been opened in China, which are watched by a lot of people. The biggest problem with this capsule is the taste. First, there are 16 flavors, and I don't know which one to drink. In addition, there are only 5 grams of coffee powder in this capsule, just like making you a cup of green tea, but only a few slices of tea, can it taste good? A standard cup of espresso should use at least 7 grams of coffee powder, so in my opinion, Nespresso is more suitable for giving gifts. I'd better drink it myself. I'm an environmentalist, and it's hard to see these aluminum shells thrown away every day. The fourth is the soft capsule, each coffee capsule has an independently designed cover, the packaging material of this capsule is a kind of high-tech composite material, which can keep fresh and insulate oxygen very well, and the shelf life of the capsule can reach about 2 years. There are two types seen in China, one is the filter in the capsule, some are plastic, some are cloth, such as Caffitaly, K-Fee and other brands seen in China, the coffee machine is also supporting, the other is that only coffee powder is put in the capsule, such as Lavazza Blue, EURO and other brands. The latter has higher requirements for coffee machine, better extraction effect, and safer and more environmentally friendly. This kind of soft capsule is also the development trend of coffee capsules all over the world. Lavazza is the most well-known coffee brand in the world. Lavazza Blue coffee capsules are currently available in Taobao stores in China, but the capsule machine is relatively expensive. EURO coffee capsules are launched by MERA COFFEE, which has established a joint venture factory in China and is also the earliest foreign coffee capsule manufacturer in China, but there are few places that can be bought in China. It only takes 30 seconds to make a cup of coffee with a coffee capsule, plus electrification, and the preheating will not exceed 2 minutes. The key is that this kind of capsule coffee machine does not need cleaning at all, which is suitable for me. With a capsule into the machine, first hit a cup of espresso into the coffee cup, I usually drink unaccustomed espresso espresso, very simple, buy a milk bubble machine, more than 200 yuan on the Internet, pour in the fresh milk, press the switch for 1 minute to make a pretty good foam, pour into the espresso, add some sugar, a cup of cappuccino is easily done, the taste is not bad than Starbucks coffee It adds up to only 5 yuan, and it's cheaper to buy too much and have a discount. I can officially say goodbye to instant coffee.