A new generation of coffee machine: extractor (Trifecta)

Is this machine pretty? To be honest, I really don't think so. Is this machine good? It is said that it has its own characteristics. When I attended the annual gathering of the American Fine Coffee Association Baker Association in Skamania Lodge, Washington, in August 2010, I almost went back to China and gave up considering that the voltage was not universal and would easily lead to misery. It is a new generation of coffee making machine produced by Bunn-o-Matic Company of the United States, which belongs to a single cup brewing system coffee machine. Since it is so famous and is about to enter the Chinese market, coffee basin friends cannot help but know about it earlier.

In fact, its predecessor was the famous Clover coffee machine, but the Clover was bought out by Starbucks soon after it came out and could no longer be sold in the market, so the new owner, Bunn-o-Matic, came up with a new machine that looked completely different from Clover, and the price was reduced to about 1/3 (more than US $3, 000).

Bunn-o-Matic was founded by Mr. George Bunn in Springfield, Illinois in the 1950s, producing a series of coffee machines, coffee mills, water heaters, drinking fountains, etc., is a very famous coffee company, the durability of products is obvious to all in the world. The Clover originally sold for $11000. Starbucks paid a lot of money to buy Clover, which shows that Clover should not be underestimated. After buying out Clover, Starbucks once tried it out in several stores and withdrew from it soon after. What exactly is the reason? you can Google it yourself.

Clover single cup brewing system coffee machine

The biggest difference between Trifecta and Clover is its appearance. During the annual exhibition of the American Fine Coffee Association in Houston in May 2011, I learned about the machine carefully and shot a video of making coffee (video link: Bunn Trifecta). I feel that it still takes a long time to make coffee, after all, it is a different coffee production system from Espresso.

As we all know, in order to make good coffee, the traditional utensils are hand frame, pressure kettle, siphon pot, Philharmonic pressure and so on, but the production speed of these utensils is relatively slow and is greatly influenced by human factors. higher requirements for coffee makers The main reason why Trifecta is popular is that it combines the advantages of the above traditional coffee utensils (complete soaking, constant temperature, coffee powder mixing, etc.), and can make good coffee automatically, stably and quickly.

The production process of Trifecta coffee machine consists of three parts: pre-soaking (pre-infusion), stirring (turbulence) and pressing coffee (press-out). Each step can be set in advance through its own computer program, in which eddy current stirring is very interesting and plays an important role in improving the extraction quality of coffee. English Trifecta means "three consecutive victories" and "three eagles with one arrow". The author transliterates it as "extraction Tower" for the time being. Better translation suggestions are welcome.

First of all, the hot water completely soaks the freshly submerged coffee powder particles, which is similar to the French pressing pot, which gives full play to the advantages of the "complete soaking system" of the traditional manual coffee utensils; secondly, the air is filled into the pressure chamber containing coffee powder to fully stir the coffee, which makes the interaction between water and coffee more effective, and the extraction (brewing) of coffee more sufficient. Third, at the right time (before the emergence of over-extraction), pressurized air presses the coffee liquid through a metal filter into the pot or cup on the base, which is similar to "Philharmonic pressure", and the pressure further strengthens the extraction process of coffee. so as to ensure the extraction (brewing) of coffee drinks with high alcohol thickness and rich flavor.

Schematic diagram of Trifecta production steps:

Reference: Primacoffee image source: Google compilation: Huang Wei reprint must indicate the source and the original link