The trick to making good coffee is to master the six elements.

Whether it's making a cup of Espresso or filtered hand-brewed coffee, the key point is to master the six elements.

Powder-water ratio

Lapping degree corresponding apparatus

Optimize cooking methods (soaking, mixing, filtering, etc.)

Operation skills (stirring, water temperature, disturbance, etc.)

Good water quality

Appropriate filter media

The overall factor is these six points, but in the actual coffee production process to be flexible to master these basic points can be much more difficult, in addition, there may be a lot of uncertain factors, it is difficult for beginners not to panic.

Flexible use is not just talk. Often encountered is that once the grinding degree of ground coffee is not adjusted in place, many people do not know what to do, and even have to grind to the "scale" written in the book. In fact, you only need to change the "total contact time between coffee powder and water" or change a kind of cooking equipment to make the flavor you want to achieve.

It is precisely because the factors that affect the extraction of a good cup of coffee are varied, so the coffee utensils used in cafes are mainly "simple, stable, small variable", and it is better to be "handsome" at the same time.

Today, Chongqing Brista Coffee training School came to introduce to friends two more professional coffee-making appliances. I believe that whether you go to the office or travel, you can enjoy a cup of pure coffee at home.

Advantages of Smart Cup / Clever Drip

Just like testing the quality of a coffee cup, it can restore the taste of coffee most intuitively and stably: after grinding the coffee, put it directly into a smart cup with filter paper, pour the boiled water into the amount of water you want to achieve the ratio of powder to water at one time, wait 4 minutes, and then filter it out and drink it.

As a result, you can judge whether the roaster is good or bad, the coffee raw bean is good or bad, and you no longer have to worry about the accusation of the "boutique coffee roaster": it tastes bad because you can't make it.

The deficiency of the Smart Cup

Advantages and disadvantages, the whole production process does not seem to require the producer's advanced coffee skills, can not be handsome, can not guarantee to be photographed and admired.

The advantages of Philharmonic pressure / Areopress

The Philharmonic pressure, which combines soaking, filtration and pressure extraction, can complete a good cup of coffee in about 1 minute. Although it is impossible for everyone to make a good cup of coffee as easily as the smart cup, it maximizes the consideration of "being handsome" and "simple, stable and small variables" compared with the hand-filter method.

The deficiency of Philharmonic pressure

Compared to the smart cup (note, it is not compared to the hand filter), the Philharmonic pressure is slightly more professional, and its design determines that it takes a barista to make a good cup of coffee, while using the smart cup, people almost only need to pour water into it.

From the step-by-step analysis, we can see that whether we can make a good cup of coffee "person" is the most critical factor. The less people participate in the equipment, the higher the stability, and the less opportunities to be handsome. If recommended from this point of view, "drip filter coffee maker / pot" and "French kettle" will also be the best choice.

1. Why are there hand filter competitions, Philharmonic pressure competitions, semi-automatic Italian coffee machine baristas competitions, but not smart cup competitions? Is there a coffee competition like Smart Cup?

2, the inventor of the Philharmonic pressure, in an interview not long ago, he also mercilessly punched those handsome behaviors in the Philharmonic pressure competition: I don't understand why those people use the Philharmonic pressure upside down, or set up a set of hand filter on the Philharmonic pressure to make coffee, because for me, the original intention of designing the Philharmonic pressure is to make a cup of coffee simply and conveniently.