How to make a cup of coffee at home?

How to make a cup of coffee at home?

I often go to coffee shops, taste latte, cappuccino, caramel macchiato delicious, but the price of more than 30 yuan a cup or let me this city white-collar a little too much, no way, I have been unable to leave the temptation of coffee, sometimes in the office on the cup of instant coffee, as I completed the "coffee" this thing, but that taste, really let me frown, three-in-one instant coffee essence and additives and let me worry about my health a little bit.

I can't always put a big coffee machine in the office and at home, like a coffee shop, say tens of thousands of yuan price, I can not afford ah, I go to the coffee machine market, go to see the coffee professional website, look, at present can be convenient to make a cup of coffee by themselves, in fact, there are only two ways: with automatic coffee machine and capsule coffee machine. There are many varieties of automatic coffee machines on the market, and the price ranges from more than 1,000 yuan to more than 10,000 yuan. There are many domestic imported brands. In fact, they are basically produced in China. China is already a global coffee machine manufacturing base. The advantages of automatic coffee machines are convenience and low cost of making a cup of coffee, but the biggest disadvantage is obvious, that is, they cannot make a good cup of coffee. Any fully automatic coffee machine currently on the market cannot make a completely standard espresso extraction, because the high degree of automation and dosing makes it impossible for fully automatic coffee machines to tailor dosing to different varieties of coffee beans, different coffee freshness, and different roasting degrees. Moreover, almost all automatic coffee machines can not do not "under extraction", which should be related to the factory's powder setting and the tightness of the powder. With this premise, of course, I can not use too high a standard to ask for a fully automatic coffee machine to reach the coffee shop level. Automatic coffee machines for lazy people like me, there is also a fatal drawback: need to clean frequently. Many of my friends bought thousands of yuan of automatic machines at home, used for a few months, not often cleaned, coffee making is not smooth, simply put the machine aside to sleep. This problem is also a big problem for us office workers. Capsule coffee machine, is currently very popular in Europe and the United States to make coffee way, after all, people drink coffee history is much longer than we, coffee industry innovation is also more, the key is, coffee made with coffee capsules, there have been so many professional coffee flavor. Green Mountain Coffee Company in the United States went public with coffee capsules, and its share price doubled several times in a short period of time. Coffee capsules sold 1 billion a year. Nestle launched coffee capsules and sold well them in Europe. George Clooney shot TV advertisements to let Europeans know the power of coffee capsules. What exactly is capsule coffee? In fact, white-collar workers like me, drinking coffee in the office or at home, largely need a cup of coffee to refresh themselves. European families want a quick morning espresso, American families an americano, and Asia-Pacific families care more about a cup of coffee with milk being served quickly. In fact, even many good baristas are beginning to abandon the semi-professional coffee machine at home. Because this type of coffee machine often takes more than 20 minutes to preheat, and even the best barista has to constantly wipe the powder residue when receiving the powder.

A cup of coffee is not good to drink is relatively speaking, so for the general household, to drink as much as possible like coffee in the cafe, should still be a good thing. Capsule coffee machine seems to be a professional coffee machine to do concentrated, standardized. A friend asked me: Coffee capsules are 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 (also like a gun chamber) to make a cup of coffee. Coffee capsules have been developed since the late 1970s. It is said that they were first used by American astronauts in space. It was not until the past 10 years that coffee capsules developed rapidly. In the past two years, the sales of coffee capsules in the European and American markets have increased rapidly, starting from a fashionable product to a must-have coffee equipment for families. Coffee capsules actually modularize coffee dosing. About 8 grams of coffee powder, through the matching capsule coffee machine pressure extraction of about 30ml of espresso. Coffee capsules through the coffee machine, can make a cup of crema strong coffee, espresso thick feeling is also more obvious. If it is not a coffee tasting expert, some of these cups of coffee can not tell whether it 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 difficult instant coffee. A few imported goods supermarkets can also see some coffee capsule brands on sale, the price is basically above 5 yuan/capsule. Taobao also has some coffee capsules on sale, many of which are overseas purchasing agents, bought from foreign stores and shipped to China. It has been a long time since they were sold, and there will be some problems with freshness.

In fact, there are different types of coffee capsules in the world at present, which are roughly divided into these types: one is a hard capsule, that is, the capsule shell is made of plastic, very hard, cylindrical, the capsule has a plastic filter pressure sheet, this capsule itself does not have preservation function, so it must be wrapped in a nitrogen-filled soft bag outside, which looks like the kind of French bread sold in supermarkets. This capsule has been launched for a long time, more common, famous brands have illy, Lavazza point, etc., Europe at present many small brands are also this kind of hard capsule, this capsule due to the use of plastic, encounter high temperature and high pressure inevitably have environmental safety concerns, coupled with the outer packaging needs to be inflated, in the transportation is easy to break, once broken this capsule almost no value, so the European market is gradually eliminating this product. The advantage is that the capsule coffee machine is easy to buy and cheap, because the internal structure is relatively simple. In addition, this kind of product needs to be packaged, so it is easy to copy. I have drunk an illy coffee capsule in China, but it is very bad to drink. Look carefully, the outer packaging is not very fine. It is hard to say whether it is true or false.

The second is K-CUP, which is a very good variety sold in the North American market, the reason is very simple, the amount is large and it is American coffee, that is to say, the coffee that is played has almost no crema, that is, we often say Black Coffee, because it does not need good extraction, the coffee machine is simpler, almost a water heater, and of course it is cheaper. 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. Some people just drank it. However, now Americans seem to like Italian coffee. After all, they have higher taste.

The third is Nespresso, that is, Nestle coffee capsules, it should be said that Nestle is the biggest contribution to coffee capsules, this product should be first officially developed by Nestle, Nespresso is a fashion route, capsules are wrapped by all-aluminum materials, looks very beautiful, coffee machines are also very beautiful, in some high-star hotels, European flights also sometimes see, Europe also opened a lot of stores, China also opened several stores, see quite a lot of people. The biggest problem with this capsule is the taste. First, there are 16 flavors now, and I can't figure out which one to drink. In addition, there are only 5 grams of coffee powder in this capsule, just like making a cup of green tea for you, but only putting a few pieces of tea. A standard cup of espresso should use at least 7 grams of coffee powder, so Nespresso in my opinion, more suitable for gifts, drink or forget it, I am an environmentalist, see every day to throw away these aluminum shells, uncomfortable. Fourth, soft capsules, each coffee capsule has an independently designed cover, the packaging material of this capsule is a high-tech composite material, can be very good preservation oxygen, the shelf life of the capsule can reach about 2 years. In China, there are two types, one is the capsule put filter tablets, some filter tablets are plastic, some are cloth, such as Caffitaly, K-Fee and other brands seen in China, coffee machine is also supporting, the other is the capsule only put coffee powder, such as Lavazza Blue, EURO and other brands. The latter has higher requirements for coffee machines, better extraction effect, and safer and more environmentally friendly. This soft capsule is also the development trend of coffee capsules all over the world. Lavazza is the most famous coffee brand in the world. Lavazza Blue coffee capsules can be bought in Taobao stores in China at present, but the capsule machine is relatively expensive. EURO coffee capsules are launched by MERA COFFEE Company. The company has established a joint venture factory in China, and it is also the earliest foreign coffee capsule manufacturer in China. However, there are few places in China that can be bought. It only takes 30 seconds to make a cup of coffee with coffee capsules. With power on, the preheating will not exceed 2 minutes. The key is that this capsule coffee machine does not need cleaning at all. It suits me! With a capsule into the machine, first make a cup of espresso coffee into the coffee cup, I usually drink Italian espresso, very simple, buy a milk bubble machine, online many very, 200 yuan a, pour fresh milk into, press the switch 1 minute can play quite good milk bubble, pour into espresso, add sugar, a cup of cappino easily done, taste better than Starbucks coffee had to be not bad, add up to 5 yuan, buy more discount cheaper. I can officially say goodbye to instant coffee.