The basic knowledge of coffee that beginners must learn.

Coffee beginners must learn coffee knowledge:

Put aside prejudices:

1) Coffee is not mysterious

It is a kind of drink, in fact, you can drink as much as you like. It can be regarded as "good coffee" as long as you think it tastes good. (of course, some level of "delicious" needs to be cultivated.) It can make you feel happy, improve work efficiency, but also let you enjoy the fun of cooking and taste the leisure of that moment. Don't let those sophisticated people shut you out of the coffee. Although the current domestic coffee atmosphere still needs to be improved, but this does not affect you to contact it, in foreign countries, it is as common as soybean milk.

2) Coffee is not expensive

For the tea we drink, the price of coffee is relatively rational. Coffee drinkers don't need to open their mouths to say "Blue Mountain". After all, it's something at the top of the pyramid. Moreover, there are absolutely many teas that are more expensive than the top blue mountains in China. As for the coffee brewing tools are more flexible, dozens of yuan filter tools do not affect you to enjoy a cup of mellow coffee.

3) Coffee is not harmful

It is true that there is caffeine in coffee. We also have tea and coke. It can speed up your blood circulation and boost your metabolism. Generally speaking, the caffeine content of ESPRESSO is the lowest, followed by single product, and instant solution is the highest. We should correctly understand that caffeine will not affect human health as long as we do not consume too much caffeine (after all, we do not drink coffee as water). In fact, coffee has many benefits to the human body! As for rumors that drinking coffee will darken the skin, it is purely an international joke.

Our common types of coffee (drinks):

Instant coffee is a convenient product. I believe many enthusiasts start by drinking instant coffee. It can quickly get you a caffeinated drink. The taste is simple. (common tools: mugs)

Single cup of coffee-it's the black one. It is equivalent to the "coffee of the day" in Starbucks, which can be drunk without adding milk and sugar. Using different cooking tools, we can taste the different producing area characteristics of all kinds of beans. For example, the balance of the Blue Mountains, the sweetness and bitterness of Manning, the fragrance of Yerkasuffe flowers. (common tools: siphon pot, hand punch pot, French presser, American coffee maker, mocha pot)

Espresso Italian espresso-requires a large professional coffee machine that uses boiler pressure to extract coffee essence for a short time, close to sticky espresso. The quantity is very small (30-45 ml), but concentration is the essence, especially in European countries, and it is also the basis for making fancy coffee. (common tools: household / commercial semi-automatic coffee machines, mocha pots)

Fancy coffee-usually with espresso as the tone, and then add milk, sugar, spices and even fruit to make a variety of coffee drinks. (foam is a more common element and usually requires the use of a steam nozzle of a coffee machine or a manual milking machine.)

3) the standard of good coffee

In fact, each region and even everyone, the taste may be different, from a perceptual point of view: as long as you feel good, there is no uncomfortable taste, it can be said to be a good coffee. (I would like to emphasize that the good and the bad need to be compared, just as we Chinese drink tea, the more expensive it is, the more expensive it is.) if you drink a cup of coffee that is better than you have ever had before, please remember its taste. Slowly, no one dares to fool you with a glass of pot water. And what I hope most is for everyone to make their own coffee, you will get more sense of success!

If you are more careful to identify a cup of coffee, it is necessary to judge from its aroma, balanced taste, thick taste, aftertaste and so on.

4) the common coffee brewers have the following types:

1) Turkish coffee maker

2) Naples pot

3) Vietnam trickling filter pot

4) drip filter cup (hand punch pot)

5) filter kettle (French pressure kettle)

6) drip coffee maker (ice drip kettle)

7) Electric coffee maker (American coffee maker)

8) plug air kettle (siphon pot)

9) Mocha kettle

10) Belgian coffee maker

11) ESPRESSO coffee machine (domestic / commercial semi-automatic coffee machine)

12) fully automatic coffee machine

13) easy bag coffee machine

How should I drink the coffee?

Coffee should be hot to drink, as the coffee gradually cools, some aromatic substances will run away, but hot drinking is not hot drinking, if it is freshly made coffee, some can cool down a little before drinking.

Cooling is also in order to drink more, why drink a little more?

Many people think that coffee should be sipped in small sips, so elegant that it can be called slow taste. In fact, drinking coffee too small can not get the complete taste of coffee. Different parts of the population cavity have different taste bands. Drinking too small because the coffee liquid touches less of the mouth, drinking only one or two flavors is not comprehensive, so it is better to drink a little so that the coffee liquid can tumble around the mouth. On the other hand, professional cup testers will sip in a more "inelegant" way, in order to make the coffee liquid spray evenly in the form of fog to get more flavor in the mouth, which will not only drink strangely, but also make a sound like sucking noodles. We don't have to imitate it deliberately, we can try it once in a while, but be careful that it's easy to choke at first.

If you grind your own coffee and smell the ground coffee powder, the flavor is called "dry aroma".

After the coffee is brewed, smell it before drinking it. It's called "wet aroma".

Containers containing coffee liquid should be preheated and coffee will be poured into a stable state that is not easy to change flavor.

If it is to add sugar and milk, then first add sugar and then milk, the reason is very simple, first add milk coffee temperature lowered sugar is not easy to melt ah.

If it is to add milk balls or cream, add as little or not as much as possible, and add fresh milk, because most milk balls are trans fat, which is very bad for health.

The sugar recommended for a single cup of coffee is brown sugar, which is high in sweetness and low in calorie. Try to find a smaller one for milk, otherwise the flavor of milk can easily overshadow the aroma of coffee. If the coffee is good enough, black coffee is not so difficult to accept. Or as I said in previous posts, the amount of sugar milk is a little less today than yesterday, tomorrow is a little less than today, and you will be able to accept black coffee slowly.

The spoon for stirring the coffee should be used only once. After stirring the sugar milk, put it on the edge of the plate. Don't pick it up all the time, it's not very good in etiquette. And don't drink coffee with a coffee spoon, it's not soup!

Siphon coffee, because the temperature is high, it has to be cold before it can be imported.

The coffee made by French pressure can also be left idle for 20 seconds after it has just been poured into the cup, not only to cool for a while, but also to allow the fine powder to precipitate to the bottom of the cup.

Hand-brewed coffee can be imported directly.

The above are all individual items of coffee, do not drink too slowly, the reason began to say that more than 10 minutes is almost enough. But we can leave a sip at the end of each drink, because not all coffee has a strange sour taste when it is cold, and there are surprises when some coffee is cold.

Espresso must be imported directly, and if you feel hot, there is no doubt that it is a failure. Many people say that espresso should be boring. How enjoyable it is! But even if the cup and capacity are the smallest, you have to taste it. Brother Bird espresso thinks it is best to drink it in 2.3 mouthfuls. The sticky and full-bodied taste is lingering.

Most Italian drinks espresso like to add a lot of fine granulated sugar, some not enough to add a packet, after drinking, but also to the bottom of the cup not completely dissolved sugar with a spoon to scrape out to eat, this part of the sugar and coffee combination as delicious as milk sugar! I like it very much, too. And the domestic is more inclined to drink directly, think that can not bear hardships but also drink what concentration ah! In fact, this is not conducive to the popularity of espresso. At the beginning, due to unstable products and unaccustomed taste, it may be difficult to accept the rich taste of espresso, which can be alleviated by adding sugar, and can make the coffee become thicker and sweeter. So in drinking espresso, you can learn from the Italian, the ancestor of espresso, and do not necessarily drink espresso only.

Get to know the most basic basic knowledge so that you can get started better and faster.