I have coffee. Do you have a story? The story of the century-old coffee shop

Those century-old cafes that were born in the old days

The taste of coffee is varied, and everyone has a different definition of good coffee. Some people like Arabica's amorous feelings, others love Robusta's return to nature; some like the sour taste of light baking, while others love the return of heavy baking. If you want to present and satisfy so many different tastes, it can only be achieved in places like cafes. Coffee drinkers must go to cafes on weekdays, and there must be a cafe in mind that makes you feel at home.

As an old saying goes in Europe, "not at home, in a coffee shop." It's not in the cafe, it's on the way to the cafe. As a result, cafes are everywhere in Europe, and cafes that have been there for more than a century are not uncommon. Maybe the house you entered around the corner may have been the place where Hemingway wrote; in the corner where you sat, there may have been guests like Beethoven and Picasso.

The ancient cafe, like a century without trace of water, each place full of aroma seems to hide a period of time, a fermenting story. I can't help remembering it, and I can't help getting close.

❀LeProcope❀, the first coffee shop in Paris

Coffee shop age: 329

Address: 13, rue de lottery 39 Paris Comedie, 75006 Paris, France

From the outside, it is hard to imagine that this coffee shop in the alley behind Germanic Avenue has a history of more than 300 years. And if you know it, or talk to the waiters in the store, you'll be surprised to know that Voltaire, Rousseau and Dickens were all regulars here, and it was even here that they wrote down the ideas of the European Enlightenment that became books.

Not only that, but the following "names" will make you believe that coming to Le Procope for coffee is "roughly" equivalent to "feeling" the modern history of France: Robespierre, Danton and Mara, the three giants of the French Revolution, are here to discuss their thoughts on social change; and when Napoleon was a young officer, he left an army cap here as collateral because he had no money to pay for it-a hat that is still a "treasure of the town shop" at Le Procope.

❀Venice Flower Cafe mottled walls tell the story of time❀

Coffee shop age: 295

Address: Piazza San Marco 56-59, Venice, Italy

Caf è Florian, which has the same name as Cafe de Flore in Paris, has a history of nearly 300 years. It is located in the most beautiful place San Marco in Venice. It is said that because it was the only coffee shop for women at the time, it became a place for "amateurs" like the explorer Casanova, who came here in a hurry for a drink of Espresso before fleeing Venice because of a debt problem.

❀Cafe Roman Greek Cafe❀ patronized by the Pope

Coffee shop age: 255

Address: Via Condotti 86, Piazza di Spagna, Rome, Italy

Beside the famous Spanish square in Rome, there is a famous cafe, the oldest Roman Greek cafe (Antico Caff Greco), which was opened by a Greek in 1720. Famous European artists, poets and musicians have been fond of gathering here for centuries, and even the kings and popes at that time patronized it.

❀"four Cats" Coffee in the Cafe Gallery "❀

Coffee shop age: 118

Address: Carrer Montsio 3 bis, 08002 Barcelona, Spain

Located in the most artistic cafe on Montes Street in Barcelona, whenever tourists pass by, they often stop to look at the exquisite facade of the cafe. "four cats" (Els Quatre Gats) is also translated as "three or five people" in Spanish. Barcelona's famous architect Gaudi and musician Isaac Albenis often enjoy a good time here. Picasso held his first exhibition here in 1899, and the cafe still retains copies of Picasso's paintings from that year's exhibition.

❀Vienna Central Cafe "Coffee with Princess Sissy"❀

Coffee shop age: 155

Address: Herrengasse 14, 1010 Wien, Austria

The most famous cafe in Vienna is the Cafe Central, which is located in the inner city. The cafe, rebuilt from the former duke's mansion, is full of Germanic grandeur and grandeur.

Walking through the gate, a statue of Altenberg, a famous Austrian writer and poet, sitting in a chair and meditating, came into view. Beethoven, Schubert, John Strauss and son, Theodore Hertzel, Lenin, and Lev Trotsky are all regulars here. For a long time, many chess lovers like to compete here, so it has also got the reputation of "chess school".

If one day you travel to Europe, in the vicinity of these cafes, you might as well go and have a look, maybe there is a thrill waiting for you in the cafe ~~

Hand-made coffee

People who like coffee are more or less interested in making coffee. Hand flushing has long been popular among boutique coffee lovers all over the world. It does not need milk, sugar, cinnamon powder and so on to flavor, with its unique follicular production method, so that the taste of extracted coffee rich layers, emitting the original flavor of coffee beans mellow.

Some people say that there are many ways to make coffee by hand, but it is not difficult to try. It is such a movement to return to nature, a ceremony to explore the original taste of coffee.

Good hand-brewing coffee utensils can always add a little more appreciation and emotion to people while making delicious coffee, making the brewing process a kind of soul-stirring enjoyment. And there is no shortage of shoddy and unsatisfactory products on the market, so that they become useless table furnishings. Therefore, in addition to strict selection of bean varieties and careful baking, brewing utensils are also very important!

Bean grinder

The best thing about making coffee is to taste a good cup of coffee with a room full of coffee aroma. And the charming aroma of coffee is the unique flavor of freshly roasted coffee beans. The freshness of coffee depends on the baking time, the method of storage and whether it is freshly ground. Therefore, if you have time and space, it is recommended that you grind coffee at home, so that in the process of extraction and stewing, you can really taste the exquisite aesthetics of coffee.

The appearance is exquisite, the stainless steel outer material high-end has the texture, the internal spring machine and other structural parts can all be washed directly.

Ceramic gears can easily adjust the size of the powder. generally speaking, the finer the coffee powder is, the more bitter it is, but too coarse will lead to insufficient extraction.

Small and light, filled with coffee beans, suitable for 1 to 2 people.

Electronic scale

Hand-brewed coffee ushered in the era of coffee aesthetics, but also had the fine standard of industrialization. In boutique cafes, you can see that baristas will accurately control the amount of coffee beans selected according to the special flavor of each kind of coffee beans, and complete the whole extraction process on the scale, which helps to better and more accurately grasp the ratio of water to powder. Therefore, this process must not be taken lightly.

Of course, the taste can be adjusted according to your personal preference and preference for beans, usually between 15g and 18g coffee beans per person.

The electronic name of T-fal Tefu series won the GOOD DESIGN award in 2013. this product is equipped with a micro-computing model, with a minimum unit of 0.1g and a maximum 2kg. The g/ml unit means you can switch freely, even if you don't have to measure the liquid capacity of the cup. 0 means function, and a container can measure the weight of all kinds of materials. Turn off the power automatically for 2 minutes. The tray can be removed and cleaned. The metering tray is made of high-grade glass, the design is lovely and interesting, and it is very three-dimensional. At first glance, I thought it was a delicious cake filled with a tray.

Filter paper

Filter paper plays a filtering role in the filter cup, and good filter paper is more helpful to reflect the quality of coffee. The general filter paper material is divided into flannel cloth and ordinary filter paper. For the final extraction taste, because the paper is easier to absorb grease, flannel can retain more coffee grease taste, but cleaning is more troublesome and needs to be replaced frequently, while the filter paper is disposable, which is cleaner and more convenient than filter cloth. More recommended.

In terms of shape, it is necessary to pay attention to the adaptation of the filter paper and the purchased filter cup, one is to choose the filter paper size according to the size of the filter pot, and the other is to choose the flat-bottomed filter paper or the pointed filter paper according to the shape of the filter cup.

HARIO is a Japanese glass products brand, known as the king of glass. HARIO is people-oriented and uses 100% pure natural raw materials to launch HARIO high-quality heat-resistant glass products, a product of nature in the 20th century. HARIO's products have become a household name in Japan because of their excellent quality and exquisite appearance.

The coffee utensils under its brand also enjoy a high reputation in the coffee industry in North America. For example, his coffee filter paper, the use of natural coniferous pulp, the original pulp color is not bleached, good air permeability, is a better coffee filter paper on the market.

Filter cup

The selection of filter cup mainly considers the difference of three dimensions:

(1) material: the filter bracket has glass, resin, ceramic, stainless steel and other materials, the glass is relatively beautiful, the ceramic insulation performance is the best but heavy, the resin is very practical, lightweight and not easy to break.

(2) holes: the holes under the traditional oval filter cup are divided into single hole, double hole and three holes. Among them, single-hole filter cup extraction, water flow and extraction speed is the fastest, the need for brewers to have a more accurate grasp of the flow and time.

(3) do not underestimate the concave and convex grooves on the cup wall, which is also quite knowledgeable in the design. The gap between the artificially formed filter paper and the inner wall of the filter cup facilitates air circulation and improves the extraction quality.

HARIO is the invention brand of filter cup, and V60 is the most widely used hand drip filtration equipment in the world. Under the V60 conical filter cup is a direct and relatively large round hole, and the cup wall has grooves, which makes it more advantageous than the traditional filter cup. This design not only greatly increases the thickness of coffee powder layer and facilitates ring water injection, but also improves the extraction equilibrium of the first water injection.

After the improvement of permeability, the flow and airflow channel beans are more smooth, making the coffee taste more similar to flannel filter cloth, balanced and layered; the equipment is simple, easy to take care of, and the purchase cost is low.

Hand flushing kettle

The slender spout design of the special hand-flushing pot makes it easier for the operator to control the flow of water, the filling circle is more convenient, and if the water temperature is too high, it can be adjusted by adding cold water to the pot.

A classic antique and modern fusion of fine mouth coffee pot, court style elegant shape, all copper refined pot body, high efficiency of thermal conductivity, fine mouth pot design makes it easier to control the amount of water, so that each coffee powder can be equally equal to the same amount of hot water, to prevent some places from over-extraction or under-extraction.

Electronic thermometer

The water temperature of brewing boutique coffee should not be too high, 80-90 degrees. The electronic thermometer helps to grasp the water temperature more easily and quickly, showing cups of high-quality hand-brewed coffee.

The Tanita Belida cuisine thermometer TT-533 uses thermosensitive temperature measurement, 4-digit liquid crystal display; no operation for about 10 minutes, will automatically shut down, saving energy; measuring range:-50 ~ 240C; ultra-small visual accuracy: 0.1C; Waterproof grade: IPX2; main material: the body is heat-resistant ABS resin, needle is stainless steel. Can be hung up the design, baking essentials, boiling syrup, chocolate temperature regulation, can also be used for dough fermentation temperature management and so on. Help with the kitchen!

In this way, all the equipment needed to make a cup of hand-made coffee is introduced. In the eyes of many professionals, making a cup of high-quality espresso requires a lot of requirements for water temperature, time and technique, but it is nothing more than a simple tool for a pair of hands, a pot and a funnel.

The coffee brewed by everyone tastes different, and even the coffee brewed by the same person is not exactly the same. And that's the pleasure of making coffee by hand.

If you are obsessed with this skill, you can pursue excellence, and if you just want to enjoy and experience a way of life, you can leave those "hypocrisy" behind. Take a look at these practical and beautiful coffee utensils that make it easy for you to enjoy your coffee.

The "BIALETTI" coffee maker brand was registered in 1933. It is the first company in the world to use this structure to brew coffee. Biloti has 51% of the Italian market, with a brand recognition rate of 95%. Nine out of every ten Italian households use Biloti's products. The "BIALETTI" mocha coffee maker is suitable for all kinds of people who have a passion for "ESPRESSO" coffee.

This 6799pm is suitable for 2-3 people in 3 cups. You can make a cup of strong coffee on the gas stove by adding coffee powder and water respectively. Moreover, this coffee pot does not need filter paper, so you can save a lot of cost in the later stage. Bialetti corresponds to about 3-4 copies (the standard for Italian mocha pots is 20-40ml/ cups), about 120-160ml.

This Nespresso Nestl é Lattissima Touch automatic capsule coffee machine can make six different flavors of coffee with one click, namely Ristretto, LUNGO, Italian concentrate, latte and cappuccino, and can produce hot milk separately. The milk container capacity of the foam machine is 400ml, the foam density is adjustable, the milk container is detachable, and the unused milk can be removed and stored in the refrigerator.

The coffee machine supports fast heating for 25 seconds, the highest 19bar water pressure, a mobile water tank capacity of 950ml, automatic cleaning and descaling reminders, automatic shutdown and standby. The coffee machine has a voltage of 110v and a maximum power of 1300W. A voltage converter with a power of more than 2000W is needed for domestic use. This capsule coffee machine can easily make fancy coffee, it is very convenient to operate, and you don't have to worry about cleaning it. It is very suitable for use at home or in the office.

Handpresso Auto is the world's first real car espresso machine. Use 12V DC power supply and use the cigarette lighter in the car. The operation is very simple, add water (53ml) and coffee easy bag, screw the lid, press the button, the pressure is rising, the water is heating, after three sound prompts, a cup of coffee is ready. Thanks to its maximum pressure of 16 bar (1.6 million Pa), you can make an espresso with a thick layer of cream.

Panasonic NC-A56-K automatic bean grinding coffee machine, the best choice for breakfast coffee, the capacity is 0.67L, about 5 cups of coffee, a variety of grinding methods to make coffee beans more quickly and efficiently into coffee powder, boiling water will be filtered through activated carbon to ensure the strong aroma of coffee. In addition, it also has the functions of heat preservation and timing switch, which is efficient and convenient, making your coffee fast and delicious.

This Bodum Brazil Bolton kettle consists of a heat-resistant glass body, a stainless steel lid, a rubber handle (with a stainless steel fixed frame) and a stainless steel filter screen. The capacity is 0.35L, which is equivalent to three cups.

This Bolton coffee travel cup, with double vacuum stainless steel bottle body, can achieve good heat preservation effect and is easy to clean. The leak-proof lid has a built-in piston, which is very easy to use. put in coffee powder, pour it into boiling water, wait 4 minutes, press the piston, and then you can start enjoying fresh coffee. This French pressure cup can also be used to make tea, the usage is the same.

MR.COFFEE is a company specializing in the development of coffee maker, the inventor of home brewing coffee machine; this Mr. Coffee DR5 4 cup capacity simple coffee machine, with On/off indicator and Pause-and-brew pause function, double display window, you can clearly see the remaining water, can also be used to boil water, 4 cup capacity!

People who love coffee always have a unique instrument that they like. Different instruments represent not only a hobby, a way, but also an amorous feelings, a culture, and even a moving story.

Friends

I have coffee here.

Do you have a story?

Source: Jinri Toutiao