Various utensils and principles for making coffee find the coffee utensils that suit you and play well with coffee.

Abstract: find the coffee utensils that suit you and play well with the coffee.

Due to the blind spots of students' cognition and production methods of various coffee utensils, the home page made a simple horizontal comparison and evaluation, hoping to help novice players to a certain extent. Due to the lack of time, if there are individual differences, I hope you can correct them. I hope everyone will work together to find the coffee utensils suitable for you and play the coffee well.

There are many ways to make coffee, and we focus on several common brewing methods:

■ filter / hand brew (Filter Coffee): the most popular way for coffee players to brew coffee is to use lightly roasted and roughly ground coffee powder into filter paper (or flannel), slowly inject hot water into the center of the coffee powder to extend around, and then return to the center from around (no matter how the water is injected, evenness is the most important) Soak the coffee powder in hot water and drop it into the sharing pot to complete the extraction. Each cup of coffee consumption of about 8 grams of coffee powder, hot water needs to use 85-95 ℃ of hot water.

Degree of difficulty: ★★★★

Playability index: ★

Flavor acquisition: ★

Lowest price: less than 200

Equipment required: hand punch, filter cup, sharing pot, thermometer, bean grinder

■ mocha pot (Moka Maker): a kind of distilled coffee brewed from the mocha pot with a steady concentration and aroma. The mocha pot is divided into two parts. The water is boiled in the lower half of the pot until it boils. When the water boils, due to the pressure of the steam, the boiling water rises through a filter containing coffee powder and reaches the upper half of the pot. When the coffee starts to flow to the top half of the pot, the fire needs to be turned down, because the high temperature will make the coffee scorch and destroy its original flavor. The common Japanese plug-air cooking method (siphon pot) also uses the same principle of thermosyphon. Personally, it is not recommended to cook mocha pots. Mocha pots do have a great influence on flavor, and cooking high-quality beans is a natural thing.

Degree of difficulty: ★★☆

Playability index: ★★☆

Flavor acquisition: ★★

Lowest price: less than 200

Equipment required: mocha pot, bean grinder (or buy coffee powder directly)

■ espresso machine (Espresso Machine): coffee drinks are extremely unstable liquids that can change their characteristics and taste at once. This is the main reason why the espresso machine (Espresso Machine) was invented. The espresso machine can continuously extract several cups of coffee, and the high pressure in the brewing process can emulsify and melt the oil and gum in the coffee beans, and the essence of the coffee beans can be completely extracted by pressure, making the brewed coffee more concentrated and more mellow in taste and flavor.

Degree of difficulty: ★

Playability index: ★

Flavor acquisition: ★

Lowest price:

Equipment required: Italian coffee machine, Italian bean grinder and a series of supporting equipment

■ siphon pot (Siphon): there are generally two ways to cook the siphon pot. One is to put the coffee powder into the upper funnel, then add water into the lower pot, then put the funnel mouth tightly into the pot mouth, boil the water, when the boiling water goes deep into the funnel, stir for about 40 seconds and 60 seconds, then extinguish the heating apparatus. When the coffee falls back into the pot, you can remove the funnel and pour out the coffee to drink. The other is to boil the water first, then pour the coffee powder into the upper pot, stir and soak for about 40-60 seconds, turn off the heating apparatus, and wait for the coffee to flow back to the next pot, then remove the funnel and pour out the coffee to drink.

Degree of difficulty: ★★★★

Playability index: ★★★★☆

Flavor acquisition: ★★★★☆

Lowest price: less than 200

Equipment required: siphon pot, bean grinder, heating tools (alcohol lamp, gas stove, halogen lamp, etc.)

■ Belgian Pot / balanced Saifeng Pot (Balancing Syphon): the Belgian kettle is the same as the siphon kettle. It also uses the thermosyphon principle to extract coffee. At the same time, it also skillfully uses the lever principle. The kettle body is divided into two parts. We temporarily call it the heating kettle and the extraction kettle. Pour the ground coffee powder (thick and thick as the siphon kettle) into the extraction kettle and heat the kettle with an alcohol lamp. When the water is close to boiling, there will be bubbles to press the water into the extraction kettle and soak the coffee powder. after almost all the water is pressed into the extraction kettle, the body of the heating kettle becomes lighter and tilted up through the principle of lever, and the cap of the alcohol lamp is automatically capped. The heating kettle begins to cool, and the coffee liquid from the extraction kettle flows back to the heating kettle, so that the coffee is ready. Belgian pot is a very ornamental way to make coffee. To put it simply, it makes people feel high-end and high-end.

Degree of difficulty: ★

Playability index: ★★

Flavor acquisition: ★★★

Lowest price: less than 600

Equipment required: Belgian pot, bean grinder

■ pressure pot (French press): the French pressure method requires the use of a glass or porcelain vessel and a screen. In order to make the taste better, you'd better heat the vessel, put in the right amount of coffee powder after rough grinding, soak in 85 degrees 95 degrees hot water for 3 minutes and 5 minutes, stir slowly, and then enjoy the fun.

Degree of difficulty: ★★

Playability index: ★★★

Flavor acquisition: ★★★☆

Lowest price: less than 100

Equipment required: French kettle, bean grinder, thermometer

■ Desktop Smart Cup (Clever Coffee Dripper): the Smart Cup is a very interesting instrument invented by Taiwan's EK Int'l Company. It is a product produced by the combination of hand flushing and legal pressing. Compared with the manual drip filter cup, the smart cup is more convenient to use and is more in line with the characteristics of family users. The method of use (for reference only) is to put the filter paper into the smart cup, pour into the 85: 95 ℃ hot water preheating cup, then pour out the waste water, grind the coffee powder with the same thickness as the hand, pour the hot water into the hot water according to the ratio of powder to water 1: 12: 15, stir well and rest, this process is about 2 minutes, then put the smart cup on the coffee cup, and the coffee liquid will flow out automatically, so that a cup of strong coffee will be fine. Another: the smart cup can also be used as a hand filter cup.

Degree of difficulty: ★★★

Playability index: ★★★☆

Flavor acquisition: ★★★☆

Lowest price: less than 150

Need equipment: smart cup, bean grinder

■ Philharmonic pressure (Aeropress): it was officially released by AEROBIE Company in 2005. Its structure is similar to that of a syringe. When in use, put ground coffee and hot water in its "syringe", then press the putter, and the coffee will flow into the container through the filter paper. It combines the immersion quenching method of the French filter pressure pot, the filter paper filtration of the follicular coffee, and the fast, pressure quenching principle of Italian coffee. By changing the size and pressing speed of coffee grinding particles, users can cook different flavors according to their own preferences. In addition to being fast, convenient and effective, its cleaning and maintenance is surprisingly simple-it takes only a few seconds after use. The Philharmonic pressure also has the advantages of short size, light weight and not easy to damage, so it is quite suitable to be used as a coffee brewing apparatus for going out.

Degree of difficulty: ★★★☆

Playability index: ★★★☆

Flavor acquisition: ★★★☆

Lowest price: less than 300

Equipment required: Philharmonic pressure, bean grinder, thermometer

■ American drip coffee pot (electric coffee maker): electric coffee pot, simple structure, a device for heating hot water, and then hot water is directly dripped through the strainer containing coffee. Because of the fast flow rate, light taste and high water temperature, it is easy to cause excessive coffee extraction. The automatic drip filter can produce moderate coffee without oil stains and sediments. Please choose a drip brewer with a minimum of 1000 watts. The coffee pot is a good coffee maker. In addition, remember to grind coffee beans according to the shape of the filter; the tapered filter is suitable for moderately ground coffee beans, and the flat-bottom transition is suitable for finely ground coffee beans.

Degree of difficulty: ★★

Playability index: ★★

Flavor acquisition: ★★★

Lowest price: less than 500

Equipment required: American drip filter, bean grinder

■ capsule Coffee Machine (Capsule coffee machine): the so-called capsule coffee machine means that manufacturers put coffee powder into a plastic capsule in advance and then fill it with nitrogen to keep it fresh. when we drink coffee, as long as we put the capsule into a special machine, we can quickly drink a cup of strong coffee. Capsule coffee machine is a kind of Italian coffee machine, which makes the operation of extracting coffee more simple and convenient. When operating the machine, first open the handle on the top of the machine, then put the coffee capsule into the capsule on the top, then close the handle and extract the coffee with one click, which is very easy to operate compared with the semi-automatic coffee machine with coffee powder. Suitable for home and office. However, the capsule machine can not be used as a professional business machine, and there is still a certain gap in taste and freshness compared with the commercial coffee machine.

Degree of difficulty: ★

Playability index: ★★

Flavor acquisition: ★★★

Lowest price: less than 1000

Equipment required: capsule coffee machine