The home siphon pot coffee making tutorial is obsessed with making bottles and cans similar to chemical experiments when siphoning.

Siphon pots are an ornamental way to make coffee. Many people are fascinated by the bottles and jars similar to chemical experiments when making siphons, as well as the dedicated attitude of baristas. What's more, they love coffee because they love siphon pots.

Siphon pot originated in 1840, Scottish engineer Napier (Robert Napier) invented this coffee pot, later patented by France's Madame Vassieux (Madame Vassieux), 1950s Britain and Germany have begun to produce, and later coffee culture into Japan, Japan to carry forward this appliance, and then into Taiwan, with the "third wave" coffee culture popular all over the world.

Siphon phenomenon in physics, siphon is a kind of curved pipe using air pressure, will be a container of liquid moved to B container. This principle is used to brew coffee, so it is also called "siphon pot" or "Vacuum pot"("plug wind" is a direct transliteration of the name.

Aesthetics is also one of the siphon pot addicts, a few years ago, the first time I bought coffee equipment bought a siphon pot, although it has long been idle, but see it will still "think of the sunset running, that is our lost youth ~ from 'never expected'," now also see a good pot can not help but want to start, so this post, hope more friends to join the ranks of siphon pot.

This time we use a three-person siphon pot to make coffee for two people. The usual ratio of powder to coffee liquid is 1:12~15, that is, 10 grams of coffee powder produces 120~150ml of coffee liquid (usually marked on the siphon pot are 1cup, 2cup, etc., 1 cup is about 120ml, which is about 10g of powder).

◆ Coffee powder thickness is about coarse granulated sugar thickness, and the thickness is more uniform

Equipment needed: siphon pot, heating equipment (alcohol lamp, gas stove, halogen lamp, etc.~ here we choose halogen lamp), bean grinder, stir bar, wet towel, gram scale

About the grinder: It is recommended that friends who like to drink freshly ground coffee invest in a reliable grinder, whether electric or hand-cranked, which is much better than buying coffee powder and the price of general household is not very high.

About heating equipment: heating equipment common alcohol lamp, gas stove, halogen lamp, etc., each has its own characteristics, it is recommended to use gas stove or halogen lamp, although the alcohol lamp is much cheaper, but it is inconvenient to use, the firepower is too small and not easy to adjust, and the alcohol is easy to spill, not particularly safe. Gas stoves are light and easy to use and low in price. Halogen lamp ornamental good, high price. I hope players choose reasonably according to their own conditions.

About the production method: Siphoning can be divided into two schools. One is to pour coffee powder into the upper pot before the water in the lower pot has entered the upper pot.(There is a saying: 'siphon such as uphill, hand flush such as downhill' that is to say, this way is to extract coffee in the case of rising water temperature, while hand flush is to extract coffee in the case of continuous cooling), the other is to wait for the water in the next pot to completely enter the pot and wait for the water to stabilize before pouring coffee powder, and then extracting, in this we take the second way of operation, the first interested players can try it themselves, not in depth here.

Operation steps:

1. Installation siphon pot: no matter how the siphon pot looks, the general shape is similar, divided into five parts: upper pot, lower pot, base, cover and filter. (Filter selection: common filter is generally filter cloth filter, but filter cloth easy to absorb grease, not easy to clean, and the next use if clean not easy to produce miscellaneous smell, and filter paper and filter filter is easy to clean a lot of, but filter paper need to be careful operation, do not puncture filter paper, and filter do coffee usually produce a little impurity, so the choice of filter also depends on their choice, here we choose filter.)

screen filter

Install the filter in the upper pot and clamp it tightly with a pressure spring.

... installed siphon pots.

Siphon pot and halogen lamp

2. Weigh coffee beans: Weigh coffee beans 20g (there is a saying that one cup of brewing with 10g, two cups can be 15g or less than 20g on the line, in fact, it does not conform to the extraction principle, if you want to get a light taste of coffee can be reduced, but make two cups of coffee and coffee beans can be reduced is not correct, players can try, taste difference is really big)

3. Grinding: Hand grinder grinds coffee beans

4. Add water: add water to the pot (it can be hot water, and the amount of water is slightly higher than the amount of coffee we want to extract, that is, more than 2 cups, because the coffee powder will absorb water, and the coffee will be just on the scale of 2 cups at the end of extraction)

5. Start heating: heat the water in the lower pot with halogen lamp, and turn the heat to the maximum (pay attention to ensure that there is no water on the outer wall of the lower pot before heating, so as to prevent the lower pot from cracking when heating)

The water in the lower pot begins to flow into the upper pot

The water in the lower pot flows completely into the upper pot and generates violent bubbles.

6. Adjust the fire: at this time, turn down the fire, let the bubbles stabilize, ready to pour the coffee powder into the pot extraction

7. Start extraction: Pour the coffee powder into the top pot, tap the coffee powder with a stirring stick until it is completely immersed in the water, and then start stirring (Stir clockwise or counterclockwise, but remember to stir in one direction, do not stir back and forth), from the beginning of stirring to the end of extraction for about 1 minute, some players like to count the time to extract, is a good habit, but aesthetics do not like timing, usually I stir twice, each time about 20~30 times, so that the extraction time is controlled in about one minute, and good quality coffee beans boil, poor quality coffee beans do not boil, the time is not fixed, Players will adjust with experience later, and will not be detailed here.

Coffee being extracted

8. Complete extraction: time about one minute, remove the next fire, quickly wrap the next pot with a cold wet towel prepared in advance (this step is very important, the temperature of the next pot is still very high when removing the next fire, and the temperature of the coffee liquid in the upper pot is low, the coffee liquid flowing down from the upper pot will be scalded by the high temperature of the next pot), the glass of a good siphon pot can withstand such high temperature and low temperature conflicts, as long as you buy genuine products, you don't have to worry about the next pot will burst.

coffee grounds in the shape of small hills

Personally, I think that in fact, it does not have any effect on the taste of coffee. When we wrap the next pot with wet cloth, we stir the coffee in the upper pot with a stirring rod. When the coffee liquid in the upper pot flows into the next pot, the coffee grounds in the upper pot naturally present the appearance of a small hill.

The extracted coffee is exactly two cups.

9. Warm cup: Pour into a pre-heated coffee cup

10. Perfect: You can enjoy a cup of coffee made in a fragrant siphon pot