How to use the pressure pot to make coffee? what kind of coffee beans are suitable for brewing?

French pressure pot, English is French Press. It was originally used to make tea, but later the French made great use of it in brewing coffee. The operation principle of the French pressure pot is very simple, that is, the coffee powder is fully contacted with water by soaking to extract the essence of the coffee. To put it bluntly, it is making coffee powder. This method is suitable for making a drink when you have leisure at home.

When choosing a pressure kettle, try to choose a pressure kettle with a spring, because if there is a spring on the filter element, it will filter cleaner. In addition, it is not easy to break, easy to clean are more important selection elements. Cleaning is really too important. If you can't wash it, the coffee may change its taste next time.

Budget: generally speaking, the legal pressure kettle with spring is about 100-200 yuan, and the one with a little grade will not be capped.

Advantages: compared with the coffee made by hand flushing, the coffee tastes good and is easy to operate. The factors to be considered are the cooking time and the grinding degree of the coffee beans.

Disadvantages: compared with hanging ears, this method is slightly more expensive, pay attention to buy a household bean grinder, if not fastidious, you can buy that kind of ground coffee powder. But the ground coffee powder is not recommended to be stored for a long time (in fact, not for more than 3 days). It will smell bad. And an electronic weighing is needed to make sure it tastes good.

Matters needing attention in the use of French kettle

1. Gouache ratio: the gouache ratio is about 161g, 1g and 18mm, which means a perfect ratio: coffee brewed with 28g or 32g coffee beans and 500ml water probably tastes good.

Selection of equipment for weighing coffee beans

Money-saving version: I roughly weighed it and scooped out three and a half tablespoons of coffee beans with a small ceramic spoon for soup at home. As for the water, just take a quantitative bottle and measure it.

Advanced version: you can buy an Hario electronic scale, which can be weighed or timed. I think it is a must for hand rush. In this way, the water can be weighed directly without volume estimation.

two。 Grindability of coffee beans

Use the kettle to make coffee, and the coffee beans should be ground thicker. The first is because the brewing time of the pressure pot is longer if the coffee particles are small, it will cause excessive extraction, and the coffee may be too bitter or too sour. The second is because if the coffee particles are too small and not filtered clean, you may get coffee particles when you drink them. For example, the bean grinder I used is a 178-yuan Taiwanese flying eagle bought by a certain treasure. If I adjust the grinding degree to 4, the coffee particles are about the same size as yellow sugar.

Selection of bean grinder

Money-saving version: grinding beans can only be done in a familiar cafe. Or some treasure also has the service of buying coffee beans instead of grinding beans.

Advanced version: buy a small household bean grinding machine. I use the red Taiwanese flying eagle (because the cheapest red one costs 178, the better-looking yellow or silver gray costs 340mm, and the little flying eagle is electric, labor-saving and fast, and it can be used to grind other grains without grinding coffee beans). Or if you want to exercise your arm strength, try a manual bean grinder.

3. Water temperature: 92 degrees. If you don't have a thermometer, just let it boil for 20 seconds.

The mode of operation of the French kettle

After pouring the powder into the kettle, pour water slowly, wet all the coffee powder beans, add to the right amount of water, and stop adding water. Stir once after water injection and wait for four minutes. You can press the coffee powder to the bottom with a filter element, pour out the coffee liquid, and a cup of coffee is done.