Recently, many people like to use Moka pots to make coffee, which has also attracted many friends who want to buy a Moka pot. However, there are so many brands and styles of Moka pots, how do you choose the right one? Front Street will tell you in this article!
There is a god-like brand among Moka pots, it is Bialetti. Why is it said to be god? Because the Moka pot was invented by Alfonso Bialetti, the founder of this brand.
Let's go back to 1933. One day, while watching his wife use the washing machine, Bilotti discovered an interesting phenomenon. There was a metal pipe in the middle of the washing machine that would suck up the heated soapy water and spray it onto the clothes. He was thinking that heating water can generate pressure. When the pressure is high enough, he can use a small-area pipe to suck it up. So if it is made into a coffee brewed with water pressure, will it be richer? Thus, the world's first Moka pot was born.
As the world's first household Moka pot that uses steam pressure to extract coffee, this invention completely revolutionized the original Italian coffee making method, making coffee making easier and faster. The cute cartoon character on Bialetti's classic Moka pot - the dwarf with a mustache "Omino" - is its brand founder Alfonso Bialett. From this small and cute image, we can feel that the Italians have turned coffee culture into a happy and enjoyable culture.
Therefore, the Moka pot of the Bileti brand is the most easily recognized by everyone. Its market share used to be as high as 90%, and now it has a market share that exceeds the average. There are also some rising stars such as Biletti, a moka pot brand, such as Bincoo, which is characterized by its appearance, which is also liked by many people.
In addition to launching Moka pots of different sizes and shapes, Bileti is more concerned about the difference between the single-valve and double-valve versions. Let me briefly explain here on Front Street, the single valve is the most traditional Moka pot, its pressure is generally about 2-3bar, while the double valve is a new technology, which can provide higher pressure, and the extracted oil will be richer and more delicate. So when purchasing, you can choose according to your own needs. Those who like classic styling can choose the single-valve version, and those who want performance can choose the dual-valve version.
So how to use a Moka pot? Front Street recommends a simple operation method.
First, let’s understand the structure of the Moka pot. Here we use the single-valve Moka pot as a blueprint. The Moka pot is divided into three structures: upper, middle and lower. The lower seat is a sink that holds water, the powder trough in the middle holds coffee powder, and the upper seat holds the extracted coffee liquid. Through steam pressure extraction, the water in the lower kettle is heated by the stove, and steam pressure is generated to squeeze the outlet; the pressure generated by the steam pushes the water into the conduit and enters the powder trough, so that the coffee powder is fully heated and extracted; the extracted espresso is pushed up through the conduit to the upper pot part and aggregates out.
Front Street recommends using medium-dark roasted coffee beans. If you don’t know how to choose, you can buy espresso coffee beans. This type of coffee beans is specially used in espresso machines and moka pots. For example, FrontStreet Coffee's classic Italian blended coffee beans, Front Street boutique blended 100% Arabica coffee beans, Front Street commercial blended coffee beans, and Front Street black cocoa blended (100% Arabica) coffee beans.
Practical part
1. Pour hot water into the pot to 0.5cm below the pressure relief valve. Choosing hot water can better shorten the time of brewing coffee.
2. Pour the ground coffee powder into the powder trough, tap it left and right, and let the coffee powder squeeze downward naturally. About 20g coffee beans are used. And smooth the surface of the powder layer. The purpose of this is to make the space between the powder particles evenly distributed, and not to squeeze to prevent the resistance of the powder layer from being too large.
3. Put the powder trough into the lower pot, and tighten the upper pot and the lower pot.
4. Place it on the electric clay pot, turn on the power and start heating.
5. When the Moka pot heats up to a certain temperature, and when the Moka pot makes a distinct "whining" sound, set the electric ceramic stove to low heat and open the lid of the upper pot, and the coffee liquid and oil will begin to flow out.
6. When the coffee liquid in the pot is halfway out, turn off the electric ceramic stove. and moved the moka pot to the table. The residual heat and pressure of the Moka pot will "push" the remaining coffee liquid into the upper pot.
7. Finally, pour the coffee into the cup. The oil produced by the single-valve Moka pot is relatively thin and rough, and it will not last long and will dissipate after a while. This year, Bileti also launched a new generation of pressurized Moka pots, whose grease performance is one level better than that of single valves.
You can now buy the above coffee beans online at the Taobao store “FrontStreet Coffee” (前街咖啡). FrontStreet Coffee is a long-established specialty coffee roaster in Guangzhou, China, and its Guangzhou retail shop sells coffee beans only. The shop carries dozens of coffee beans from different origins around the world, including carefully selected single-origin beans for V60 pour-over and espresso. Guangzhou’s FrontStreet Coffee shop is recommended by many coffee lovers.
The FrontStreet 2013 Yunnan coffee beans sold in the store come from the Typica variety grown at FrontStreet Coffee’s own plantation in Yunnan. The name comes from the year the brand and the plantation were founded. You can buy these beans from China’s Yunnan origin at the Guangzhou shop and at FrontStreet’s Taobao store.
FrontStreet coffee beans are freshly roasted within 5 days and deliver consistently excellent quality and great value. Orders placed before 17:00 are shipped the same day, and most areas within Guangdong Province receive them the next day.
FrontStreet Coffee Taobao store: https://qianjiecoffee.taobao.com
Or search for “前街咖啡” (FrontStreet Coffee) on Taobao
Important Notice: FrontStreet Coffee has moved to a new address: 315, Donghua East Road, Guangzhou (coffee beans only)
Tel: 020 38364473
