Moka pot coffee extractionThe principle is very simple, it uses the steam pressure generated in the lower pot. When the steam pressure is large enough to penetrate the coffee powder, it will push the hot water to the upper pot. The coffee extracted with a moka pot has a strong taste, sour and bitter taste, and has oil. Therefore, the biggest advantage of the Moka pot is that it is small, convenient and easy to carry. It is a must-have for people who like to go to the mountains and sea. It is durable and can brew good quality coffee. It is simple to operate and ordinary people can master the skills of making coffee. And it’s easy to brew fragrant coffee with golden brown fat.
But its shortcomings are also very obvious, that is, the coffee made with a Moka pot has a low upper limit of flavor, that is, it is not as clear and bright as Pour over(V60) coffee, nor is it as rich and delicate as that made by an espresso machine. Therefore, there are almost no Moka pots in specialty coffee shops. But as a home coffee appliance, it is a 100-point appliance。
Although the Moka pot does not use high air pressure to inject hot water into medium-fine ground coffee powder, strictly speaking, this is not a concentrated extraction, but closer to the dripping method. However, the coffee made by the Moka pot still has the concentration and flavor of Italian coffee Espresso.
Many Italians have small two-gallon Moka pots at home, which are easy to operate and can make aromatic and rich coffee. Most moka pots have an hourglass shape, but you can find different styles, but the principle of operation is the same. The water is heated in the bottom pot, and the steam with a pressure of nearly 2 atmospheres causes the hot water to rush up to the filter. After passing through the ground coffee powder, it turns into coffee liquid and remains in the upper pot.
The Moka pot allows pressurized steam to pass directly through the coffee powder cake and through the coffee powder cake to extract the inner essence of the coffee. In addition, it uses medium-dark roasted coffee beans for brewing, so the brewed coffee has a strong aroma and strong bitter taste. A thin layer of coffee oil appears on the surface of the coffee. This layer of oil is the source of the alluring deliciousness of Italian coffee. Because it is concentrated coffee, a small coffee cup is generally used when tasting this kind of coffee.
Having said all that, do you also want to make a cup of Moka pot coffee yourself? So how do you do it? And what roasting degree of beans is more suitable?moka potBrew? Then the following operations of FrontStreet Coffee should be able to give you the answer. Because the coffee brewed by the Moka pot will be thicker, and the coffee with medium roasting or above can better reflect the mellow feeling, this time we recommend several ration coffee beans that are very suitable for home Moka pots.As follows:
1. Front Street Bird of Paradise Coffee Beans
Country of Origin: Papua New Guinea
Manor: Sikri Bird of Paradise Manor
Altitude: 1600-1800m
Treatment method: washing treatment
Variety: Typica
Grade: AA
2. Front Street Queen’s Manor Coffee Bean
Country: Brazil
Region: Sao Paulo Morgiana
Manor: Queen's Manor
Altitude: 1400-1950m
Variety: Yellow Bourbon
Treatment method: Sun treatment
Flavor: Nuts, chocolate, cream, peanut, caramel
3. Front Street Columbia Huilan Coffee Beans
Country: Colombia
Production area: Huilan
Altitude:1500-1800m
Variety: Cadura
Treatment method: Water washing treatment
Flavor: dark chocolate, nuts, caramel, soft acidity
4. Front Street PWN Golden Mandheling Coffee Beans
Country: Indonesia
Production area: Sumatra GAYO Mountain in Aceh
Grade: G1 three times hand-selected
Treatment method: wet planing
Variety: ateng
Altitude: 1100-1600m
Flavor: caramel, pine, herbal, dark chocolate, nuts
5. Front Street Yunnan Small Tiepica Coffee Beans
Production area: Yunnan, China
Manor: Front Street Coffee Manor
Altitude: 1300 meters
Variety: Typica
Treatment method: Sun exposure
Flavor: brown sugar, chocolate, nuts, dried apricots
Moka pot making coffeeThe process:
1. Fill the bottom pot with cold water to the valve position. Cover the filter.
2. The coffee grinding degree for the Moka pot should be slightly coarser than that of Italian coffee. You can refer to the size of the gap in the powder trough filter to ensure that the coffee particles will not fall out of the pot. Wrap the powder bowl with your hands to form a circle, fill the powder bowl with powder until a small hill bulges out in the middle, and after the surrounding powder fills the gaps in the powder bowl, directly press the upper pot and tighten it. If you look carefully, the upper filter is slightly concave upward, so there is no need to worry about it being too full. On the contrary, this method just makes the powder trough without gaps and reduces the probability of passages.
3. Put the powder trough into the lower pot, tighten the upper and lower parts of the Moka pot and heat it on an electric ceramic stove over high heat. Make sure to use low heat;
4. When the Moka pot heats up to a certain temperature, and when the Moka pot makes a distinct whining and popping sound, set the electric ceramic stove to low heat and open the lid of the upper pot.
5. When the coffee liquid in the pot is halfway out, turn off the electric ceramic stove. The residual heat and pressure of the Moka pot will push the remaining coffee liquid into the upper pot.
6. When all the coffee liquid is extracted into the pot, you can pour it into a cup and taste it. The coffee extracted by the moka pot is very rich and can even extract crema. You can also mix it with an appropriate amount of water or milk for a better flavor.It's that simple, but it does take some practice. Front Street believes that although using a Moka pot is simple, it also requires a lot of practice and careful control of the grinding degree of the coffee powder and various small details to extract a relatively perfect cup of coffee.
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
