The Moka pot is a device that extracts rich coffee through heating and pressurization. It was invented by Italian Alfonso Bialetti in 1933. It is mainly popular in European countries, especially Italy, its origin. Most families are equipped with a Moka pot at home.
Traditional Moka pots are made of aluminum alloy and can only be heated by an open flame during production. Nowadays, most of them on the market are made of stainless steel, which can be directly placed on the induction cooker to heat for coffee extraction. When purchasing, we can also choose Moka pots of different sizes according to our needs. The most common ones are compact ones that serve 2 to 3 people.
From the picture, we can see that the Moka pot is divided into upper and lower structures, mainly composed of three parts: the upper pot that holds coffee liquid, the powder trough that holds coffee powder, and the lower pot that holds water. When using a Moka pot to extract coffee, a heat source is used to heat the hot water in the lower pot to generate steam pressure. When the pressure is enough, the hot water is pushed upward, penetrating the coffee powder to bring out soluble aroma substances, and continuing to break through upward, you will get a rich coffee liquid.
Before extracting coffee, you need to prepare a pack of coffee beans that are in their best tasting period, a gas stove or induction cooker for heating, a grinder for grinding the coffee beans, and water. Using the Moka pot method, we use Front Street Boutique Italian Blend Coffee Beans, which is an Italian Blend Bean that is a combination of Front Street Colombian Coffee and Front Street Brazilian Red Bourbon Coffee. It has a rich nutty and chocolate aroma after extraction., electric ceramic stove for heating, EK43s grinder for store use.
1. Add hot water to the lower pot, and try to control the water level to 0.5cm below the pressure relief valve (safety valve). Using cold water will increase the soaking time of the coffee powder, making the coffee over-extracted and bitter. Therefore, Front Street recommends using hot water, which can also shorten the extraction time.
2. The grinding degree of Front Street Premium Italian Blend coffee powder needs to be finer than Pour over(V60) coffee and coarser than Italian coffee. You can refer to the size of the filter gap in the powder trough to ensure that the coffee particles are filtered out. Pour the coffee powder into the powder trough gently and pat it evenly and evenly with your fingers.
3. Put the powder trough back into the lower pot, tighten the upper pot, put it on the electric ceramic stove and start heating, and wait for the Moka pot to heat up.
4. When you hear a hissing sound coming from the Moka pot, turn the stove to low heat and open the lid of the upper pot. At this time, you can see that the coffee liquid and oil will slowly flow out.
5. When the pot of coffee liquid is half full, you can turn off the heat source, move the pot to the table, and use the remaining temperature and pressure in the pot to continue extracting the remaining coffee liquid. It should be noted that the Moka pot uses metal parts. Try not to touch the pot body when heating at high temperatures to avoid burns.
6. The finally extracted coffee liquid can be tasted directly, and the taste will be very rich and heavy. You can mix it with milk according to your own taste. The moka pot coffee extracted from Front Street has a rich aroma of whiskey, vanilla biscuits and the sweet and sour taste of tropical fruits. The milk coffee made with heated milk has a rich and sweet taste of chocolate cream.
Although the Moka pot has a simple structure and is easy to operate, there are still some issues that need to be paid attention to when using it. The water base of the Moka pot will have a marked pressure relief valve. When adding water, the water level should not exceed the pressure relief valve, otherwise it will easily lose the pressure relief effect and increase the risk of explosion. The flow rate of the coffee liquid also feeds back information to us. If the liquid is sprayed out directly, it means that the water temperature is too high. If the coffee liquid flow rate is very slow, it means that the water temperature is too low. We need to turn up the feed and pay attention to the control of the heat at all times.
If you want to extract the espresso liquid extracted from Moka pot coffee with a rich oil layer, Front Street recommends using freshly roasted medium roast or medium dark roast coffee beans. We recommend Front Street Queen Manor coffee beans, Front Street Golden Mandheling coffee beans, and Front Street Bird of Paradise coffee beans.
As the roasting degree of the coffee beans deepens, it undergoes a caramelization reaction and produces a large amount of gas, which is "compressed" by pressure and released during the extraction process. As the storage time increases, the beans lose a lot of gas, making it difficult to extract the fragrant oil. The coffee beans shipped from Front Street are freshly roasted within 5 days, so that everyone can enjoy them during the best tasting period.
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
