The coffee outside is of course delicious, but who can resist going out to a restaurant every day? Some friends with strong hands-on skills usually choose to do it at home. For the Americano and latte that you often drink, the most important thing is the espresso base. Due to limitations of funds and space, many friends are unable to prepare an espresso machine at home. So is there no way to make rich and mellow coffee at home?
As people's demand for rich coffee is increasing, in order to meet this demand at close range, the Moka pot has entered people's sight. After seeing many bloggers’ sharing on the Internet, I realized that coffee brewed with a Moka pot can also be rich in oil. But as soon as I got started, the car frequently overturned. It was either out of grease or burning and acrimonious. What was going on? Could it beHow to use a Moka PotWrong?
If we want to make a delicious cup of Moka pot coffee, we first need to understand the principle behind the Moka pot. The Moka pot first appeared as an appliance invented in the 1930s. Alfonso Bialetti, the inventor of the Moka Pot, got the idea when he saw his wife washing clothes in the washing machine. At that time, the structure of the washing machine was divided into two spaces, the upper and lower spaces. The two spaces were connected by a pipe. The upper space of the washing machine contained the clothes that needed to be cleaned, and the lower space contained the liquid for cleaning the clothes. After proper heating, the liquid in the lower space gushed upward through the middle pipe and sprayed on the clothes.
Seeing this phenomenon, Bialetti used his years of experience in aluminum craftsmanship to create the Moka Pot. The structure of the Moka pot is divided into an upper pot, a powder bowl, a lower pot, and a metal pipe in the middle that connects the lower pot to the upper pot.
The working principle of the Moka pot is to heat the hot water in the lower pot. When the water boils, a large amount of water vapor is generated. In a limited space, the hot water is squeezed towards the metal pipe connecting the upper and lower pots, passing through the coffee powder in the middle, and finally spurts out and accumulates in the upper pot.
Since the Moka pot is so simple to use, you only need to add hot water, put the coffee powder, and heat it to make coffee, thenAdvantages and Disadvantages of Making Coffee in a Moka PotWhat is it?
If you go out to eat in cafes, you will rarely see Moka pots. That's because when extracting espresso, the extraction pressure of a commercial espresso machine is at least 9 bar, and it is impossible for a Moka pot to have such pressure when brewing coffee.
Then,Does a moka pot brew espresso?? The coffee brewed by a moka pot is very rich, but it is not the same thing as the espresso brewed by an espresso machine.
In this case,What kind of coffee beans are suitable for Moka pot?Is it suitable? Out of the original intention of producing a Moka pot, what everyone wants is a cup of rich and mellow coffee. Dark roasted coffee beans have a richer taste than lightly roasted coffee beans.
Friends often walk into FrontStreet Coffee stores and ask about the baristas of FrontStreet Coffee. On the bean list of FrontStreet Coffee,What kind of coffee beans are suitable for Moka pot?. In the same way, the medium-dark roasted coffee beans on the Front Street Bean List can satisfy everyone's pursuit of a mellow taste.
Among them, the barista at FrontStreet Coffee recommends the Queen’s Manor from Brazil. This coffee bean is a sun-dried yellow bourbon produced in the Morgiana region of Sao Paulo State, Brazil.
Brazil was the first country to grow Typica. Later, in order to increase coffee production capacity, the Bourbon variety was introduced from Bourbon Island. Today, Bourbon has become the main force in Brazilian coffee varieties. Compared to Typica, bourbon coffee has a more pronounced caramel sweetness.
Yellow bourbon was discovered in a coffee estate in Sao Paulo State, Brazil, in the 1970s. Scientific research found that the pectin layer of yellow bourbon coffee cherries is thicker, and the pectin layer of coffee cherries is rich in sugars. This means that yellow bourbon is more sweet than red bourbon.
Brazil's Queen's Estate has been famous in the coffee industry for a long time. Since Brazil held the first COE competition at the end of the last century, it has won many awards and won 12 awards in 7 years. This shows that the coffee beans of Queen's Estate are of extraordinary quality.
The Brazilian Queen's Manor uses a sun-drying method when processing this coffee bean. The selected mature coffee cherries are evenly spread on the raised bed and regularly turned by hand to ensure that the coffee cherries can be evenly dried, avoiding unpleasant fermentation acid, keeping them away from the land, and avoiding the earthy smell caused by the coffee cherries being contaminated with soil.
FrontStreet Coffee uses a medium-to-dark roasting level to highlight the sweetness and mellow taste of the sun-dried yellow bourbon from Queens Manor in Brazil.
If you use a Moka pot to brew coffee, the coffee powder is ground into a flour-like shape, and the powder particle size is between 0.3 mm and 0.55 mm, which is coarser than the powder of an espresso machine. Since the size of powder particles is difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, you can confirm the degree of grinding by the following two methods:
The first is to purchase a powder diameter ruler or Mocha special powder for reference and comparison; the second is to determine the grinding by constant adjustment.
When the coffee liquid gushes out like a fountain, it means that the coffee powder is ground too coarsely and the resistance to the water is too small. When you hear a low whine but the coffee liquid does not rise for a long time, you need to immediately pick up the Moka pot and keep it away from the heat source, and take safety measures.
When the Moka pot is extracting coffee, a relatively closed and limited space in the lower pot will generate a large amount of water vapor, resulting in a high pressure in the lower pot, so safety needs to be paid attention to during the entire operation. Friends who have carefully observed a Moka pot will find that there is a protruding hole in the lower pot, which is the pressure relief valve of the Moka pot. The pressure relief valve exists to prevent certain factors (such as excessive grinding) from causing excessive pressure inside the lower pot of the Moka pot, resulting in an explosion.
Therefore, in the process of preparing utensils and materials, Front Street recommends that when filling the pot with water, be sure not to cover the valve. When water submerges the valve, the pressure relief valve will lose its pressure relief effect, causing a huge safety hazard.
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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
