Skill post: Teach you to make your own coffee at home, you can also become a professional barista

After watching "Ode to Joy", do you have the urge to buy coffee beans and make your own coffee?

Looking at Qiu Yingying drinking Qu Xiaoyao's excellent coffee, she said:

“This is the best coffee I’ve ever had!”

Will a little spark of curiosity rise in your heart?

Watching Qiu Yingying rekindle her hope in life because of coffee

Do you feel that coffee has a magical power?

Today I will teach you how to make various types of coffee at home, so you can enjoy a different mood!

equipment

The essential tool for making coffee at home is the coffee machine. Of course, there are other coffee equipment, such as siphon pot, moka pot, and French press pot.

1 Coffee machine: There are American coffee drip machines and Italian steam coffee machines on the market. American coffee drip machine: Boil water with electricity and then soak. It is more suitable for young people who are petty bourgeoisie and afraid of trouble.

An Italian steam coffee machine is a machine that uses high pressure and high temperature to quickly pass steam through coffee powder to extract coffee. The best temperature for brewing coffee is between 90-98 degrees, and the temperature control is very easy to control. It also has a milk foam nozzle and the function of warming the cup.

2 Siphon pot: Under the burning of an alcohol lamp, the water temperature in the lower container reaches 92 degrees Celsius, and the water flow is sucked into the upper container of coffee grounds. After soaking and stirring, coffee is made.

3 Moka pot: Use pressurized hot water to quickly dissolve coffee powder and extract coffee liquid. Put water in the lower part and boil it to generate steam pressure. The boiling water rises and passes through the coffee powder filter pot. When the coffee flows to the upper part, turn down the fire.

4 French Press: A coffee pot that also functions as a tea maker. It uses an immersion method to release the essence of coffee through a stewing method in which water and coffee powder are fully in contact with each other.

How to make different types of coffee

1. Latte

Ingredients needed: dark roasted coffee beans, syrup (chocolate syrup, vanilla syrup), milk.

Equipment: Italian espresso machine

Production process:

a To heat the cup, you can pour hot water into the insulated cup to raise the temperature of the cup, and then pour the excess

Another method is to place the coffee cup in the heat zone of the espresso machine so that the cup is warm when the coffee is extracted.

b. After grinding the dark roasted coffee beans, pour them into the tamping machine and press them flat with the powder tamping machine. Then use the tamping machine to hold the extraction port of the Espresso machine to extract Espresso. The extraction time depends on the actual tamping situation, usually 20-25 seconds. The amount is 30ml

c If you want to make original latte, you can add chocolate syrup to the extracted espresso. Usually 6-8 ml. For other flavors, you can add different flavors of syrup.

d Take an appropriate amount of milk and place it under the steam nozzle of the espresso machine to make a mixture of high-temperature milk and milk foam. The temperature should not exceed 90 degrees, otherwise the milk foam will be destroyed.

e Mix the milk and milk foam and shake up and down to mix the milk foam with the milk.

2. Mocha Coffee

Ingredients needed: 30 ml of Italian espresso, appropriate amount of chocolate sauce, appropriate amount of fresh cream, appropriate amount of milk.

Equipment: Moka pot

Production process:

a Fill the lower chamber with water and fill the filter with coffee powder. Put the upper and lower chambers into place and tighten them, then put them on the fire and cook.

b The Moka pot is small in size, elegant in appearance, easy to operate, and can brew quickly, so it is very suitable for home use.

3. Cappuccino

On the basis of Italian espresso, add a thick layer of bubble milk to make cappuccino. Milk and foam are the important factors that determine cappuccino. Pour skimmed milk into the pot, use a frother to create foam and add gas. The coffee cup for cappuccino should be warm, pour milk and milk foam on the espresso, and naturally form a white liquid.