If you want to do your job well, you must first sharpen your tools - essential tools for making DIY coffee at home

Ever since the editor published an article about making homemade coffee at home, netizens have been forwarding and leaving comments, but many netizens said they were troubled about choosing the utensils.

Below, the editor has compiled an introduction to DIY coffee utensils at home, hoping that it will be helpful to those friends who don’t know where to start.

If you want to do your job well, you must first sharpen your tools. A machine with complete accessories and superior functions is a must for coffee DIY.

In fact, if you usually make coffee at home, the whole process is roughly divided into two parts: one is to grind the original beans into coffee powder, and the other is to use water to make coffee from the coffee powder. So the tools needed here are a grinder and a coffee extraction device.

• Coffee grinder

Of course, some friends like to buy ground coffee powder, but I want to remind you that once the coffee beans are roasted and come into contact with the air, they begin to oxidize. After being ground into coffee powder, the contact area with the air expands hundreds of times, and the oxidation speed increases sharply. Therefore, freshly ground coffee can better ensure the flavor of the coffee. Therefore, a grinder is essential.

Bean grinders are generally divided into two types: manual and electric. When you start making coffee at home, you can choose a manual one. You can buy a very good one by investing two or three hundred yuan.

• Extractor

As for the equipment for extracting coffee, the choices are much wider. Hand-poured pots, siphon pots, moka pots, French presses, coffee drip machines, home espresso machines... Among them, there are manual, electric, semi-automatic, and fully automatic ones. There are those that require time and effort to extract slowly, such as hand-poured pots and ice drip pots, and there are also one-touch fully automatic coffee machines that "just press lightly and the coffee will come out". Of course, these different equipments have their own characteristics, and different ones can be selected according to personal preferences and conditions. However, according to the performance, price and difficulty of operation of the equipment, it is recommended that friends make targeted choices.

①Hand-brew kettle

Introduction to the equipment: Hand-poured coffee is a brewing method that allows individuals to fully control all aspects of coffee. The taste of coffee can be adjusted by changing the water temperature, steaming time, flow rate, grinding coarseness, etc. Hand-poured coffee can be made casually in the office, or it can be made seriously as a hobby for an enthusiast. It can be said that it is a equipment with a low starting point, but it is easier said than done.

Advantages of the vessel: It is loyal to the original flavor of coffee, easy to use, and requires almost no cleaning and maintenance.

Brewing speed: slow, usually 5 minutes.

Cleaning and maintenance: Very convenient, almost no need to wash.

You need to buy a special cup holder and a narrow-mouthed pot, and you need to change the filter paper every time.

② Siphon pot

The siphon pot is a simple and easy-to-use method of brewing coffee, and it is also one of the most popular coffee brewing methods in coffee shops.

There are also many people who like the precision of the siphon brewing method with a bit of laboratory flavor. Watching the water rise as it boils and the extracted black coffee fall, every step is controlled by the person making the coffee.

③Moka Pot

The Moka pot has a two-layer structure. When the water in the lower part is boiled, it will be sprayed into the upper part of the pot through a mesh filter filled with coffee powder.

Traditional moka pots are made of aluminum and can be heated with an open flame or electric stove. Since this aluminum moka pot cannot be heated on an induction cooker, most modern moka pots are made of stainless steel, and there are also electric heating moka pots like electric kettles.

④ French Press

The French press originated in France around 1850 and is a simple brewing device consisting of a heat-resistant glass bottle (or transparent plastic) and a metal filter with a pressure rod.

The principle of brewing coffee: Use the immersion method to release the essence of coffee through the immersion and stewing method in which water and coffee powder are fully in contact with each other.

⑤ Coffee drip machine

It is a relatively common coffee machine currently used, suitable for coffee beginners to use at home or in the office; it is simple to operate, easy to use, and the process is basically very standardized. It usually takes 5-8 minutes to brew a pot of coffee.

It is recommended that beginners choose a French press, which is simple and convenient to operate. If you are interested in "playing with coffee", you can choose a siphon pot or a hand-poured pot. The siphon pot may be more popular with men because the machine itself is invented and designed based on the siphon principle of physics. Combining coffee and experiments is of course a very interesting thing.

If you want to "play" with hand brewing, you have to be more cautious, because this is a tool that is "easy first and difficult later". The operation method is very simple and you can learn it immediately. However, after you really get started, you will find that hand brewing is "unchanged in the face of changes". Although it is the same coffee and the same method, the taste is different every time, and even if you buy the same beans and make them at home, the taste is different from that in the store. This is a problem that many friends often encounter. So for many friends who are short of time, like to "drink" coffee better than "make" coffee, and are not too demanding about the taste, a small home machine may be a better choice. It is convenient and fast, uses fresh and high-quality coffee beans, and can still make a good cup of coffee.