HOW TO MAKE A GOOD ESPRESSO COFFEE

HOW TO MAKE A GOOD ESPRESSO COFFEE  

By Russel W

Hii….

This time I want to share about how to make a good espresso coffee and a little bit information about what is espresso coffee. In this time I’m not only write the article but I have the video clip too.

Before I share about how to make, let start from what is espresso coffee. Espresso coffee is a concentrated beverage brewed by forcing a small amount of nearly boiling water under pressure through finely ground coffee. And the other words are, espresso coffee is one method to cook coffee where the water is almost boiling in the press with high pressure to the ground coffee so the oils from coffee beans come presented.

So espresso coffee is not the type of coffee bean or coffee roasted. Is about the way or method we brew the coffee. And the method to brew, we need to use coffee machine that we call espresso coffee machine.

Espresso coffee is the base of the other coffee menu such as latte, cappuccino, mocha, Americano and etc.

Step to make espresso coffee :

1, Prepare the coffee bean

·         The coffee beans need to be grinding first. The best size basically depends of the espresso machine and the type of the coffee beans. So for the correct size we need to keep try it.  We can follow the standard  size of the coffee ground is around 25 – 30 seconds time of extraction (time extraction is the time that start to be count from the first coffee out from spout of  porta-filter until stop at the volume we want it “2 oz for 2 shot espresso or 1oz for 1 shot espresso”).

2, Put the ground coffee into the basket at the porta-filter

·         The ground coffees need to put a little bit more than the top of the basket, after that we need to flatten the surface of the ground coffee until flush with the surface of the basket.

·         The quantity of the coffee ground for 1 shot espresso coffee will around 7 – 9 grams and for 2 shot around 14 - 18 grams.

·         Clean the surface of the basket and porta-filter.

3, Press the ground coffee in the basket use tamper

·         For the first tamp we need use pressure around 5 – 10 kg.

·         Used the tamper to knock the head of porta-filter, make sure the ground coffee that not flat (because the first tamp) back to the surface.

·         Tamp again for the second time with pressure around 15 – 18 kg.

·         Clean the surface of basket and porta-filter.

4, Put the porta-filter in the group head

·         Make sure you lock tight the porta-filter with the group head.

5, Put your cup below the spout of porta-filter

6, Turn on the espresso machine and stop it in the volume you want to make

·         1 shot espresso coffee is 1oz volume of the coffee (equivalent around 30 ml).

·         2 shot espresso coffee is 2oz volume of the coffee (equivalent around 60 ml).

7, Enjoy the espresso coffee

Tips to make good espresso coffee :

·         Make sure use good quality of water

·         Make sure the espresso machine and the equipments are clean

·         Make sure the cup for place the espresso coffee must clean

·         Make sure use good quality and fresh of coffee beans

·         Make sure the size of the ground coffee is right

·         Make sure use right size diameter of tamper and the surface of tamper must flat

·         After lock the porta-filter in the group head must directly turn on the machine

·         Make sure the  volume of the coffee is right (1 shot = 1oz, 2 shot = 2oz)

So….

If we see it, there is no secret and difficulty in make espresso coffee. What we need is only try and try or do and do. That all….

See you soon for the next article and thank you for your precious time to follow and reading my articles. I wish you tremendous success and true happiness.
God Bless you

Russel. W is consultant at KIN NAM café. 

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