Espresso: Ultimate Coffee, Second Edition
Kenneth Davids
Language: English
Pages: 192
ISBN: 0312246668
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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Typical semi-automatic machine: Nuova Simonelli MAC Digit 1980S AND 1990S Semi-Automatic and Automatic Machines. The machine on the right is typical of many evolved in the 1980s by numerous manufacturers. The operator still must dose and tamp the coffee, but the brewing process itself is controlled by microchip and button. Note the line of six buttons above each group. In the case of this machine the operator can, from left to right, select a single short serving, a double short serving, a.
One of the meccas of North American coffee culture, produces some of the purest and most elegantly presented espresso cuisine in the world. However, it also has spawned an innovating new cuisine that has about the same relationship to classic espresso as the pop singer Madonna has to her namesake. Starbucks has adopted a restrained version of the Seattle cuisine, and is busy initiating the rest of the world into its milky ways. I’ve described the drinks involved in the three cuisines later in.
Technological sophistication of the espresso system only could have evolved in the context of public establishments with enough coffee drinkers to support the expense involved in maintaining such large and complex coffee-making equipment. Thus espresso and the espresso machine have come to constitute the spiritual and aesthetic heart of a variety of subtly different institutions, including the Italian-American caffè, the espresso bar, the American coffeehouse, and now the Seattle-style espresso.
Fair-Traded and Other Socially Responsible Coffees. The majority of the world’s coffee is grown by peasant farmers on small plots. Few of these farmers receive anything close to a decent price for their coffee, while fine coffee itself remains a dramatically underpriced beverage. The world’s most expensive coffee, brewed at home, costs less per ounce than Coca-Cola. From that preamble readers may suspect that I am a supporter of any system that helps return some of the money we pay for coffee.
Electric blade grinders so common now in North American homes, used with care, will produce a grind sufficiently fine and uniform to produce decent, albeit thin-bodied, espresso on simple brewing devices that work by steam pressure only (categories 1 and 2, here). However, larger pump or piston machines (categories 3 and 4, here) require a much more precise grind to operate to their full potential. Buyers of pump or piston brewers should purchase one of the more expensive classes of grinders.