Basic Tips For Choosing A Coffee Machine

Posted by RuthWilmoth on September 15th, 2019

A quality coffee machine is not a small investment. Truly quality devices in our market range from 20 thousand crowns. And cheap machines of several thousand will never offer quality coffee. The recommendation of experts from Top At Home, is to buy either a quality product or spend the money differently. If you buy a cheap machine, you will find that the coffee is not what it should be and you will not even use it. You will look for better quality. Before you decide on a coffee machine, prepare espresso in it, focus on the foam, which must not disappear immediately, it must stick to the walls of the cup, it must be thick and, depending on the type of coffee used, usually creamy brown. Then prepare two espresso machines to test the brewing unit's quality.

The coffee machine should have a grinder

Whichever brand you choose, always prefer a coffee machine with its own grinder. Only freshly ground coffee has the right aroma. Any ground coffee, irrespective of the manufacturer, smells only a few hours after opening. This is because the ground coffee is harmful to the air. In the air, the coffee is so-called oxidized - it loses important essential oils contained in it, which significantly contribute to the resulting taste of coffee. In addition, you can influence the coarseness of grinding in a coffee machine with its own grinder and thus further customize your desired coffee taste. The correct grinding roughness also depends on the environment in which the coffee machine is installed (especially air humidity, temperature, etc.). Every good retailer should advise you in a qualified way to set up your coffee machine and tell you how to influence the coffee's taste by coarse grinding.

The basis is a quality brewing unit

A simple test to verify that your coffee machine has a variable brewing chamber for enough coffee is to have 2 espresso machines at the same time. Some coffee machines grind the first dose, and about half the required amount of coffee is made into mugs. Then the coffee is ground again and the remaining part is poured into the already prepared, cooling coffee. This is obviously wrong and it is because such a coffee machine does not have enough brewing unit and to prepare a strong coffee, it has to do it more times. Quality coffee maker can prepare 2 espresso for one grinding, when it really uses for preparing about 15g of coffee.

The water temperature

If the coffee machine has a quality heating system can usually produce enough steam for a long time to prepare frothed milk. Here is a simple test again, if you let the coffee machine to produce milk for frothing milk, Drip water, the coffee machine should produce a continuous amount of steam for at least 30-40sec. Quality instruments can do it in 2 minutes. Otherwise, you will never foam the milk in practice.

Pressure 15bar

Most people know about the coffee machine that it should have a pressure of 15 bar. And the more the better. It is not quite so. Professional lever coffee machines that are used in restaurants usually have a pressure of 9bar. This is not a problem in the pressure value, but in maintaining the coffee machine in the long term. Many coffee machines create a pressure of 15bar in the first second of brewing the coffee and then the pressure drops. Most automatic coffee machines use a pressure of 15 bar. It is important, however, that this pressure is constant throughout the brewing process.