Sunday, April 20, 2008

Learn To Make An Espresso

Last month, my sister bought an espresso manchine. Due to she, I learned to make espresso rather than instant coffee which I drank everyday. It's truly funny. We should put coffee powder into a special container and use vapor released by machine to extract coffee. After process of extracting coffee, I can use the vapor left to mix with milk to make foamed milk, which will turn this cup of coffee into a cappuccino or even a latte. However, this kind of coffee is not a really espresso. Because of our machine, we can't produce 'Crema' which might be the most important essence of an espresso. Furthermore, the ocffee of our machine might be more bitter than the coffee made by exact one. This is because our machine uses stream rather than bump. The pressure of bump machines is more powerful, which is necessary. There will be some kinds of technical problems to make an espresso when using stream for extracting. Therefore, I hope we can save money to buy a high class machine some day.

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