Coffee: Magical Bean Water

With roots in Ethiopia and yamen over 300 years ago, Coffee did not grow in popularity until America made it the frank of choice. This is closely to the history of our own country. After the tax from the Tea Act of 1773, America rejected tea sold by the British East India Trading Company, and went to the cheaper alternative of Coffee. This brought it to the masses, and began its march towards global domination

Types of coffee

The most popular form of coffee in the world is pour over. It is a process where you pour hot water over coffee in a paper filter. This process is the basis of the drip coffee machine. it yields a fast to make cup of decent quality coffee.

A famous coffeemaker that created the drip market is the Mr. coffee. Have a listen

Percolated Coffee

The older brother to the modern day frip coffee machine is the percolator. It has one major downside, of it resteaps the coffee multiple times, causing it to become very bitter, it was vey uncommon to drink this coffee black. Most people who drank percolated coffee have very little issue drinking black dripp coffee through as it is far less bitter

it was also famous for its sound. Take a listen:

Espresso

Currently the king of caffeine, espresso uses pressurized water to put the coffee grinds under pressure. you also have to grind the coffee finer to allow for the extraction process to work faster. This process requires some decently expensive equipment, and therefore is not a process normally done in homes, but budget espresso machine are more widely avable.

Moka pot

Before the modern high pressure espresso machine, there was still a way to make a higher pressure more caffeinated coffee than drip. It was called the Moka pot. To use it, you would fill the bottom with water, a cup with coffee and screw it together. Placed upon a source of heat, it would force the water through the coffee under steam pressure, when it was done it would make a noise and that sounds like the word moka.