Good Lifestyle

Drink a good coffee in the morning or lunch is a real refreshment. The intense and enveloping flavor, the energy of caffeine, zero calories. We learned to drink restricted, long, stained, foamed, cold, american. We have learned to choose even the coffee variety and the type of processing, the most suitable cup and the best time to drink it. But do we really know how to do it at home without ruining it, pouring a true concentration of taste and refinement into the cup? Here are the 10 most common mistakes that prevent us from drinking a coffee at home perfect!

Choose the right coffee

Over the years, the varieties and mixtures of coffee have multiplied to devices. They are found of all types, depending on the variety of the cultivated plant and blends. Arabica, Robusta, Liberica or Excelsa, are just some of the most famous varieties. For the more, Arabica is the best of all. To find the coffee best suited to your palate you don't have to do is start trying them all!

In beans or powder?

Do you prefer to buy it already ground or in grinds to grind just before filling the moka? If you have a grinder at home you are the luckiest and crazy people in the world!

Moka

Even the choice of moka is not a detail. There are a thousand types, super-technological (which light up the sound of the alarm) or the more traditional ones, even in ceramics.

How do you clean the moka?

Cleaning the moka is not so trivial as many believe. Moka cleaning and maintenance can make a big difference for your coffee. A rule on all: never use detergents! Your coffee will remember the flavor. Hot water, a bicarbonate pinch and a toothbrush is all you need.

What water to use?

Which water must be filled with? Everything depends on the coffee! But in order not to make mistakes there are two waters to avoid: the water of the tap, if it is excessively calcareous or feels a lot of chlorine, and the sparkling water. A simple microfiltered water is ideal for not compromising the taste of coffee in any way.

The glass of water drinks before or after?

Before. The function of the glass of water that often (but unfortunately, not always) accompanies the cup of coffee is to clean the mouth. Drink a little water before the coffee allows you to have a cleaner mouth to better savor the taste.

The flame is always low

If the coffee is a pause, it must be a pause as you should. Never hurry when you put on the moka. Flame always low! The danger of burning everything is just around the corner.

First it is mixed then

Have you ever noticed that if you pour the coffee from the Moka more cups, the first cup will always be a less intense color than the last one? This is because the first coffee coming up is increasingly concentrated than the last. Mix before pouring the coffee and will be good from the first to the last cup.

Cup

Pay attention to the form, but above all to the capacity of your cups! Some cups deceively, have a very broader and large fund than what it seems, and if we do not realize it in time, we will serve all excessively long coffee.

Sugar

Dilemma dilemma: how much sugar is it put in a coffee cup? For connoisseurs the answer is: zero. The sugar alters the flavor of the mixture of grains and modify the aromas. But if you really can't do without it, at least that's very little.