The debate on how to prepare coffee with mocha continues. The OCU has just shared its position on whether it is necessary to leave the lid of the coffee maker open to achieve a better result. “If we look at how the Italian coffee maker works, we will see that coffee production is based on a set of pressures in which the lid has no role,” explains the organization.
For this organism, the only function of the coffee maker lid is to prevent splashing. “When making coffee, it makes no difference whether the lid is open or closed,” they point out. Despite this, the OCU refers to an advantage of not covering the mocha. Coffee experts recommend that coffee on top not come to a boil to avoid a burnt taste, they explain, and keeping the lid open can be helpful to control bubbling.
However, “controlling the level of the fire, normally there will be no splashing, since there is no boiling,” they admit from the organization, which gives us other tips to prepare the perfect coffee, such as filling the coffee maker with hot water instead of cold , do not crush the coffee in the filter, initially put the mocha over high heat and then lower it and, when the drink is ready, stir it before consuming “to homogenize the infusion”.
Proponents of leaving the lid open when brewing coffee point out that there are other benefits to doing so. The journalist Marijo Jordan explained in a report that it is good for coffee to breathe.
Others argue that if the cover is lowered, the temperature rises much faster and that, if this happens, the filtering will also occur prematurely and the coffee will be in contact with the water for less time, and it will not be as tasty. Some also claim that the extreme heat that mocha reaches when it is covered could extract the bitter components of the coffee.
The debate is open, because opinions are somewhat different, but lovers of this drink do agree that it is key that when preparing coffee we do not neglect its preparation. It is also not advisable to fill the tank with milk to have a latte ready in less time, an error that we have already mentioned here.
