Whats the difference between a coffee maker and a expresso machine?!
Whats the difference between a coffee maker and a expresso machine?
Answers:
Espresso machine makes little bits of coffee, and has a steamer spout for the milk to be frothed, you can make "Espresso" (Just coffee beans darker roasted) in a regular coffee maker, you just can't steam the milk for "Cappuccino" (Espresso coffee with steamed milk on top of it)
not that much ... but the coffee maker is way bigger...
An espresso machine uses pressure, a coffee maker uses heat extraction.
A coffee maker makes coffee by dripping hot water into a filter filled with coffee grounds.
An espresso maker uses a finer ground of coffee bean and it forces hot water through the grounds using high pressure, instead of just dripping it in there and letting it filter through. Espresso gives you a stronger more intense coffee taste because of the way it is brewed.
You cannot properly brew espresso in a coffee maker. An espresso machine uses pressure to brew espresso, which a coffee maker does not.
A coffee maker uses a tank filled with cold water that is boiled until it drips over the medium to coarse ground coffee, through a paper filter and into the coffee carafe that typically holds 2 to 10 (8 ounce) cups of coffee. The coffee is black but you can see light through it fairly easily if you hold it up to the light.
An espresso maker uses the same percolating principals as the coffee maker but uses a special fine ground coffee(french roast or espresso beans) and the water is passed through the coffee grounds under great pressure to produce a thick and highly concentrated coffee that is drank from a demi-tasse cup. The french roast and espresso beans are black and greasy in appearance and produce a highly concentrated caffeine mixture. If you add steamed milk to the espresso in a larger cup you create a cappuccino.
There are many types of coffee makers, but they generally manage to steep the coffee in hot water somehow without pressure. An espresso machine uses a significant amount of pressure to force the water through the grounds.