Coffee powder expands when it comes into hot water. Why?
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What on earth is this bubble?
The air inside the bubble is carbon dioxide originally enclosed in roasted beans, and the outer membrane of the bubble is formed by proteins and polysaccharides (the same substance covered by the surface of espresso).
Some people say that the bubbles produced by these drips are "impurities", but I think this is too strict, because removing these bubbles or mixing them in the coffee liquid will not have a great impact on the taste of the coffee.
When hot water is injected into coffee powder, some bubbles are extremely delicate, some are very large, and some do not seem to produce bubbles, which is due to the way carbon dioxide occurs.
Freshly roasted coffee beans contain a lot of carbon dioxide, and large bubbles often appear when hot water is injected into the coffee beans. China and Germany think this is not a bad thing, but carbon dioxide will hinder the contact between hot water and coffee powder, affecting the extraction. In this way, even if you always brew coffee in the same way, sometimes the coffee will become more than usual. You have to be careful. You usually listen to the coffee beans roast and rest for one night, and then use them when the taste is stable. I think that's why.
When injected with hot water, the coffee powder does not expand, so the coffee beans are not fresh?
There are no bubbles or low expansion of coffee powder, that is, when the content of carbon dioxide is low. There is also a saying that "the fact that coffee does not swell means that the beans are not fresh."
Roasted coffee beans do have less carbon dioxide after they have been kept for a period of time, so it's time to wait. The amount of carbon dioxide does decrease, so this is not necessarily all wrong, but sometimes it is not for this reason, if the desiccant that absorbs carbon dioxide is packed, or hot water is slowly injected into the coarse ground coffee powder, or the hot water temperature is on the low side, the same will happen.
So there are many reasons why coffee powder expands when hot water is injected, which requires more practice to accumulate more experience.
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