Starbucks coffee too expensive? Make yourself a cup of coffee.

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With the popularity of coffee culture and consumption habits, more and more people get to know and love coffee as a charming drink. However, for some low-income student parties and brick movers, Starbucks, which costs as much as 30 yuan a cup, seems to be under a little pressure. It's okay to take a zhuang and try it once in a while. If you accidentally form a habit, it will be a heavy burden.

What should I do if I have no money and want coffee? Never mind, as long as you master three tricks, you can save a lot of money on coffee.

1. Choose simple ear-hanging ground coffee, which is convenient and cheap. Hanging-ear coffee is a convenient choice for people who do not have the time and equipment to make coffee. But it is best to buy the earbag made by the coffee shop, because compared with the big food factory, the market of the cafe is small, the stock is small, the coffee powder will be relatively fresh, and before hanging the earbag, you can check the powder for abnormal shape and smell whether there is a fuel consumption smell.

two。 The soaking extraction principle of the pressure kettle saves time and effort and does not need to practice the technique. Use a pressure pot when you don't have time to make coffee slowly, similar to an ordinary teacup, but the lid of the cup is covered with a filter. Just pour in the coffee powder, stir with hot water, wait 3-4 minutes, press the filter slowly down and filter, and then pour it into the cup without 5 minutes before and after. You can make coffee for 2 to 4 people. It is difficult to make a difference as long as the degree of grinding and water temperature and time are fixed. When buying coffee beans, you can also directly ask the shop owner to grind the powder, what EK and little Fuji, you don't have to buy it yourself, you can experience the effect of advanced grinding, you can buy less at a time.

3. For those who are not used to black coffee, it is recommended to choose good sugar and milk and add it appropriately. The use of fine granulated sugar will not affect the original taste of coffee; some people like to use marshmallow, fructose, the taste can be very pure but the aroma is suppressed; with granulated sugar, the taste of coffee can rise; marshmallow can connect coffee and milk beautifully.

As for milk, fresh milk is the first choice. If you want to be healthier, it is recommended to add low-fat fresh milk, make a cup of hanging-ear coffee, half a cup of coffee every morning, and add half a cup of low-fat fresh milk or sugar-free soy milk.

Go to a store with a large sales volume and choose coffee beans with natural luster and non-deformed body.

Share the tips for choosing beans:

1. Pick light roasted beans, because coffee beans have to be roasted to dark color, usually after a long time, high temperature, the loss of substances that represent the flavor of coffee itself, more transformation.

two。 When choosing coffee beans, you should choose those who are intact, dry and naturally emit bean fragrance, so as to avoid fuel-consuming, deformed and moldy coffee beans, even if the coffee beans show only a little bit of imperceptible mildew or fishy smell, it is not fresh enough.

3. Buy a small amount, one to two weeks at a time, because coffee beans only need 26 ℃ and 18.5% humidity, it is easy to produce ochratoxin, which may cause urinary tract problems and hepatotoxicity.

Kitchen paper towels + aluminum foil + fresh box, refrigerator can also keep coffee beans

Many people are afraid that the coffee beans in the refrigerator will be damp and affect the flavor, and they are also worried that there are other foods in the refrigerator, which will lead to the "mixed flavor" of coffee. At this time, just take a piece of kitchen paper towel, put the coffee beans that will be used for a day, add a piece of aluminum foil paper and roll it up, squeeze out the excess air, put the whole package into a flat shape and put it in a sealed fresh-keeping box, one box is exactly 1 week, the paper towel is used to adjust the moisture, and the aluminum foil can be protected from light. The sealed box is not afraid of other flavor, and it is convenient and fresh to use each time.

Finally, a word of warning, do not put the fresh box in the refrigerator outlet, if the temperature is too low, coffee beans are easy to freeze, resulting in excess moisture, difficult to grind.