How are coffee cherries picked? how can coffee fruits be picked with the best flavor?

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When I like coffee as a hobby, I sometimes think about where it comes from. How do coffee beans and original coffee cherries be harvested? This time we will introduce three representative methods of harvesting coffee beans.

In the harvest of coffee beans

In the third year after planting, the branches were covered with white coffee flowers with the same number of fruits as flowers. The coffee berries will grow for half a year and the harvest will begin during the ripening period.

Coffee beans are harvested differently in different parts of the northern hemisphere from October to March and from April to September. High-quality beans grow in the highlands and are harvested in the second half of the harvest time.

How to harvest coffee beans

Hand picking (farms in high altitude producing areas)

Picking by hand is a way to pick up ripe red coffee fruit with human hands. It is widely used at high elevations. This is a harvest method that requires labor cost and time, but it is characterized by spending as much time and labor as possible to harvest high-quality coffee beans.

Manual picking (large farm)

On large farms, there are many ways to pick by hand, spread the cloth under the coffee tree, squeeze the branches from the roots and wait for the fruit to fall before harvesting. Large plantations in Brazil are used, and compared with the method of harvesting ripe fruit, the operation is simple and the cost is low.

The problem is that immature and ripe fruits are harvested collectively. Some farms directly pour beans on the ground to harvest, which may make the fruit rich and moist.

Machine picking (large plantation)

Mechanical picking is a method of vibrating plastic rods in a machine to put down the coffee fruit and harvest it. Although it can only be used on flat farms with high initial investment, it is said that one machine can be equivalent to 100 people and is efficient.

But the latest one seems to be using a machine that can only ripen the upper part relatively quickly and harvest ripe beans effectively.

The condition of the selector

The workers who harvest coffee beans are called "pickers". Because most of them are seasonal staff, we will grasp the cherries of coffee and harvest the cherries of coffee. It is said that this is difficult to judge, and because of the hard work grasped by hands, harvesting in the hot sun is becoming more and more difficult to ensure the safety of pickers.

3 summary of harvesting methods of coffee beans

There are three main ways to harvest coffee beans: "manual picking", "large-scale farm picking" and "picking machine", depending on the environment of the plantation.

By picking by hand, all the mature beans can be harvested one by one, and high-quality coffee beans can be harvested.

At the same time, manual picking and machine picking on large farms are extremely cost-effective because coffee can be harvested regardless of maturity. On the other hand, as we sort it later, the loss of coffee beans will increase.

Understand the history of coffee beans to make coffee life more interesting

Although the harvest method does not affect the taste of the coffee itself, only coffee beans can reach us, and these coffee beans have overcome experimental difficulties, such as picking difficulties and timing of harvest.

One of the things that makes us feel good about coffee is to note that "because of this background, you can enjoy coffee." After many roads, coffee came to us. I want to taste not only taste, but also affectionate.