Don't be silly. The coffee shop owner doesn't have time to pick beans from you.

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With the popularity of high-quality coffee in China for several years, the coffee diet culture has gradually penetrated into people's lives, and gradually more and more people emphasize the quality of coffee, and a large part of the control of coffee quality comes from the quality of raw coffee beans. If the proportion of defective beans is too high, it will affect the overall flavor performance of coffee. Therefore, it is often heard from operators that before roasting raw beans, there is a strict manual screening process to ensure a certain level of coffee quality.

When everyone is picking beans, is it good coffee to pick beans?

There is a blind spot in picking beans, because the operator did not tell you the source of the batches of beans he picked and the quality of raw beans.

A common situation in the industry is that our own roasting coffee shop asks the clerk to pick up beans with commercial grade raw beans, but in that large bag of selected raw beans, the proportion of defective beans may be more than 50%. The clerk worked very hard to pick out 20% of the defective beans, but the percentage of defective beans that took so much time to pick out is still very high, and the coffee flavor is of course very difficult to reach a good state. This often causes consumers to wonder, "Why does the store emphasize that it tastes better after picking beans, but I can't drink the difference?"

Manually picking beans is a way to optimize the flavor of coffee, but it is also a very time-consuming way. From a commercial point of view, each person spends an hour's production capacity to select about 1 kilogram of raw coffee beans. After 1 kilogram of raw beans are roasted and dehydrated, about 80 cups of coffee can be made. Coffee shops sell 300 cups of coffee every day, so you may need to find someone full-time to pick beans every day.

In order to solve the uneconomical way of picking beans by hand, there are mainly two ways in the industry:

1. Replace commercial beans with high-quality raw beans

two。 Use machine automation to pick beans according to the proportion of raw beans.

1. The cost of high-quality high-quality raw beans and commercial beans may be more than 200 yuan per kilogram, but this price difference is actually almost equal to the cost of manpower. If high-quality raw beans with high unit price are adopted, in fact, the cost of coffee does not increase much, but it can not only make the flavor of coffee obvious to consumers, but also save low-level working time for picking beans.

Coffee industry people's time is more focused on the nature of coffee, is the right choice.

two。 Using machine automation to pick beans according to the proportion of raw beans is a relatively new way. In the era of scientific and technological progress, selling specialties and selling knowledge, low-level labor work is the best thing if it can be handed over to machine automation. Bean picking is actually a good example. In foreign countries, the common way of automatic picking beans is to use the particle size of beans to pick beans, which can first pick out some stones and impurities on a large scale, but it is very difficult to reduce the proportion of defective beans because it is less helpful for the selection of bean defects.

At present, a domestic manufacturer has made another solution, using the proportion of raw coffee beans to select, first screening the particle size of beans, and then using the proportion of raw beans to do the second layer of screening. this principle comes from moth-eaten, moldy, broken and other defective beans, which will be lower than the proportion of the same healthy raw beans, so use machines to dynamically adjust the degree of screening. The concept that pearls can be picked from the beach. If you look at this way of sifting beans in terms of economies of scale, it is very efficient, but relatively there will be another cost of screening beans, but don't worry, the cost per kilogram is lower than that of labor, which is very economical. It's just that there is a threshold in this way, which is that a minimum amount of screening requires 100 kilograms, which is more difficult for players who bake at home. However, there are also different voices in the industry who say that the coffee beans of the same manor are really worth more after specific gravity screening. Let's leave this to the market to verify.

Now, through the efforts of many coffee people, the concept of fine coffee has been continuously promoted in the market bit by bit, so that more and more consumers have a better understanding of the nature of coffee and the source of the coffee beverage they drink. it also increases the control of food safety quality, and the matter of picking coffee beans is also something that more and more people begin to pay attention to. The quality of the coffee we drink in the market is getting better and better!