Our own gas stove hand-baked Kenya AA coffee beans first roast actual combat record! How to choose the hand net

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Select the hand net

What I bought is 18-8 # 304stainless steel coffee roasting hand net imported from Japan-"ginkgo fried net / baked bean net (round) 22CM". The product features are as follows:

Japanese original imported coffee roasting hand net, transparent mesh is easy to observe the color and appearance changes of beans in the baking process, and then adjust the required firepower.

Simple and easy-to-use baking equipment, but can bake delicious coffee, is the player's favorite before the rise of orthodox mechanical baking.

Japanese coffee master Taguchi recommends it.

The use of hand net can remove the smoke from the baking process left on the coffee beans so that you do not like the smoky smell, stainless steel mesh 304 edible grade material.

Size: round screen diameter 22.5cm, the mesh is big enough to turn over, the baking will be uniform; the length of the wooden handle 21.5cm, good grip anti-scalding.

Capacity: about 250g of raw beans can be baked at a time, which is small but has a large capacity.

Material: stainless steel mesh 18-8 # 304 edible grade material, peace of mind and durable, non-general metal heat-resistant mesh, suitable for cassette gas furnace or barreled gas furnace.

Weight: 254g

Price: the impression price is about 1600 yuan, and the current recommended price for 2016 is $1999 yuan.

Record of baked beans on hand net

First baking date: November 30, evening; venue: Wenshan District, Taipei (Mucha)

The original publication is as follows:

Come and play baked beans on Mobile Network tonight. Hehe, I'm looking forward to it.

I baked it on a gas stove with a hand-held net. Through the sharing of online articles and youtube films by my fellow netizens in Taiwan, I taught myself what my predecessors did. As a complete novice, despite my limited knowledge, knowledge, and tools, I went on playing directly with the mentality of getting nothing without going into the tiger's den.

The beans baked for the first time are AA of Kenya (Kenya Karimikui AA Top, Karimiku Manor). They were bought on the Internet. The price of 500g raw beans is 450 yuan.

The green and astringent appearance of raw beans before ▼ baking:

▼ self-made temperature display baking net, fixed with clip. (but then it was found that the clip would be too hot or even jump away.)

The room temperature is only about 20 degrees in winter, and then the temperature measured by the thermometer during baking is not necessarily the temperature of the hand mesh chassis or coffee beans. Hand net baking beans is really a kind of baking method with high tolerance and low precision. However, it is like our non-chef mortal cooking, do not need to be so accurate can also fry a good dish! And it has the interest of healing department!

Prepare the computer to show the step by step teaching of the seniors on the network, and just like this, it starts to bake--

Through the thermometer display to adjust the distance between the hand net and the flame, the more recent to create a strong fire and strong temperature, the farther to create a state of medium and small fire.

The hand must keep shaking, so sometimes the bean jumps out of the gap in the net formed to hold the thermometer. (of course I pick up the naughty beans, put them back, and continue to bake them.)

Of course, if you do, you will find more small details that are insufficient and ignored. In a hurry, you can adjust the props flexibly, or pick up the beans that jump away, and continue to bake enthusiastically in the net.

The most obvious feature of ▼ hand network baked beans is that the beans are unevenly heated, and the heating degree of each bean varies greatly at the initial stage of baking.

When ▼ is baked to yellowish brown, the sense of achievement arises spontaneously, and the psychology begins to enter the state of healing system. There are raw beans next to the picture below for comparison.

▼ is almost complete! The first baking took 30 or 40 minutes. Because the beans were rocking all the time, the rolling sound of the beans was very noisy, so I didn't hear one or two explosions. I don't know if there was any success.

▼ features as follows: scorched black and light brown can be seen, and at least four or five different dark colors (Shades) can be seen with the naked eye.

Add: only afterwards did I know that the results of shooting raw beans and baking beans must be taken 90 degrees vertically to observe whether the particle size of coffee beans is uniform, rather than the pursuit of photography. The reason is that the size of cooked coffee beans is not only most directly related to the size of the original raw beans, but also expands after roasting, especially after the first explosion and the second explosion. If the coffee beans do not burst in the roasting process, the volume will not expand. So the above picture can only be used to observe the color.

Therefore, such as hand-net baking beans itself is the most likely to cause uneven heating baking method, so cooked beans are more likely to have great differences in volume.

It is precisely because of the disadvantage of uneven heating, hand-net baking in the first step, that is, when selecting raw beans, we should pay more attention to selecting coffee beans with uniform size and high consistency, and roasting in the same batch.

▼ baked beans for the first time, two days after raising beans:

▼ can't help tasting the results quickly. Cooking results:

The Kenyan AA, which is baked by itself for the first time, is obviously sour, not bitter at all, sweet and smooth, and has a light aroma of coffee when it leaves the mouth, which is not bad. Sure enough, freshness is king!

Summary and analysis

The advantages of hand net baking beans: it has the effect of baking directly (with strong aroma and sweetness, and shallow baking has more acidity), it saves about 1/3 time compared with the pan, and the price is economical and easy to start.

Hand net baked beans disadvantage: not easy to gather heat, so it is easy to have astringent taste. Need to constantly shake the hand net to achieve baking average and avoid scorching.

Hand net operation problems: silver skin is easy to fly,

The way to improve the hand net: a thermometer can be added to help monitor the changing heat, and a layer of aluminum foil can be coated around the cover of the hand net and the edge of the pan, leaving only for direct baking.

Test hand net results: in addition to the cup test drink, you can also check the consistency of the volume expansion of beans after baking is completed. if large and small beans represent uneven baking, you can cut open the section of soybean and adzuki bean to observe whether the external coke is endogenous.

Update and supplement

I have time to update my blog recently. I have been playing coffee by myself since October last year, and it will be almost a year in the twinkling of an eye. The original title of this article, "the first hand-baked beans", which was originally published in 2014-12-2, was the first article handed over. The content was very simple, entirely because of the initial excitement and eagerness to share. Over the past year, I have been very focused on playing coffee, from hand brewing, mixed beans, baked beans, cup test, siphon, pressure pot, from hand net direct fire to Fresh Roast hot air, in which there are too many small insights that cannot be found in the original manuscript, so I have recently taken the time to add some notes to the few articles published in the past year. Only in this way can we let go of the unfinished "trivia" that we have been thinking about (but it is a valuable first-hand understanding!)

This summer, I bought a Fresh Roast SR700 household electric air flow bean roaster in the United States. After I brought it back to Taiwan, I only tested it three times. The third time the roasting effect was quite successful. The aroma of berries was obvious, especially when the fresh ripe beans were just ground. The strong honey aroma makes people think that the coffee is amazing! Taste more layers than before, no longer just thin sour taste, can feel the good taste of bitter acid, more mellow, I feel that I have tasted the best Kenyan AA, so I began to like this Kenyan bean!

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