"Coffee Taste" teaches you how to make coffee from coffee beans.

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The brewing method of coffee powder the cooking method of coffee beans after grinding

Let's start with a trip to discover coffee.

People do not "drink" coffee at the beginning, but "eat" coffee, in other words, directly eat the fruit of the coffee tree (called coffee cherry, because the fruit is the same size and color as cherry), more precisely, eat the pulp of coffee (the coffee seed is too hard, of course, just spit it out).

Then, for ease of carrying, Ethiopian soldiers dried the whole coffee cherry and chewed it directly. Today, many coffee producing areas in Africa still treat sun-dried coffee cherries as a snack, sour and crisp, tasting like dried fruit, just put them in your pocket and chew a few when you are in poor spirits, which is quick and convenient.

In addition to dried coffee cherries, people at that time mashed coffee cherries and mixed them with oil into small balls, or boiled coffee leaves in water to drink, or chewed raw coffee leaves directly, nothing more than the refreshing (or psychedelic) effect of coffee. Radical scholars believe that the Nepenthe taken by Princess Helen, who caused the Trojan War, was the ancestor of coffee, because Egypt was the first country to become addicted to coffee.

Make a good cup of coffee, Coffee Brewing.

If you always feel "coffee = bitter", then you will enter a new world of coffee that was previously unknown through this book.

The elements of a good cup of coffee are mainly based on five basic concepts:

 ■, fresh coffee beans.

Correct grinding of  ■

 ■ good water quality

Appropriate water temperature for  ■

 ■ cooks gently

■ fresh coffee beans

1. Grind only a moment before cooking

There is a big gap between coffee beans and coffee powder in terms of freshness. The former is measured in days, but it is so short that it can only be counted in seconds after grinding.

two。 The ripening of coffee beans

Roasted coffee beans will perform better after a few days in good storage! The ripening time of coffee beans also varies with different cooking methods. Except for the coffee used by Espresso, which needs to be cooked for 3-4 days, all other brewing methods are more than 7 days.

Correct grinding of ■

A good bean grinder is more important than a good coffee maker! In the pursuit of good coffee, a high-level bean grinder is absolutely necessary.

The true meaning of brewing coffee is to "extract the substances from coffee beans correctly". The key to achieving this goal is to "accurately control the thickness of coffee grinding and the time of brewing."

■ good water quality

Like making tea, tea made from too clean water will not taste better than that from mountain springs. By the same token, if the water contains the right amount of minerals, it can enrich the taste of coffee. Do I have to use imported mineral water? Not necessarily! If you think the cost of mineral water is too high, you can use a simple water filter. Just remember: don't filter the water too clean, let alone use unfiltered tap water directly.

■ suitable water temperature

The water temperature suitable for brewing coffee is about 85-95 ℃.

The cooking temperature depends on the degree of roasting of coffee beans. The principle is that beans that are deeply roasted are boiled at a lower temperature, while beans that are lightly roasted are cooked at a higher temperature.

■ cooks gently

No matter which method of cooking has a common point: brewing coffee is the interaction between water and coffee beans, and the extraction should be done by water, not by the strength of the brewer! The only thing the brewer has to do is to make every particle of coffee powder evenly surrounded by water!

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