How to brew coffee powder? Seven bad habits of coffee lovers! How many did you win?

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How would you like to make coffee? As a senior new coffee lover, how many mistakes have you made?

For coffee lovers, if you want to drink good coffee every day, here are a few bad habits:

1. It is not purchased or used when it is fresh

Some supermarkets in foreign countries will treat coffee beans like dried fruit. You will see coffee beans together with foods such as cornflakes and dried beans that can be stored for a long time. But in fact, coffee is not a long-lived product.

We should treat coffee as fresh bread or vegetables and use it when it is really fresh. It's best to buy it from a local coffee shop or baker.

2. Keep it for more than 1 month

Generally speaking, a packet of coffee beans is about 250 grams and can make 13-15 cups of coffee. Ideally, if you drink it every day, you will finish it in about two weeks.

After grinding, you can drink for up to a month, but you can easily bet that the quality will decline over time-after a month, it will not be fresh.

Every time you open and seal the bag, it will let the aroma escape, which means that your coffee will lose its flavor more quickly.

3. The size of each grinding is different.

If the powder is too small, it will make the coffee taste more bitter than it should be. If the particles are too large, it will increase the sour taste, which is not very lovable. If your coffee powder is large or small and very uneven, it will definitely taste astringent.

You must choose the right and uniform grinding degree of coffee beans according to your cooking method in order to cook the ideal flavor.

4. the cooking time is not right.

Different people will like to brew coffee with different utensils, and it is best not to brew coffee too fast or too slow.

If the grinding size is perfect, in theory, the regular brewing time is 2 minutes by hand, 1 minute by siphon, 4 minutes by French kettle, and 30 seconds by Italian coffee maker.

5. All the brewed coffee will not be poured out immediately

Some people use a pressure pot to brew and then put the coffee in another container without immediately. The coffee powder will be boiled all the time in the French kettle and will begin to become bitter.

Or some fully automatic American coffee machine, after brewing, there will be a heating module at the bottom of the pot to keep the coffee warm all the time, which is actually accelerating the dissipation of coffee flavor.

6. Use dirty cooking utensils

Some lazy people often make a new pot of coffee without thoroughly cleaning the brewing utensils.

Don't be lazy! Be sure to clean up the brewing utensils before brewing, otherwise it will only make the coffee smell and smell.

7. Add unnecessary milk and sugar

In general, coffee shops do not exclude guests from using milk and sugar, because most people add milk and sugar to deal with bad coffee.

Sugar can balance the bitterness caused by overbaking, and milk helps hide the defects of coffee. In other words, milk and sugar can mask the bad taste of rotten coffee. However, if you buy good beans from a good baker and add milk and sugar before tasting them, you are wasting the baker's painstaking efforts.