The difference between hand-brewed coffee and Starbucks coffee grinding degree of Starbucks coffee powder

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Below, I will make a detailed comparison between hand-brewed coffee and Starbucks from the raw materials and the production process.

Just like roast duck, the most important thing is duck, Saute Spicy Chicken, the most important thing is chicken, the most important thing to make coffee is beans.

Coffee is really a simple drink, with only two ingredients: coffee beans and water. If you want to find fault with the taste of coffee, it can only be blamed on coffee beans.

Few of the beans you often drink and use in fast-food coffee can be really reassuring.

First of all, let's talk about quality. According to friends in the coffee industry, Starbucks coffee beans are already good in fast food coffee. after all, with so many stores, the beans selected will not have too big quality problems, and there will not be too many bad beans and spoiled beans.

Starbucks in Houston

But from a coffee lover's point of view, whether a cup of coffee is made of bad beans or spoiled beans, there are still some risks, and it is difficult for people to have absolute trust in it.

At this point, making coffee by hand is more reassuring. You can pick out the good-looking coffee beans yourself and throw away the bad beans.

After talking about the quality problem, let's talk about the variety of coffee beans.

The most common fast food coffee you can drink on the market comes from two kinds of coffee beans: Arabeca and Robusta. The Arabica beans used by Starbucks are one grade higher than Robusta.

But in other words, as long as you drink fast food coffee, you won't have a chance to try more flavors of coffee beans, and the coffee in your life won't have a second flavor. This is rather boring.

If you make coffee by hand, you can choose the type, price and taste of coffee beans. Like the beans from the following three places, the taste is completely different from Starbucks.

North American Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee beans all know that Blue Mountain Coffee is called the best coffee in the world. Everyone who pursues the quality of life should try to make a cup himself. However, the water of Blue Mountain Coffee is so deep that it is almost impossible to buy authentic products in China.

The coffee beans of Central America and Guatemala are relatively sweet and have a strong caramel flavor, which is completely different from the sweetness of fast food coffee with additives.

African Kilimanjaro coffee beans, the most suitable for entry players to choose, the taste is very fragrant, without sour taste, and the price is also very beautiful.

Blue Mountain Coffee

The next step in choosing a variety of coffee beans is to bake them into ripe beans. This is the easiest step to reflect the difference in the taste of coffee, and it is also the most lacking step in fast food coffee.

There are generally two kinds of coffee beans available on the market: raw beans, that is, beans that have been simply washed after picking, and cooked beans, which are baked beans and the most common beans on the market.

Compared with raw beans, cooked beans will be shinier.

"Lesheng" Beethoven has a habit of drinking coffee: be sure to count out 60 raw coffee beans, roast them to a scorched black degree, and then grind them carefully with a Turkish bronze hand mill.

Father Bay never thought that his story would be regarded as a bible by many hand-brewed coffee lovers as an example of a high-quality lifestyle.

Only cooked beans can be used to grind coffee. According to the degree of baking, there are two kinds of cooked beans: medium and shallow baking and deep baking.

Light baked beans will have a berry blossom aroma. As the baking time increases, the sour and bitter taste will gradually decrease, and the caramel, chocolate, nutty, and even wine flavor will gradually come out.

The longer the baking time, the darker the coffee beans.

But fast-food coffee like Starbucks, which is hard on beans, uses a third roasting method: overroasting.

You know, roasting coffee beans is the most important heat, the heat is slightly different, the taste of coffee is different, which is also the greatest pleasure of people drinking coffee. But the game of "overbaking", which completely ignores the baking technology, is a roasting method of roasting coffee beans to a scorched state:

It is beneficial to batch operation, can be controlled by assembly line, and reduces labor cost. Cooked beans made in this way, even if different varieties, the taste will not be much different. It all smells good, typical fast food.

Starbucks coffee beans bought in the store

Very dark, the result of deep baking

Another advantage of overbaking is that it can delay the preservation of coffee beans.

Generally speaking, the best use time of lightly roasted coffee beans is within 2 weeks, and that of heavily roasted beans is 3 weeks. But over-roasted beans can be kept in coffee shops for more than 3 months.

Even if the other party uses moldy beans, or leftover beans from several years ago, after being overbaked and turned into a scorched black, the novice can't tell the good from the bad.

From the perspective of raw materials, the hand-brewed coffee that allows people to touch coffee beans is indeed better than Starbucks.

When the beans are baked, they should be ground into powder and then boiled.

Grinding and cooking are inseparable, because when grinding beans, the thickness of the powder depends on the method of cooking. It's hard to say which is more important. They also affect the taste of coffee.

The advantage of hand-grinding coffee beans is that the selection of coffee and the degree to which the powder is ground are under your own control.

If you want to drink a cup of dripping coffee, you have to grind the beans so that they won't leak out in the dripping pot:

If you want to make a cup of Italian concentrated Espresso, you must grind it finely. After all, Espresso takes a very short time to brew and needs coffee powder to melt quickly.

Put the beans into a bean grinder and grind them carefully, and the sound of the ground beans sounds good. Turning around and shaking the handle, watching the coffee beans being ground more and more finely, you can also find the experience of monkey ancestors grinding grain, which is very much back to basics.

After grinding the powder, it began to cook. The first thing you should pay attention to when cooking is also the tools.

According to the order of effect, hand punch > siphon kettle > Philharmonic pressure > French pressure kettle > automatic coffee machine, the difficulty of playing is also reduced in turn. Interested viewers can try to buy a machine. Today, Sister Ming won't explain the coffee machine.

To be sure, hand-brewed coffee circles never choose the last one. The automatic coffee machine is easy to operate, time-saving and labor-saving, just put the beans in, as to whether the beans are one gram more or one less, it doesn't matter, it doesn't have the fun and ritual of making coffee by hand.

Except for the automatic coffee machine, other brewing equipment is a tool for making coffee by hand. For example, the siphon pot can compress the coffee and make it more full-bodied.

The most advanced way to play is undoubtedly to make a handmade pot, which can restore the original aroma of coffee, and the proportion of ingredients can also be controlled by yourself. Of course, hand-brewed coffee does not have a compression device, so it is not as rich as other coffee machines.