How much is the arabica coffee? how can the arabica coffee powder taste good?

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At present, there are two main types of coffee, Arabica and Robusta. Arabica coffee is softer and less caffeinated, and is usually more acceptable to the public, while Robusta coffee has a strange smell like rubber and plastic. however, because it is easier to cultivate and cheaper, it is usually used as a raw material for canned coffee or instant coffee. If you want to do it yourself at home, I would suggest starting with the Arabica seed.

The price of coffee sold in the market is often judged by the degree of baking (with deep cultivation, there is no need to use characteristic beans, the price should be down-to-earth. The price of deep-grown coffee beans is lower because they are relatively uncharacteristic. Deep-cultured coffee beans grown in Arabica, Taiwan-baked coffee beans, or flour, usually cost between $180 and 350 for half a pound. The prices of boutique coffee beans that are usually shallow, medium and deep culture range from $350 to 3500 per half pound.

The prices of some coffee beans imported from overseas or in oversized packages can even be as low as half of the above prices. Many people will want to know what's wrong with the coffee beans / powder imported from overseas. in fact, it is relatively stale at most, and there is no problem to drink it.

However, I strongly do not recommend that beginners buy large packages of beans directly, unless you can ensure that you can drink them within a week after opening them, otherwise the coffee may cause ochratoxin problems as long as it is kept for more than seven days. Believe me! I used to be the victim of large packages of coffee. I sold toxins in my body, but I couldn't find an allergen. There was nothing the doctor could do to help, so he had a painful two or three years. Even if the average person drinks the toxin, it is not easy to detect that the problem comes from coffee. And that's what I'm going to talk about next, the way coffee beans are preserved.

Baking can be divided into shallow culture, medium culture and deep culture. The deeper the roasting degree, the higher the degree of coking of the coffee, and the coffee is usually more mellow and thicker, but also because the high temperature destroys the characteristics of the coffee bean itself, so if you choose deep-grown coffee, the origin of the coffee bean itself is usually less important.

Although the shallow coffee can best retain the original taste of the coffee, it also includes the sour taste of the coffee bean itself. The refreshing and sweet sour taste of the shallow culture is slightly different from the coffee recognized by most people in Asia, and some people do not like the refreshing taste so much. it's kind of like fruit tea coffee. Therefore, many high-quality beans will be in shallow culture or medium culture, for example, shallow culture, medium-deep culture and so on.

At this point, you can grasp a key point: shallow cultivation retains the original flavor of the aroma of coffee beans, which is usually sour, refreshing and caffeinated, while deep culture cokes the coffee, although it kills the characteristics of all kinds of coffee beans. But it also brings a rich flavor with less caffeine.

With the above two points of understanding, when choosing coffee beans, we can have a general direction, want to drink strong, look for deep culture, want to drink the characteristics of the place of origin, look for shallow or medium culture, if we choose deep baking, almost all the comprehensive coffee beans seen on the market will be deeply cultivated, usually mixed with all kinds of beans, and the unit price is relatively low.