Five tips for making delicious coffee! How to flush out the coffee that most people agree with?

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General people's acceptance of coffee taste is very subjective, a small number of people ask for high-quality delicious coffee, but most people's request may only be "not bad". The same cup of coffee will have unlimited feelings due to the taste of different people. There are generally some ways to make a cup of coffee that most people agree with, and most consumers are confused because they lack an unforgettable taste of coffee or don't know how to use coffee utensils correctly.

The brand of coffee beans can not guarantee the quality of coffee beans, how to maintain the freshness of coffee and evaluate the quality of coffee packaging is the most important.

In order to satisfy consumers' pursuit of perfect taste, a high-quality coffee shop needs to carefully select raw beans, only the amount needed for baking, no overstock, grinding coffee beans before brewing, and in order to extract the most fragrant coffee, the correct ratio of coffee powder to water is more important than saving raw materials. The brewing method must be fast and complete, not completely depleted. The time is calculated in minutes, and the mellow coffee is poured into a delicate coffee cup and finally delivered to the guest within a certain period of time.

Here are five tips for making delicious coffee:

Coffee quality: to comment on the quality of a cup of coffee, you should have an in-depth understanding of the basic information of coffee, such as the variety of coffee, the origin and regional characteristics of coffee beans, the height of planting, the process of handling raw beans, bean age, purity, size and water content. However, such detailed information is usually not available, so taste and aroma become the final judgment criteria, and experience becomes the basis for judging the quality of coffee.

Packaging: oxygen is an important factor affecting the freshness, taste and aroma of coffee, so after each package is opened, the freshness of coffee will be lost rapidly. in fact, when the coffee is extracted into a vacuum, it will also extract the aroma of coffee. Coffee brewed by coffee shops that are roasted and ground before brewing can retain coffee aroma better than vacuum packaged coffee sold on the market. Some false reports indicate that ground coffee can remain fresh for up to three weeks or more, but it is absurd to any coffee expert, although these ground coffee powders are acceptable to most consumers who lack coffee knowledge or generally add sugar and milk. Therefore, the taste change of coffee after brewing has a lot to do with freshness, so packaging is very important to the protection of coffee.

Water quality, coffee to water ratio: a cup of coffee, water accounts for 99%, if the water contains impurities, or the use of stiff, high concentration of alkali, bad taste, or contains some organic matter (oxygen, odor, or metal), will greatly reduce the taste of coffee. However, the common mistake of not making a good cup of coffee is not measuring the correct amount of water and coffee powder. The correct ratio of coffee to water, in the British weight scale, the ratio of water to coffee is about 1 pound to 2.00 to 2.25 gallons of water, or 16.7 to 18.8 liters of water to 1 kilogram of coffee powder by metric standards. In addition, the water absorption of coffee should also be taken into account. Roasted coffee powder will retain twice as much water, plus the amount of water left in the coffee and screening procedures should be counted together.

Brewing method: some of the most popular household or commercial brewing methods will destroy all the aroma of high-end coffee, such as the long-term placement of a large number of coffee powder and the mixture of new and old coffee powder will have a certain impact on the coffee.

The main points of brewing include: speed and time. In fact, ultra-fine coffee powder is not so easy to get in China. Some novel pressurized brewing methods (such as Philharmonic pressure) also use moderately ground coffee particles instead of mud to get evenly extracted coffee quickly. Other methods, such as continuous brewing coffee machines and plugged-in American coffee pots, do not evenly blend water with coffee powder, which will affect the taste of coffee.

Other considerations:

Adding sugar and milk will cover the bitterness of the coffee. If you want to taste good coffee, you'd better taste black coffee. The cleaning of coffee brewing tools is of course the most basic. Time factor: whether it's roasted coffee powder, instant coffee powder, or a brewed cup of coffee, the most important thing in the process is to brew quickly. The aroma and taste of coffee are very easy to disappear. The most attractive thing about coffee is its elusive and fleeting aroma, which can only be captured in the memory of consumers. The water quality must be good, and the coffee must be brewed quickly and coarsely. During the brewing time, any small mistake will destroy the pleasure and satisfaction that a cup of coffee should bring.

Make the notepad:

The thicker the coffee powder, the less efficient the water extraction of the coffee and the harder it is to extract the taste of the coffee itself, and vice versa. Any brewing method that will store the hot coffee for a period of time will greatly reduce the flavor of the coffee, especially the American coffee machine which is plugged in and insulated automatically. The heat preservation process of the coffee machine will cause the aroma of the coffee to be lost with the steam, leaving only a thick, bitter taste. The cleanliness of coffee brewing equipment, the purity of water quality, the roughness and fineness of ground beans, the freshness of roasted coffee, the ratio of coffee powder to water, and the duration of contact with water will all affect the taste of a cup of coffee. If we do not pay attention to these details, our expectations for coffee will be disappointed, perhaps three or four of them will be acceptable, while the rest will not taste good. But if we can pay attention to the above control factors, we can get a great cup of coffee.

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