Should beginners buy coffee beans or powdered coffee? which coffee beans are better for beginners?

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Like vegetables and fruits and all kinds of meat, coffee beans are alive, and freshness is its top priority.

And we rarely buy more than a week's supply of vegetables or fruits, so coffee should also be bought as much as it can be consumed in a short period of time.

The best drinking period for coffee beans is the bean cultivation period, which is about 4 to 28 days after baking, which varies with different coffee beans and different roasting methods. You can ask the coffee shop how many days it is most suitable for.

Therefore, when buying coffee beans, you need to ask the shopkeeper about the date of baking and buy only the amount that can be finished within a month from the date of baking.

A proper degree of crispness

To choose good coffee beans, here is a strategy for reference:

Look: grab a handful of coffee beans and feel whether they are solid beans with the palm of your hand.

Smell: is it enough to smell the fragrance close to the nose?

Press: fresh coffee beans are fresh and crisp, and the fragrance floats out when they crack. You can put a bean into your mouth and bite it twice. The crisp sound indicates that the beans are well preserved and not damp, but it is also likely to be overbaked when you gently pinch them.

Color: dark black coffee beans, the coffee brewed has a bitter taste; yellow coffee beans, the coffee brewed has a sour taste.

Okay, coffee beans.

Neat shape, bright color, using single-fried baking, mellow after cooking, full of stamina.

Bad coffee beans

The shape is different, and the individual is incomplete, light fragrance after cooking, not sweet enough.

Packaging and source

For coffee beans to be properly preserved for a month, a low-oxygen, dry, low-temperature and low-light environment is required.

At present, cafes generally use aluminum foil composite packaging, plus an one-way exhaust valve.

Because coffee beans will have the so-called exhaust phenomenon (carbon dioxide) after roasting, if you seal the bag, you will see the coffee bag inflated or even burst. The one-way exhaust valve can discharge the gas and block the entry of moisture and oxygen at the same time.

If the bean bag itself has a zipper after opening, be sure to vent the air as much as possible, and then zip it up. If there is no zipper, you must fold the belt a few more and then hold it with a clip to avoid air circulation as much as possible.

On the label, we should pay attention to whether there are a variety of instructions to tell you the origin of this coffee bean, production process, production time and so on.

Although the more detailed it is, it doesn't necessarily mean that it tastes better, but it's more likely to taste good than those with nothing or a bunch of emotional articles!

How to take care of the coffee beans bought home

The flavor oils of coffee beans are easily oxidized, so the sealed cans or the gas in the coffee bags should be squeezed before sealing the coffee. There is no room for air.

And it should be noted that you must wait for the coffee beans to adapt to room temperature and open the air, otherwise the bags will be opened from low temperature to higher temperature, and a layer of water vapor will be attached to the coffee beans.

High temperature will cause coffee to produce oil, increasing the chance and degree of flavor oil being oxidized by air. Therefore, you can also consider putting coffee beans or coffee powder in the refrigerator and checking whether they are better sealed before putting them in the refrigerator, otherwise the coffee will become a deodorant in the refrigerator.

Compared with coffee beans, coffee powder has a larger contact area with air and is more likely to be oxidized. It is recommended to grind and brew only 2-3 times at a time.

The biggest charm of the third wave of coffee led by boutique coffee is that it is no longer the exclusive domain of professionals, but a stage in which every ordinary person can participate.

Every ordinary individual can choose his or her favorite coffee in an open information environment, making good coffee a daily life.

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