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When you sit in front of the computer, do you feel that there must be a cup of delicious coffee next to you? the coffee is slowly imported, slightly bitter, and then gradually sweet. So the following is the content about how the coffee beans prepared by Qianjie Coffee can taste good.

How to soak coffee beans to taste good:

Coffee Maker

You can buy a fully automatic coffee machine, the price of the imported automatic coffee machine is more than 3000, it is good for home use, and the quality is not bad enough. You can also make milk foam, make cabs, lattes and other milk coffee.

If you want to play, you can buy a household semi-automatic coffee machine, 1-2,000 yuan, you can have a little fun, try pulling flowers and so on.

Cooking utensils

Follicular type, hand punching

Use filter cup and filter paper or filter mesh to do filtering tool, which is very convenient to use. Generally speaking, the American coffee maker uses the concept of follicles to make coffee. There are plenty of hand-made filter cups available on the market, such as T-shaped, cone-shaped, V60, smart filter cup and so on. Medium fine grinding is recommended for the follicle type, and the small Fuji ghost teeth are 3-3.5.

French kettle and tea maker

There are a lot of people who use French Press to brew, because it is very simple, and do not pay too much attention to details, the most suitable for lazy French, because the brewing time will often forget the timing, so more than 5 minutes, so the French kettle is suitable for roughness grinding, small Fuji ghost teeth 7.5 years 8.

Siphon pot, Ailo pressure

People who usually use siphon pots (Syphon,or Siphon) can be said to be experts in making their own coffee, while Aeropress is a new coffee brewing tool in recent years, which looks a bit like a large syringe. It can be forced to shorten the extraction time of coffee by brute force, usually with moderate grinding.

The key point of coffee brewing

Water quality and water temperature

The temperature of the water will affect the amount of substances dissolved out of the coffee. To put it simply, the higher the temperature, the more aroma of the coffee will be dissolved, and the use of good filtered water quality will make your coffee taste better.

The weight grams of each coffee bean

How much weight of coffee beans, with how much weight of water, you can get a fixed proportion of delicious coffee. The use of accurate electronic scales can greatly increase the chances of successful cooking.

The time of cooking

The longer the coffee is boiled, and the longer the coffee is soaked in hot water, the stronger the flavor will be, and the more substances the coffee will dissolve, the better it will be, and the worse it will be.

Roughness of grinding

The scale of grinding must be decided with the brewing methods and utensils used, and choosing the brewing utensils suitable for you can greatly enhance the interest of drinking coffee. Here are some common cooking methods and appropriate grinding scales.

The way to store coffee

The summer climate is relatively humid and hot, so coffee beans must be strictly prevented from being heated or damp. It is the best way to store it in a cabinet that is sealed and kept out of the sun. The best way to store coffee is to brew it quickly and drink it into your stomach. It is recommended that when buying coffee beans, choose freshly baked coffee beans in cafes and roasted coffee beans. A small amount of shopping can ensure freshness. Their own bakeries on the market often boast extremely fresh roasting and emphasize drinking fresh coffee. In fact, the freshest coffee beans are not necessarily the best, and the best time to drink is usually 7 or 15 days after coffee roasting.

The bean bag used by the store to pack coffee beans is preferably a closed bag with an one-way breathable valve. If you store it properly, you will be surprised that the storage time of coffee beans is longer than you think. After opening, you must finish it as soon as possible, of course, you can also drink slowly, slowly feel the ups and downs of coffee flavor and decline, which is also a kind of interest.

How to choose coffee beans:

The first point is to pay attention to the original habits of coffee beans. Coffee beans should not be exposed to strong sunlight and should not be put together with volatile things. These two points show that coffee beans are best sealed in dark boxes or jars.

The second point is to distinguish the beans you need according to the color of the coffee beans. Whether they are beginners or friends who have been in the coffee circle for a long time, you still need to be familiar with these basic knowledge. Coffee beans will show different colors due to different roasting degrees. The flavor of coffee itself will also change. The sour taste of lighter coffee beans is very strong, but with the deepening of roasting, the sour taste of coffee beans will slowly disappear, while the bitterness will rise step by step. Basically, we divide the roasting degree of coffee beans into light roasting, moderate roasting, and deep roasting. These three main categories can be subdivided into eight subcategories. Detailed list is the following eight levels, from shallow to deep: shallow baking, meat baking, moderate baking, deep baking, urban baking, full-process baking, French baking, Italian baking, of which Italian baking is the deepest.

The third point is to learn to check the shelf life of coffee beans, coffee beans begin to oxidize after baking, just like aluminum powder, although the speed is not so fast, but the principle is the same. And coffee beans also have the characteristics of moisture absorption and flavor absorption, so try to buy fresh coffee beans, but for this habit of coffee beans, do not throw away coffee beans that have gone bad, as a desiccant and deodorant in refrigerator or wardrobe is a good choice, environmentally friendly and pollution-free.

The fourth point is how to distinguish whether coffee beans can continue to be used or whether they go bad and have to be abandoned. Apart from looking at the color, what you should believe most here is your nose. Fresh coffee beans smell rich in the original aroma of coffee, while coffee beans that are stale or over-oxidized will be poor or basically tasteless, and serious ones will have a musty smell. The smell of earthy and iodine may even have the taste of fermentation.

Fifth, and the most essential point, directly press or taste the coffee beans with your hands, because when you squeeze the coffee beans with your hands, the good coffee beans will not only give off an overflowing fragrance but also be accompanied by a crisp crack sound. Further, you can put the coffee beans into your mouth and bite them open. If the sound of cracking is crisp and short, then it shows that the coffee beans are not wet. Another purpose of doing this is to see whether the internal color of the coffee bean is consistent with or close to the outside. The coffee with the same appearance is naturally roasted well and belongs to high-quality beans. If the coffee beans are different from each other inside and outside, it shows that the firepower is too fast or the heat is not well mastered when roasting, and the taste of such beans will be greatly affected when they are finally made into coffee.

How to cook coffee beans:

1. Ground beans

First grind the coffee beans with a mill (the finest grinding).

If there is a shredder at home or a soymilk machine with crushing function can also be used, but the effect is not very ideal, the particles are relatively coarse. If none of these tools are available, it can be achieved with a rolling pin and a panel. Rolling and mashing methods, in short, to make the particles as small as possible.

2. Make coffee

If the coffee powder is ground fine enough, use brewing. Put a piece of filter paper on the inside of the funnel, put a cup of coffee powder (8-10) into the filter paper pocket, to avoid coffee powder leakage, first wet the coffee powder with warm water, warm the cup with boiling water in advance, and then put it under the funnel. Add the right amount of coffee powder according to your own taste.

3. Brewing

With pure water of about 96 degrees (must be pure water, otherwise it will affect the taste of coffee), evenly a small amount of clockwise water is drenched on the coffee powder, after the coffee powder is fully submerged, wait a while, after the first water is filtered into the cup, continue to pour a uniform small amount of water clockwise, watching the coffee liquid in the cup reach the desired amount, you can close the cup, and pour the cup counterclockwise. The added water should be determined according to the amount of coffee powder and personal taste.)

4. Boil

If the grinding particles are still large, they need to be boiled over high heat. Use a casserole or stainless steel pot, heat it with the right amount of cold water, be sure to control the heat, cook for 2 minutes until the oil foam is overflowing, turn to low heat and cook for half a minute, cease fire and precipitate for half a minute, then pour out and filter with filter paper when pouring out.

5. Seasoning

You can add the right amount of sugar and milk according to your taste, or drink it directly.

This method is simple and does not affect the taste of coffee, but we must pay attention to the temperature of brewing water and the temperature of coffee liquid, otherwise it will affect the taste. The coffee beans here had better be freshly roasted and freshly ground at the same time, which can ensure the aroma and taste of the coffee.

How to grade coffee beans:

Mode of production

Washing type

In the sink, after rubbing with water and utensils, the pulp and gum are removed and dried, which is called water-washed coffee beans with uniform quality.

Non-washing type

After the sun is naturally dried, the pulp and peel is removed by a sheller, and its quality is unstable.

The shape of the bean

Generally speaking, the fruit of coffee is made up of two oval seeds opposite each other. The side that connects with each other is a flat joint, so it is called flat bean. But some are made up of a round seed, and its taste is no different.

Growth altitude

According to the elevation of the cultivated land, it can be divided into three, four, seven and other grades. Generally speaking, the quality of highland beans is better than that of lowland beans, and the price is higher because of the increase in freight.

Grade name elevation (m)

More than 1500 of special grade beans

High-quality beans 1200 to 1500

Medium beans 1000 to 1200

Special water washing beans 900 to 1000

Wash beans in good water 760 to 900

Specially washed beans 610 to 760

Wash beans below 610 with excellent water

Quality

According to the statistical method, the type and quantity of dopants in a certain amount of samples are converted into percentage (that is, the number of defects), and the basis for determining the quality class is that the smaller the number of defects is, the higher the quality is.

Taste

The more famous is the unique "Blue Mountain Coffee". Other places such as Brazil, Haiti, Kenya, say and Columbia Coffee in the United States also have their own taste testing methods, which can be exported only after taste testing.

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