Basic knowledge of ground Coffee beans

Coffee beans, the dark brown beans seem ordinary, but they have a lot of knowledge at all stages. The ideal time to grind coffee is to grind it before cooking. Because ground coffee is easy to oxidize and lose its flavor, especially without proper storage, coffee powder is also easy to change flavor, so it is naturally impossible to cook mellow coffee. Some people are afraid of trouble or do not want to buy a bean grinder, so they usually buy ready-made coffee powder when they drink coffee at home. At this time, they should pay special attention to the problem of storage. If the climate is humid, it is best not to place the coffee powder at room temperature after opening it. A more appropriate way is to put it in a sealed jar and refrigerate it in the refrigerator, and do not put it in the same place with garlic, fish and shrimp and other foods with heavy flavor. Because the coffee powder is easy to absorb, a careless coffee becomes a strange taste coffee, then even the best quality coffee will be spoiled. However, some people put the cooked coffee powder in the refrigerator as a deodorant, which is a good way to make the best use of things.

When grinding beans, the size of the powder depends on the way it is cooked. Generally speaking, the shorter the cooking time, the finer the ground powder; the longer the cooking time, the thicker the ground powder. Grinding coffee powder with the right thickness is very important for making a good cup of coffee, because the extraction of water-soluble substances in coffee powder has its ideal time, if the powder is very fine and cooked for a long time, resulting in excessive extraction, the coffee may be very bitter and lose its aroma. On the other hand, if the powder is coarse and cooked too fast, resulting in insufficient extraction, the coffee will be tasteless because it is too late to dissolve the water-soluble substance in the powder.

Coffee beans contain oil, so the bean grinder must be cleaned after grinding, otherwise the oil scale will be stale over a long period of time, and even the most advanced beans will be ground into strange-smelling powder.