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In the old work "the Collection of Fine Coffee", all kinds of coffee beans are divided into four types according to their characteristics. To put it simply, from soft A-type coffee beans of low real estate to hard D-type coffee beans of high land are distinguished in different colors, indicating the baking method and baking degree consistent with their type.

For example, coffee beans from highlands such as Kenya and Colombia are classified as type D because of their thick meat, large grains and high water content. Type D coffee beans have poor heat permeability and strong sour taste, so it is not suitable to adopt the baking degree of "light baking to moderate roasting" like type A. It is more suitable for "medium-deep baking to deep baking" which will produce a strong bitter taste.

What would happen if type D coffee beans from Kenya or Colombia were roasted with shallow roasting similar to type A? I'm afraid the heat can't penetrate the bean core, producing a "sour taste" mixed with bitterness and acid. Nor can it lead to its inherent bitterness and mellowness. In this way, the rare Kenyan or Colombian coffee beans will be wasted and end up in vain.

In order to reduce even a little of this "useless work", I figured out a baking table named "systematic Coffee" (see table below). If you use this summary table, you won't make the stupid mistake of using the shallow roasting of roasted A-type coffee beans to bake hard D-shaped coffee beans. Each kind of coffee bean has its own suitable or unsuitable baking degree. Making delicious coffee with obviously unsuitable roasting degrees is nonsense.

The most suitable baking degree varies depending on the type of coffee beans. Someone asked me how to find the most suitable baking degree. My answer is "can only be inferred in my own way", and I must also learn the "basic baking" learning program. The learning method is to roughly fry coffee beans from Cuba or Ethiopia to Italian deep-roasting (Italian Roast), test the taste at the prescribed baking stage and keep it in mind.

At first, it can be divided into four stages: shallow baking, moderate baking, medium-depth baking and deep baking. After the habit, there are 8 stages, 16 stages, and sometimes subdivided into 24 stages and 32 stages, which are confirmed by cup testing as the taste changes from very shallow baking (Light Roast) to very deep baking. This is the "basic roasting" of Baja Coffee (Taguchi's cafe in Japan).