Costa Rican coffee beans that have been dried by the weather Description Taste Introduction

In Costa Rica, coffee fruit pickers use a basket that can be tied around the waist as a container for fruit, which is locally known as Cajuela. A basket full of coffee fruit weighs 25 pounds, and Cajuela is the only official unit of coffee fruit picked in Costa Rica. The picker earns only $2 for picking a basket of fruits, so it is very hard. The workers currently working in the coffee garden are from neighboring Nicaragua. Every picking season, the plantation employs 400 workers to do picking work. A good worker can pick 20 baskets a day, but after the subsequent procedures of shelling, meat and sugar removal, each basket of fruit produces only about 7 pounds of coffee beans.

In Costa Rica, moist raw beans are spread outdoors and dried by the wind and the sun. If there is a rainy day, a machine will be used for drying. The best quality coffee beans are light khaki after outdoor air-drying, while machine-dried beans are darker, but both are of good quality and can be used to make quality coffee.

On the other hand, the relatively poor fruits floating on the surface produce raw beans of different colors and sizes, which are sold to local coffee companies and roasted with additives such as sugar to unify the color of the beans to make cheap coffee. Interestingly, this cheap coffee made from raw beans sells well in Costa Rica because Costa Ricans like to add a lot of milk and sugar to their coffee, so they don't need quality coffee that is too pure and strong.