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Basic knowledge of coffee beans basic knowledge of coffee beans
There are so many kinds of coffee in the world that it is hard to tell the difference between them.
What kind of coffee would you like to make? The skills of buying Coffee and Raw beans
Every kind of raw coffee beans has some inherent mysteries. One of the greatest joys of roasting coffee beans at home is that you can unveil this layer of mystery directly by roasting the beans yourself, instead of just drinking the coffee flavor interpreted by others and losing a lot of fun. Of course, maybe you don't care about the subtle differences between all kinds of coffee beans.
Coffee Bean roasting knowledge Coffee Baking Dictionary
In this chapter, the author introduces the relevant words and descriptions that will be used in roasting and tasting coffee. These professional words are like passwords for coffee lovers to communicate with each other, and may not be required, but the description of these words has a considerable positive effect on the improvement of coffee appreciation. Here will be a collection of Chinese and English, hoping to help
The relationship between time / temperature ratio and domestic bean dryer
Unless you are already an experienced roaster, I suggest that beginners should not ask themselves too much to bake coffee beans that are full of variety. The first step for starters is to learn how to master the relationship between time and baking depth, and first find your own favorite baking depth. Next, if you try to distinguish between different curves and achieve the same coloring.
Time / temperature ratio and other subtle influence properties
All roasting modes are different because of the roasting process, so even coffee beans that look the same in appearance behave very differently in the cup. When you bake a coffee bean to a fixed roasting color in a short time with fast heat / high temperature (or a combination of air flow high temperature and fast air flow), the roasted coffee bean retains more acidity.
The relationship between baking pattern and flavor
Now, with the understanding of the relevant words in the previous parts, we will show you the relationship between the various baking patterns and baking depth of these anchovies, which will be introduced in terms of baking depth from shallow to deep. Again: you can also see summary-style simple reference information in the chart on page 8081 of this book. . The most lightly roasted coffee beans, commonly known as
Flavor characteristics of coffee vocabulary related to harvest
Sweet / raw / grassy (Sweet/Green/Grassy): coffee beans made from fully ripe coffee fruits usually have a natural sweet taste, but coffee beans made from immature fruits have a thin stickiness, raw and grassy flavor, and are generally accompanied by tongue-biting astringency.
Coffee Basics Words related to "tasting"
There was a time when using language as a tool to describe how something tasted often left us speechless. But coffee professionals can use mutually intelligible words-such as flavors of foods and beverages they encounter in everyday life-to help describe what they taste in coffee. The use of such words will make it easier to put coffee
The change of the preference of the traditional roasting mode of coffee roasting
Like many other things associated with cultural differences, in the past, there was a special preference for coffee bean baking, but this phenomenon is becoming less and less obvious nowadays. As for the reasons why people prefer a particular baking model, it probably has something to do with the time they live in and the area where they live. We can make regional comparisons on this topic.
The most basic factors that affect the taste of coffee from cinnamon baking to coke
The most important factor affecting the taste of coffee is roasting. In the case of the same raw coffee bean, at different degrees of baking, it may taste full of grass, or it may produce an empty baking flavor, either sour, bright, or dry; sometimes it will bake a full consistency, or taste delicious, round, bitter to sweet, or even
Coffee Roaster Large Industrial Roaster
After the American Civil War, coffee beans first appeared packaged for sale on shelves in major cafe systems. By the end of World War II, the dominant commodity in the North American coffee market was pre-roasted coffee beans/pre-ground coffee powder made by large roasters, and this type of high-volume roasting technology with centralized and standardized requirements was called coffee.
Common sense of coffee roaster used in coffee shop
Coffee shop bean dryers, retail bean dryers, and small bean dryers are all medium to small bean dryers, which are often used in coffee shops during wartime. Before the early 20th century, most of their coffee beans were made by bean roasters in such cafes, as long as they were not baked at home, but by the early 1950s, large baking plants and pre-ground
Home baking utensils household baking appliances
At the beginning of the history of coffee, there were only household bean baking utensils in the world. These bean baking utensils were standard accessories in ordinary people's kitchens until the early 20th century. 16th century: the simple construction tool of the Iraqi baking pot is to move the pot to a heat source on a small fire or coal fire and stand on its feet on a long handle.
The style and uniqueness of a small cafe
In many ways, Starbucks combines the idealism of quality considerations in the boutique coffee movement, as well as strong corporate strength and discipline. But Starbucks doesn't represent the whole coffee world! At least in the 21 century, Starbucks lacked the style and uniqueness of general regional cafes, which baked and sold what they thought.
The Social Evolution of Coffee roasting: renewed attention to quality
All in all, let's look back at the social evolution of coffee roasting and then see the amazing evolution of the twentieth century. Although pre-baked coffee beans / pre-ground coffee powder marketed by brands were very popular in industrialized European and American countries in the first half of the 20th century, the tradition of fresh baking at home persisted. In southern Europe, until 1960.
Taste is supreme: we won't know until we taste it.
Maybe you are very patient to follow the steps mentioned above, or maybe you simply skip the direct operation. No matter which of the two you are, you will find that the application of these instruments can evolve from the baking method that relies entirely on the baker's own intuitive system (memory and sensory nerve conduction) to more complex but more accurate data.
Coffee bean baking common sense science is quietly integrated into art
What people think is the most important sense of art and sensory judgment is gradually replaced by science and tools, in other words, the memories that people used to rely on in baking are gradually replaced by objective, collective data and charts. The evolution of baking described in the previous paragraph has been created by the invention of many tools and control instruments. The first is a very simple device that can
General knowledge of roasting of coffee beans electrothermal baking technology
Electricity was only used to drive the rollers of traditional drum dryers and blowers and cooling fans at the end of the 19th century, but it was not an effective source of heat for large-scale baking at that time. Any chef knows that the rate at which electricity is converted into heat is much lower than that at which gas is converted into heat; in addition, the price of gas is much cheaper than electricity. Just from here.
Innovative baking technology in the 20th century: the baking method using purely hot air flow
Innovative baking technology in the 20th century: pure use of hot air baking, of course, how could there be no innovative baking technology in this era of the twentieth century? In the middle of the twentieth century, there were two major milestones in the evolution from direct and indirect fire baking to hot air baking. In 1934, Garbeth Burns developed a machine called Thermalo
Enjoy doing clumsy things: baking technology in the 19th century
Is it the change of science and technology, the change of society, or the change of society that promotes the change of science and technology? There is no clear answer to this question. But what we can be sure of is that the two have been moving forward at the same time, transforming coffee roasting in the 19th century from a large-scale, private form to a large-scale enterprise that uses advertising and mass marketing skills.