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Coffee knowledge Coffee Preservation skills

Coffee knowledge Coffee Preservation skills

With the increase of time and processing procedures, the life of coffee will be reduced; the appropriate storage method can prolong the shelf life of coffee. Coffee should be stored in a dry, cool place, not in the refrigerator, so as not to absorb moisture. Coffee beans and ground coffee can be frozen. The only thing to note is that when you take coffee out of the freezer, you need to

Coffee knowledge Coffee roasted good coffee and bad coffee

Coffee knowledge Coffee roasted good coffee and bad coffee

Friends who know nothing about coffee often ask what kind of coffee is the best. Is it Blue Mountain? Generally speaking, your favorite coffee is good coffee. The answer is, of course, based on quality. Whether you like Thai rice or fragrant rice, or northeast rice, first of all, the rice must be of high quality, preferably new rice, moth-free, no impurities, and the same is true of coffee. Then I

The roasting method of coffee encyclopedia coffee

The roasting method of coffee encyclopedia coffee

Why do coffee beans need to be roasted? Coffee will be fascinated by people, the key lies in the aroma formed after baking and the taste and flavor when drinking. The taste of raw coffee beans is described as the smell of soil or grass, but baking is like magic, which completely changes and reorganizes the internal substances of raw coffee beans to form a new structure and form a strong and mellow flavor. But

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Preservation of roasted coffee beans

Preservation of roasted coffee beans

The preservation of coffee beans is one of the controllable factors in the taste of a cup of coffee. Matters needing attention in preservation: 1. Try to buy fresh coffee, usually one-way valve packaging, please pay attention to the production date on the packaging, of course, the closer to the purchase date, the better. It is recommended to buy half a pound of packaging, even if you need a pound of beans. Because it can prolong the shelf life of coffee properly without opening the package. two。 open

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Baked beans

Baked beans

If-you also want to try to bake your own coffee at home, but it costs money to buy a home roaster and it takes time to make a milk powder can roaster; is there a way to experience the fun of coffee baking right away without spending money and time? Of course there is! As long as you have a kitchen (pan, gas stove) and a bag of raw coffee beans in your hand, you can join your own baked coffee at any time.

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Roasting and frying of coffee determines the aroma of coffee

Roasting and frying of coffee determines the aroma of coffee

Frying determines the aroma of coffee to fry raw coffee beans, which can show the unique color, taste and aroma of coffee. 80% of the taste of coffee is determined by frying, so the quality of coffee also depends on frying technology. Through frying, we can turn the light green raw coffee beans into the familiar tea-brown coffee beans. If fried well, the coffee beans will have a lot of aroma, sour taste and

Sep 28, 2014 223 views #Coffee roasting #coffee knowledge
Coffee common sense family roasted coffee beans

Coffee common sense family roasted coffee beans

We can indeed bake coffee in our iron pans, which is actually what people in many European countries are doing. What you need is a light frying pan with a sealed lid, and of course you can pick a heavy one if you want to do an aerobic workout; and gas / electric stove, oven thermometer, tablespoon, metal sieve pan for cooling and insulating gloves. In order to make

Methods and principles of coffee roasting

Methods and principles of coffee roasting

The raw coffee beans are fried to make the coffee beans show a unique coffee color, aroma and taste. The most important thing of frying and baking is to be able to stir-fry the inside and outside of the beans evenly without overscorching. 80% of the taste of coffee depends on roasting, which is the most important and basic condition for making good coffee. The basic principle of ● fried culture the most important thing is to be able to stir-fry the inside and outside of the beans evenly.

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Coffee encyclopedia freshness is the life of coffee

Coffee encyclopedia freshness is the life of coffee

Freshness is the life of coffee how to determine the freshness of coffee beans there are three steps: smell, see, peel. Smell: put the coffee beans close to the nose, smell deeply, whether you can clearly smell the aroma of coffee beans, if so, it means that the coffee beans are fresh enough. On the contrary, if the aroma is weak, or if the smell is already greasy (like peanuts or nuts for a long time)

Coffee knowledge teaches you how to choose coffee beans

Coffee knowledge teaches you how to choose coffee beans

Freshness is the life of coffee, how to determine the freshness of coffee beans? There are three steps: smell, look and peel. Smell: Put the coffee beans close to the nose and smell them deeply. Is it possible to clearly smell the aroma of the coffee beans? If it is, it means that the coffee beans are fresh enough. On the contrary, if the aroma is weak, or has begun to appear greasy, it means that the coffee beans are completely stale.

Coffee knowledge Coffee Preservation

Coffee knowledge Coffee Preservation

The storage of coffee beans directly affects the quality of coffee beans, especially for coffee beginners, how to preserve your beloved beans, here are several ways to recommend the preservation of coffee beans. ◎ makes good use of the specific gravity of carbon dioxide as far as gas is concerned, the specific gravity of carbon dioxide is higher than that of gas. Therefore, in the same sealed space, carbon dioxide precipitates at the bottom and air floats at the top. Understood

Packaging of Coffee Encyclopedia Coffee beans

Packaging of Coffee Encyclopedia Coffee beans

Flexible non-airtight packaging: this is the most economical one. It is usually used by local small baking plants because they can guarantee rapid supply and coffee beans can be consumed in time. Coffee beans in this way can only be preserved for a short time. Usually no more than a week. Airtight packaging: suitable for bars, shelves or families, mainly in small bags and cans, coffee is vacuum and sealed after being packed. Due to

Coffee knowledge Coffee roasting procedure

Coffee knowledge Coffee roasting procedure

Coffee roasting is the coking of raw coffee beans at high temperature. Roasting completely changes the substances inside the raw beans to produce new compounds, which are recombined to form aroma and mellow flavor. And this effect will only happen at high temperature, if you only use low temperature, it will not cause decomposition, no matter how long the coffee beans are not cooked. Most people think that baking is nothing, just using firefighters.

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Coffee is roasted at home

Coffee is roasted at home

The reason for roasting coffee beans at home is reliable, economical and golden. When the author published the first edition of this book in 1996, roasting coffee beans at home was something that only tireless coffee addicts would do. At that time, roasting coffee beans was very difficult to master, and roasters had to work hard to find a way to make coffee.

Pictured coffee roasting process wizard

Pictured coffee roasting process wizard

Naked eye observation as one of the methods to determine the roasting degree of coffee beans is very limited when used alone. If it is supplemented by the judgment of burst sound and the discrimination of fragrance, quite accurate results can be obtained. But the world of coffee is full of surprises and rarely conventional, and explosive Sumatra is often mistaken for urban baking. On the other hand, the color of some coffee beans after roasting will look better than that of actual roasting.

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Baking trilogy

Baking trilogy

Since there are more self-made coffee, I gradually feel that whether the roasted beans are fresh or not is very important. I live in Kunming, which produces Yunnan small-grain coffee, so I try to roast my own coffee and start my roasting trilogy. First, I use stainless steel wire spoon baking, feel better than using iron pot copy baking effect, baking depth is more uniform, but hard and tiring. And because of the poor thermal insulation of the steel wire spoon

The best preservation method of coffee beans in Coffee Encyclopedia

The best preservation method of coffee beans in Coffee Encyclopedia

Coffee is a fresh food, as long as it comes into contact with the air, it is easy to oxidize, so it is common to buy good coffee beans, but because of the large amount of coffee, these beans will lose their original baking flavor within the preservation limit. Therefore, it is wise to buy the right amount and finish the cooking within the expiration date. If you can, you'd better buy it at one time so that you can finish it within a week.

Bake your own fine coffee beans

Bake your own fine coffee beans

Freshness and best flavor the flavor of coffee beans is the best on the first day after baking, after which the flavor of coffee beans will decay brutally and rapidly. Because after baking, the coffee bean itself will release carbon dioxide to prevent the attack of oxidation, but after the period of carbon dioxide emission, the meticulous coffee flavor oil will be oxidized and stale.

Sep 28, 2014 113 views #Roasted boutique coffee beans
Coffee bean roasting process

Coffee bean roasting process

Native beans from Tanzania, Costa Rica, Kenya, Indonesia and other places. Today's roasting is a roaster bought a year ago by mocha beans from the port of Mocha. with it, the roasted coffee will be full of fragrance, weigh 1.5kg of coffee beans, carefully pour them into the input machine and start to rotate regularly. The temperature in the furnace is as high as 100200 degrees Celsius, and we begin to observe every minute.

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