Coffee Technology
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Classic fancy Hot Coffee (1)
Irish coffee ingredients: 140ml hot black coffee, two cubes of sugar, Irish Whiskey 15ml, a little whipped cream, cream and chocolate. Utensils: 1 set of Irish coffee rack, 1 sugar clip, a few matches. Making method: (1) pour Irish Whiskey and coffee cube sugar into a special Irish coffee stove and turn the cup clockwise when heated over low heat to make love.
Coffee flower drawing-- an art that people can't bear to eat.
Coffee for cloth, milk for ink, coffee flower is not only a technology, but also an art that people can't bear to eat.
Tell me how to make a good cup of coffee.
Three principles of blending coffee beans
The way Arabs roast coffee beans
Since the Arabs discovered the coffee beans, the first way to eat them is to put the whole fruit of the coffee into the mouth and chew it to get its juice.
Teach you to make black coffee conveniently and quickly.
If you have prepared the coffee powder and the corresponding equipment, then you can start making the simplest coffee-black coffee.
How to make Turkish coffee
The coffee beans are deeply roasted and ground into a very fine powder. Turkish coffee requires the finest of all kinds of bubble methods, requiring very fine grinding, and the intuitive standard is to be finer than flour. Then mix the spices such as cloves, cardamom and cinnamon. Then put 100ml of cold water in the Turkish coffee pot. Then add about 10 grams of coffee powder. 100ml water + 10g powder is the golden ratio of a cup of coffee.
Initial processing and roasting of coffee
The harvest time is different in different countries and regions. The harvest process requires a lot of manpower, especially high-quality selected coffee, which can only pick fully ripe red coffee cherries.
Drying method for processing fresh coffee beans
The drying method, also known as the natural method, is the oldest and simplest and does not require any machines.
Hand-brewed coffee to experience the original taste of coffee beans
[basic equipment]. Hand flush pot: the water should be fine. two。 Filter paper: make a cup of about 100cc-130cc, use 101filter paper. Make 2 to 3 cups and use 102 filter paper. Make 3 to 5 cups and use 103 filter paper. 3. Filter cup: determine the size according to the number of cups you often flush, and the material can be ceramic, resin, acrylic or copper filter cup. 4. Bottom glass pot: as long as it is a transparent container, it can match the size of the filter cup
The skill of making coffee
The choice of water for brewing coffee should be pure water, pure water, magnetized water, distilled water, instead of mineral water. Ordinary tap water with better quality is also fine, but the initial tap water in the morning, the water stored the day before and the water boiled for the second time should be avoided as far as possible. It is best to use water purifier or activated carbon filtered water to avoid impurities and odors in the water. The choice of sugar, coffee.
Two essentials and eight stages of roasting coffee
Stir-frying raw coffee beans 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.
Greek coffee brewing and tasting methods
At present, Greek coffee or Turkish coffee is not common in Taiwan, and its taste can be mainly divided into bitter (Skaito), slightly sweet (Metrio) and sweet (Gligi), these three flavors.
The common way of roasting coffee
Coffee will be fascinated by people, the key lies in the aroma formed after baking and the taste and flavor when drinking.
The harvest of coffee
From the coffee-producing countries, we can find that since almost all coffee is produced in countries with more cheap labor, it can be guessed that the process of harvesting coffee beans requires a lot of manpower.
Mechanical semi-water washing of coffee beans
Not all producing areas can use the Brazilian half-sun method. If the producing area with heavy moisture is allowed to take out the pectin pods and expose them outdoors, it is not only not easy to be dehydrated and hard, but also easy to parasitize molds. Therefore, mechanical semi-washing has been developed in areas with heavy humidity, which saves both labor and water. First, move the red fruit and the half-green and half-red fruit into the pulp sieving machine to get the sticky fruit.
Processing of coffee beans before grinding
First, peeling: the peel and most of the pulp are removed mechanically. Second, fermentation third, drying fourth, roasting: coffee raw beans can release the special aroma of coffee through roasting. Each coffee bean contains its aroma, sour taste, sweetness and bitterness. How to release it incisively and vividly depends on the heat of its baking, from the insipid raw beans to the aftertaste of the cup.
The trick of coffee flower drawing
1 milking: the most important technique, although not very advanced, but requires a long time of practice, requires fine and smooth milk foam, do not have large foam. 2 milking angle: it is best to milk at an angle of 45 degrees with the steam sprinkler, depending on the thickness of the foam according to the fluctuation. Three hearts!
Methods and secrets of coffee grinding
According to the size of coffee beans, the grinding methods can be divided into rough grinding, medium grinding and fine grinding. Use the appropriate grinding method according to the coffee utensils. There is also medium fine grinding or finer and finer grinding than fine grinding (powdered coffee powder).
Roasting degree and characteristics of coffee
From the point of view of the baking degree, the deeper the baking degree, the stronger the bitter taste; the lighter the baking degree, the stronger the sour taste. The choice of baking degree depends on the characteristics of the coffee bean itself. for coffee beans with strong bitterness and light sour taste, they generally choose a moderate and shallow roasting degree.
This paper introduces the "manual baking" method of using hand filter screen.
1. Buy a filter with a handle. The best choice of raw coffee beans is Central and South America series (Peru. Cuba. Mexico. Brazil and other real estate), the book is more suitable for beginners. Pick out the weak beans by hand to ensure the quality of the city. two。 Put 100 grams of raw beans into a strainer with a handle and close the lid. Stir-fry over medium heat to keep the heat stable, hold the strainer at the top of the fire about 20ml / ml 30cm, reverse