Coffee is essentially a plant drink, similar to a special "bean" pulp, and has the reputation of "Arabian wine"!

However, it is the second largest cash crop in the world, and the total transaction volume is second only to oil, and it is also an alternative "crop". For example, Brazil is the country with the highest coffee production in the world.

Ps: According to the law of Turkey, a big coffee consuming country, if the husband can't provide his wife with a certain amount of coffee, the wife can have the right to divorce.

In fact, coffee is a beverage obtained by baking, grinding and boiling raw beans; Whether it is good or not depends on the variety of origin, the flavor of coffee and the method of making it.

The variety of origin, popular science, coffee beans are actually the dry core of coffee cherries, which is basically equivalent to the cherry core of dried cherries.

Coffee tree is a perennial evergreen shrub or small tree of Rubiaceae, which likes volcanic ash and acidic soil, from seedling to flowering and fruiting? About 2? -? 3? A few years.

It originated in Africa and was developed and planted by Arabs in the Middle East. Nowadays, the famous coffee belt refers to the high-altitude area with the equator as the central axis and the latitude of 25 degrees between north and south. The water and soil climate is suitable for growing coffee.

Especially coffee, "high altitude means high quality", which is very picky about the harsh growth environment;

But 99%? Domestic coffee is produced in Yunnan, including Dehong, Baoshan, Pu 'er and Lincang. The coffee produced is mellow in taste and balanced in flavor, with the aroma of nuts, caramel and chocolate.

But in the world, native coffee beans are mainly divided into: Arabica? Arabica (low in bitterness, high in sweetness and acidity, and diverse in flavor, belonging to "sour coffee"), Robusta? Robusta (altitude? 900? Planting below meters has strong disease resistance, high yield and low price), which is beneficial to Bilika? Liberica (minority, only accounting for? 3%~5%)。

The first step of baking process is roughly divided into: sun exposure (non-water washing), water washing and semi-water washing? , honey juice treatment, Sumatra wet planing, etc.

In Ethiopia, Indonesia, Brazil, Yemen and other producing areas, most coffee beans are sun-treated; Water washing is a mixture of sun exposure and water washing.

Especially when it comes to honey treatment, the key lies in the treatment of pectin layer in coffee fruit, and the metaphor of the special image of pectin layer is honey treatment.

Subsequently, the baking process: drying-dehydration-first explosion-second explosion-end;

Tip: gas explosion refers to the phenomenon that coffee beans expand when heated, producing a large amount of gas to break through the cell wall and make beans burst.

But it can be divided into light roasting (light brown, with prominent sour taste), medium roasting (less oily and slightly sweet) and deep roasting (oily and shiny, with the taste of nuts, chocolate and caramel).

Hey! Everyone should have heard of "cat excrement coffee", right? But coffee like shit is more expensive!

This may be considered as a biological baking method. Coffee beans are fed to a cat called civet, so that the cat's stomach can digest the peel and pulp of the coffee fruit. Coffee beans are excreted through feces because they cannot be digested by cats, hence the name cat excrement coffee, which is produced in Indonesia and the Philippines.

Combination of brewing and cooking

"How about making a good cup of coffee? 60%? Depending on the quality of raw coffee beans, 30%? Relying on coffee baking skills, 10%? Relying on appropriate brewing methods. "

Recommended common collocation:

Deep baked beans? -? Italian concentration? -? Heavy taste? -? Caramel nut fragrance;

Shallow baked beans? -? Hand washing and drip filtration? -? Green tea feeling? -? Bright flowers and fruits are fragrant.

Finally, I secretly called you. There is also a chain of contempt in the coffee industry: hand-brewed coffee? & gt？ Freshly ground coffee >? Capsule coffee? & gt？ Instant coffee > Instant coffee!