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» How to keep coffee at home

Even the most qualitative and expensive coffee becomes worthless, if it will be kept wrongly.
How to keep coffee correctly, so that it will not lose its flavoring substances?
According to the experts, the first rule is following – coffee should not be kept abroach. If in the morning you open a tin with coffee, in the [...]

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» What Is The Best Temperature For Coffee?

What temperature is appropriate?
One coffee bean contains a hundred of compound organic matters. Some of them are water dissoluble. In usual extraction process According to expert opinion, the best coffee contains 98,4-98,7% of water and 1,3-1,6% of dissolved solids.

By any temperature, water takes all compounds, which contain coffee. But in a hot water [...]

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» How to spoil coffee

Any person, who personally has cooked at least a dozen portions of coffee, could tell for a long time how this process is responsible and labor-intensive. But nobody knows the opposite problem. Namely, how to spoil coffee, because it is a difficult and stiff task for beginners. We do not speak about how to make [...]

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» Coffee: time for gathering

Coffee growing is quite labour-intensive process. The coffee tree is blooming during several months, that is why coffee cherries are ripened in different time. The harvest is protracted for a long time and each tree should be worked up more than once.
The season of coffee harvest in each country is different. For example, in [...]

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» Coffee tips

It turns out that coffee is not only for reading its grounds. It gives a polish to produces made from dark leather. For that you can wrap moist grounds into the woolen rag and wipe leather’s surface.

If you make coffee with strong drinks and you would like to decrease its proof, you can bring a [...]

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» Kinds of coffee

Espresso

Espresso – it is a very strong coffee. It is served without milk in little cups. Espresso in Italian means «express» or «fast».
Espresso has become a basis of coffee recipes. In spite of the fact that invention of this recipe is a merit of the Italians, the first espresso machine was found in [...]

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» Who is barista?

Who is barista? Probably many of you have asked yourselves this question. Even if it becomes clearly what does barista do, the origin of word is still a riddle.
If you look into the dictionary, it will be easily to determine that the word has Italian origin. In Italy (and not only here) barista resembles [...]

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» Coffee on your window-sill

If you have got a coffee sapling, it is quite easy to grow coffee tree in a flat. But growing of these seedlings is connected with a number of difficulties. As I already knew, coffee beans should be planted straight away after harvesting. So I got two berries, peeled them from outer red skin, washed [...]

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» Types of coffee packages

Coffee is a freak product. Especially it concerns its storing, which working time depends on the package. How coffee should be packed for better shelf life?
The main purpose of coffee package – do not let oxygen to the beans. Entering into chemical reaction with oxygen, fats, which are contained in coffee beans, are oxidized. That [...]

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» Coffee contents

Raw coffee beans contain more than 2000 different substances like proteins, carbohydrates, fats and mineral salt. By roasting its chemistry is considerably changed.
The nutrition value of real coffee (100 g. of drink without sugar) is: proteins – 0,2 g., fats – 0,6 g., carbohydrates – 0,1 g., calcium – to 9 mg., phosphorus – [...]

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