Gourmet Coffee the Perfect Recipe
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Destry Masterson
Destry Masterson is a health, fitness and nutrition expert. She has written articles about diet, exercise and food storage.
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Published on 01/9/2012
How to get the best coffee in the world, without traveling to Seattle, Colombia or Brazil. It is easy to make great coffee as long as you know about the bean.
It is a magical little drink that not only gets better every single time that you taste it (because of the addictive quality of caffeine) but it also provides a nice little head rush (also on account of the caffeine). Coffee is the major uncle to hot chocolate, it is the mother of the sweet daughter cappuccino, and it is the father of all breakfast drinks to ever exist.
The first few times you drink coffee as an independent, free spirited adolescent you will probably dilute the purity of the bean through excessive sugar and a disproportionate amount of cream, but as you age and your pallet becomes more refined you will start to enjoy the freshness of the bean. Every coffee connoisseur knows that fresh is best.
But, the question is what exactly constitutes fresh? There are two different turning points in the life of a coffee bean: the first is when it is baked, and the second is when it is aged.
After the coffee bean is aged, approximately thirty days after it is baked, it loses almost all of its aromatic quality and along with that a great deal of flavor. This is what makes bad coffee, or as the connoisseur would say "stale coffee".
Stale coffee has very little flavor left in it, not because the beans were grown wrong or anything like that, but just because they have been sitting on the shelf for too long. Coffee is not like wine, it is much more like French fries.
The fresher the better, the best time to get coffee is within a three day window of the baking. That is only if you are not going to bake them yourself.
Within those three days the beans will hold all of their fresh flavor after the bake, and this is supposed to be the most delicious window of opportunity in all the world of coffee. Though, the baking process only takes about thirty minutes and is very easy.
To make your own homemade coffee, all you need is a cookie pan, a coffee grinder, and a coffee maker. Every three days or so bake a few beans, put them in an air tight bag, and enjoy the freshest coffee on the planet.
Though this only works if you are purchasing beans that have not been baked. There are many pre-baked beans at grocery stores all over, but these generally are not gourmet just for the fact that they have long since expired living out their overdrawn shelf life.
The first few times you drink coffee as an independent, free spirited adolescent you will probably dilute the purity of the bean through excessive sugar and a disproportionate amount of cream, but as you age and your pallet becomes more refined you will start to enjoy the freshness of the bean. Every coffee connoisseur knows that fresh is best.
But, the question is what exactly constitutes fresh? There are two different turning points in the life of a coffee bean: the first is when it is baked, and the second is when it is aged.
After the coffee bean is aged, approximately thirty days after it is baked, it loses almost all of its aromatic quality and along with that a great deal of flavor. This is what makes bad coffee, or as the connoisseur would say "stale coffee".
Stale coffee has very little flavor left in it, not because the beans were grown wrong or anything like that, but just because they have been sitting on the shelf for too long. Coffee is not like wine, it is much more like French fries.
The fresher the better, the best time to get coffee is within a three day window of the baking. That is only if you are not going to bake them yourself.
Within those three days the beans will hold all of their fresh flavor after the bake, and this is supposed to be the most delicious window of opportunity in all the world of coffee. Though, the baking process only takes about thirty minutes and is very easy.
To make your own homemade coffee, all you need is a cookie pan, a coffee grinder, and a coffee maker. Every three days or so bake a few beans, put them in an air tight bag, and enjoy the freshest coffee on the planet.
Though this only works if you are purchasing beans that have not been baked. There are many pre-baked beans at grocery stores all over, but these generally are not gourmet just for the fact that they have long since expired living out their overdrawn shelf life.