Roasted coffee is coffee that is selected from the best coffee beans, through the roasting and grinding process, to produce a coffee product without impurities such as beans, corn, starch or other additives and flavorings. During the roasting process, butter and alcohol can be added and aged under certain temperature conditions.

Roasted coffee is a general term for only high quality coffee, ground on the spot – at the point of sale to distinguish it from poor quality coffee with impurities. The process must be clean from the care, harvesting to processing steps to ensure that there are no harmful chemicals. Let's find out with Huongmai through the article below.

Distinguishing pure roasted coffee           

Water color                                    

One of the distinguishing points for pure roasted coffee is that after mixing the water color, the color will be from cockroach brown to dark brown, when ice or milk is added to this brown color will fade. Clear brown water is not completely opaque black because most of these products have impurities such as beans, popcorn seeds.

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This is one of the visually recognizable differences because no matter how burnt the coffee is after the roasting process, the water color when brewing is not completely black.

Taste

Roasted and ground coffee will have a characteristic flavor that is hard to confuse. The blend of natural bitterness and sourness brings sophistication to the taste buds, and at the same time, the aroma is gentle, not too passionate, as strong as when mixing flavorings. Recognizing pure roasted coffee through taste and aroma also requires experience.

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When it comes to the consistency of pure roasted coffee, it won't be much, just a little bit better than water, not at all, it's not a slurry, thick, sticky... In this case, the roasted coffee has been crushed mix more impurities such as cornstarch, roasted bean powder.

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Foam layer

The top layer of foam when making a cup of pure roasted coffee only creates a little brown foam, which is slightly bright and quickly dissolves, and for roasted and ground coffee products with impurities, there will be a layer of iridescent foam. When beaten, the glass will be full and it will take a long time to melt, looking good, this is not a natural foam but a soap foam.

Mass       

Because pure roasted coffee powder has a smaller specific gravity than other cereal powders, the volume fraction of 1kg of pure roasted coffee powder will be larger than that of mixed roasted coffee and this can be easily distinguished visually.

What kind of roasted coffee is good?

The enjoyment and opinion of how good roasted coffee is depends on each person's taste. For example, a person who is used to using Arabica roasted coffee when switching to enjoying Robusta roasted coffee will feel quite shocked when the smell is less fragrant as well as more bitter, the caffeine is also higher, making the body restless.

In contrast, when a person who has used Robusta roasted coffee for a while, switching to enjoying Arabica roasted coffee will feel that the coffee is lighter, has a sour taste, and drinks less "coffee".

In addition to coffee with a more unique taste, users often mix nuts together in certain proportions for a special flavor. In short, each type of roasted coffee such as Robusta, Arabica, Culi, Moka or weasel coffee... has its own taste and the delicious evaluation depends on the taste of each person. Therefore, if possible, enjoy through roasted and ground coffee to have the opportunity to experience and make your own judgment.

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How to make delicious roasted coffee     

There are many ways to make roasted and ground coffee and it depends on how each person prepares it. However, there will be a few points you need to keep in mind to make a good cup of roasted coffee, specifically:

The optimal ratio of water and coffee is still 3 parts water and 1 part roasted coffee. It is advisable to prepare a super-speed kettle to save time when making, and at the same time it is advisable to let it cool down to about 80% before starting to pour it into the filter.

If you like sweet, you can add a little rock sugar, powdered sugar, condensed milk and stir well before enjoying. In addition, you should prepare a good filter. In addition, if the coffee has just been roasted, it will have a more aromatic and delicious taste when it is prepared because it still retains the flavor.

Note when making roasted coffee   

For some freshly roasted and freshly ground coffee beans, when brewing with a filter you will see a lot of bubbling. This is a normal phenomenon because in fresh coffee there is still some air that has not been released. To prevent foam from coming out of the filter, pour in hot water slowly.

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