coffee.md

Coffee ☕️

• it's a fruit 🍒like a cherry, but we care about bean more than about cherry
• types
  • Arabica
    • soft, sour, fruity, healthier
    • grows in high altitude (600m and up)
    • 80% of world production
  • Robusta
    • cheaper, lower quality, bitter
    • 2x more coffein, 20% of world production
    • 8-9 months to grow
• Cascara coffee cherry tea 1kg = 1000kc = 40€

Harvest

• Dry or also know as Natural - on African "bed", 3-5 weeks
• Pulped-natural
• Washed or wet - most popular, requires a lot of water obviously

Roasting

• Has a significant influence to taste.
• 180-240℃

Storing

• roasted coffee should be consumed up to 4 months after roasting
• opened bag consume in one week
• coffee in grinder should be consumed in two hours
• grinded coffee consume immediately
• at room temperature

Espresso

• 88-93℃ temperature
• 9 bar pressure
• 25-35ml of water
• 8-10g of coffee (depends on a type)
• 20-30s time (depends on a graining)
  • coarse-grained - water goes through it faster
  • fine-grained - water goes slowly

Coffee vs café

Local cafe serves fantastic coffee

Preparation

Filtered

• 36g of coffee
• 500ml water

Is Coffee healthy?

This 2017 meta-study of 201 other studies conclude

Coffee consumption seems generally safe within usual levels of intake, with summary estimates indicating largest risk reduction for various health outcomes at three to four cups a day, and more likely to benefit health than harm. Robust randomized controlled trials are needed to understand whether the observed associations are causal. Importantly, outside of pregnancy, existing evidence suggests that coffee could be tested as an intervention without significant risk of causing harm. Women at increased risk of fracture should possibly be excluded.

• http://www.bmj.com/content/359/bmj.j5024

In other words - if you drink coffee (without sugar or milk), drink max 3 cups per day. If you don't, there is no need to start with drinking it.