Ways To Properly Store Your Coffee
With the price tag that comes with coffee granules nowadays, it isn’t enough that you just place them in a jar and put them on the kitchen table. With the kind of money that you pay for a gourmet coffee granule, it is essential that you learn how to properly store your coffee.
Is there any right in storing ground coffee granules?
Some say that you can freeze them or refrigerate them to prolong life. Others recommend that you put the coffee granules in packets or jars and to seal them as tightly as possible. Others have a different storage advice for whole bean coffee and a different one for a ground coffee granules? Will the storage method matter?
Green beans
For green coffee beans, all you need to do is to just put them inside a tightly-sealed jar and keep them in a location that is cool and dry, this is because they have the best shelf life and they are very easy to store properly store your coffee. If you store them properly, they can last for more than a year.
There are however few people who use green beans perhaps because it is too much work to prepare them. Prior to that you have to grind and roast them first before you can actually be able to drink. This isn’t perfect with people who are used to instant mixes.
Store Fresh Coffee Beans
A roasted whole bean’s shelf life is much better than those that aren’t roasted. It is not impossible for a roasted whole bean to last for about 1 to 2 weeks. Even so it is essential to keep fresh coffee beans in standard room temperature and be sealed in an air-tight containers or canister. If it is conceivable, do not use plastic ones but use only glass canisters. This is because using plastic ones the flavor maybe compromised in some way by the plastic material.
Always remember to only utilize dark-colored glass as these beans are not supposed to be exposed to light at any rate. Another good options are ceramic ones. However, metal containers should not be used at all.
Every two to three days open the canister to discharge the gas that is created by the roasted beans if you would like to practise the technique to properly store your coffee. One choice to eradicate the problem of gas is to utilize valve bags, which let the carbon dioxide to escape. However it is not favorable because these bags can be very expensive and hard to find.
It is important to store the coffee in the refrigerator and freeze them if unfortunately your whole bean coffee is still not finished with two weeks. By properly store your coffee like this, the lifespan of the coffee beans is going to be between a month or two. Use a plastic wrap to cover the beans. If you would like to use the beans, just grind them frozen. You can’t use them again if they are thawed.
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September 07 2008 10:37 am | coffee