Showing posts with label coffee quality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coffee quality. Show all posts

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Decrease Your Brew Time With Programmable One Cup Coffee Makers

Programmable one cup coffee makers are a type of coffee maker that is becoming more and more popular not only in the workplace, but in homes as well. Many companies, such as Keurig specialize in this type of coffee maker, and make separate ones for home and office use. Their advantages are many, but they are not necessarily ideal for everyone.

The basics of a one cup coffee maker are simple. You add water to a holding tank, put a single K-cup (the coffee) in the maker, and hit a button. In about 15 seconds, you have a cup of coffee. No clean up, no preparation (other than making sure the maker has enough water) and very little waiting. You don't need to worry about making too much coffee either, since one cup is usually from 5-8 ounces.

The coffee itself comes in what are called k-cups. These contain enough grounds for a single cup of coffee, and are then disposed of after it is made. No measuring is required, and there are a wide variety of flavors to choose from. Previously, only a select few companies made k-cups, but recently more and more coffee makers are adding k-cups to their traditional beans and ground choices, so limited selection is no longer a big issue.

What may be an issue for some is the extra waste one cup brewers create in terms of plastic. Every cup means that you have a plastic cup you'll be throwing away, so instead of having just paper and some used coffee grounds for a few cups, you'll have 3 or 4 used plastic cups. This may be an issue for some, but others may not care.

A more central issue is the question of coffee quality. Many people won't notice much, if any difference, but there is a trade off of quality versus convenience. You cannot grind your own beans prior to brewing, so you may lose some freshness and taste, even though the cups are sealed. You also have less control over coarseness because of this.

On the whole, single cup coffee makers are a great solution for those who may not feel like grinding and preparing beans every time they want coffee. It isn't something for everyone, but for those that just want a quick, no hassle cup, it's a great solution.

Adrian is a coffee drinker who runs a site dedicated to coffee. Check out http://www.fullcoffee.com/showEntry/18/Programmable-One-Cup-Coffee-Maker---Keurig-B50-Ultra-Brewer/ for more information on one cup coffee makers.

http://www.fullcoffee.com/showEntry/18/Programmable-One-Cup-Coffee-Maker---Keurig-B50-Ultra-Brewer/

Monday, September 8, 2008

what is it that interests us so much in the variety of coffee brands

Do coffee brands tell us about coffee quality? How do they manage to enter the market and satisfy customers' needs? The true battle between different coffee brands is fought at the level of business history, special flavors, manufacturing techniques and the relationship price-quality. In time, ever since the introduction of coffee to the Western world, the richness of coffee brands was indisputable, but at the moment, a company needs an incredibly solid name to survive in the business and to gain recognition at the international level.

For instance, one of the most famous coffee brands in the 30s was Eight O'Clock Coffee, but now it faces most serious competition from Nestle for instance. Is the name the only element that differs among coffee brands? Market studies show that there is even a significant caffeine level difference between the products we purchase; right within the same company, two production lines may differ.

Furthermore, laboratory analyses performed for some coffee brands show that even decaffeinated products contain a low level of caffeine in their composition, since a high degree of purity is very difficult to achieve. If some people only use certain coffee brands because they are pleased with the level of quality, there are plenty others who haven't made up their minds yet, and keep changing coffee types.

Little do people know that the very drink that wakes them up in the morning has made a huge journey sometimes twice around the world before getting in their cup. Though we usually associate flavors with coffee brands and the finite product, it would be quite interesting to know that it takes four thousand manually harvested coffee beans to produce one single pound of coffee.

Throughout an entire season, a coffee tree can only give enough beans to make two pounds of roasted coffee; this should tell us something about the complexity of the processes that make coffee brands fight for supremacy on the market.

From the cheapest to the most refined and expensive coffee brands, most companies use primary matter supplied by Brazil, which is the largest coffee producer of the world. The manufacturing processes vary from case to case, however, the most common coffee type made in Brazil uses beans that have been dried in the fruit; moreover the coffee varieties produced here are much sweeter and less acidic than other kinds of coffee cultivated in Africa or Asia.











Tuesday, August 26, 2008

the gather is coffee

Coffee when cooked with full speed ahead have very red resemble cherry the saving hooks cooked coffee will must use person power and pick especial that cooked only. If pluck that unripe stick come to with must select abandon because that unripe when plucked depart cooked never and if bring mix with cooked will make coffee quality is down therefore before or not is lead coffee storage seed has come to change the process washes the agriculturist will must do filtration raw coffee cooked with full speed ahead goes out first all.
Coffee cooked gather in a farm must is hurried make to finish 1 within day arrive at 2 day speak simple must pick cooked race with monkey crowd and bat crowd cooked at drop from by oneself as its nature may be or too cooked neglected go to because coffee seed inside lose with regard to cooked coffee not at the same time make the step in the saving must take time and many labor which sometimes more will pick cooked coffee is finished a farm may must take time arrive at 3 -4 week.
Thus then have to use person labor wait for circulate pick cooked continually until be finished.
Coffee gather in the country where the wage cheap not get into trouble but for the country where have growing coffee very type country Brazil saving coffee cooked problem is a problem rather big and consume many way expenses have person to grow then develop give coffee in cooked farm in the time are just about the same when the agriculturist notices that cooked quantity abounds to arrive at 75-80% will use the machine or person power draw all coffee departs give agree at bishop that have the plastic a supports to keep then pick go to select the dirtiness goes out all coffee part neither cooked or raw will touch induce wash and change the step next by have no filtration abandons.
Coffee gather with this way help give farm owner can decrease the capital in the saving and effective produce all almost but majority produce is will the produce that deteriorates and is cheap.
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