Want More Flavourful Coffee? Keep Your Beans In The Fridge
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The theories on how to make great-tasting coffee are never ending, but for once, science has given us a pretty simple solution: Instead of storing coffee beans in your cupboard, put them in the fridge.
In collaboration with a local cafe, the University of Bath studied the effects of grinding beans at different temperatures - from room temperature all the way down to -196 C.
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According to the study, now published in Scientific Reports, the particles within coffee beans get tighter as the temperature gets lower, so we get more flavour from the same number of beans during the brewing process.
“What you’re looking for is a grind that has the smallest difference between the smallest and largest particle,” noted Christopher Hendon, chemistry PhD student at the University of Bath.
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“If you have small grinds you can push flavor extraction upwards.
“We found that chilling the beans tightens up this process and can give higher extractions with less variance in the flavor—so you would have to brew it for less time or could get more coffee from the same beans.”
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Sounds like Christopher knows his stuff, so beans in the fridge it is, then.
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