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Positive Practices for Preserving Bagged Coffee Beans:

"Only open the packaging before use and use it all at once!"

Most coffee books have little disagreement when it comes to purchasing coffee beans: "It must be fresh, only buy a week's worth at a time, and preferably buy from stores with high sales volume." These conditions are all necessary, but how were the coffee beans stored before they reached your hands? Currently, the coffee roasting industry's main customers are business clients. To meet the随时 needs of business clients, large quantities of roasted coffee beans must be stocked, and sometimes this means dozens of bags, each weighing dozens of kilograms. How should these be stored? Can you find a coffee roaster who only does retail?

If a coffee merchant cannot properly store these coffee beans from the time of roasting until they are sold, what's the point of finding a coffee supplier that meets the above conditions?

Many large-scale manufacturers have realized this point, so various packaging methods such as vacuum bags, breathable bags, and nitrogen-filled packaging are widely used in coffee packaging, claiming that such packaging can maintain quality for several months to one or two years. Especially breathable bags with one-way valves claim to prevent oxidation. However, from the moment you bring such coffee home and open the packaging, all the perfect packaging dissipates as the coffee comes into contact with air! Especially those coffees that have been away from roasting time for longer deteriorate faster. Yes, since coffee left the roaster, it has been quietly deteriorating. All packaging can at best maintain the quality at the time of packaging, so even if you carefully maintain this can of coffee, its quality cannot meet your expectations!

Preserving bagged coffee beans has conditional limitations. Whatever method you use to preserve coffee, you must pay the corresponding price and will get the corresponding quality of coffee!

The most positive practice for preserving bagged coffee beans is: "Only open the packaging before use and use it all at once!"

Whenever consumers ask me how to preserve coffee beans, I always suggest they carefully seal the coffee and place it in the freezer door of the refrigerator. When making coffee, take out the required amount and immediately return the remaining coffee to its original position. This method uses the concept of "low-temperature freezing" to slow down the oxidation of coffee, which can usually extend the preservation period of coffee by more than double. However, the process of taking out and putting in still cannot avoid temperature changes, so if possible, it's best to "portion" the coffee in individual plastic bags, then use a plastic bag sealer to seal them and store them in the refrigerator freezer. When using, only take out one portion, while the rest continues to be stored. Although this method requires considerable effort, it can significantly extend the life of the coffee, but most people are deterred by these complicated procedures! Besides this method, I can't think of any other way to properly preserve the original flavor of coffee.

The manufacturer that most thoroughly applies this concept is Nestlé Company; Nestlé Coffee introduced a home espresso machine called Nespresso, where single-serving portions of coffee powder are hidden in exquisitely crafted and dazzling aluminum containers called "aluminum capsules." The colorful "aluminum capsules" are quite lovely and somewhat irresistible to put down. When making coffee, put the "aluminum capsule" into the handle, insert it into the machine, press the switch, and a cup of fragrant coffee quickly comes out. I'm not advertising for Nestlé, but these "aluminum capsules" completely explain under what conditions it makes sense to talk about coffee preservation!

At first, when I saw these "aluminum capsules," I only thought the packaging design was very dazzling and easily drew attention to its appearance. Later, after careful consideration, I realized this approach is truly remarkable. Other manufacturers using this concept either use paper packaging with plastic outer bags (like "il y" coffee) or use "plastic capsules" (like "Lavazza" coffee). Only Nestlé Coffee uses "aluminum capsules." The production technology used for these aluminum capsules is very expensive. Besides the considerable cost of the entire production equipment, "aluminum forming" combined with vacuum packaging technology needs to overcome many difficulties. If it weren't for such a world-class manufacturer, they probably wouldn't dare to adopt it (whether it meets environmental concepts is unknown). Moreover, from memory, Nestlé Coffee has always been instant coffee, and besides these "aluminum capsules," they don't produce ground coffee, so I think when Nestlé Coffee launched these "aluminum capsules," they must have tried various packaging methods and adopted this expensive one.

The advantage of this packaging is that the coffee is vacuum-sealed inside the "aluminum capsule." As long as it's not opened, the preservation effect is almost semi-permanent, completely demonstrating the positive approach to coffee preservation. Its only drawback is probably the high price brought about by "portioning." Moreover, using "aluminum capsules" requires a dedicated machine to brew, which significantly increases the cost of drinking coffee. Additionally, the taste of espresso coffee is not universally acceptable, and it's limited by the flavors provided, making it impossible to enjoy the pleasure of brewing single-origin coffee.

Therefore, whatever method you use to preserve coffee, you must pay the corresponding price and will get the corresponding quality of coffee! If you truly demand coffee quality, I can only ask you to "portion" the coffee yourself, or choose coffee packaging with the "portioning" concept! All other methods can only be considered better than nothing!

Bagged Coffee Bean Brand Recommendations

FrontStreet Coffee's freshly roasted single-origin bagged coffee beans offer full guarantees in both brand and quality, suitable for brewing with various equipment. More importantly, they offer extremely high value for money. One half-pound (227 gram) bag costs only around 80-90 yuan. Calculating at 200ml per cup of single-origin coffee with a powder-to-water ratio of 1:15, one package can make 15 cups of specialty coffee, with each cup costing only about 5-6 yuan. Compared to café prices that often run dozens of yuan per cup, this represents extremely high value for money.

FrontStreet Coffee: A roastery in Guangzhou with a small storefront but diverse bean varieties, where you can find various famous and lesser-known beans. They also provide online store service. https://shop104210103.taobao.com

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