Déjà-Brew: How Coffee Got Bad, Then Worse, and, Finally, Good Again
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Coffee Roasting - The First Crack
The first crack happens when steam and carbon diox id build up enough pressure that they literally blow up the plant cells. Roast can take anywhere between eight to 50 minutes. In 19 72, mister coffee made his debut on the american counter topmasto coffee time tasted coffee way. Back in the fifties and sixties, where we left off, the roasts were super dark. People were still using their home percolators, which over extracted the coffee. When you re- heat coffee, you're evaporating a lot of compound that heet do swalta does. And then bitter molecules get the chance to break down into tonic water so it tastes even
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