Keep Fresh Coffee Beans Fresh
If you enjoy an espresso drink at home and took the plunge and purchased a pricey quality espresso machine such as the Gaggia Platinum Vision so you can have a latte or cappuccino anytime you would like the next challenge is how to keep your fresh beans fresh.
The whole purpose for having a quality machine at home is freshness. Each espresso is brewed individually with the correct quantity of ground beans to achieve an excellent drink.
Green coffee beans will keep their flavor for years but unfortunately once the beans are roasted the coffee begins to lose flavor as soon as a week after roasting. Once the coffee is ground it will begin losing flavor in an hour and worse yet after it is brewed it loses flavor within minutes.
You might be wondering at this point how to make sure the beans stay fresh? Well right or wrong here is what I do. First I only fill the bean hopper of my platinum vision espresso machine with enough beans to last me a couple of days at a time. The extra beans I put into an airtight container and pop them into the freezer. Many people have problems with this method but it has worked for me. You just don’t want to have a huge back stock in there. You don’t use the refrigerator for storing because of the moisture and smells that the beans will take on, the freezer works best.
When I have a need to thaw the frozen beans I take a little quantity of beans lets say 5 days worth and place them into a container and put them in a cool dry place.
Storing my beans in this way lets me have an adequate amount of fresh beans to use with my Gaggia Platinum Vision espresso machine.
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