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How to properly store an open carton of coffee at home? Top tips from coffee gurus
You bought great coffee, made yourself a couple of cups, pampered yourself with excellent taste and aroma, and put the opened package on the shelf. And literally a few days later, we noticed that those old shades of taste are not so pronounced in your favorite drink, and its aroma is not so persistent and rich. What is happening, you think. Maybe it's just poor quality coffee? No. Most likely the problem lies in the incorrect storage of the opened pack.
The main "enemies" of ground and grain coffee
- Direct sunlight.
- Foreign aromas.
- Excess heat.
- Moisture.
- Oxygen.
If a product has to interact with one or all of the listed factors detrimental to it, it will quickly saturate moisture, damp and deteriorate. In this case, the primary aroma will weaken and fizzle out, and the valuable essential oils responsible for the richness and richness of the taste will evaporate. All this "splendor" is complemented by the presence of extraneous aromas and a meager thin foam.
It is possible to prevent such a depressive, completely unpleasant version of events. Let's start by showing you two general storage methods.
Method number 1: After you have opened the package, coffee beans, however, like ground coffee, should be kept in a room with a comfortable air temperature and humidity. Direct exposure to the rays of the sun is contraindicated (coffee has had time to get enough of them on the plantations).
Method number 2: Due to its porous structure and high absorption capacity, our favorite product perfectly absorbs any extraneous odors. This technique is known both to the most famous perfumers and the most zealous housewives. It is not for nothing that perfume stores always have containers with coffee beans, sniffing, which you can "zero" your sense of smell before the next aroma test.
Well, at home, coffee beans will help you get rid of foreign odors in the refrigerator or in the nightstand. Pour some grains into the "problem area", and after a couple of hours they will greedily absorb all the other smells. Therefore, we strongly recommend that you store coffee separately from other products. Ideally, you can select a separate shelf or storage box.
How to store coffee beans?
In a fireproof safe with a complex combination lock. A joke, of course). There are several options for correct storage:
In an opaque, sealed container. An important design element is the lid, which should fit as tightly as possible and not let air through. By the way, the more grains in such a jar, the less air there is, therefore, if possible, try to keep the container full;
- if you are using a transparent glass container, keep it in a cabinet or nightstand. This is done to avoid direct sunlight;
- factory vacuum packaging with a special valve, for example, like the Italian lavazza coffee, is considered ideal for storage. The check valve is designed to release gas from the grains, but at the same time it does not let air into the pack. To open such a package, simply cut off the top. After you have filled in the right amount of beans, release excess air and firmly clamp the top of the package. Flat clothespins, which can be found in any market, are an excellent device for protecting a product from oxygen, moisture and insidious rays of light.
By following one of these simple tips, you can preserve the primary taste and aroma of freshly roasted beans in an open pack for up to two weeks. In unopened original packaging, the product can be stored for 1 to 3 years.
The art of storing ground coffee
Some particularly demanding gourmets believe that the ground product is not stored at all. This position, of course, has the right to life, but it is very wasteful. Not everyone will be able to buy coffee, drink it a couple of times, and throw away the unspent leftovers. Various containers are suitable for storing the ground product:
- glass;
- ceramic;
- tin.
The main rule that should be followed when choosing a storage container is its degree of tightness. Under such conditions, coffee will retain its color, freshness, taste, aroma and flowability for 7-8 days.
Fridge and freezer storage: pros and cons
This option is fiercely debated by two camps of adherents. Some say that due to the high humidity in the refrigerator, the essential oils that are responsible for the aroma of the finished drink are destroyed very quickly. In the freezer, the process of "flowing out" of aromatic oils is inhibited, so coffee molecules retain their original structure for a long time.
But there is one thing, but if you often open the freezer, moisture will still penetrate to the product, saturate and destroy it. Therefore, adherents of storage in the "home North" suggest storing coffee in the freezer in small portions and opening it no more than once a day.
We hope that the information that we have collected and verified through personal experience will be useful to you. And buy coffeefrom well-known manufacturers, such as lavazza and many other coffee brands, you can always visit the website of the Coffeeynya.