Coffee - the most invigorating and popular beverage on earth. Millions of people prefer to start their day with him. With it, tied a romantic relationship, and business meetings can not do without a cup of hot coffee. In some countries there are even festivals dedicated to this fragrant drink. But not everyone knows how to make coffee correctly and what else is important to know in order to drink to have a truly delicious.

Some facts from the history of coffee

Mankind to discover the coffee around 850 AD in Ethiopia. However, to use it in crude form and welded. Later, the Arabs took over from Ethiopians love for coffee, came up with the recipe. Coffee beans were crushed, milled and mixed with milk and fat, and rolled out of this mass balls. They ate on the road in case of fatigue.

Only to the XII century began to prepare coffee as a beverage, but the raw berries. It was only a century, people have learned to prepare it for use in a manner close to the modern.

In Europe, this aromatic drink gained recognition in 1683. It was promoted by a well-known at the time the former Cossack - Cossack Yuri Franz Kulchytsky. That he personally carried the coffee through the streets of Vienna and a year later opened the first store in the same place.

A peculiar part of the history of this drink is the invention of instant coffee by David Strang in 1890. Technology of production of the product was improved twice, in 1901 - a Japanese scientist Satori Kato in 1906 - British scientist George Constant Washington. And only in 1938, there was widespread instant coffee under the brand Nescafe. He attracted consumers that did not require cooking, but simply pour boiling water, helping to save not only time but also money, as it was much cheaper grain or ground.

Ludwig and Karl Wimmer Rozelius first decaffeinated coffee showed the world in 1903. Later decaffeination invents many ways, many of them are still in use. This type of coffee is very popular among people who are contraindicated caffeine for one reason or another.

The ability to select and prepare the coffee is always valued very highly. How delicious drink will depend on many factors.

Factors determining the result of coffee

When selecting coffee, the first thing you should pay attention - this is his grade. They are many, but the main ones are two: Arabica and Robusta. There are still some fairly well-known varieties like Liberica and ekstselsa, but they account for only about two percent of global production. Robusta is rarely used in its pure form and substantially mixed to arabica.

One of the most important stages in the production of coffee - it is roasting. She, too, is divided into different degrees: from the lightest - Scandinavian to the darkest - Italian. In between are the Viennese and French, the second is much darker.

The fineness also greatly determines the taste of the drink. Grinding can be rough, medium, fine and superfine. There are a variety of grinding "thin espresso", intended for the preparation of the eponymous drink.

It is best to grind the coffee just before cooking, because it is very sensitive to odors and quickly loses its flavor. Therefore, it is better to store in a glass container and away from products with a distinct smell, and milled grain purchasing, make sure that the manufacturer took care of proper packaging.

For coffee, there are also a variety of devices:

• pots or Turk;
• maker of filters, or as it is called, "drip";
• french - press;
• coffee geyser type;
• Espresso.

All of these devices have their own characteristics. For each of them must be chosen a certain degree of grinding coffee. For example, the brewing of coffee in Turk used grains fine and superfine grinding, and for the "dropper" fit and an average degree of grinding. And it is quite logical that the drinks, cooked in different ways, will vary according to taste.

There are a few simple secrets that allow to cook a delicious coffee:

• Water for brewing the drink should be soft, clean, without any foreign flavor;
• Coffee in no case can not be boiled. The appearance of foam - a signal of willingness to drink coffee on the fire perederzhivat not worth it;
• It is best to avoid coffee stirring during cooking - this may affect its taste.

Improper cooking can spoil even the best quality coffee. At the same time, if all the recommendations of a drink fully reveals its magical aroma.

Imaginary benefits and harms of coffee

The debate about how useful or harmful to coffee, underway for many years. Stimulating and invigorating properties of coffee it is no secret. But few people think that when the effect of the drink finishes, fatigue returned with renewed vigor.

Coffee is considered an excellent remedy for migraines Migraine But not for everyone. We are very sensitive to caffeine Caffeine - enemy or friend?   men, on the contrary, begin headaches and general deterioration of health.

Not recommended for pregnant women, and coffee, as caffeine enters the body of the child and the withdrawal of much longer than the body of the mother. But completely exclude the drink from their menu expectant mothers is not worth one cup of coffee a day will not bring any harm.

For people suffering from heart disease Heart disease - symptoms of heart disease Coffee, certainly not the safest drink. At the same time, healthy people can use coffee for preventing such diseases.

Many people believe high-calorie coffee drink. Calories appear in it, if only to add cream or sugar. Clean the coffee does not contain calories.

Thus, the coffee can be both useful and harmful product. In any case, one should always remember that everything is very individual, but in all necessary common sense and measure.

Maria Bykov

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