- Coffee
- 100 g
- Time
- 13 min
A guide for your first time: 100 g of green coffee in frying pan, all attentive senses and a clear goal, learn to recognize the first crack.
By Equipo Cocinoa
What you need
Tap each piece to see its catalogue entry.
- EssentialSarténTasting coffee in a thick pan is free and teaches a lot. Tweet goes unevenly, but you see and hear every stage.€0–30approx.
- Recommended0,1 g baseA scale with precision of 0,1 g and timer. Weighing coffee and water is the easiest way to repeat a good cup.€15–250approx.
- RecommendedPoultryA fine mesh strainer to separate the pores, strain the cold brew or filter cocktails. Cheap and indispensable.€3–15approx.
- OptionalThermometerTo know what temperature the water, milk or grain are at. Useful if your kettle does not regulate and almost compulsory to toast.€8–30approx.
Method
Prepare everything before turning on: open window, maximum extractor, two metal straps, a wooden spoon and a timer. Heat the pan over medium heat 3 minutes.
3 min
Remove some green grains in a dish: they will help you compare the color.
Ech 100 g of green coffee and start the timer. It removes non-stop, with wide movements, throughout the entire nut.
Look and smell, from minute 0 to 5: the green clears to a pale yellow and the smell goes from newly cut grass to hay.
5 min
From minute 5 to 9: the grain becomes cinnamon and then light brown, it wrinkles and drops shell. It smells like toast and then candy. Start listening carefully.
4 min
By the minute 10-11 comes the first crack: a dry chasquido, like popcorn or twigs when they split, first loose and then on a streak. Point the minute. It continues to move between 1: 30 and 2: 00 more and withdraws to the minute 12-13, with a brown half uniform.
2 min
If the sound becomes a fine and continuous crepitar and you see oil shine, it is the second crack: it is already removed.
Turn the grains in one strainer and pass them over and over, by the window, until they are cold in less than 4 minutes.
Shake the straps out to remove the shell. Compare the grains with the greens you separated: now they are bigger, lighter and more brittle.
You'll have lost 15 to 18%. Keep it in a airtight jar and let it rest 3 days before preparing it in filter (from 3 to 7); for espresso, between 7 and 14.
3 days
Point out the initial weight, the minute of the first crack and the end: with these three figures you can repeat or correct your next tweet.
Tips and warnings
- Safety: ventilate well, do not walk away from the pan and have a fire extinguisher or a fire-fighting blanket by hand. The dry shell and the dark nuts can light.
- You can jump the smoke alarm: don't deactivate it, come on.
- Starting with a small amount makes the touch easier to control and the first crack easier to hear.
- Without thick background frying: a side-output hot air palomiter also lets the first crack hear well, although its fan makes some noise.
One last thing
The first crack is only heard for the first time once. If you're as excited as we are, celebrate it with a ko‑fi.