Saturday, August 13, 2011

Discuss about the History of Coffee Bean and Irish Coffee

By Jennifer Castroy


According to the dictionary for gourmet food is, "Gourmet food is that which is of the highest quality, perfectly prepared and artfully presented." If you want the maximum quality food you go to a star class restaurant, but if you want the premier quality coffee, this can be achieved by you at home. That gourmet meal is in all probability staying at the restaurant where you ate, unless you become friends with the chef and invite him over, but as for the cup of gourmet coffee you can make it where ever you desire. Gourmet coffee is more expensive than the standard supermarket brands, but there is simply no comparison in the quality of the coffee. You can enjoy high quality gourmet coffee everyday if you are rich, otherwise it would be a nice thing to keep for weekends or when ever you had special company over for a visit.

Coffee and tea business has grown tremendously in the past few years. Many specialty coffee and tea shops have been sprouting and eating up each other's neighborhood market share, each of then brewing and concocting their own original flavors and mixes. The way coffee and tea is consumed has drastically changed over the years. Before coffee and tea was only taken hot and straight out of the coffee maker or from an instant foil pack. Now, specialty coffee and tea drinks are made hot or cold depending on the consumer's preference. Vast variety of flavors and other ingredients such as grounded biscuits and whip creams are added to the drink to have that perfect specialty coffee and tea concoction.

Most people just can't live without coffee. These group of people will grab a cup of coffee once they wake up early the morning before doing other things. It has become part of their habits where they visit the coffee shops day-in and day-out, those who have made coffee a regular part of their daily routine and lifestyle. The growing number of coffee "addicts" have prompted hundreds of studies addressing concerns about the effects of coffee on the body and whether or not caffeine causes harm. Do you believe that drinking coffee during headache will helps?. Others say that it's bad to drink coffee if you have stomach problems. There are some examples of therapeutic effects of caffeine aside from being a stimulant.

Some over-the-counter headache or pain relief medication include caffeine, acetaminophen and aspirin. The effectiveness of these agents may be linked, at least in part, to the treatment of caffeine withdrawal, a common cause of headaches. Several studies found modest benefits with caffeine in the treatment of asthma as it gives dilating effects on airways. In fact, some recommend that coffee intake be avoided before breathing tests so as not to diminish the breathing abnormalities which the tests aim to detect. According to Experimental Biology in 2007, an American Society for Nutrition's annual conference, research experts reviewed evidence that moderate intake of coffee, say 3 to 5 cups per day, might reduce the risk of diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, kidney stones, gallstones, and depression.

The automatic drip coffee brewer is by far the most recognized type of coffee machine. This coffee brewer produces coffee by heating water in a reservoir which then travels up into a coffee bin holding a filter with the coffee grounds. Then hot water steeps through the coffee and the filter in the bin and drips into an awaiting pot or carafe. These coffee machines usually have a heating element to keep the brewed coffee reasonably hot until the coffee is gone or it's time to brew another pot. There are some coffee makers models come with a thermal style carafe which allows the coffee drinker to brew a pot of coffee right into the carafe for coffee on the go.

Trying to make your own gourmet coffee?, you should take coffee beans as starter first. Gourmet Coffee beans can be purchased in several forms, by the pound or by the kilo and so on and there are several varieties from which to choose. Some of the most admired gourmet coffee beans include Kona, Jamaican Blue Mountain, and Sumatra types. To keep the optimum freshness you will only grind what you need for that one gourmet cup of coffee. You will want to grind your coffee beans until they are extremely fine, but don't pound them into dust. If the ground coffee is to fine the heat of your coffee machine with dry up all the oils of the coffee bean and it is this part that gives the gourmet coffee its exquisite flavour.




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