Fazekas Éva: A fekete leves, a kávéfőzés története, időszaki kiállítás, 2010. április 23 - 2010. október 25, a Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum, a Magyar Műszaki és Közlekedési Múzeum és a Fazekas & Kimmel Gyűjtemény közös időszaki kiállítása (Budapest, Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum, 2010)
Noémi Saly: FROM COFFEE "CHERRIES" TO THE "BLACK SOUP"
The USA has been the greatest coffee consumer of the world for many years. In Hungary people have, on the average, 1-2 cups of coffee daily, 80 per cent of the population is coffee drinkers, and 71 per cent of these 80 per cent use some coffee machine for preparing their drink. Hurray harvest ! The harvested coffee "cherries" are usually processed by drying. The fruit is spread on canvasses and dried, by the heat of the sun, for 2-3 weeks. The fruit flesh, the parchment hull, and the silver film are separated in Kávészemek a kosárban. Fotó: Láng Olivér Coffee beans in basket. Photo: Oliver Láng crushing machines and removed by an air current. There is also a wet procedure, in this case coffee is dumped into a basin full of water. The ripe beans sink, the unripe ones remain on the surface. The ripe beans are removed by a water flow. During this process they get soft and clean. The fruit flesh is crushed in a machine containing rotating cylinders with ribbed surfaces. After a few days of fermentation the fruit flesh can be washed off the seeds. Thereafter the seeds are uniformly dried, and then the parchment hull is removed from them with another machine. 100 kg of coffee fruit yield, on the average, 8,528 kg coffee beans. The science of roasting The aim of roasting is forming of flavour substances. Upon its action the green coffee beans turn brown, lose their water content, which causes 15-20% loss of mass, while the volume of the beans increases. In the dry state the beans become porous, and can be easily ground, while their caffeine content does not change. In ancient times coffee was roasted in simple pans over open flames, under permanent stirring. Later the cylinder Olasz pórkölésű kávé Coffee roasted the Italian way 70
