The French drink around 800 coffees each year, but many of them find it hard to find a cup of tea ... When it comes to choosing the machine or the coffee, many people get lost.
Because our addiction to caffeine still deserves to be pampered, we listen to the advice of Laurent Mariotte and his guest Christophe Servell, best roaster in France and founder of Terres de Café in the program "La Table des Bons Vivants" ".
The coffee market has never been so promising, particularly thanks to the appearance of a famous brand of machines… But now, the consumer is quickly lost.
Should we favor new machines over old ones?
Which coffee to choose?
How to buy it: grain or ground?
So many questions and possibilities of doing wrong that often paralyze us.
Don't panic, Laurent Mariotte and his guest Christophe Servell, founder of Terres de Café, come back to the fundamentals of roasting in the program
La Table des Bons Vivants
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Arabica or Robusta?
To begin simply, we eliminate the superfluous and we retain the essential, namely "that there are two main types of coffee: industrial coffees and specialty coffees where all the care is taken in production, in the land of origin, roasting ", explains Christophe Servell.
The ideal is to favor specialty coffee.
Among the major countries of origin, there are Ethiopia and Brazil: "Basically, all the coffee in the world originates from Ethiopia."
The most known ?
Arabica.
"And for good reason, it is complicated to obtain, it grows at altitude and it is the only variety which offers a beautiful aromatic complexity", enthuses the founder of Terres de café.
But what is it worth compared to Robusta, another oh so famous coffee… "Robusta is also interesting but, let's say that Robusta is equivalent to industrial coffee and Arabica is the coffee that we reserve for the beautiful cups. "
Piston machine or pods?
Another subject, that of the machine to adopt… How many times, during the Sunday meal with the family have you had this debate at the end of the meal?
Too much.
On the one hand, fans of high-tech machines, in particular adorned with a capital N, "they are practical and make a decent coffee", comments Christophe Servell.
On the other, the fervent defenders of the old-fashioned coffee machine, including piston or Italian.
Once again dilemma… Not for the roaster: "the French press is ideal for having a good coffee at home".
The only condition is to have the right grammage and the right technique… "We recommend 7 to 8 grams for 10 centilitres. Or for a half-liter coffee maker, 40 grams. And we use not too hot water. , 95 degrees, not boiling and let infuse 4 to 5 minutes and press. "
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In grain or ground?
"The basic rule, even if everyone does what they want in the end, is to buy their coffee beans and grind it before doing so", advises Christophe Servell.
You can for this, buy a coffee machine with grinder.
Of course, the latter have a certain cost to purchase but the price is quickly amortized over the year compared to the purchase of pods over the same period.