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I can buy some of your claims, but how do you adulterate a coffee bean?
by tired_throwaway 3y ago
I can buy some of your claims, but how do you adulterate a coffee bean?
- infecto 3y agoYou add fillers to the ground product.
- ssl-3 3y agoCoffee beans are bin-sorted in a way where the good coffee gets better, and the lesser coffee gets worse. The most-shapely and consistent beans go to the more-premium lines. The small, underdeveloped, or misshapen beans (called "clinkers") go to the cheaper lines, along with the other defects. And so does the chaff from the coffee hulls, which is rolled up into weird little balls and thrown in too -- which is not done with premium coffees. The unavoidable portion of insect parts is higher in cheap coffee than it is in expensive coffee. In an ideal world, all of the stuff that is removed from premium coffees would be used as compost or something. But it is instead included in the lesser coffees, where it is consumed.