Today coffee lovers all over the world do not have to waste time preparing an aromatic drink from roasted and ground coffee beans. It is enough to pour freeze-dried crystals into the mug to enjoy the resulting coffee.
Freeze-dried coffee is considered by many buyers to be unnatural, because it is one of the varieties of instant drink. However, no chemical additives are used for its production, as well as for ground coffee.
Although ground beans have the best taste and indescribable aroma, freeze-dried coffee allows you to quickly get a cup of a scalding drink. You do not need to brew coffee, you just need to boil water and fill the required portion with water.
Freeze-dried coffee making technique
What is the difference between freeze-dried and agglomerated coffee? Both types of product are instant coffee, for which coffee extract is used. It is made from green beans that are roasted, ground, and boiled. The end result of these manipulations is an extract that is 100% natural. Before going on sale, it is processed into powder.
The difference between sublimated coffee is the color of the crystals - light brown.
Freeze-dried coffee requires additional freezing of the coffee extract. The powder is also vacuum dried to preserve its delicate aroma and flavor. The dry freeze method or "freeze-dry" method allows you to freeze unnecessary liquid.
On the shelves, you can increasingly find a freeze-dried drink, crystallization helps to preserve the properties of coffee due to the absence of a liquid phase. Drinking coffee that has passed the freezing stage, like ground coffee, is recommended no more than five cups a day.
Distinctive features of freeze-dried coffee
The fact that you are buying freeze-dried coffee, and not simple instant coffee, will be indicated by the inscription on the package and the price. For a freeze-dried product, the cost will be slightly higher, which is explained by the complexity of the process of preparing such coffee.
Freeze-dried coffee is easy to distinguish visually from other types of coffee. Its granules are quite dense and uniform, they look like tiny pyramids. On contact with hot water, such coffee forms a little white foam, which dissolves with stirring.
Freeze-dried coffee is not produced by all brands, but only by the most famous companies, this is due to the high costs of purchasing sophisticated equipment.
A natural flavor is added to real freeze-dried coffee when frozen, and a drink of lower quality is improved with artificial ingredients. As a rule, freeze-dried coffee in a glass jar is in no way inferior in characteristics to a product in soft packaging. You can often find the spelling "sublimated", but according to the norms of the Russian language, it would be correct to mention the name with two "n".
