Appendix to plate IX · section 06 of 06
After drying
THE PROCESS IN MOTION
What is left to do to the dry bean?
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Resting in parchment
Once dry, the bean first rests in its parchment.
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- Resting in parchmentOnce dry, the bean first rests in its parchment.
- HullingHulling removes the parchment: the bean comes out bare.
- Monsooning and agingMonsooning and aging change the bean further, and the cup with it. This page does not say how: the chapter’s sheets describe it.
- SortingFinally, all the sorting decides what goes and what stays.
To remember: Even dry, the bean is not done changing: resting, hulling, monsooning, aging and sorting still change the cup.
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What happens to the bean once it is dry and still changes the cup: resting in parchment, hulling, monsooning, aging, and all the sorting that decides what goes and what stays.
- Green coffee defects and their classificationgreen coffee defects
- Hulling and resting in parchmenthulling, dry milling
- Processing water and pulpcoffee processing wastewater
- Monsooned coffeeMonsooned Malabar
- Wet polishingwet polishing
- Sorting, from flotation to the optical sortersorting, grading
- Deliberate agingaged coffee