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How to Store Coffee
As opposed to what happens with green beans, coffee should not be kept for a long time. The basic rule, no matter what type of coffee it is – beans, ground, or even instant – should be kept in a jar or can with a hermetical top. This in first place avoids the oxygen from circulating freely around the coffee, which will lose its aroma and flavor, and in second place it avoids the coffee from becoming contaminated by other flavor and odors that the coffee, if not well covered, will quickly absorb. Toasted coffee beans can be kept for up to a month, but the ground coffee should be used before a week’s time.
Toasted coffee beans in fact, will preserve better if they are placed in a polyurethane bag and is placed in the freezer for up to one month at most. Some brands of coffee suggest to place the coffee inside the refrigerator once it has been opened, but most experts agree that you will not gain much by doing this.
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