Measuring Sensory Performance
Ida Steen presents the ideas behind her PhD program at Re:Co in Dublin in 2016
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Sensory Science and Common Business Practises
Last Wednesday CoffeeMind held a presentation at Square Mile Coffee Roasters in London. The presentation focused on quality control and how to improve sensory skills. It was presented by Ida Steen, MSc of Sensory Science from Department of Food Science in Copenhagen, and Morten Münchow, Lecturer at Food Science at the University of Copenhagen, this two-hour
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Behavioral Research A New Way to Understand the Coffee Market
Morten presents the work on customer perception of High vs Low quality investigated with Behavioral Economics at Re:Co in Gothenburg in 2015
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Roast profile analysis
This blog post is sketching out the basics of a roast profile analysis and introduces the concepts and basic calculations that are part of the exam for the Roasting professional in the SCAE Coffee Diploma System. A roast profile is a graphs that shows the temperature development during a roast cycle and preferably both bean and
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Percentage difference
This blogpost explains how to understand and calculate percentage change as this calculation is part of the SCAE certification system on the roast log template you can download: here So let us get right go business: If a process changes from x to y the percentage of change is referring to how big the change
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How to never run out of your favorite green coffee
Origins sell out. I can always guarantee my costumers ‘Brazilian’ or ‘Guatemalan’ coffee. In commodity this is the most specific level products are defined on. Actually, often this is even way more specific than the supermarket blends where sometimes you wonder, if it is 100% coffee at all… In specialty its different. Here transparency is
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Variation analysis of roast colour measurement
This article basically gives you a tool to answer these two crucial questions concerning you way of handling colour measurement equipment: Which grind size gives me the best results? How many replicates of each sample is ‘enough’? I recently had the pleasure to roast coffees for a university project where consistency in the roast was
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Customize the fat percentage in your milk
First a warning: This is geeky, slightly – if at all – useful. It might be just me, but I think its fun.. Baristas play with all sorts of parameters. Why not play with the fat percentage of the milk? I have developed a method and a accompanying formula you can use. In the example below
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Just joined SCAE as creator of the certification system for coffee roasters
A few months ago Filip Åkerblom asked me on behalf of SCAE’s education committee to continue the work he had done the last 5 years on SCAE’s exam system for coffee roasters. Teaching coffee roasting at London School of Coffee since 2007 I feel that its right up my alley. My approach has been getting
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