What Is the “Washed” Process Coffee? || Splurdge
Washed coffee processing—sometimes called “wet process”—is, today, the world’s leading method of preparing coffee for roasting and consumption. Coffee cherries are picked from the treelet and delivered to a facility called a wet mill, washing station, or sometimes “factory”, interchangeable terms used by coffee producers colloquially in different parts of world depending. A modest wet mill may sometimes exist right there on a smallholder producer’s farm, and could be as basic as a large tub, whereas other mills or stations are impressively immense. There is a gigantic variation in scale possible when it comes to how coffee is washed.
There are several stages which may or may not take place at the washing station, but all are towards the same essential goal of removing the skin and fruit from the coffee seed (technically a drupe, colloquially known as a “bean”). This happens before the seed is dried and prepared it for its next journey in life.
The first stage of processing may be to sort the coffee fruits (still intact) or float them in water to pick out and remove defective and underripe cherry.
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