A moment of solitude with coffee Lavazza Crema e Gusto

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-18 00:50

Today it is difficult to choose a quality coffee the first time. The problem is that there are a huge number of manufacturers, brands and varieties of coffee on the market. Eyes run up from the rich assortment on the shelves of supermarkets. A visual picture is shown in the photo.

Natural questions arise: “How to spend money on good coffee, the taste of which will meet expectations? Being a beginner in this business, how to make a choice in favor of a quality product?” To answer these questions, you need to pay attention to the following characteristics of coffee: the composition of the beans, the degree of roast, the quality of grinding and packaging.

This article will focus on Italian ground coffee Lavazza Crema e Gusto. This brand has been a symbol of the best espresso for over 100 years and has made millions of people fall in love with their coffee. After tasting this drink, you want to exclaim: "Perfecto!"

Blend and Roast

Heavy-roasted beans from Brazil and India will delight coffee connoisseurs with their strength, bright bitterness, and will not leave indifferent lovers of spicy and creamy taste, rich aroma and chocolate flavor.

A distinctive feature of the brand with a century of history is a mixture of different varieties of grains. Lavazza Crema e Gusto coffee is 30% Arabica and 70% Robusta. Fans of 100% Arabica will be disappointed with this variety. However, Robusta grains are not added to the blend by chance: they allow you to reveal the depth of the aroma, make the coffee tart and strong, create a dense foam on the surface of the drink and give a charge of vivacity and mood for the whole day.

Grinding degree

Coffee Lavazza Crema e Gusto - coarse grinding. It is ideal for brewing in a French press and drip coffee maker. When using geyser and electric coffee makers or brewing coffee in a Turk, which require medium and fine grinding, respectively, you can use a coffee grinder to get the optimal size.

Intensity and popular coffee drinks

On a scale of intensity from 1 to 10, which depends on the composition of the beans and their oiliness, roast and degree of grinding, Lavazza Crema e Gusto coffee is assigned a solid number 8. It is perfect for making a rich and thick espresso, and when added hot water makes great lungos and americanos.

You can reduce the strength and caffeine content by adding milk. Popular drinks based on espresso and milk are cappuccino,latte, macchiato, mocha and flat white.

The composition and proportion of ingredients are presented in the table.

p/p	Drink	Share espresso	Share milk	Share milk foam
1	Cappuccino	1/3	1/3	1/3
2	Latte	1/5	3/5	1/5
3	Machiato	3/4	-	1/4
4	Flat White	2/3	1/3	-
5	Mocha (with chocolate)	1/3	1/3	1/3

Packaging

There are four types of packaging in the line of ground Lavazza Crema e Gusto. The first option is a pressed vacuum briquette weighing 250 grams, which retains the quality and aroma of the drink for a long time. Inconvenient to store? Is the coffee waking up? The second alternative is a tin can with a plastic lid weighing 250 grams. The third is capsules weighing 7 grams for capsule coffee machines. And finally, the fourth - coffee in portioned pods weighing 7 grams for carob-type coffee makers.

There are a huge number of fakes on the market. When choosing vacuum packaging, it is important to remember the following distinguishing features:

• no air at all;
• lower edge of package is wavy;
• date and time are easily erased and differ on different packages, as they are applied during coffee packaging.

When choosing a can, a set of capsules or coffee pods, the packaging must be free of dents and other mechanical damage.

Price

Italian brand offers to drink coffee for a whole month for the price of one cup in a cafe. The table shows the average prices for four Lavazza Crema e Gusto ground coffees.

p/p	Package type	Unit measurements	Price, rub.
1	Vacuum	pcs	200-290
2	Tin Can	pcs	250-390
3	Capsules	100pcs	2600-3200
4	pods	50pcs	950-1200

Reviews of ground coffee Lavazza Crema e Gusto

Having tasted good coffee once, you will want to drink it again. By choosing Lavazza Crema e Gusto, you will remain his fan forever! Real coffee lovers highly appreciate this blend for its impeccable tart taste, strength, invigorating effect, density and density of the drink, pronounced smell and aroma, quality of beans roasting and grinding. This coffee is impossiblespoil.

There are practically no negative reviews about Lavazza Crema e Gusto coffee, except for one thing - it will be impossible to stop at one cup. Picky coffee lovers may be confused by the slight sour taste that Robusta beans give.

Recipe for those who are in no hurry

At the end of the article, it is proposed to try the recipe for coffee with spices in Turkish. To prepare this drink, you need to do the following:

1. Put two teaspoons of Lavazza Crema e Gusto coffee into a jug.
2. Add 2-3 s alt crystals. The s alt allows the coffee to open up.
3. Add ground ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg on the tip of a knife.
4. For those who like sweet coffee, add 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla sugar.
5. Stir and only then add water.
6. To soften the bitter taste, you can add a little milk.
7. Put on a very slow fire.
8. Do not boil.
9. As soon as the coffee cap has risen, remove the cezve from the heat, cover with a lid and let the coffee brew for a few minutes.

Now pour into a cup and enjoy!