Coffee Milling in Aceh Abstinence Using Modern Tool
Most coffee replicas are now using modern equipment, the result is more subtle. Traditional equipment is considered obsolete and is considered to slow down the production process.
However, the argument does not apply to Wunca, a coffee bean owner in Lamreung Village, Krueng Barona Jaya District, Aceh Besar District, Aceh. It still maintains the grinding process using traditional means and tools.
Manufacture home processing of coffee beans into powder that they have been handed down for generations since 25 years ago, still faithfully accompany him in the search for sustenance.
Like using a coffee sling tool, a small size drum with a capacity of 20 kilograms is played manually using iron as a support. The device is rotated for 2.5 hours above the embers.
After that, the burnt coffee beans are cooled before entering the grinding mill. Traditional Aceh coffee beans, such as jingki, are still used. Jingki is a traditional tool made from the wood of choice found in the forests of Aceh, used to pound rice, rice, sago, coffee beans, and others
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Jingki's way of working is to be moved with the foot at the end of the passenger point so that it will lift the other end and give a strong blow. At the tip of the lever is mounted a skeleton consisting of two vertical parts connected by horizontal wood, so as to make the jingki up and down. While at the end point to pound the mortar used alu.
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After being ground, the coarse coffee beans are filtered with a simple tool. Then given to the coffee owner. Such a way dilakoninya in order to maintain the tradition that most people began to abandoned seprofesinya.
Milling
Wunca can pound up to 200 kilograms of coffee beans per day. He was assisted by two of his brothers. Generally, the service users of coffee beans mashed it came from the owner of a coffee shop.
However, Wunca also provides coffee powder with prices ranging from Rp50 thousand to Rp 60 thousand per kilogram. "For the coffee bean crushing alone, that's fifty thousand per ten kilograms," he said