Coffee

Coffee is made from coffee beans. Most coffee is grown in Africa and South America. (See the world map).

Australia grows hardly any coffee, but some is grown in Northern Queensland and Northern New South Wales. Click this link to see where (the light green parts on the map).

Click the link to check out the photos that show you how it is grown on the [|Capricorn Coast Coffee Farm] and the mechanical harvester that they use to pick the coffee beans when they are ripe.

When the beans are harvested they are still green. They are cleaned and dried, and the seeds are taken out. Then they have to be roasted in a giant roaster to make them turn brown and smell like coffee.

The roaster is like a giant drum that the beans roll around in, and it is heated up to between 188 degrees C and 282 degrees C, for between 3 and 30 minutes. (The beans turn darker brown if they are roasted for a longer time in a hotter roaster.)

After the beans are roasted they are ground in a giant machine to turn the beans into coffee powder.