To what extent does it take to make a good cup of coffee

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How to make a good cup of coffee?

It was an eye-opener for reporters. Each contestant has to finish three types of coffee within 15 minutes: Espresso (Italian espresso), cappuccino and creative coffee. This is the unified requirement of the World Coffee Competition.

Cappuccino, familiar to many, is an Italian coffee mixed with the same amount of Italian espresso and steamed milk. Creative coffee tests creativity, making all kinds of beautiful flowers is only superficial, but more importantly, the taste is unique. Hoffman, a British barista, once used tobacco-soaked cream and biscuit foam in his coffee and won the world championship. The judges said that there were also some creative coffee in yesterday's competition, which was amazing, but because there are still two days to go, it is not convenient to reveal.

The hardest part is actually the basic model: the Espresso. The contestants looked as if they were doing a chemical experiment. Indeed, the judges said, this is a precise game: the coffee bean powder for a cup of coffee can only be 7: 8 grams, the water temperature should be stable at 88 ℃-93 ℃, the water pressure through espresso should be 9: 10 atmospheric pressure, and the filtration time should be 25: 30 seconds.

The Espresso cooked at the ideal water temperature should be very deep reddish brown, the foam on the surface will have dark brown spots, and the foam thickness should be more than 4mm. In order to keep warm, drink it after 3 sips.

What kind of coffee is good?

To participate in the competition, there are professional baristas, but also ashes enthusiasts. Zhang Yinzhe is an amateur. How much do you love? He even goes to the farm where he grows coffee beans to pick out the beans himself, and then comes back to bake them with his own baker.

"how coffee beans are grown and how ripe they are when they are picked will affect the taste. I can't see this when I buy roasted coffee beans in the market. " He has been to farms in Australia, plantations in Yunnan, China, and plans to go to Brazil and Sumatra. His ideal is to travel to coffee bean producing areas all over the world to find their most primitive flavor.

What kind of coffee is good? Yesterday, each contestant was judged harshly by four sensory judges, two technical judges and a referee.

Wu Jiahang, a sensory judge, can't make good coffee, but he has a keen sense of smell and taste. He has been a "cup taster" in the Columbia Coffee producers Association for 15 years. "every time I play outside with friends and drink bad coffee, because I can't throw up face, I will add a lot of milk and sugar to cover up the taste of coffee failure, so that I can drink it." For him, a good cup of coffee does not need to add milk and sugar, the most essential taste is enough to move people, can drink the fragrance of flowers, grass, and even send out the aroma of wood.