What is the difference between a smart cup and a hand brew? how to use the soaking time for a smart filter cup for a novice coffee?

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The smart cup belongs to the coffee filter cup, and the coffee produced is also called hand-brewed coffee. Compared with common filter cups where water drips directly through the coffee powder layer, smart cups are designed with piston valves. When injecting water, the water pressure will close the piston valve so that the water does not flow out of the filter cup. The water will flow only if the filter cup is buckled on the cup and the piston valve is forced to open.

Therefore, the smart cup is a coffee filter cup with two kinds of brewing principles: drip filtration and full immersion. This design is very good to solve the coffee novice in brewing coffee because it is unable to better control the flow of water, or the use of coffee beans, thicker grinding degree, can be soaked through a short seal to make the material extraction more fully.

Do beginners in coffee suggest getting smart cups?

Generally speaking, the quality of hand-brewed coffee made by smart cup is relatively stable, there is basically no failure, and it is very easy to operate. It is suitable for both beginners and experienced players, and it is cheap and good, so it is worth entering.

What do you need to pay attention to when making coffee in a smart cup?

Making filter coffee in smart cup is the same as brewing coffee with filter paper, and the parameters of using smart cup to brew coffee can be the same as those of daily hand brewing coffee.

Under the same water temperature, powder-water ratio and extraction time, the grinding degree of the same coffee bean is too coarse, and the coffee flavor is easy to be extracted insufficiently, resulting in insipid flavor and lack of layers.

If the grinding is too fine, the coffee flavor is easy to be excessively extracted, that is, after the flavor substances are extracted, the coffee powder is still in contact with hot water and hot water, releasing unpleasant flavors such as wood, resulting in strong coffee flavor but mixed flavor.

Qianjie recommends that the degree of grinding of shallow roasted coffee beans in smart cup filtration is medium and fine grinding (the passing rate of standard sieve No. 20 is 75% ~ 80%), with a water temperature of 90-91 degrees Celsius; the degree of grinding of medium-and deep-roasted coffee beans is medium-coarse grinding (the standard sieve No. 20 passed 65% of 70%), with a water temperature of 88-89 degrees Celsius.

What's the difference between a smart cup and a hand-brewed coffee made from a V60 filter cup?

Qianjie Coffee was compared with red cherry coffee beans from Yega Xuefei, Ethiopia. The cooking parameters are as follows: 15g coffee beans, medium and fine grinding (China 20 standard drying net pass rate of 75-80%), water temperature of 90 degrees Celsius, powder ratio at 1:15.

The steps of making coffee in the smart cup are as follows: fold the filter paper into the smart cup, put the smart cup on the container, and preheat the appliance when wetting the filter paper with hot water. Then move the smart cup to the electronic scale (when the valve closes automatically) and pour the ground coffee into the center of the filter cup.

In the first stage, inject 30g of hot water, press the timer and steam for 30 seconds; after steaming, pour hot water to 225g, then soak 1 cup. After soaking, move the smart cup to the container to open the valve and filter out the coffee liquid in the filter cup. The whole process takes about 15 seconds, and the total extraction time of coffee is 2 seconds 3910.

The suntan cherry coffee brewed from the smart cup has a full-bodied acidity of berries, soft fruit fermentation, honey sweetness and rich black tea taste.

The steps of brewing V60 filter cup are as follows: fold the filter paper in the filter cup, then put it on the coffee pot, and then preheat the apparatus when wetting the filter paper with hot water. Then pour the hot water out of the pot and pour the ground coffee into the center of the filter cup.

The powder layer was fully wetted in the shape of "hamburger" for 30 seconds with 30 g water, and then boiled in the second stage; in the front street of the second section, the smooth medium-fine water was injected around 125g and then stopped, and the third stage was injected when the water level dropped to 2 / 3 of the powder layer; in the third stage, the medium-fine water was coiled and injected to 225g and finished with water injection, and the total extraction time was about 225g.

The suntan cherry coffee brewed from the smart cup has a sweet compound berry juice, a hint of fruit fermentation, honey sweetness and black tea.

According to the comparison of Qianjie coffee brewing, it is found that the coffee brewed from the smart cup will be fuller than the whole brewed coffee from the V60 filter cup, and the aroma will stay in the mouth longer. If you like the taste of full coffee, it is recommended to use smart cup brewing; if you like coffee rich friends, V60 filter cup is recommended for brewing.