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In the Qianjie Coffee Company, we often see our cup testers testing cups. Perhaps this is the first time that many people have heard the word "cup testing" and wonder what the action of cup testing has to do with the quality of coffee.
Today, let's take you to understand what a "cup test" is.
So-called cup test:
The cup test is very straightforward to say that the coffee cup test, of course, the test is not the material of the cup, but the quality of the coffee in the cup! Also because of the cup testing behavior, the cup tester certification promoted by the American SCAA Fine Coffee Association is born accordingly, and the "cup tester" is to check the quality of coffee beans, define coffee flavor and price, and is the gatekeeper before entering the mouth of customers.
Cup test preparation:
-Cup test cup
-cup tester
-Hot water
-I'd like a cup of beans.
-Cup spoon cleaning cup
-the cup that spits out the coffee liquid
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Cup testing process:
1. Grind the beans to be tested in the cup into powder
two。 Smell dry aroma
3. Pour hot water (93 degrees) into the cup until it is full and time for 4 minutes.
4. Smell the damp aroma
5. At the end of 4 minutes, the slag can be broken.
"broken residue": use a cup spoon to push away the coffee powder floating on the surface, make the aroma at the bottom burst out, confirm the aroma performance of the coffee, gently stir 3 times with the cup spoon and let stand for 2 minutes.
6. At the end of 2 minutes, you can pick up the slag.
"dregs": use a cup spoon to pick up the foam on the surface, and clean the cup spoon each time to avoid leaving a bad taste to affect the coffee.
7. Scoop up the coffee liquid with a cup spoon and test it by sipping. Sipping will make the coffee liquid fog in the mouth, the flavor molecules can be more clearly displayed.
8. Spit the coffee liquid from your mouth into the spitting cup.
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Notes for cup test:
When testing a cup, do not apply perfume or fragrant lotion to avoid affecting the aroma of the cup.
Before the cup test, you should not eat too much salty, spicy, garlic, any food that will affect the taste. Mainly light.
The time of cup test should be mainly in the morning, and the morning is the time of sensitive senses.
The purpose of the cup test:
Cup test can evaluate the flavor characteristics of coffee, after the SCAA cup test score, more than 80 points is called high-quality coffee.
Cup testing also has different meanings for different identities:
For coffee farmers-planting, fertilization, soil, treatment of the adjustment reference, you can also use the cup test to know the value of this batch of coffee beans, can avoid businessmen exploiting the price.
For coffee merchants and buyers-use cup tests to confirm the quality of the coffee beans you buy and find out what you are buying.
For coffee roasters-how to highlight the flavor characteristics of this bean
For coffee brewers-quality control, mixed beans
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The biggest purpose of Qianjie coffee cup test is to "maintain quality"! Through regular inspection of the quality of coffee beans, the branch will also send the roasted beans back to the headquarters for cup testing, through the cup tester to confirm whether the roasted coffee beans are as expected, and if there is a gap, they will also send someone to the branch store to re-teach roasting. to ensure that the quality of coffee served by the front street coffee beans in each store is consistent. It will also be used to select a new batch of beans to see if the performance of the beans is like the flavor characteristics we want to show to consumers.
Cup test is not only a kind of ceremony but also an attitude! Use the professional standards and language commonly used in the world and let coffee speak for yourself.
"Cup testing is to check the quality of coffee."
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