How to exercise the senses of coffee? what are the senses? what are the specific ways?

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What are the senses?

Senses are an indispensable skill in human life. According to the skills played by different organs of our body, we can divide the senses into five parts: taste, smell, sight, hearing and touch.

In the process of learning about the flavor of coffee, in fact, most of us will come across this part of the cup test, among the tools used in the cup test, in addition to the nose and mouth (that is, you have to have a sense of smell and oral sensitivity), the perfume bottle also occupies a very important position. His concept is changed from wine tasting. Generally speaking, the coffee smell bottles we can buy on the market are very limited, mainly from the United States and Europe. There are also many differences in flavor, some of which are flavors that we rarely come into contact with. In fact, in the process of cup testing, most people communicate with each other, using the so-called common language to discuss the flavor of coffee. Smell bottle is actually such a tool. In this process, we have been thinking about whether we can make a common language that belongs to our own daily life. A lot of things want to be created with the resources around them, rather than relying so much on external tools. After all, learning coffee must be localized, isn't it?

"the taste we ask depends on our sense of smell. There are 50 million odor receivers in our olfactory organs, and people can smell 10,000 odors and distinguish about 4,000. Swallowing forces the air to rise to the olfactory area of the nasal cavity, which is perceived by the receptors in the nasal cavity. After smell training, you will be able to improve your odor discrimination ability a thousand times. "

How to exercise the sensory ability?

Here, we will mainly talk about coffee, or the most commonly used sensory functions in daily tasting and testing: taste and smell, but also cover part of the sense of touch.

About olfactory training

In the coffee industry, there is a tool specifically used to exercise the sense of smell: coffee flavor smell bottles. At this stage, in the coffee industry, only these two brands are making fragrant bottles for the time being.

E Nez Du Cafe 36 scented bottles can be used, and the company has also developed red wine noses, whisky noses and other scented bottles, which are also famous in other industries. Including SCA, as well as CQI courses, all recognize the status of this incense bottle. Using natural raw materials to purify, the taste is still relatively real, but after a long time, the taste will change. Smelling incense bottles is actually a way to exercise your sense of smell, but in fact, smelling bottles can only give you a general reference range of smell, which does not fully represent the correct taste of a flavor. As we talk about apples, what is the taste of apples? There are many different varieties of apples, and different varieties have different tastes.

In many cases, the aroma is complex, and it is unlikely to have a separate aroma. For example, when you squeeze lemon juice with a lemon clip, you smell not only the aroma of lemon juice, but also the aroma of oil on the lemon peel. This is a complex aroma formed by a variety of aromas.

Therefore, we also suggest that olfactory exercise should come from life, starting from every detail of life, instead of spending a lot of money on scented bottles, we should use such a budget and buy a bunch of fresh ingredients, which can also ensure the authenticity of the smell.

After all, the purpose of olfactory exercise is to build your own sensory memory bank, and memory needs to be accumulated persistently in life.

Similarly, we can still use the 4W principle mentioned above for olfactory exercise.

The first step is to confirm what the aroma is: smell the aroma of grapes and soil

The second step is to confirm the concentration: strong grape aroma and light earthy aroma

The third step is to confirm the location of perception: the perception of the prenasal region is more obvious, or the aroma sensed during, after swallowing and behind the nose.

The fourth step is to confirm the time of occurrence of the taste: the grape aroma in the front and a little earthy smell in the back.

Therefore, when you are shopping in the supermarket, you hope to exercise your sense of smell and don't miss this machine. Yes, go to the fruit and vegetable section and smell it. It will definitely open the door to a new world.