How does coffee tasting train taste? Taste improvement starts with taste training!

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Many people give their food to their mobile phones first, then eat it after taking pictures and don't know what they are eating. Get used to eating unconsciously, without visual assistance, do you still know what you are eating? Taste life, starting from the taste training, let you eat and drink every mouthful to enrich your life experience!

No matter what role you are, training your sense of taste and learning to taste will help to improve your taste and senses!

Taste cleaning and sensory reset

Gargle with a glass of clean mineral water is a good way to clean your mouth. Just like brushing your teeth and gargling in the morning, bubbling water can effectively clear the oil, fat and acid left in the mouth. Another way is to take a deep breath and smell your sleeves, back of hand, and palm. This method can reset your sense of smell, especially the sense of smell behind your nose. Many of the tastes we taste every day are affected by the sense of smell. these olfactory receptors are located at the back of our throat and nose, so they are called retronasal smell. By resetting the sense of smell behind the nose, we can feel and taste more flavor.

Finally, before tasting the coffee, you can eat some light cookies with low sugar and salt, or ordinary bread without additives, which can not only fill the stomach, but also reset the sense of taste.

Take a deep breath

If you take a moment to take a deep breath before you start tasting, it will give your mind, smell, senses and brain a chance to reset. Taking a deep breath can help you evaluate and process the taste you are tasting, and be prepared to record the new data you are about to taste and smell.

In addition, there is an ingenious trick, after drinking coffee, let the coffee liquid stay on the tongue, and then take a deep breath, let the air flow back to the upper jaw, can reinvigorate your taste, thus stimulating a new taste. Air can give new life to food and drinks, and it can also gradually destroy the taste over time. Like newly opened red wine, it can bring higher quality drinking enjoyment through breathing, awakening, oxidation and precipitation, but if you sober up for too long, the red wine will become acerbity and astringent.

The noisy sipping is actually a professional operation of tasting red wine and coffee. After training to sip and inhale, the introduction of air in the tasting process can deepen the sensory senses of taste and smell. This trick, which is borrowed from wine tasting, has been used incisively and vividly in coffee cup testing.

Put aside the ideas of the past

Before we prepare for the taste, we need to make sure we have the right mindset.

Maybe you prefer light roasting to deep roasting. For many boutique coffee lovers, liking light roasting is like steak preferring medium medium well rather than well-done, but that doesn't mean you can't eat delicious well-done steak (or drink good deep-roasted coffee). We just have to gladly accept what kind of food it is.

When drinking coffee, do not think: "this coffee is deep-roasted, I must only drink baked taste". Instead, you should open your heart and feel the flavor of deep-roasted coffee. As a coffee fan, the purpose of tasting each cup of coffee is not to choose the disadvantages of the coffee, but to appreciate the connotation of the coffee you drink.

Don't rush to describe

Before you open your mouth to describe and express what you taste, take some time to stabilize the taste. Think about what you are tasting in your head and ask yourself how you feel. Is it sour? Is it astringent? Is it miscellaneous? Is it clean? Thin or mellow? Heavy or light? Soft or rough? Does the smell unload or linger? After you have formed a clear impression, communicate with others, write it down, or have another cup of coffee.

Identification of specific flavor

Coffee flavor wheel can be used to assist in tasting coffee, and elimination method can be used to find out the flavor. First, make sure the coffee tastes nutty. If so, try to imagine what kind of nut it is. If there is no nutty flavor, you may try to think about whether it is fruity or not. If so, does it prefer citrus fruits or berries?

If you can't associate the flavor, it seems to smell like an orange or not, try to find inspiration from the flavor wheel.

Develop the ability of taste

The development of taste is an ongoing task, constantly drinking, tasting, cup testing, trying to find out the flavor characteristics of each cup of coffee.

Even if you don't drink coffee, you can develop your sense of taste. Don't just eat unconsciously, but try to taste the food with your heart, feel its flavor and try to store it in your brain every time you chew. Because if you don't know the aroma of blackcurrant, how can you feel it in the coffee?

I hope this article can help you learn to taste, not only to taste coffee, but also to taste other pleasures in life.

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