How to sip coffee cup correctly? does it take practice to test coffee cup sipping?

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The most direct way to express the quality of a cup of coffee is to judge the quality of the cup. In the coffee cup test, it is recommended to use the method of sipping.

Sipping coffee with exaggeration, making a lot of noise, what on earth is the purpose of sipping?

Cup sipping

In coffee tasting, flavor is a combination of taste and smell.

Taste and smell are related. They use the same type of receptor and are stimulated by molecules in solution or air.

Sipping can better judge and describe the flavor.

The general definition of taste is the feeling in the mouth when eating.

Traditionally, it is generally believed that taste has five main taste sensations: sweet, sour, bitter, salty and fresh.

Others suggest 11 specific taste sensations: sweet, sour, sharp, salty, bitter, greasy, insipid, astringent, sticky, watery, and disgusting.

The sense of smell is the aroma sensed through the nasal cavity, which needs to be volatile. If the surface of a substance does not release molecules into the air, it has no smell.

Roasted coffee has more than 800 aroma components, and a cup of coffee is usually made up of 80% aroma and 20% flavor.

When sipping, taste and smell can be maximized, activating as many taste and smell receptors as possible. It can also cover as many taste receptors as possible, as well as olfactory receptors located in the nasopharynx.

Studies have shown that the louder the cup of coffee, the better. Because sipping can improve the taste measurement efficiency of taste and post-nasal smell.

While inhaling the air, the coffee is foggy in the mouth, and the taste of the coffee is more evenly distributed in all areas of the mouth and tongue. The vaporized ingredients in coffee oil are also more easily released, rising from the nasopharynx behind the mouth into the nasal cavity to speed up the flavor judgment.

However, not all occasions are suitable for sipping coffee. Rotating or "chewing" coffee and letting it circle around the tongue is also a way to feel the combination of aroma and taste.

Sipping exercise

The practice of sipping is not difficult, is to quickly inhale the coffee liquid into the mouth, the practice is mainly the senses, how to describe the flavor of a cup of coffee, sipping to expand the flavor of coffee so that you can feel it more easily.

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