Hand-made coffee is often used in smart cup brewing manual

Smart Cup brewing manual-from ineedcoffee.

This is a very interesting coffee brewing appliance, called the Clever Coffee Dripper-- Smart Cup. In recent years, the smart cup has attracted so much attention from coffee enthusiasts that suppliers claim that it can be used to extract the best drip coffee and French coffee without any shortcomings.

Hey, what about the truth? Let's try it ourselves today.

First of all, prepare everything you need.

Here is a list of some necessary equipment: smart cup, filter paper, hot kettle, mixing spoon, glass

All right, now let's get started.

1. Release filter paper

The operating core of the smart cup is very similar to the manual Melitta tapered filter coffee maker, which is this:

For the brewing of the Smart Cup, the manual here gives some better additions:

Open the valve at the bottom of the filter cup, place it on the cup or thermos bottle, and remember to close the valve when you take it away.

The extraction time needs to be accurately controlled (unlike the Melitta style, coffee starts to flow as soon as it is brewed).

Cover with a lid to maintain the temperature of the extraction.

Put a cup holder on the filter cup.

2. Add the coffee and cover the filter cup.

Sweet Maria`s provides a lot of information on how to make good use of smart cups to make coffee.

Body

Whether a cup of coffee is perfect or not, Body must be the most important. Everyone's favorite flower fragrance, or richer and better flavor, can be achieved through the Smart Cup. Dharma pressure is actually very good, but because it has a high concentration, it will drink too much caffeine, make your stomach uncomfortable and even tremble all over your body. But I do fall in love with coffee. What should I do? smart Cup will be a good choice. Its concentration is just right and it can produce quite good Body, which is better than most dripping filters using paper filter paper. Some people use Swiss Gold filter paper or gold filter paper to get good body, but this filter paper will filter out too much grease, too close to French. The smart cup is almost perfect in this respect, and its excess grease will be sucked away by the filter paper, leaving a very delicate cleanliness.

3. Stew with water injection, pay attention to evenly

There is a problem here. For the Smart Cup, most of the cups we use every day are not suitable for it. They are either too wide or too narrow for you to sit comfortably and operate it. It is not easy to find a cup that suits it. Therefore, I very much hope that the Smart Cup will improve this design, and the valve should be controlled by a button or something. Of course, this may complicate the design, manufacture or increase the cost, but everyone is willing to pay the extra $10.

Haha, I have to admit, this is really lazy ~

4. continue to inject water

Sweet Maria`s Tom mentioned on his website that he used smart cups in a variety of ways in order to find his favorite. It turns out that he is also a little lazy, the following method is very good, it seems easier. You can try some different methods to find what works best for you.

Grind it finer, perhaps as shown in the medium fine grind shown in "Coffee Grind Chart".

You don't have to control the weight of coffee and water.

Use No. 4 filter paper, look at it with your eyes, and add coffee to the 1x3 of the filter cup.

Pour water and stir immediately, leaving about an inch of space at the top to release the coffee flavor and close the lid.

During this time, try not to stir, usually after about 3 minutes, pour it into the cup.

In the extraction, you can choose to stir.

5. Close the lid

6. Smart Cup-extraction completed!

Conclusion

Although it doesn't satisfy all the taste buds, it's only $20, which is a very satisfactory deal. I suggest you buy one now. You will find that the coffee made from it is likely to exceed the pressure pot, Melitta or hand drip filter.

Advantages

The price is reasonable around $20.

Extraction time is very easy to control.

Either No. 4 or No. 6 tapered filter paper can be used.

There are very good videos and documentation on how to use the Smart Cup cleverly.

Shortcoming

Its design is not suitable for most coffee cups (coffee cups are too wide).

It doesn't suit most thermos either (thermos are too narrow).

There is no heat preservation function, which reminds people that the coffee is a little cold when drinking, especially if it takes a long time.

Smart cups and cup holders made of smooth plastic are too slippery, so using some non-slip materials will be a good supplement.

See, a mug is of no use to a smart cup. It is always too big or too small.)

The pictures and related resources are from ineedcoffee.com and Sweet Maria`s.

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