Coffee tasting skills Coffee basics

Taste the coffee

A cup of coffee in front of you, do not rush to drink, should be like tasting tea and wine, there should be a gradual process, first pleasing to the eye, and then smell the aroma, and then begin to enjoy, in order to achieve the purpose of relaxation, refreshing and enjoyment.

Get the coffee cup.

Coffee is usually served in pocket cups. The ear of this kind of cup is too small for fingers to pass through, but even for large cups, do not pass your fingers through the ear. The correct way to hold the cup is to hold the cup with your thumb and forefinger and pick it up again.

Add milk / cream

When adding milk, if the milk ball is broken along the broken line at the end of the seal, tear open the seal and pour in; for ordinary milk, first pour into the milk spoon and then add it with the milk spoon. Add cream, bulk cream with coffee spoon scoop, small bag directly add.

Add sugar

When adding sugar to coffee, the sugar can be scooped out with a coffee spoon and added directly to the cup. If it is cube sugar, use a sugar clip to clip the cube sugar on the near side of the coffee plate, and then use a coffee spoon to add the cube sugar to the cup. If you put the cube sugar directly into the cup with a clip or hand, it may sometimes cause the coffee to spill out, thus soiling the clothes or tablecloth.

Use a coffee spoon

The coffee spoon is specially used to stir the coffee and should be taken out and placed on the cup and saucer when drinking. Do not use a coffee spoon to scoop a spoon of coffee to drink slowly, and do not use a coffee spoon to mash the cube sugar in the cup.

The coffee is too hot.

Freshly brewed coffee is so hot that you can gently stir it in the cup with a coffee spoon to cool it, or wait for it to cool naturally before drinking it. It is a very indecent move to cool the coffee with your mouth.

The use of cups and plates

The cups and saucers for coffee are specially made. They should be placed on the front or right side of the drinker, and the cup ear should point to the right. When drinking coffee, you can hold the ear of the cup in your right hand and hold the coffee plate gently in your left hand, slowly moving to your mouth and sipping. It is not advisable to swallow or bow down to the coffee cup. Don't make a noise when drinking coffee, and don't pick up the coffee cup from the coffee plate when adding coffee.

Drink coffee and snack

Sometimes you can have some snacks when drinking coffee, but don't alternate between drinking and eating coffee cups in one hand and snacks in the other. Put down the refreshments when drinking coffee and the coffee cups when eating snacks.