Cup test: the effect of brewing time on the taste of coffee

1. Why do you cook coffee for 1 minute? what if you cook it for 2 minutes or half a minute?

2. In the process of making coffee in the siphon pot, why stir it three times? what if it is stirred ten times?

3. When different coffee beans are boiled in a siphon pot, are they all for 1 minute?

For the above three questions, I will give you the answer to the first question today. In fact, we actually know these answers in our hearts, and I think you are the same.

This time the coffee brewing process is the same as the previous process, the difference is the coffee brewing time, mentioned earlier to cook one minute, there are three times of stirring: when adding coffee powder, 30 seconds, 1 minute. During the coffee making process, Uncle Dou asked me to cook for 30 seconds, while the coffee was stirred for 15 seconds and 30 seconds respectively when adding coffee powder.

Take out two small coffee cups and pour out the coffee in the siphon pot. Take out the cup test spoon (if you don't have a professional cup spoon, you can also use a home spoon instead) to scoop a small amount of coffee, sip the coffee liquid in the spoon and quickly suck it into your mouth, then the coffee liquid enters the upper jaw of your mouth with air, and you can feel the taste of coffee in the way of supplies (at this time, you can also biaji the mouth, which is allowed during the evaluation).

There are several issues to pay attention to in the Cupping of coffee here:

1. In the cup test, we only allow one variable for coffee. For example, in this coffee, the coffee beans are the same as the making utensils and the temperature and the grinding degree of the coffee. The only difference is the cooking time.

2. When testing a cup, we must first have a comparable cup of coffee, that is, the so-called standard taste. Without comparison, we cannot understand the effect of a variable on coffee, just as this time we studied the influence of coffee brewing time and coffee taste.

3. We also need two cups of water, one for cleaning the mouth, that is, to gargle, or to drink some water to dilute the effect of coffee on taste. Another cup of water is used to soak the coffee spoon to clean up the effect of the coffee remaining on the spoon on the taste of the coffee.

When I use Cupping to scoop coffee and sip it into my mouth, I also think it tastes good, and I don't think the short brewing time of coffee has any problem with the taste of coffee. So put the Cupping spoon into clean water, and after drinking a mouthful of water, again with the Cupping spoon scoop the first brewed coffee throat sucked into the mouth, taste this coffee and the remaining coffee memory, only to find that the original difference is really obvious.

The taste of the coffee brewed in 30 seconds gives me the feeling that it is sour and shallow than the coffee brewed in 1 minute, and it is not as rich in flavor as the coffee brewed in 1 minute. In terms of color, the coffee brewed in 30 seconds is lighter.

After cleaning the siphon pot (the cleaning method of the siphon pot will be explained later), make the coffee again. This time, the other conditions remain the same, only the length of time of brewing the coffee. This time, Uncle Dou asked me to cook the coffee for 2 minutes. Three times stirring: coffee powder to the siphon pot, 1 minute, 2 minutes.

Cupping this coffee using the same method above, and compare it with the first two coffees, and the conclusions are as follows:

The coffee brewed in 2 minutes tastes more bitter than the coffee brewed in 30 seconds and 1 minute, and has almost no acidity. The level of coffee taste is thin, and it is not as rich as coffee brewed in 1 minute. The color should be darker than the first two cups of coffee.

At this point, the relationship between coffee taste and time appeared.

Other things being equal, the shorter the coffee brewing time, the more sour the coffee will be, and the longer the time will be, the more bitter the coffee will be. Coffee brewing time is too short or too long, will lead to a thin level of taste, the taste is not rich.

At this point, the relationship between Cupping coffee taste and cooking time is over, and the following article will share the relationship between coffee stirring times and coffee taste with friends. Of course, the general method is also similar to the one mentioned above, if you are interested in the research, you can take a cup test at home.