How to select and maintain coffee cup size

Coffee cup size

Some people say that the intensity of a cup of coffee can be judged by the size of the cup.

In order to keep the coffee mellow and slow down the temperature drop, coffee cups are generally thick. According to their size, coffee cups can be divided into three types:

Small coffee cups with less than 100ml: mostly used to hold strong and scalding Italian espresso or individual coffee. If you want to serve espresso, pour about 50 milliliters at a time, that is, half a cup, almost in one mouthful. But that warm and rich feeling lingered for a long time.

About 200ml medium cup: this is the most common coffee cup, general fancy coffee as long as it is not particularly complex can use such a cup, the right size, so that you have enough room to add milk and sugar.

Large cups of more than 300 milliliters: coffee with a lot of milk, such as lattes or mochas, uses mugs to enjoy it on the one hand, and there is plenty of room for milk boxes of sugar to be fully mixed and emit attractive fragrances on the other.

The color of the coffee cup

The color of the coffee liquid is amber and usually clear, and some coffee may have coffee grounds.

In order to have a good visual enjoyment when tasting coffee, it is best to choose a white coffee cup, especially the inner wall is white. However, now more and more coffee cups are painted with a variety of colors on the inner wall, which will affect the evaluation of coffee color.

How to warm the cup

Putting coffee in a warm cup is an indispensable step in tasting coffee, but the method of warming the cup is very simple.

The easiest way is to pour hot water directly into the coffee cup, flush it over and over again, and the coffee cup will become warm.

If you have a dishdryer, put the coffee cups in and heat them.

If you have several friends to entertain you, you might as well boil a pot of hot water and put a few coffee cup colleagues into hot water for a few minutes.

How to clean coffee cups

Coffee is easy to leave coffee stains on the inner wall of the cup, how to effectively clean without harming the coffee cup?

First of all, you can use a neutral and mild detergent with a soft cloth to scrub, if the effect is not good, you can squeeze two drops of lemon juice into the cup, soak for a while and then rinse clean. If the stain is really hard to remove, you can scrub it with toothpaste.

But in any case, avoid cleaning with hard brushes and alkaline detergents, and if possible, clean as soon as possible after drinking coffee.

Bone porcelain cup

People like to taste coffee with bone china cups and enjoy the mellow aroma in the cups. So what kind of cup is a bone porcelain cup?

The bone porcelain cup is made of high-grade porcelain clay mixed with animal bone powder. it is characterized by light texture, soft color, strong light transmittance, uniform no impurities, yellowing in the light, crisp and pleasant percussion sound, and most importantly, it has good heat preservation, which gives you enough time to taste the coffee slowly. Usually the ratio of porcelain clay to bone meal is 3:1. If the content of bone meal is too high, it is easy to break when fired.

When washing bone porcelain cups, you should not use overheated water, nor can you use alkaline detergents. It is best to wash them directly with soft cloth or hands.