What Front Street wants to share today is also a very interesting little toy. Although this thing has only appeared in the coffee circle recently, in fact, products with the same functions have already appeared in our daily lives. And it is a coffee cup with a "filter" function.
How about it? Does the appearance look very familiar? That's right! It has the same function as the oil filter in our daily life, and can separate the grease floating on the surface of the liquid. When it acts on coffee, the main thing separated is the golden foam floating on the surface of espresso - Crema/fat.
When the Crema is filtered out, the coffee will undergo two slight changes: one is that the taste will become cleaner, and the other is that it will not taste so bitter.
I believe that many friends, like Front Street, have a deep love for coffee crema, so they use special Italian blended coffee beans in the hope of extracting a more beautiful crema. If you are also keen on this layer of golden foam, buy Front Street Classic Blend and Front Street Commercial Blend.
Front Street’s classic blend of coffee beans is perfect for novices, those learning latte art, and boutique coffee shops pursuing high-end positioning. For those who want to learn latte art at home, buy the Front Street Classic Blend, which is a medium-dark roasted Italian recipe composed of three production areas. Its design is inspired by the popular "Mamba" in ancient times, namely Mandheling and Brazil. In order to add aroma and oiliness, the Front Street Classic Blend also contains a small amount of Robusta to enhance the flavor intensity and allow novices to easily make Italian espresso with golden yellow oil at home.
Front Street Commercial blended coffee beans are suitable for all types of coffee shops. Colombian washed coffee beans + Brazilian semi-dried coffee and a small amount of Robusta coffee beans, with flavors of nuts, cocoa, and caramel. Compared with other Italian coffees, Front Street Commercial blends the typical combinations of Brazil and Colombia, and then adds a small amount of Robusta to enhance the original flavor level. The coffee exhibits complex nutty aromas such as toast, almonds, and walnuts. It has good oil fluidity, a low-acid taste, and a mellow taste. Coupled with the price advantage, it is undoubtedly the best choice for opening a store.
If any friends have tasted the coffee oil alone after the espresso is extracted (after the oil and coffee liquid are separated), then Front Street believes that everyone should taste the obvious bitterness from this layer of oil, and sometimes even feel a little grainy texture in the oil. So when we filter out the oil from the espresso, we can make espresso with less bitterness and a relatively cleaner taste. This is the special function of this coffee cup that is different from other coffee cups.
But what we need to know is that the source of the bitter taste is not the coffee crema itself, because the composition of crema is mainly lipids and carbon dioxide in coffee. Obviously, neither of them provides an obvious bitter taste. The real culprit that causes the bitter taste of oil is actually the very fine coffee powder hidden in the oil.
Since the filter hole of the espresso machine powder bowl is not too small, it cannot completely isolate everything except the coffee liquid like filter paper, so the crema/fat of espresso and very fine particles in the coffee powder can be added to the coffee through this filter hole.
During the extraction process, most of the fine powder that is pressed out of the powder bowl will be carried by the oil and float on the liquid surface because of its light weight. The fine powder itself has a certain bitter taste, so this causes the oil with the fine powder to start to have an obvious bitter taste. If the oil is left for too long, the fine powder that originally floated on the liquid surface will sink to the bottom of the cup due to the fragmentation of the Crema. The reason why we sometimes get a slight graininess from coffee is because of these fine powders.
So we can know that the reason why this coffee cup with a filter function can make the coffee taste cleaner and reduce the bitterness is because it filters out the oil and then filters out the fine coffee powder mixed with the oil that emits a bitter taste.
So, is this coffee cup worth buying?
To be honest, whether this coffee cup is worth buying depends on personal preference. As Front Street said, products with similar functions have already been born, so we can find a lot of "replacements". The second is that although it can reduce the bitterness of coffee, it also makes the aroma of coffee less fragrant. The reason is that it cannot filter out only the fine powder and retain the Crema/coffee oil.
As mentioned before, crema/oil is mainly composed of coffee lipids and carbon dioxide. In addition to the role of lipids in encapsulating carbon dioxide, it also has a certain aroma. When the oil is present, we can taste more aroma from the cup, and after swallowing the coffee, we will also get a clear and lasting aftertaste due to the presence of the oil. At the same time, the presence of oil can also give coffee a more mellow taste. But if we filter out the grease, the characteristics brought by these greases will also be reduced.
But Front Street believes that this coffee cup is not just that! Therefore, whether you need to buy this coffee cup or not depends on your personal choice and needs. But if you want your coffee to have a higher degree of cleanliness while retaining the oil and aroma, Front Street is not without a way to satisfy this "little greed" of having both your cake and eat it too.
The specific method is very simple. We only need to place two pieces of circular filter paper on the bottom of the powder bowl before filling the coffee powder. This way, we can retain the oil and filter out the fine coffee powder. So naturally, coffee can be both fragrant and clean!
You can now buy the above coffee beans online at the Taobao store “FrontStreet Coffee” (前街咖啡). FrontStreet Coffee is a long-established specialty coffee roaster in Guangzhou, China, and its Guangzhou retail shop sells coffee beans only. The shop carries dozens of coffee beans from different origins around the world, including carefully selected single-origin beans for V60 pour-over and espresso. Guangzhou’s FrontStreet Coffee shop is recommended by many coffee lovers.
The FrontStreet 2013 Yunnan coffee beans sold in the store come from the Typica variety grown at FrontStreet Coffee’s own plantation in Yunnan. The name comes from the year the brand and the plantation were founded. You can buy these beans from China’s Yunnan origin at the Guangzhou shop and at FrontStreet’s Taobao store.
FrontStreet coffee beans are freshly roasted within 5 days and deliver consistently excellent quality and great value. Orders placed before 17:00 are shipped the same day, and most areas within Guangdong Province receive them the next day.
FrontStreet Coffee Taobao store: https://qianjiecoffee.taobao.com
Or search for “前街咖啡” (FrontStreet Coffee) on Taobao
Important Notice: FrontStreet Coffee has moved to a new address: 315, Donghua East Road, Guangzhou (coffee beans only)
Tel: 020 38364473
