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Coffee lovers should have heard of the Smart Cup, a coffee brewing device, at one time or another. What is so "smart" about the Smart Cup? This time, FrontStreet Coffee will talk about what is "smart" about the Smart Cup. What is its brewing principle?
Clever Cup, originated in Taiwan, full name Clever Coffee Dripper, is a filter cup with a controllable on-off valve at the bottom. Because there is Clever in the name, and because the cup is easy to use, Smart Cup has become its nickname. (In principle, only Mr. Clever brand filter cups can be called smart cups, and similar cups from other brands can only be called switch cups or smart cups.) Coffee Dripper means that this cup can be used as a Pour over(V60) filter cup. Because there is Clever in the name, and because the cup is easy to use, Smart Cup has become its nickname.
Many coffee lovers come to Front Street and ask if they like to drink Pour over(V60) coffee but don’t want to operate it as complicated as the V60. Is there any introduction to such a brewing appliance? At this time, the barista on Front Street will recommend a smart cup.
1. One cup is dual-purpose. It can be used as a normal filter cup for pass-through extraction, and it can also be used for immersion extraction to make coffee.
2. Simple operation: The immersion extraction method is less affected by water injection and techniques, and is more friendly to friends who are new to the coffee pit and have difficulty improving flow control and water injection in a short period of time. As long as the powder-water ratio, grinding degree, water temperature, time and other parameters are fixed, you can basically get delicious and replicable coffee.
Smart Cup Principle
The key to the design lies in the piston valve at the bottom of the filter cup. After boiling water is injected into the filter cup, the water pressure will automatically close the piston valve to stop the water, and the coffee powder can be fully soaked in it. After the soaking is completed, place the filter cup on the mug, and the bottom plate will be pressed to cause the piston valve to open, and the coffee will slowly flow into the cup.
Next, use Front Street Strawberry Candy coffee beans, a Gesha blend made from Panama and Costa Rica, to see how the coffee tastes in the Smart Cup.
Origin: Costa Rica + Panama
Altitude: 1700m
Treatment method: raisin honey treatment + washing
Varieties: Geisha, Catura, Catuai
Front Street Brewing Parameters
Amount of powder: 20g
Pink to water ratio: 1:15
Water temperature: 90-91 degrees
Grinding degree: EK43s grinder scale with 9 scales (fine sugar can be coarser and finer)
How FrontStreet Coffee uses a smart cup to brew coffee
Fold the filter paper and place it on the smart cup. Wet the filter paper with hot water so that the filter paper fits the wall of the cup.
2. Pour the ground coffee powder into the cup, pour in 225ml of hot water (91℃), close the lid and wait for 4 minutes. (Stirring action can be added appropriately to improve the extraction rate of coffee.)
3. After 4 minutes, place the smart cup on the sharing pot, and the piston valve will automatically open, allowing all the coffee liquid to drip onto the sharing pot. Now you can taste the coffee.
Brewing flavor: the fragrance of jasmine, the fullness and sweetness of berry juice, the aftertaste of almonds, the sweetness of raisins, and the taste is smooth 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
