1. Ceramic cups: the most versatile coffee vessels. There are white porcelain, bone china and so on. Smooth surface, light texture, soft color, glaze can be applied to different colors and patterns. Among them, bone china is light and transparent. Porcelain cup applicability is the most extensive, for fine coffee, white porcelain cup is most conducive to observing the color concentration of coffee liquid.
2. Pottery cups: made of fired clay, the surface is relatively rough, strong texture, quite simple and Zen sense of silence. The pursuit of culture and history of the coffee player's favorite. The disadvantage is that the coffee scale is easier to adhere to the surface of the cup, not conducive to cleaning.
3. Glass cup: transparent body, double glass cup with better insulation effect. And use it to hold espresso and latte, macchiato such fancy coffee, can be very good to show the layered sense of coffee.
4. Plastic cups: the temperature of the coffee is usually higher, with plastic, paper cups to drink coffee, the smell of the cup is very likely to destroy the original flavor of the coffee, affecting the taste of coffee. These materials contain harmful substances will also be released to harm the health, but also very environmentally friendly Oh.
There are two types of coffee cups: wide-mouth cups and straight-mouth cups. The shape of the mouth of the cup affects the first contact between the coffee and the taste buds when you enter the mouth, which determines which flavor of the coffee is the first to come into close contact with you.
1, wide mouth cup: as the name suggests, the mouth of the cup will be flared outward, more open. This also allows the coffee to better reach a wider range of taste buds, allowing your tongue to feel the full flavor of the coffee, especially the acidic flavor experience.
2, straight mouth cup: that is, the mouth of the cup is perpendicular to the table, the entrance of the coffee is more concentrated, direct contact with the sweet zone and the middle zone, the taste is more balanced.
The wall thickness of the coffee cup is also divided into thick and thin.
1, thick walled cups: more conducive to heat preservation, more suitable for drinking latte or cappuccino and other fancy coffee.
2, thin walled cups: have a more delicate touch in the mouth, more suitable for drinking a single product, can feel the coffee from hot to cold at different temperatures to show the different flavors.