The popularity of hanging ear coffee bag far exceeds our imagination. Due to its convenience, it can be taken anywhere to make coffee and enjoy! However, what is popular is only hanging ears, and there are still some deviations in the way some people use it.
It’s not that hanging ear coffee can only be made using traditional brewing methods, but some brewing methods can affect our drinking experience! Therefore, today let’s first re understand what hanging ear coffee is!
What is Ear Hanging Coffee?
Hanging Ear Coffee is a type of coffee brewed from a convenient coffee bag invented by the Japanese. Due to the small ear like paper pieces hanging on the left and right sides of the coffee bag, it is affectionately called Hanging Ear Coffee Bag, and the coffee brewed from it is called Hanging Ear Coffee!
The design concept of the hanging ear coffee bag originated from the hanging rope tea bag (which is a tea bag with a hanging rope), but if you design this drip coffee bag directly like a tea bag, its playability will have no other use except for soaking (and the taste of the coffee will be ordinary)!
So the inventor began to ponder and try to simulate the filter cup used for hand washing, and ultimately succeeded, he made it! Using non-woven fabric as the material for coffee bags can effectively isolate coffee powder. There is a paper ear on one side of the non-woven fabric that can be hooked onto the cup. That’s right, the original ear was single-sided, so it can be hung onto the cup for drip filtration brewing! But due to the fact that during the brewing process, the “single eared” coffee bag cannot withstand the weight of hot water continuously injected from the source, so after several optimizations, the “double eared” hanging ear coffee bag we now use was born! So, let’s take a look at which production methods can affect the drinking experience of hanging ear coffee!
1、 Soak it directly as a tea bag
Many friends mistake hanging ear coffee bags for tea bags and soak them directly without opening them! What would be the consequence of this?
That’s right, the final coffee flavor is dull and has a hint of wood and paper flavor! The reason for this is that although the material of the hanging ear bag is the same as that of the tea bag, its thin and thick thickness is different. When not opened, we can only inject water from the periphery of the hanging ear bag, which leads to a long time for hot water to soak into the coffee powder located in the middle! If the soaking ends early, it will be easy to get a bland cup of coffee (coffee flavored water would be more appropriate)! But even if soaked for a long time, the gradually cooling hot water is difficult to extract enough coffee powder from the center without stirring motion;
Alternatively, before the coffee powder in the center is fully extracted, the taste of the outer coffee powder and the material of the ear bag will be fully released in advance. We all know that it is best not to extract the soluble substances in the coffee part, as it may have negative flavors such as bitterness and impurities. In addition, the paper flavor of the ear bag, although not difficult to drink, is also difficult to taste good.
2.Treat hanging ears as instant for brewing
Many friends often treat hanging ear coffee as instant coffee for brewing, but in fact, hanging ear coffee is completely different from instant coffee! Instant coffee is made into powder by drying the extracted coffee liquid, so that we can melt its particles after adding hot water, which is actually restoring it to coffee liquid.
But hanging ears are different. The coffee particles that hang ears are directly ground from coffee beans, which contain 70% of insoluble substances, namely wood fibers. When we treat it as instant for brewing, aside from the taste sensation, it’s difficult to have a good drinking experience with just a sip of coffee and a mouthful of residue.
3、 Inject too much hot water in one breath
Most friends use a household water kettle when brewing hanging ear coffee. If one is not careful, it is easy to inject too much water, causing the coffee powder to overflow. The ending is like the above, which can easily lead to a bad experience of one sip of coffee and one sip of residue.
4、 The cup is too short/too small
When using a shorter cup for brewing hanging ears, the coffee will be soaked simultaneously during the brewing process, making it easy to extract the overly bitter taste.
So, how should hanging ear coffee be brewed correctly?
Roughly, it is to choose a higher container to reduce the soaking and extraction process; Inject a small amount of hot water multiple times to prevent the hot water from overflowing with coffee grounds; Just choose the appropriate brewing water temperature and ratio~
But in fact, whether it’s drip filtration brewing or soaking extraction, the production of hanging ear coffee is definitely not limited to a single extraction method! However, while we are making coffee, it is best to avoid behaviors that can create negative experiences, because only in this way can we reduce the negative feelings we have when consuming coffee!
Post time: Apr-01-2024