Maximise coffee’s full potential with the Compass; a stylish, specifically designed hands-free temperature sensor from Nucleus Coffee Tools. Fully adjustable and able to be used as a handheld thermometer, the Compass has been designed to get the most out of your coffee tasting experience by monitoring temperature changes and creating opportunities to highlight flavours and notes throughout a cup of coffee, from start to finish.
Fancy Features
The Compass is a simple and versatile temperature sensor which allows for easy monitoring across multiple coffee samples. With hands-free temperature reading, an easy-to-read display, and a fast, one-second reaction time, it has never been easier to maximise flavours and discover delicate moments throughout your brew. Not only is the Compass height adjustable to allow for use with all different types of servers and cups, it also features a removable temperature sensor so it can be used as a handheld sensor for different applications. The Compass utilizes an infra-red temperature sensor, ensuring that the readings are precise and contactless, without the need for a thermometer probe to enter your cup to gauge the temperature. Its minimal design is simple and non-invasive; Compass is there to assist the user in their coffee experience without trying to steal the show or get in the way.
But Why Is Temperature Important?
If you’ve been around coffee for any length of time, you would no doubt be familiar with the importance of temperature when it comes to the brewing of coffee: the hotter the temperature of the brew water, the quicker the oils, acids, and caffeine is extracted, which ultimately affects the flavour and quality of your brew. But what is often neglected in coffee consumption is the temperature of the brew as you drink it, and how its changing temperature can affect its flavour profile.
To understand the intricacies of coffee profiling and flavours in the cup, it is important to firstly cover how our taste and tactile receptors work. A taste receptor facilitates the sensation of taste when food or other substances enter the mouth. There are different types of taste receptors which send information to the brain for the five main tastes: sweet, salty, bitter, sour, and umami. Temperature can vary the sensitivity of taste and tactile receptors on our tongue, in our mouth and in our throat, which can change the flavours we experience in our food and drink. Very high temperatures and very low temperatures make our taste receptors less sensitive, but there is a ‘golden zone’ of temperature range where our receptors become most awake. These peaks in sensitivity vary for each receptor; our hot tactile receptors peak sensitivity at about 45 degrees Celsius, sweetness receptors peak sensitivity at about 37 degrees, and salt sensitivity peaks closer to 32 degrees.
These changes in sensitivity cause the same products to taste different when consumed at different temperatures. This is why you might experience different flavours as your hot soup cools down, or from the beginning to the end of your cup of coffee. As your brew cools, the changes in temperature causes your taste receptors to become more sensitive, so you will be able to taste more subtle, floral, and delicate flavours in your cup. And its this process of flavour discovery that the Compass has been designed for: to be a companion for the service of a cup of coffee.
The Compass is there to uplift the coffee drinking experience and to help the customer to more clearly identify the tasting notes within a cup, from start to finish. This simple, yet useful tool makes it easy for you to create reference points for your different coffees and then use them as a guide when serving brews to your customers. The Compass is also a great option for maintaining quality control over multiple brews if you’re dialing in a recipe, by ensuring that tasting is done at the same temperature so that the test is accurate and consistent.
The Compass Beverage Tool is now available for Pre-Order at Bombora Supplies. If you have any questions regarding the Compass or would like more information, feel free to email our team at [email protected] or give us a call on 1300 724 249.
