If coffee is the best excuse to take a moment to relax or to dedicate a few minutes of your day to a friend, the set that accompanies it must be of great support. Coffee cups, in fact, are of fundamental importance to enjoy the drink in all its essence and to make the moment even more magical and comfortable.

That's why choosing the right cup is important, especially because not everyone prefers the same type, just like the aroma of coffee. Finding the right balance between container and contents is the key to a unique and inimitable experience!

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To make the coffee break even more tasty, Caffè Aiello offers an interesting choice of cups and cups: made of glass, ceramic and a wide range of decorations, the products available allow you to choose according to your personal tastes and needs:

• Tazzine da Caffè in Vetro: ideal for those who love to enjoy coffee wrapped in glass, both hot and cold
• Tazzine Dec in Ceramica: designed to make even a decaffeinated coffee tasty, but they also adapt perfectly to more intense and enveloping aromas
• Tazzine Rosse in Ceramica: for those who prefer to give a touch of colour to their kitchen or bar and, above all, do not go unnoticed
• Tazzine Vintage: perfect to evoke the times gone by but always current, enhancing the timeless taste of coffee
• Caffeino in Vetro: great for a coffee on the fly, to take down like a shot!
• Tazzine Caffè in Ceramica: classicism enclosed inside a cup, categorically in ceramic and absolutely to have at home
• Tazze Cappuccino in Vetro: to enjoy a hot, creamy, foamy drink in all its goodness!

Coffee cup: is there a perfect version?

The answer is: there is a typical cup that, due to its characteristics, maintains the original taste of the espresso. Specifically:

• it's made of hard porcelain and does not affect the aroma of the coffee
• cooked at 1400°C it reacts uniformly to thermal shocks (i.e. temperature changes)
• it retains heat, allowing the drink to cool slowly
• easily washable even in the dishwasher
• shock and scratch resistant
• the total capacity must be between 65 and 70 cc and must contain a maximum of 25 cc of coffee: only in this way the aromas can be released freely and arrive straight to the nose
• elegant par excellence, it's good for any occasion

That said, appearance and aesthetics also want their share:

• the shape must be truncated cone shaped, which enhances the appearance, taste and aroma of the mixture and prolongs the permanence of the cream and odours
• the egg-shaped base maintains the compactness and colour of the espresso
• the thickness affects the temperature, first lowering it and then keeping it constant
• the lower part must be thicker to become gradually thinner towards the upper part, in order to make the contact with the lips pleasant
• the edge should not be chipped and should preferably be slightly rounded
• the handle must be wide enough to allow for an easy and handy grip and avoid burns on the middle finger
• the colour must be categorically white, tending towards mother-of-pearl, to create a pleasant contrast with the shades of coffee
• you always have to accompany the cup with its saucer

In summary, the ideal coffee cup is made of porcelain. But there are really many people who prefer the glass cup, claiming that the taste of espresso is definitely more intense and tasty. What really changes?

Glass coffee: transparency and elegance

The choice of glass coffee comes from the desire to taste coffee in all its nuances, including the visual ones. The transparency of the material, in fact, allows to enhance the hazelnut colour of the typical Italian espresso and to start tasting it with the eyes even before the taste buds! The flaw lies in the low thermal insulation capacity of the glass: coffee, therefore, does not stay so hot for long, but it can be a solution for those who, for example, prefer to taste it warm.

According to connoisseurs, then, the shape of the glass cup facilitates the formation of a taller and more compact cream, a real delight for the palate! Finally, the thin edge of a tall, narrow glass would create a sensation of extreme pleasure at first contact with the lips.

If, therefore, the porcelain cup remains the best solution for enjoying the best coffee, the glass version is a touch of class, elegance and good taste. At the end of the day, it's not perfection that wins, but personal taste: in glass or porcelain, the important thing is that the coffee is of excellent quality!