Umeshiso Little Dipper Cupping Spoon
Regular price $9.00Umeko Motoyoshi is an award-winning coffee writer, educator, and activist. We are happy to include their Umeshiso cupping spoons in our portfolio!
Umeshiso offers two styles of cupping spoons: the Big Dipper and the Little Dipper.
Available in Rainbow, Black, and Rose Gold, this Little Dipper is the shorter cupping spoon amongst the two, with a heavier weight and deeper bowl. The deeper bowl prevents spillage. This makes it ideal for slurping and long-haul cupping!
Handle Length: 4.5 in / 11.5 cm
Bowl Diameter: 1.9 in / 4.8 cm
Bowl Depth: 0.5 in / 1.1 cm
Umeko Motoyoshi is an award-winning coffee writer, educator, and activist. Through their work across platforms, they seek to make coffee accessible, empowering and welcoming for people of all identities.
A licensed Q-Grader with fourteen years of experience, Umeko is the founder of Umeshiso.com, an online coffee supply shop specializing in rainbow cupping spoons. They run the Instagram platform @umeshiso_, which focuses on coffee through a social justice lens. They also founded coffee sustainability platform @wastingcoffee and authored the book Not Wasting Coffee.
Currently Umeko spends their time consulting on social media for coffee businesses, writing coffee reviews, creating coffee education content, and shipping rainbow cupping spoons.
You can follow Umeko's writing here on the Umeshiso Blog!
Photo Credit: Noah Goodman
What is cupping? It’s a way to evaluate coffee quality. Cupping is favored by coffee professionals because it’s an easy way to taste multiple coffees at once. But anyone can do it!
If you’d like to cup at home, you just need one or more coffees, a cupping spoon, and a few uniform-size cups in the 6- to 8-oz range.
Add 12 grams of ground coffee to each cup and pour hot water directly onto the grounds, filling the cup all the way to the top. An aromatic crust of coffee grounds will form on the surface. After four minutes, break the crusts with a cupping spoon. Then use the cupping spoon to dip into the coffee, which you slurp from the spoon.
It sounds totally weird but - well, yes it is totally weird. But fun! If you have never cupped before, I recommend checking out an online article or video tutorial - luckily there are tons! Just do a google search for "how to cup coffee".
Photo and text provided by Umeko Motoyoshi
