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The programmable intelligent tea-drinking machine solves the pain points of tea brewing and ushers in a new era of Chinese-style tea drinks.

氪友6cc52025-08-25 15:39
Intelligent tea drinking machine: Pressure pulse extraction technology, accurately replicating the master's craftsmanship, supporting DIY programming and cloud recipe sharing.

Programmable Quantitative Tea Drinking Machine: The Intelligent Disruptor of Traditional Tea Ceremony

The core reason for the global popularity of coffee machines is that they use standardized technology to meet the needs of "efficiency, convenience, and consistency", precisely matching the scenarios of large - scale commercial catering and home convenience. As the world's largest tea - consuming country, the tea - brewing machine market in China has long suffered from homogenization: regardless of high - end or low - end models, they only focus on container upgrades and heating optimization, without breaking through the traditional "boiling water soaking" process. This bottleneck has given rise to two major pain points: first, the tea concentration is unstable, and the taste varies greatly after multiple infusions, making it difficult to meet the standardization needs of chain brands and the consistency requirements of households; second, the efficiency is low, as boiling water brewing takes a long time, which is out of touch with the instant needs of fast - paced consumption. These pain points also leave room for innovation for programmable quantitative tea - drinking machines.

A Rigid Demand Born from Pain Points

Data from the China Tea Circulation Association shows that in 2024, the market scale of freshly made tea drinks exceeded 300 billion yuan, but 92% of the stores still rely on manual brewing. The training cycle for traditional tea artisans is as long as 18 months, and unstable production during peak hours leads to an average annual loss of over 80,000 yuan per store due to customer complaints. After visiting 300 tea - drinking stores, the founding team found that the tea - brewing equipment on the market generally has three fatal flaws: boiling water brewing destroys tea polyphenols, it is unable to precisely replicate the master's techniques, and the production speed lags behind orders by more than 30% during peak hours.

Breaking through Technological Barriers: From the Laboratory to the Taste Buds

In the current situation where the tea - drinking industry pursues the dual goals of "efficiency upgrade" and "quality replication", the "pressure pulse extraction" technology has achieved a key breakthrough, successfully transforming the laboratory - level extraction solution into a consumer - end solution that can be implemented, bringing a technology - driven value reconstruction to the industry.

The core advantage of this technology lies in the precise improvement of extraction efficiency: by constructing a closed extraction environment in a 0.8MPa high - pressure chamber, the water flow impacts the tea raw materials with high - frequency pulses of 12 times per second. Experimental verification shows that this process can increase the precipitation rate of theanine, the core flavor substance in Longjing tea, by 40%, significantly reducing the raw material loss of high - quality tea. At the same time, it shortens the extraction cycle, providing efficiency support for large - scale production or precise home brewing.

In the quality control link, the technical solution is embedded with a food - grade spectral sensor, which can monitor the chromaticity value of the tea soup in real - time and control the deviation within the range of ΔE ≤ 1.5, ensuring the stability of the color of each batch of tea soup. More importantly, when the sensor detects that the catechin concentration in the tea soup reaches the preset threshold, the system will automatically terminate the extraction, avoiding the bitter taste caused by over - extraction from a technical perspective and ensuring the consistency of the beverage taste.

To meet the demand for "replicating intangible cultural heritage techniques" in brewing traditional famous teas, this technology is equipped with a dual - PID temperature control module, which improves the temperature control accuracy to ±0.5℃, and can precisely reproduce the traditional process requirements of "quick brewing at 98℃" for Wuyi Rock Tea, solving the industry pain point that temperature fluctuations affect the flavor in manual brewing. In addition, to lower the user operation threshold, the APP developed for the technical solution has a built - in database of 200 sets of master - level brewing parameters. Users can fully execute the 18 standard brewing procedures of "Chaozhou Gongfu Tea" with one - click operation, realizing the integration of traditional tea culture and modern technology.

The DIY Programmable Fun of Tea - Drinking Machines: From Parameter Tuning to Flavor Creation

While competitors are still researching how to make machines "boil water", this product has evolved the tea - drinking machine into a "flavor control terminal". The founder revealed that the next - generation product will integrate an AI tongue - sense simulation system. Users only need to select "richer" or "fresher", and the machine can automatically adjust the pressure curve and extraction time. At the same time, users can manually adjust the water temperature (with an accuracy of ±0.5℃), water pressure (0.1 - 2.0 Bar), extraction time (1 - 300 seconds), and water - injection rhythm (pulse/spiral/gradient mode), and even set phased parameters for different parts of the tea leaves (bud tips/old leaves). For example, for Longjing tea, a specific curve can be set: pre - wake the tea at a low temperature of 75℃ for 10 seconds → main brewing at 85℃ for 40 seconds → activate the fresh taste with pulse water injection.

Turn tea - brewing into a "flavor hacking" experiment: Open the cloud API of all brewing parameters. Users can drag five curves of altitude, tree age, roasting degree, pressure, and pulse frequency on their mobile phones like adjusting EQ, and the changes will be synchronized to the machine in real - time within 0.1 seconds. Once the recipe is written, a QR code will be generated immediately, and friends can scan the code to replicate the same "your taste". Advanced players can use the built - in Lua script to program the 8 RFID tea - bag slots into a "blind - box sequence" - the machine will automatically switch tea bags according to your mood, weather, or calendar schedule, and project different 3D tea - dance Easter eggs in AR. At the same time, the official will hold a "hackathon" every month, and the champion recipe will be written into the next - version firmware, so that every next sip of global users will bear your signature.