I have a lot of friends around me who are either professional or are becoming professional baristas. Their personalities are different, but they all seem to have a little in common, that is, they are usually very wooden and shy, which makes people feel that they are a humble and courteous gentleman.
But as soon as I talked about my professional coffee, I began to gush endlessly and mouth... Just like a primary school teacher standing on a podium and preaching to a group of students, I want to pass on all my life's learning to you!
And I originally knew nothing about coffee, and under their "words and deeds", I actually became an entry-level little white.
I don't know if all professional baristas are such cute little talkers, but I swear, at first I just wanted to ask them: "If I'm tired of shopping and I happen to have a Starbucks or other coffee shop, how should I choose a cup of coffee that suits me?" ”
A friend used to work as a barista at Starbucks and used to represent stores in many competitions. He has a pair of very good-looking hands that can make very beautiful pulls out. The sentence he said the most, and the one that impressed me the most, was "Coffee, for us ordinary people, is not a drink?" Just suit your own tastes! ”
So I combined myself with the first, second, third time... From my personal experience of going to the café, I summarized the following extremely simple experience:
For ordinary people, coffee is divided into two types - sweet and bitter
About sweet coffee, some people will say, "How can it be sweet?" The coffee was all bitter. "That's true, but those who can make milk tea with coffee don't they make bitter coffee sweet?"
There are many people who have some prejudices about "milk coffee", believing that milk or different flavors of sugar water will destroy the original taste of coffee.
This is a bit of a generalization!
Novices accept coffee, must be more suitable for the usual taste, coffee taste is relatively light, such as coffee latte, cappuccino and so on to start.
And some coffee beans are actually very suitable for adding milk or unique flavor of sugar water, used to highlight the coffee itself more special flavor.
There are also some people who just don't like to drink bitter coffee, life is already bitter enough, of course, to drink a little sweet.
Then, caramel macchiato is more suitable for people who like caramel taste, coffee latte is more suitable for people who do not like bitter taste but do not like too sweet, hazelnut latte is suitable for people who like to eat nuts healthily, caramel latte is more suitable for people who like to experience the unique caramel taste in coffee...
Others have been flavored more uniquely by creative baristas, such as black mocha with whipped cream and chocolate sauce, Dirty, which has recently been popular and made from ice cup ice milk, alcoholic lattes with alcoholic sugar water, and so on.
These sweet coffees created in order to cater to people with different tastes are actually the efforts of baristas to make more people accept coffee.
About bitter coffee, which is what we often call black coffee, there are more doorways here, as a small white, you can only share some fur.
The types of black coffee are divided into many kinds from the production method, such as American, cold extraction, drip filter, hand punch, ice drop, siphon, french pressure...
Different production methods, different utensils, can make the same coffee bean, make a different flavor.
For black coffee, different people or different times, different moods, will like different production methods, will also like different degrees of roasting coffee beans, which is really according to preferences to choose.
Some people also have different hobbies for coffee beans, some people like the bitter and mellow taste, they will choose deeply roasted coffee beans; some people like the sour and sweet taste, they will choose light roasted, moderate roasted coffee beans.
In addition to the difference in roasting methods and bursting degrees, there is also the choice and processing of green coffee beans, coffee beans in different production areas, the flavor is also very different, and the most common treatment method is the sun method, washing method, semi-sun method, honey treatment method and so on.
The natural living conditions of different production areas and different treatment methods will also release different flavors of coffee beans.
My baristas like to infer their mentality or profession or hobbies based on their guests' preferences.
For example, people who often buy a cup of American coffee in the morning are mostly office workers; girls who are American or cold in the afternoon are mostly losing weight; people who can order a cup of hand punch or siphon at three or four o'clock in the afternoon can sit and slowly taste and appreciate, it may be full-time bao mom, it may be self-media people, it may be state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, people who have leisure time in the afternoon, and people who may also be coffee depth enthusiasts.
Everything has a first time, no matter how much you reject coffee, but when you first decide to walk into the café, it means that in your heart, you have actually begun to accept it.
It's like with a boyfriend and girlfriend, when you first contact, it means that you are not rejecting him, and begin to accept him from the heart, and then slowly get closer to him step by step, understand him, and finally fall in love with him.
The first time I entered the café, I looked at the menu board of dozens of different types of coffee names for a long time, these names, it is very good to read, I just don't know what the difference is.
The clerk, who later became a very good friend of mine, saw my embarrassment, and with a smile and a service attitude, he asked me patiently:
"Do you prefer to drink ice or hot?"
"Sweet or bitter?"
"Is the milk a little heavier or lighter?"
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After four or five questions, he recommended me a cup of half-sugar ice caramel macchiato.
Because of this caramel macchiato, I began to understand coffee, then skillfully painted lattes with white swans, tulips, and heart-shaped leaf patterns, and then American coffee, cold brew coffee, hand-brewed coffee... Step by step, I walked into this mysterious world of coffee, immersed in it, and explored more mysteries.
In fact, many times, baristas will recommend the most suitable drinks for you after understanding your preferences, because they are the people who know the taste of these drinks best.
Sometimes we are not willing to show our "ignorant" side to people, but "the art has a specialty" and listening to the opinions of professionals is the most responsible attitude towards the cup of coffee in hand.
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