How to be an elegant barista in ancient times

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At 9: 00 a.m. on January 11, 1991, Starbucks opened its first retail store in the mainland at the Beijing International Trade Center. Coffee came into everyone's view. During the 2008 financial crisis, Starbucks closed 900 stores around the world. Many cutting-edge cafes, which attach importance to the origin, variety and flavor of coffee beans, take advantage of this opportunity to promote light-roasted coffee and encourage people to taste the pleasant sensory experience of a cup of black coffee. In 2013, I began to get in touch with boutique coffee and join the industry. As a barista to introduce this addictive legal "drug" to every guest, fantasizing about the gloom of cup after cup of coffee, I think this is the "spiritual opium" of most baristas themselves. If one day, we accidentally go back to ancient times, such as the Tang Dynasty. As a dead star without coffee, how can you go back to your old job and be an elegant barista at this time?

In the Tang Dynasty, there were two kinds of drinks popular in the market: one was tea, the other was wine. If you want to make coffee, you must first solve the problem of the supply of raw coffee beans. At that time, the only country on earth that began to grow and drink coffee was Ethiopia in Africa. These black friends have been addicted to this drink since the fifth or sixth century. If you want to cross the sea to get coffee beans, you have to mention a great road in ancient China-the Silk Road. In a broad sense, the Silk Road is divided into two: one is on land, with Chang'an as the starting point, connecting Central Asia, West Asia and Europe, and ending in Rome, mainly selling silk. Since coffee did not spread from Africa to India until the 17th century, this road is of little use to baristas. The other is the Maritime Silk Road, which runs from the southeast coast of China to East Africa and Europe, mainly selling porcelain. When the opportunity comes, it only takes an old man who dreams of becoming the king of pirates to ride the wind and waves to the birthplace of coffee-Africa!

The Tang Dynasty was a dynasty that focused on international cultural exchanges, and applied with the government for a group of agronomists and skilled craftsmen like Lu Ban to set up a research group to help African partners run a well-off society. The emperor was willing to do such a good thing that could enhance his international reputation. With this group, a coffee growing program on the African continent would be a boost. First of all, we should select some varieties with good flavor, and the prevention and cultivation of diseases and insect pests can be handed over to agronomists and local people. In view of the technical conditions at that time, the post-treatment can only be based on solarization. With the help of skilled craftsmen, we can also use hydrodynamic force to produce small batches of washed coffee according to the physical principle of the peeling machine. Good planting is the foundation of a good cup of coffee, and it is also one of the most important parts, so you must put all your energy into doing your best.

It takes about four or five years for a coffee tree to sprout, blossom and bear fruit, and to improve the coffee bean processing industry chain. When this industrial chain can operate normally. We can go home with a sack of high-quality coffee beans. The rest will be left to the King of Sea Thief to buy regularly.

When you get the coffee beans, you have to face the problem of baking, which requires a skilled blacksmith friend. Before the Ming Dynasty, China's iron and steel smelting technology was in the leading level in the world. When African friends were still playing with mud, Ouyezi, the founder of sword casting in the Spring and Autumn period, had cast a large number of magic weapons such as Zhanlu, Juque, fish intestines and so on. By the Tang Dynasty, high-quality coal had been used as fuel, combined with bellows invented by our ancestors, which laid a solid foundation for the manufacture of roasters and stable heat sources for roasting coffee. For the construction of the roaster, please refer to the following figure:

The rotating inner stove can ensure the uniform heating of the coffee beans.

In this way, we have a roaster that leads the world for a thousand years. You're gonna say you can't bake? That doesn't matter, don't forget that in ancient times there were a large number of baking colleagues-alchemists. Those people nest in the mountains and forests all day, collect all kinds of flowers and plants and animal parts, pinch them together and burn them in the stove for ten and a half days, and take them out and tell people that they can live forever, strengthen their bodies, and be out of reach day after day. Yes, it will be of great benefit to have a chat with these peers.

The next step is to brew and cook. The stone mill invented by Luban is the perfect prototype of the bean grinder. The super-large grinding plate produces almost no heat in the grinding process, and can even be transformed into a flat knife or ghost teeth. With a little improvement, add a powder cartridge and powder receiver, which may be more moisturizing than EK43.

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As for filter cups and hand pots, don't worry. China is a big porcelain country, whether you want to use KONO, V60 or Kalita, cake cups. Find a small ceramic workshop and give you a drawing, and the boss can make it for you in a minute. The same is true of hand-made pots, such as moon rabbit, crane-mouth pot and thin-mouth pot, which only you can't draw, and no boss can't do. If you want to comply with the trend of the times, burn a set of Tang tricolor hand punch, that is no one. Finally, make some more efforts to find some filter paper and filter cloth with good water permeability, and the first cup of hand in the world was born! Looking at the flowers in the distance, feeling the elegant flavor of this cup of coffee and recalling the hard work of these years, I inevitably felt and burst into tears.

Good things should be taken out and shared with good friends. As the saying goes, "warm and full of lust", as the most powerful era in Chinese history, when everyone lived and worked in peace and contentment, had enough to eat and warmed up, a large wave of literary and artistic young people engaged in culture and art emerged. Li Bai, who "looks up at the bright moon in the sky", du Fu who "moistens everything silently", du Mu who "parking only because he loves the maple forest in the evening", painting Saint Wu Daozi, musician Li Guannian, calligrapher Yan Zhenqing, and so on, all of these can be developed as a major customer base. Imagine these famous figures in history gathering together, drinking fine coffee from the African continent, chanting poems, exchanging and discussing calligraphy and painting. This is simply a literary revolution leading the world for a thousand years!