[hand flushing practice skills] I always hear that it is good to practice more. How to practice hand brewing coffee on earth?

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I believe that many beginners have paid homage to many teachers, watched a lot of teaching videos, listened to a lot of standard procedures, and finally heard a sentence: "if you go back and practice more, you will do a good job."

Of course, hand flushing is to practice water injection, and it is impossible not to practice in this life. However, few people tell you what kind of practice it takes to inject water, what are the tricks and steps, and how can you make rapid progress? Therefore, beginners can see that no matter how much others rush, the best they can do is to follow suit, and the result of the final extraction will inevitably be unsatisfactory.

If you don't practice hand punching, do you want to practice "foot" punching?

The method of the opponent here will not be repeated, because everyone must have seen a lot of demonstrations. The main purpose of today is to provide some tips for hand flushing exercises to share with you.

1. Wrist & strength of arm

This can be said to be the most important factor in the stability of hand impact.

People who are slightly involved in American handmade coffee culture in recent years should notice a special phenomenon, that is, in several representative cafes, the brewers are all big men with strong bones and muscles, and if they are not all dressed in suits and neatly dressed, they will be mistaken for fitness instructors every minute. Several of them can even draw a bow from left to right, and are good at cooking stunts with two-handed pots.

Wang ce, the champion of the 2017 World Brewing Competition, came from his coach, 2014 World Brewing Champion ─, Greek Stefanos Domatiotis, who flushed the pot with his brilliant hands during the competition.

Therefore, if you want to enhance the stability of the hand, you can raise dumbbells to enhance the strength of the wrists and arms. (warm reminder: it is OK to brush more cups! )

Of course, for people with weak strength, if it is not urgent to practice dumbbells, you can also choose to practice holding the pot with both hands (one hand and the other).

two。 The knack of holding a pot with both hands

For people who have a serious lack of strength with one hand, or who do not want to become a muscular man in order to make coffee with one hand, it is generally recommended to hold a pot in both hands.

However, the stability of holding the pot with both hands involves the coordination of both hands. If the coordination is not good, it is not easy to improve the stability.

Be sure to remember: the left hand is just an assistant!

Ahem, the left-handed god, don't hit me in the face.

It is recommended that people with both hands hold the pot, the strength of the hand can be concentrated on controlling the flow rate, as for the water injection circle (if you use the circle method), you can practice changing the center of gravity with your feet, tilting the body forward, left, back, and right in order, resulting in a full-body circle effect. As long as the hand is fixed in the same position in front of the chest.

The position of the upper body holding the pot with both hands is completely unchanged during the circle, relying only on the change of the center of gravity of the feet to complete the counterclockwise injection of "middle, left, back, right, front" (the same is true clockwise).

So. What if the hands are weak and the shrimp is soft at the same time? Please! If you are weak and sick, don't get into the trap of making coffee, okay? Just buy an American machine and play at home.

3. It is recommended to practice swearing at the beginning-- pot.

Ahem-don't get the wrong idea, it has nothing to do with swearing! It's a foul mouth "pot"!

The reason is very simple, the rough pot can flow well, but no matter how well the pot is practiced, it is impossible to have a large flow (if you have tried, the flow of the pot will become very powerful and difficult to control).

If you only practice a small pot and encounter beans that need a large flow of beans, if you want to learn the method of cooking with a large flow, do you still have to practice again? As for artifacts such as "cheating pots", it can only be said that they can be done for a while, but not forever. If you want to have a safe sip of hand-made coffee, but you don't want to practice, why don't you come to a restaurant?

4. First practice flow control, and then practice flushing range

The flow rate is well controlled so that the water can drop where you want it. Never mind whether you rush to the edge of the filter cup wall or not. When you can know where the water is dripping, and the water column will not go up and down, you will soon be able to control the flushing range.

Speaking of which, some people may ask: aren't pouring water and drawing circles at the same time? If you want to practice at the same time, why divide it into two stages?

What I mean here is not for everyone to practice in two stages. The action is carried out at the same time, yes, when practicing, keep the size of the water column of water injection unchanged, do not stop the flow, and carry out displacement within a certain range. It's just that in the first stage, we only focus on the flow control, and in the second stage, we focus on the flushing range.

5. The result of the extraction is not as expected, and don't worry too much about it.

The way your teacher teaches you to use your hands is just a basic skill. If you learn the basic skills well, you may not be able to make good coffee. But to make good coffee, you can't do without basic skills.

Raw beans-baked beans-extraction, each process will affect the taste of coffee.

Japanese coffee guru Taguchi said, "the lack of the former process can only be remedied by the next process." This is why we should practice the basic skills of hand punching, and then further learn various extraction methods.

However, Master Taguchi went on to say, "only relying on the remedy of the next process cannot offset the mistakes of the previous process." Extraction methods, hand-punching skills, no matter how well controlled, can not make up for the mistakes in the baking process, let alone rule out the bad factors of raw beans.

Therefore, as long as beginners first practice the basic skills, and then further learn various extraction methods, then when you get good beans, you can easily grasp the key factors of making good coffee.