[coffee special] want to mix out the taste that the guest wants? You have to learn to read minds first!

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Whether you are playing coffee or mixing drinks, as long as you are interested in making drinks at the bar, after a stage of learning, you should start to think about this question: how to create a unique drink?

This means that you have to start to copy and copy, start to create and start to form your own style. Today's sharing, I hope to give friends who are interested in mixing drinks and want to start to create their own drink, some direction to move forward and think.

I'd like to introduce a few directions of thinking, but before I do that, I'd like to talk about what beverage creation is about. The nature of creation is expressed in words, perhaps I can define it like this: the creator shapes and designs a work through which the recipient experiences and then produces psychological activities.

There are several things that are particularly important in this definition: the creator, the recipient, and the experience.

Creator

First of all, as a creator, you must be very clear about what you are doing, and your motives and intentions must be clear. In the whole process of imagination and design, you should not run away and unconsciously change the premise.

For example, you were going to make a drink for your old friend, who loves bananas and eats bananas every day, so you buy bananas and want to make him a cup of banana coffee. As a result, you tried for a long time, but the tune was not very satisfactory. at this time, you were tired. When you saw the caramel sauce next to you, you casually mixed a cup of caramel coffee. I thought it was not bad. I finally made a cup of caramel coffee. I want to say this is good. This tastes better.

Stop fooling around and think about what you were going to do.

Recipient

Then there are the recipients, the audience, the listeners, the people who drink your drink. We must realize that their subjective experience will be different from their own. The same drink, some people will feel sweet, some people will not feel sweet; some people love this taste, some people completely reject it. It's very normal. We can never get a drink. Everyone thinks it's great. I'll pay for it.

In this case, what you want to do becomes more important.

For example, if you want to make a refreshing iced coffee suitable for summer, you want a little sour, a little bitter, a little bubbly, and the coffee is not too strong, in this case, you may consider making ice cups, adding a little citrus or lemon, or you may want to add some soda or soda or tonic soda ──, please here, follow your own theme. Until you are satisfied (that's how you interpret the subject).

In this way, your drink itself is complete, and it speaks the language you want to speak. As to whether the guests like it or not, that is another matter. He can have his own judgment, his own preferences, he can like or reject. So, from this point of view, in fact, creating a drink (or any creation) is communicating with each other.

If you start from whether the guest likes to think, then the communication is not equal from the beginning. The drink made in this way will be very impersonal and will become a purely flattering tool.

Of course, this is not for you to deliberately pick something the guests hate to do. Today, a guest said he didn't want cinnamon, and if you want to transfer it to him, it's called an idiot.

Experience

If you just adjust it according to your own wishes and I am satisfied with it, then you can just mix it for yourself. Think about what the guests will feel.

A drink, we will use the five senses to feel it. The first sight in front of the eyes is vision, first of all, the appearance, decoration, color and visual level of the cup, which will give people a first impression, followed by the touch in the hand, the smell of the drink close to the mouth, the touch of the cup after the rim of the cup, the taste of the beverage content, and then the temperature and taste, the taste and smell changes after the drink is imported. The next step will be what the body feels like after drinking this drink.

Drink a drink, we will basically use the sense of sight, smell, touch, taste ── unique lack of hearing. Therefore, most of the bar, live music will be played, which can enrich the sensory experience. And some playful creators will also try to find ways to add hearing to their drinks.

Don't miss these experiences. The same drink, such as a cup of Viennese coffee squeezed with whipped cream, is drunk in a steel cup next to a tent in the mountain, and it is actually two different things from a red wine cup in a western restaurant where the piano is played live.

Is it hard to understand? Actually, it's not difficult at all. All of the above, you can imagine, I'm going to communicate with another person (or another group of people) and talk to them today.

So some people say that speaking is also an art. Regardless of the listener's self-talk is tantamount to talking to himself (you can keep a diary. If you tilt completely to the side of the person you are communicating with, you will become more and more tired, and the other person will not feel your existence (you will have no personality, and in the end, no one will want to listen); the topic will keep running around while you are talking, and people naturally don't know what you are going to say.

A drink is a kind of communication, only in a non-verbal form. But it is still a language: peppermint is describing cool and refreshing language; nuts are describing rich and rich language; sparkling drinks make you feel good and exciting again; rose petals tell romance and love; jumping candy is reminiscent of your childhood and gives you a sense of mischievous surprise.

To be able to make more rich and varied features, our foundation is to be familiar with all these languages. So, eat and drink more, try more taste, and understand how the smell and taste of each raw material make you feel, so we can master more words and make more complex communication.

Any creator must experience life. Understand what the language of each cup represents, see and hear how others create, understand and understand the story and context of food and food culture. This is the barista's daily homework.

If enjoying life through diet attracts you, first try to make a drink for yourself and try to talk to yourself with this drink.

Article source: Would You Magazine

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