[tips for making Coffee] how to become a master from a rookie?

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First, learn to taste coffee before you learn coffee

If you are going to start learning coffee, it is recommended that you first know how to distinguish the different flavors, do not rush to sign up for the course, but first find the flavor you like.

After finding it, ask the shopkeeper to introduce what kind of flavor you like and what utensils you use to cook it. . Wait. After having an understanding, it is better to judge the direction of learning in the future, as well as the amount of money you need to spend, and see if you can cope with it. ..

If you can't find the taste you like, you can find a professional cafe, ask the boss for advice, appreciate the coffee from the boss's point of view, and learn how to make coffee by the way. I believe this should be better than going to a study course ignorantly. You can learn more about coffee and don't spend too much money.

Second, learn to make coffee and find the right taste.

When you enter the door of coffee brewing, when you start to learn to brew coffee and drink your own flavor, if this is the taste you want, then you should first say: congratulations! Because you already have the skill to make good coffee.

If you do not rush out of the flavor you want, do not be discouraged, but also say to you: congratulations! Because you will have the potential to become a master!

People who learn coffee must drink every cup of coffee brewed by themselves. They may not be able to tell the flavor of the coffee for the time being, or at least they can know which flavors they like and which ones they don't like.

After accumulating a certain number of cups, you can judge the taste to a certain extent: the taste you don't like-the taste of the bean itself? Or was it washed out? Similarly, the taste of love-the taste of the bean itself? Or is it boiled?

You can also accumulate some experience: how to rush out the smell of love? How to avoid the smell I don't like?

When you drink coffee made by others one day, you can naturally analyze and judge which ones are the taste of the beans themselves and which are changed by cooking.

Third, attach importance to the stability of cooking

It's not difficult to make a good coffee, just keep thinking about it from beginning to end:

This is a good cup of coffee!

This is a good cup of coffee!

This is a good cup of coffee!

Usually this can make a good cup of coffee! So this is the secret of making coffee! (ahem) I'm just kidding.

It is not difficult to make a good cup of coffee. The difficulty lies in the reappearance of the taste, no matter the taste of the previous cup, the next few cups can rush out the same taste is kung fu. Therefore, in the beginner stage, we should take stable cooking as the primary goal. The same kind of coffee beans and the same batch of coffee beans should try to reproduce the taste of the previous cup.

Under the premise of reproducing the taste, does it not matter whether the taste is good or bad? Of course not!

If you practice on your own, of course, you have to rush out of the taste that you like, or at least it is acceptable and non-exclusive, so that you can continue to be proficient in this technique. Of course, if someone teaches you, you can naturally save a lot of time groping alone, and you can also be more quickly and skillfully, and learn to taste and understand the taste by the way!

After you have become proficient in brewing and have a certain degree of stability, you can start to try different coffee beans and begin to understand the flavor characteristics of different coffee beans. At the same time, you can also start advanced practice.

Don't forget to learn the "mind method" before you learn the moves.

In fact, how to brew good coffee is not one move or one style, but only in the "heart method"! As long as you know the "mind method", any move is natural and easy to use! That's for sure! If you already know a lot of moves, then the "mind method" immediately deepens your skills several times!

Mental method (1) familiarize yourself with your equipment

You must be very familiar with all the coffee equipment you use, including how to adjust, disassemble, repair, and use it more easily, and use it with compassion and gratitude!

Mind (2) you need to know the key to making coffee

The key to making coffee is:

1. Temperature, degree of grinding, ratio of powder to water: to control these three elements is to brew a good cup of coffee! You should try your best to find out how to control these parameters!

2, coffee powder how to combine with water and completely dissolve out the taste, not simply good taste or bad taste, complete taste is the basis of adjustment. Only with the complete taste can you know the advantages and disadvantages of your cooking methods and adjust the baking.

Mental method (3) you need to know how the coffee equipment you use works.

For example, how does the siphon pot make the water run from the lower pot to the upper pot? Where's the mocha pot? How to soak the ingredients of hand-brewed coffee? What happened in the espresso machine extraction powder bowl? Don't just listen to what others say, but figure it out and experiment for yourself!

Mind method (4) sufficient empirical value

You already know the first three rules, so the fourth and most important one is to have enough experience, keep practicing, and then use it freely!

Finally, when you understand, familiarize yourself with, and practice it, you will find that there is only one mind method, and the first three items have been accumulated into the last one. Then, in the early morning facing the first ray of sunshine, you suddenly realize: there is no so-called "mind method", and there is no so-called "move"!

There is no way to win at this time! Because you already know that making coffee is just making coffee, there's nothing to say!

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