Is the skill of making coffee by hand important? Is there any way to learn how to make coffee?

For many beginners, it is very important to make a good cup of coffee. Because for beginners who are new to the coffee pit, it is the barista in the coffee shop who is the easiest to contact and imitate.

I still remember that when I first came into contact with hand-brewed coffee, the lowest learning cost was to "steal a teacher", go to a coffee shop and order a cup of coffee, and then stared intently at the barista's movements, "Grinding, staring at the fineness of the coffee powder with the naked eye (it turns out to be unmemorable), injecting water, going around once and twice (silently counting), calculating how long it took, which I was smart to take out my phone and turn on the timer.

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Then go back and keep reviewing and rehearsing. Of course, with the development of the Internet, we can browse the teaching videos of coffee bosses anytime and anywhere and keep learning. At that time, when I didn't know anything, the coffee made by myself was really bad, and the coffee made by others was really good. In such contrast, the brewing technology naturally becomes the most important reason that affects the taste of coffee. Watching the barista in the video performing gracefully, the "ultimate goal" of beginners' coffee path is to master that set of hard technology. "I really want to blow some Japanese hand coffee here. When I was watching the video, I was completely attracted by the barista's water control technology and elegant movements, so that for a long time there was only water control in my eyes! "

The above front street will be called "shape". Yang Guo, written by Jin Yong, learned the trick of hitting the dog stick under the explanation of Hong Qigong, but without the support of the heart, he could not integrate the method of hitting the dog. Later, under the teaching of Huang Rong's mental method, Yang Guo fully mastered the method of hitting the dog! The way to hit the dog stick is the "shape", and the mind method is the "core" and "essence". Only when we really understand the nature of hand-brewing coffee and cooperate with the "shape" of hand-brewing, can we exert its power, and only the "shape" can only fool the layman. The essence of coffee extraction is the mutual cooperation of various parameters, the degree of grinding of coffee, the water temperature of brewing coffee, the proportion of powder and water brewed, and the understanding of coffee beans.

Imagine that when you only learn the operation technique of making coffee, in the face of any coffee beans, use the same method to flush, maybe your water control technique is perfect, the action is very standard. But in the end, the coffee doesn't necessarily taste good. For different kinds of coffee, the brewing scheme which can reflect its characteristics can reflect the flavor characteristics of coffee. Going back to the original question, are punching methods and skills really important? It's really important for beginners who haven't touched coffee to take the first step. In practice, there will be a running-in period, at first, the performance of holding the pot and water injection is very bad, which is a very normal phenomenon. After the observation in the front street, it only takes about half a month for a novice to be able to control water in a stable circle.

If your cognition changes after mastering the basic "shape"-"no longer focusing on the baristas' actions, but on understanding and digesting their cooking parameters", then you have taken a big step from "0" to "1". Of course, who will be in the water control is very bad when the water control super-stable barista cast an envious eye.