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Published: 2026-08-26 Author:

Last Updated: 2026/08/26, Yes, you are right. It is five strips of cloth, not the five strips of cloth that have been cut into two. As we all know, when making espresso coffee, we often use a lot of equipment to assist, such as cloth powder injections, cloth powder dispensers, carved needles, etc. In addition to the auxiliary props used when making coffee, we cannot

Yes, you read it correctly. It's five pieces of cloth, not the one that has been cut in two.

As we all know, we often use a lot of aids when making espresso, such as cloth powder needle, cloth powder machine, carved needle and so on. In addition to the auxiliary props used in coffee production, we can not ignore the obscure logistics props responsible for cleaning, such as cleaning cloth. Many friends wonder that it is understandable that cleaning is needed to make coffee, but why do you need to use such a large number of "5"? Is it possible that the barista was the god in charge of rags in ancient Greece?

It's a joke! Five items are needed because each cloth is responsible for different things, and some of them have very high requirements for health, so there can't be a universal "all-round player". In addition to ensuring the hygiene of the cloth, but also because these things have different requirements for the degree of dryness and wetness of the cloth, it is necessary to separate them and perform their respective duties. So, today in front of the street to share, baristas use five pieces of cloth are responsible for what kind of project!

Since the cloth used to wipe the handle is the cloth used in espresso, the handle here naturally refers to the extraction handle used by the coffee machine. When we finish the extraction concentrate and knock out pressed powder, there will be a certain amount of coffee powder left in the handle, or water stains left after cleaning, which can affect the existence of coffee extraction!

If we need to put the handle into the extraction immediately, we need a piece of dry cloth to remove these troublemakers immediately. Therefore, the function of the first piece of cloth is specially used to wipe the stain on the handle!

Second, the cloth used to wipe the cup. I wonder if any friends have ever been attracted by some pictures of "baristas wiping cups" in movies and TV dramas. Anyway, Qianjie once thought that the barista who carefully wiped the cup was really as handsome as Qianjie.

When we finish cleaning the cup, if we do not wipe it in time, the water droplets left on the cup will leave a film mark, commonly known as "water stain", after evaporation.

Water stains greatly affect the beauty of a cup and will give the guest the impression that it is not very clean. So in order to place the formation of water stains, we will wipe the cup with a clean and sanitary cloth after cleaning the cup. Therefore, the purpose of the second cloth is to wipe the cup! It is worth mentioning that in order to ensure that this cleaning cloth will not grow mold because it is often moist, the cloth will always be placed on top of the coffee machine and baked at high temperatures.

Third, milk cloth, is what we said yesterday, "used to wipe the milk left on the steam stick cleaning cloth", referred to as milk cloth.

But what was not mentioned yesterday is that because the milk will evaporate quickly because of the high temperature, the milk dirt glued to the steam stick needs to be wiped with a "wet milk cloth", otherwise the dry milk cloth will not only be unable to remove the milk dirt. It is also easy to cause the fibers of the cloth to be scalded, which does not play a little role.

Fourth, the cloth used to wipe the coffee machine believes that the biggest worry of friends using bottomless powder bowls is that when the extraction process produces a channel effect, the coffee liquid will be sputtered at will. The whole coffee machine is full of coffee liquid everywhere! Therefore, we need an extra piece of cloth to clean the coffee machine! Of course, it will not be put into use until it is wet. Otherwise, it will not play a good cleaning role, can not wipe off the coffee liquid solidified on the coffee machine.

Fifth, dishcloth rag is easy to understand, mainly used to clean all stains on the bar outside the coffee maker. After all, the bar is for guests, the overall hygiene or have a certain degree of protection!

In addition, because there is a large number of cloth, in order to distinguish them well, most coffee shops use different styles and colors as independent marks of the cloth. in this way, it will not be confused because the appearance or color is too similar. Therefore, when you buy cloth, you'd better pay attention to this point, lest it is too similar to distinguish when you use it in the future.

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