Can artificial hand brewing replace the barista's real hand brewing coffee? What is the difference between making coffee with fake hands and making coffee with real hands?

First of all, it's not advertising, it's purely discussion and sharing! Recently, a new coffee-related term was born on the Internet, called "fake hand rush." Because many coffee celebrities have made relevant "evaluations" for it, many friends have already had a preliminary understanding of artificial hand rushing. Then some friends asked Qianjie when buying beans at Qianjie stores: "Can making coffee with artificial hands be as good as the barista's real hands?" or "Will it replace the existence of barista?" and other related questions.

So today, Qianjie will come to answer these doubts. Can "making coffee with fake hands" be compared to the barista's "making coffee with real hands"?

What is hand-brewed coffee? What is a fake hand making coffee? According to usual practice, Qianjie still briefly introduces hand-brewed coffee and "artificial hand-brewed coffee" first. The so-called hand-brewed coffee is a drip coffee extraction method that requires manual participation throughout the process. In this extraction method, in addition to controlling extraction parameters such as water temperature, grinding, and ratio, the barista also needs to control the rhythm of water injection. Because hand-brewed coffee requires manual injection of water flow to brew the coffee, it is called "Hand-brewed coffee."

Since hand-brewed coffee can better show the flavor characteristics of a coffee bean and takes less time and is easy to make, compared with other single-item coffee making methods, hand-brewed coffee has become the main way to produce single-item coffee in many coffee shops. "Artificial hand-brewed" is not a technical term, nor is it a new method of coffee extraction. It is a concept created by a chain brand, which means using a smart coffee machine/semi-automatic hand-brewed coffee machine to simulate artificial water infusion. Coffee.

Coffee brewed manually is called hand-brewed coffee, and it is naturally not difficult to understand that a machine imitating the coffee brewed with artificial water is named "artificial hand-brewed".

Will machine-brewed coffee taste better than artificially brewed coffee? This is a question that many friends pay attention to and ask Qianjie. To be reasonable, although the concept of "artificial hand-flushing" has only emerged recently, automatic hand-flushing coffee machines have been around a long time ago, and relevant shares have been made before Qianjie. Can machine-brewed coffee be as good as artificially brewed coffee? The answer is obvious and yes. Because the taste of a cup of coffee is mainly determined by the quality of the coffee beans and the parameters used during extraction.

Although the brewing of the automatic coffee machine is carried out by the machine, the water temperature, grinding, ratio, and time before brewing need to be preset by the barista. If the quality of beans remains unchanged, as long as the extraction parameters such as water temperature, grinding, ratio, and time used by the machine during brewing can well bring out the flavor of the coffee, the coffee washed out by the machine can naturally taste as the artificial brew. It tastes as good as it. After all, parameters are the most critical factor affecting coffee during brewing. So this is why Qianjie often mentions in sharing related to brewing. Compared with how to brew, it is recommended that everyone pay attention to the parameters used during extraction. As long as the parameters are used correctly, it is easy to rush out a cup of delicious coffee.

Although this is said, it does not mean that automatic brewing opportunities will replace baristas. The reason is also very simple. They all have their own irreplaceable advantages. According to different scenarios and different needs, merchants will choose different methods to produce products. The advantages of using an automatic coffee machine to brew coffee are as stable as Qianjie said earlier, and then saves people and effort. Although hand-brewed coffee is one of the more convenient extraction methods, it is actually not simple. Because from the beginning of grinding beans to the end of brewing, a barista spends about 5 minutes focusing on making hand-brewed coffee, during which time he cannot do any other homework.

For a coffee shop with a large number of cups, this is not a pleasing product. So we can see that many chain coffee shops with large cups either do not have hand-brewed coffee or use automatic coffee makers to produce it. Of course, there are also some coffee shops that pursue standardization and stability that also use coffee machines to brew coffee. The advantage of manually brewing coffee is that it is more flexible. The barista can make corresponding adjustments in time according to the state of the beans during the brewing process, so that the brewed coffee has a better taste. At the same time, it can also deepen the connection between people. Many friends want a cup of hand-brewed coffee not only to taste the high-quality coffee flavor, but also to have an opportunity to discuss coffee face-to-face with the barista.

Therefore, the two have their own advantages and do not have an opposing relationship. Merchants will choose different products according to different needs. Merchants who pursue efficiency and stability will choose automatic coffee machines to brew and produce products, while merchants who want to provide customers with a unique experience or in-depth interaction will choose manual brewing and produce products ~

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