How do you define "good" baristas? what do baristas do?

When we went to a cafe, when we saw the baristas in the cafe making cool flowers out of coffee, we would say, Wow, what a great barista! Why are you so good!

This is probably the definition of a good barista for most guests. Can you be a good barista if you pull out a beautiful pattern with a cup of coffee? Of course not.

The scope of a good barista is so broad that we have to redefine the word "excellent".

Before this, the editor thought it was necessary to discuss how to become a qualified barista. Barista is a cool and popular profession in Europe and the United States. We can always see cool baristas who dress up their personality and have all kinds of totems tattooed on their arms on some websites or magazines that introduce coffee. I believe that many young people are more and more willing to devote themselves to the profession of baristas, which has something to do with the fact that they think it is very stylish to make coffee. But many people may not really understand the effort and hardship behind the barista profession.

Since the work done every day is related to coffee and the sale of drinks related to food hygiene and safety, the personal hygiene and health status of baristas can not be ignored, which is a prerequisite for you to become a barista first.

Usually you only need to wait in a coffee shop for a few minutes to buy a cup of coffee, but what you don't know is that in these few minutes, the barista has to adjust the machine, grind the coffee beans, master the strength of the coffee powder, control the flow rate and time of the coffee machine to extract the coffee liquid, the requirement of the thickness of the milk foam, the matching of the production form and the cleaning of the finished coffee machine and bar. A series of actions in these few minutes can only be mastered after a long period of training. if we just explain and train this series one by one, it will take a lot of time and energy. not to mention mastering all of them, these are only the basic qualities of being a qualified barista, not to mention that baristas have to stand and work for at least eight hours a day. Continuous shift work may even make them lack of rest. In addition, baristas' personal appearance, speech and behavior will also affect whether they are "qualified" standards.

With the above basic qualities, you can only be called a qualified barista, which may be 108000 miles away from excellence. It is possible to exert these basic work and personal qualities to the extreme, have high requirements for details, products, and hygiene, or even achieve a kind of paranoia, turning the love of coffee into an indispensable part of life. but also be able to take care of people, and so on in order to be a bit of a good barista.

In addition to the above, the editor believes that the most important quality of a good barista should be "sharing".

Yeah, share. Accurately convey the coffee information they know, actively promote coffee culture, cultivate people's interest in coffee, so that more people can become dedicated, rigorous and sharing coffee believers like them.

(source: network)