Shanghai white-collar workers have raised "coffee flower fever"

White-collar workers have sprung up to learn "coffee pull craze".

Dongfang net, July 13: according to the Youth Daily, the coffee pot is full of ups and downs, the coffee cup is filled with dreams, and the coffee shop is filled with fragrance. For many urban white-collar workers, coffee is not only a drink, a fashion label, but also a culture. After busy work, it is undoubtedly an expectant experience to be able to enjoy the sensory experience of a cup of strong coffee and even DIY to make a beautiful coffee flower.

In today's Shanghai white-collar circle, being able to make a coffee flower full of creativity and beauty has become a fashion pursued by many young white-collar workers who love life. Although nominal training courses such as coffee roasting and flower-roasting are expensive on the market, many white-collar workers are still willing to take their annual leave and seriously sit in class to learn the skill.

What you have learned is that it is not easy to pay attention to the combination of heart and hand.

Pour the beaten milk foam into the coffee cup, and then put the milk pot close to the coffee surface when the milk foam and coffee are seven minutes full. with the dexterous rotation of the barista's wrist, a "love" is formed on the coffee surface. "that's amazing. How did you do that?" "Ling, what a beautiful flower." …… Seeing that a beautiful coffee pull was born in the hands of the teacher in less than a minute, the students were amazed and eager to try at the same time.

At 3: 00 p. M. yesterday, at Shanghai Business School, located on Zhongshan West Road, the reporter had the honor to "sit in" on a unique coffee pull class. The teacher, dressed as a standard barista, stood in the water bar, while four or five students sat around the bar, "enjoying" the teacher's clever and smooth demonstration and whispering. In front of the eyes are different patterns of pull flowers, ears are graceful light music, nose tip is a strong aroma of coffee, for a time "omni-directional three-dimensional" coffee enjoyment so that every student is infatuated.

"Oh, why is my heart so ugly? it's so ugly." ", it doesn't look like a leaf, it looks like a radish." …… As the saying goes, "it is not difficult for people to carry a load." this seemingly simple flower-pulling action is either the speed at which the foam is injected into the hands of the students, or the wrist action of the hook flower is not safe enough. In this case, there is always some "crooked melon and split jujube" in the pattern shown in the cup. Looking at the "dejected" students, the barista finally entered the most critical "treasure hunt" stage of the whole course.

Soon, the teacher repeated the whole process of flower drawing, but deliberately slowed down and explained the main points when operating each link. "the key to flower drawing is, first of all, milk foam, which must be played delicately and show a mirror-like reflective effect after playing." While talking, the barista has finished the foaming action and signaled the students to come forward to observe the still state of the foam. "there is no sign of a bubble at all, there is really a reflection."

In the whole process of demonstration, many white-collar workers are full of doubts: the whole process is simple to say, and the essentials of operation are not very difficult to master, but why are the flowers pulled out not so satisfactory? "flower drawing pays attention to practice makes perfect, and the whole process is a process of" integration ", mainly the cooperation of heart, hand and eye." The teacher said that to pull out satisfactory flowers, "most of the time, it is not the hand, but the feeling in the heart."

What are you thinking about? to learn this is mostly to relieve work stress.

The baristas on the stage have been persuaded to conquer a batch of awesome people in the workplace with beautiful coffee flowers, while off the stage, these attentive students seem to have returned to their schooldays and are "thirsty for knowledge." The reporter found that these students who came to learn coffee flower drawing skills were not looking for a job to learn a skill, let alone to enter the professional coffee making industry. On the contrary, most of these students have a stable and high income. For them, the purpose of learning "pull flowers" is to experience the coffee culture and add a touch of interest to the mundane work life. For this reason, the "exorbitant" tuition fee of 2800 yuan for courses with 18 hours in six days (most of which are expensive on the market at present) has also attracted many white-collar workers.

Miss Xu from a foreign investment company told the reporter: "the company gives employees good benefits, but the corresponding management is also very strict." The silent office atmosphere and the constant glimpses of the boss in the transparent glass room are a kind of invisible pressure. In this environment, people are as busy as clockwork all the time, and let people see the effectiveness of your work in the shortest possible time, because in the eyes of the boss, efficiency comes first. Unproductive busyness, or even overtime, is a waste of company resources. " In this case, Tea Time is the only way for employees to release stress, and fragrant coffee is the best adjustment.

"our company has set up a special coffee shop on each floor, where there are imported freshly ground coffee machines, and of course coffee is provided free of charge around the clock." Miss Xu revealed to the reporter that in the past, two or three colleagues "bumped into each other" in the coffee shop, at most one person made a cup of coffee, added some sugar and milk, and had a chat, followed by "each going home and looking for his own mother." "but at the end of last month, one of our new colleagues showed his skill in the coffee shop and added some milk, only to find a light feather in the cup. Under everyone's "extortion of confessions", he revealed that he had learned to pull flowers in coffee in order to please his girlfriend. " Since then, people have stayed in the coffee shop for longer, and the effect of decompression and dispensing has become even better. "gently slide the metal spoon and savor it for fear that an impetuous person will break the flower."

If the coffee pull for Miss Xu is out of the "coffee culture" of office adjustment and relaxation, then Mr. Chen, who specially asked for annual leave to learn it, is to add a piece of talk to her life. "Coffee flower drawing was developed in 1988 by American David Hume in his own small cafe in Seattle." Mr. Chen jokingly says that even if he has only taken a two-day basic introductory course and has just got some superficial knowledge of coffee, these things are enough for him to Show in his moments. "maybe in the future, with this skill, he will be able to win the hearts of beauties."

(responsible Editor: Leo)