The process from qualified barista to excellent barista

The scope of a good barista is so broad that we have to redefine the word "excellent". Before that, it is 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 fashionable baristas dressed with personality and various totems tattooed on their arms on some coffee websites or magazines. 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. what's more, to master all, these are only the basic qualities of being a qualified barista, not to mention the fact 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. Apart from the above, the most important quality of a good barista should be "sharing". 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. Apart from making coffee, perhaps these are their most important missions.