stonecrandall Chapter 141: I don't have you as an apprentice
Chapter 141: I don't have you as an apprentice
The next morning, when Li Hao came to Dielianhua Coffee House with a yawn, there were already a few figures standing at the door. After seeing Li Hao, they greeted them one after another.
"Manager!"
"Master!"
"Well, good morning everyone!" Li Hao said with a smile.
Opened the door and walked into the shop, Li Hao turned around and said to a few people: "Sit down first, by the way, did you eat breakfast?"
Except for Guli Ayimu, everyone else sat down cautiously and said quickly after hearing the words, "I have eaten."
"Eat, um, it's okay, let's sit down first, I'll make you a cup of coffee." Li Hao walked into the back kitchen and started to play tricks.
Guli Ayi wood is adorned in the back, looking at Li Hao with his head in front of the back kitchen. Li Hao seems to be sensitive, and while brewing coffee, he said, "I'm here to be a door god. Come in if you want to come in."
"Hee hee~" Gulia Yimu smiled and jumped to Li Hao's side in three steps in two steps. He leaned down, his big blue eyes stared at the hand-punching pot without any movement, and smelled the fragrance of the coffee when it was extracted. , Could not help saying: "Wow, it smells so good."
"Being so close, I won't be responsible for my boiling water bottle falling on your face later." Li Hao threatened.
"Slightly~" Gulia Yimu stuck out his tongue, stood up straight and said expectantly: "Master, your coffee is so fragrant, teach me to chant."
Li Hao adjusted the water injection rate while saying, "There are so many people waiting for me to teach you, you just want to start a small stove."
"Hey, I'm not learning from my heart. I can't wait to learn. Besides, I'm a closed disciple of Master, so it's normal to enjoy privileges."
"Want to enjoy privileges?"
"Um!"
"After that, you will be left with the clean-up work of the back kitchen. This is a major task related to food hygiene and safety. It is of great responsibility. I can't worry about other people doing it. You must complete it well and don't slack off. I am optimistic about you."
"...Master, what you said about washing dishes and dishes is so refreshing and refined, so shameless, you really deserve to be a man who can capture the hearts of two masters...Ah, it hurts!"
Li Hao's index finger tapped on Guli Ayimu's smooth forehead and warned: "You can eat rice indiscriminately, and you can't talk nonsense. Do you really think I dare not hang up the banner? Believe me or not, I just call it. Tomorrow, can you put up a notice that you have a mole on your **** in the school toilet?"
"I believe it! I was wrong, Father, didn't I just say it when I looked at no one around me, and I said it so quietly that people outside couldn't hear it..."
"Do you know that there are two idioms called "Accumulated habits are hard to change and the wall has ears?"
"I know! I won't talk nonsense in the future!" Gulia Yimu said vowedly, "If I mention Master, you have two masters, I'll... Oh, it hurts!"
"Bring out the coffee!" Li Hao sternly ordered.
"Oh..." Guli Aimu obediently took the coffee out of the kitchen.
Li Hao followed out and said to the restless students in their seats: "I'm sorry to call everyone here in the morning. Let's have a cup of coffee to refresh yourself."
Several people poured a cup of coffee and drank a few sips, and their eyes reflected a light of surprise.
"How does it taste?" Li Hao asked with a smile.
"Very, delicious." A boy said.
"It's much better than the single-origin coffee I ordered at Starbucks before." Another girl also exclaimed.
Li Hao smiled and continued to ask: "Do you have experience in drinking coffee, or do you like coffee?"
"I drink it occasionally, but I buy instant coffee."
"I rarely drink."
"Sometimes I go to Starbucks with my friends to buy a cup of Frappuccino. I don't drink a lot of single-origin coffee, and I don't like the bitterness of coffee very much."
Li Hao nodded and said, “It doesn’t matter whether you have coffee experience or whether you like coffee or not, because many coffee makers don’t like coffee, but it doesn’t prevent them from bringing delicious coffee to customers. ."
"And our shop does not require you to become a professional barista, because you are part-timers after all and have limited energy, but you must learn to make a qualified cup of coffee to at least satisfy lay customers."
"In the next 10 days, you will receive training to learn how to make coffee and desserts. Of course, the training is open-ended. You can freely choose your spare time to come and practice."
"Let's first learn how to make a qualified cup of coffee." Li Hao got up and led everyone to the back kitchen.
“Our shop purchases green coffee beans, so before making coffee, we need to roast the green coffee beans. This process is realized through this roasting machine.” Li Hao said, pointing to the roasting machine.
"Roasting is divided into light roasting, micro-medium roasting, medium roasting, medium-deep roasting, deep roasting, very deep roasting, Italian roasting, the degree of roasting is different, and the flavor of coffee is also different. Detailed operations and instructions will be printed later. , Now first learn the coffee making process."
"There are many ways to make coffee, including drip filtration, siphon pot, moka pot, French filter press, etc., but we use drip filtration, also called hand-pushed coffee." Li Hao introduced the coffee beans while putting the coffee beans. Enter the grinder, "The first is the grinding of coffee. This process is also very particular. The flavor of coffee varies greatly with different thicknesses."
"I'll just grind it up here for the sake of explanation."
Li Hao put the ground coffee powder on the electronic scale and explained: "The most important thing for brewing coffee is the powder-water ratio, which is the ratio of coffee powder and water, which directly determines the degree of coffee extraction and is the most important factor affecting the coffee flavor. One factor of this is that the powder-to-water ratio should not be too low at the beginning of the study. Generally, it is conservative to take 1:18 first, um... like the current coffee powder is 20 grams, then 360 grams of water should be taken."
Li Hao took out the thermometer to measure the kettle being heated, and explained: "The water injection temperature of hand-pushed coffee is generally around 90 degrees. When adjusting the flavor according to the degree of grinding and the ratio of powder to water, the temperature can also be adjusted accordingly, but it is maintained. In the interval of 83 degrees to 96 degrees."
"Because the hot water has a natural cooling process, we need to wait until the water temperature reaches 92 or 93 degrees before we start to use it to extract coffee. Well, it's about time now."
Li Hao picked up the kettle and warned everyone: "Now, it is the most important extraction stage. We use one-stab-flow extraction. First, it is steaming. Fill the filter cup with water and draw a circle to make the coffee powder absorb water and expand. , To stimulate the taste, and then wait for about 25 seconds to start continuous water injection."
"The coffee powder is continuously soaked in the water, so that the retentate can fully release the aromatic substances in the coffee powder, and the water flow rate gradually increases. Reduce the water flow before the amount of water is about to fill the filter cup."
"This method should pay attention to the stability and water level during water injection. The water level should not be too high to prevent the water from falling on the edge of the upper filter paper and dilute the mellow taste of the coffee."
"Okay, now that the water has been poured, just wait for the extraction process to complete."
Li Hao smiled and said: "Although the whole process is not complicated, there are many things to pay attention to. The so-called difference is a thousand miles away. Often small details can determine the taste of the brewed cup of coffee. A lot of it is needed. Repeated practice can maintain a stable taste."
All of them nodded seemingly, with a thoughtful look on their faces.
After they digested it for a while, Li Hao took out multiple utensils from the cabinet and said to several people: “The utensils are here. Then you can practice and communicate on your own. Don’t be afraid of failure. Confidence, you can give me a taste."
Li Hao walked out of the back kitchen, picked up a magazine on the shelf, walked to the bar to sit down and read it. The back kitchen soon heard the sound of the grinder working, and several people were already practicing intensively.
Ten minutes later, Guli Aimu came out with a cup of coffee, walked to Li Hao and said, "Master..."
"Huh?" Li Hao looked up, she was looking at herself expectantly with big eyes blinking.
Li Hao sniffed, then frowned, "Is the coffee ready?"
"Well, you taste it!" She held the cup and stretched it out in front of Li Hao.
Li Hao looked at the black liquid in the cup, then glanced at Guli Ayimu, was silent for a few seconds, took it, sniffed it carefully, and frowned deeper.
But after all, it’s the first time to make coffee. It would be great if it could be black. Li Hao’s complexion was indifferent, and he took a sip. Li Hao’s eyes widened suddenly as Guliaimu looked forward to it. His chest rose and fell, and he coughed, two black water arrows spurted from his nostrils, and then coughed violently.
"Father!" Guli Ayimu was taken aback, and was about to walk over, but Li Hao stretched out his hand to block it.
"Ahem... you, this is trying to murder the life of a teacher, I... ahem, no apprentice like you!"
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