We often hear baristas complain about adding sugar to their guests, especially when ordering high-end single cups of coffee. But is coffee with sugar really that low? For a waiter, it is not necessary to add sugar by himself, but guests should not be deprived of the right to add sugar. I have been a barista for a long time, and I can meet any strange guests and catch any strange orders ... coffee without milk, latte without milk, iced American without ice, American without flowers.
As a member of the service industry, baristas often try their best to meet these wonderful ordering needs, silently. But if you want to add sugar to his new coffee, especially if you haven't tasted it, even if he smiles, his heart must be secretly upset and surging. The slogan of black coffee in Denver, Colorado is "If you need to add something to your coffee, you must break this habit". Josh McNeilly, the owner, said that the name marked "No Add" helps new customers to know that they can buy hand-brewed and cold-brewed coffee.
But sugar and milk will not be provided. They all want their guests to taste high-quality coffee beans from Colombia and Ethiopia, just like wine. It takes many years, many hands and many stories to make a cup of coffee from a seed of coffee. In our most popular concept of single coffee, each cup of coffee should have its own unique regional and local characteristics, and this flavor is unique, no matter from the variety of coffee, planting soil, fertilization and shading, altitude temperature, picking and processing, processing methods, or finally setting the best flavor baking scheme for coffee beans.
Each of these steps may affect the final taste of coffee. Different coffee bean varieties, soil, altitude, climate, coffee bean treatment methods, extraction methods ... will also present different coffee tastes. The safe dose of caffeine tolerance for adults is 400mg per day, and it is recommended that normal people take 100-200mg per day. Converted into freshly ground coffee, that is, the amount of 1-2 cups; Like Starbucks latte, one cup a day is enough; The caffeine content of common drinks is 10-50mg/ bottle; The caffeine content of red bull and other beverages is 80mg/ can. Studies have shown that one-time intake of 1g caffeine will cause obvious discomfort, and 10g will lead to death.
Some beauty lovers use coffee to reduce fat. Coffee itself is low in calories. Caffeine has diuretic and metabolic functions and can really reduce fat. But you can't add sugar or cream to this coffee, otherwise the heat brought by sugar and cream will only make you fat! In addition, in order to give full play to the fat-reducing effect of black coffee more effectively, it is suggested to drink it half an hour before exercise, so as to consume fat better during exercise. It is a wrong idea that coffee can only be brewed with boiling hot water, because coffee is divided into three different molecules, large, medium and small, and the taste of macromolecules is messy.
Therefore, most people prefer the taste of small molecules, so the secret of making good coffee is to release small molecules quickly, so the action should be fast and the temperature should not be too high, because the hotter the water is used, the easier it is to release the extract, which is helpful for the dissolution of macromolecules. Boiling water is not suitable for making coffee, and the most suitable temperature is 80 ~ 85 degrees. Above 85 degrees, the extracted coffee will be washed out. If the barista carefully makes a cup of coffee, you don't expect to drink all kinds of flavors at once, but at least I hope you will taste the coffee itself, not a cup of "sugar water". Therefore, some boutique coffee shops don't provide sugar at all, setting unnecessary thresholds for customers. It looks too melodramatic, but it is actually self-confidence. At least what you spend dozens or even hundreds on must not be bad coffee that needs sugar.