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On the neat bar, a small electronic gram scale is placed on it.

This is used to weigh the quality of coffee beans.

A perfect cup of coffee requires precise proportions of ingredients.

In the container next to the electronic gram scale, there are coffee beans that have been weighed and taken out.

There are three types of coffee beans, Arabica beans, Italian roast and yoken.

At the same time, the store manager took out a hand grinder and an electric grinder, which was to cope with different grinding needs.

The shopkeeper poured the Italian baking and yoken into the hand mill and slowly grinded it.

The coffee powder ground ground from the hand grinder belongs to medium grinding.

As for the electric grinder on the other side, it is used to process Arabica coffee beans that require fine grinding, and the coffee powder coming out of it will be more finely ground.

With the rotation of the grinding stone, the faint, unique aroma of coffee beans slowly emanated.

It didn't take long for the hand grinder in the store manager's hand to finish grinding the coffee beans in it.

The manager poured the ground coffee from the hand grinder into a small container, then turned around and put the hand grinder back on the shelf.

"Mr. Store, can you tell us the story of the coffee?" asked Li Mengxian curiously.

The store manager took the next equipment off the shelf and said, "I'm going to do the next thing to do is Flona." ”

After a while, there were a few more chic utensils on the marble countertop.

One is a pour-over pot that can control the temperature by itself, a filter cup that has been filled with coffee filters, and a sharing pot under the filter cup.

The manager added the purified water to the pour-over pot and set it aside, and while waiting for the purified water to heat up, the store manager carefully filled the ground coffee into a filter cup with the previously moistened filter paper.

"Florona, as you may have heard, is in fact an ancient city, one of the oldest, most beautiful, and most glorious cities in Italy, and in Latin it is called 'the city of great elegance'. It also has an alias – the City of Love. Shakespeare's story of Romeo and Juliet takes place there. "The manager tells the story of Flona.

"Flona coffee is made by Starbucks, and there's an interesting story about where it came from. The store manager said.

"It was during the war, when a couple of lovers who thought they were surrounded by no one around them, kissed each other affectionately on a bridge in the city of Flona, which was famous for the loss of love, and this shot happened to be captured by a photographer, thus becoming an eternal story of Flona. This scene is now widely used in Starbucks Flora stamps. ”

"They are really a happy couple!" Li Mengxian said enviously.

The store manager smiled at Li Mengxian and said: "There is a pink love breath on your body, this cup of Flona is brewed for you, I wish you can realize your wish as soon as possible." ”

Li Mengxian was still indulging in Flona's love story just now, but she didn't expect the store manager to come coldly, and her face suddenly turned red.

Surprisingly, Li Mengxian didn't deny it this time, but said in a low voice: "Thank you, Mr. Store, for your blessings......"

Xuan Jing looked at Li Mengxian with interest, the corners of her mouth rose slightly, and she said in her heart: "This little girl seems to have finally made up her mind~"

"Oh, alright!" The shopkeeper glanced at the pour-over pot, noticing that the pure water inside had been heated to the desired temperature.

So the store manager lifted the pour-over pot and skillfully steamed the prepared coffee powder.

Those who don't know about hand brewing may not understand that steaming, which refers to the preparatory action of evenly moistening the surface of the coffee powder with a small amount of hot water before the formal filling of water during the hand brewing process.

Steaming releases the gases in the coffee particles and wets the dry coffee particles, which are essential for further extraction.

In addition to the essence and freshness of the coffee beans, most of the other aspects of a pour-over coffee are determined by whether a good filter layer is formed during brewing, and a good smoldering can fully and well allow hot water to pass through the coffee powder evenly.

So it is a prelude to caffeine and one of the key steps that caffeine cannot be ignored.

Whether a cup of pour-over coffee is good or not depends on whether the barista's steaming is done perfectly.

The manager is naturally handy for steaming, and a small amount of hot water is clockwise, no more than no less, just enough to soak all the coffee powder.

The carbon dioxide hidden in the coffee particles suddenly turns into small bubbles and floats above, which is very lively.

After finishing steaming, the manager waited for half a minute, then picked up the pour-over pot again and poured hot water from top to bottom, completing the rest of the extraction steps in one go.

A cup of hot hand punch Flona is done!

At the same time, the store manager also started to make another cup of coffee.

"Turkish coffee, the oldest coffee, sweetened Turkish coffee, it has a slightly sweet taste, and it is said that it can also be used to measure the direction of fortune, of course I don't believe it. The store manager introduced as he prepared her coffee for Cresme.

Turkish coffee, as the name suggests, is coffee brewed in a Turkish coffee pot.

With one spoonful of ground coffee and two spoonfuls of sugar, it only has a symbolic bitterness of coffee, and more of a sweet taste.

The Turkish coffee pot used by the manager is an old pot that is old, and according to him, "only old things know the taste of old".

An alcohol blowtorch, licking underneath, quickly heats up the Turkish coffee pot, and the dark brown coffee dissolved from the finely ground coffee is slightly bubbling.

Just as it was about to boil completely, the manager took it away from the heat, and after the bubbles had dissipated a little, he reheated it again, and after repeating it three times, the cup of dark Turkish coffee was complete.

The golden foam floats on the dark coffee, like the full ears of rice during the autumn harvest, and the rich mellow aroma comes to the face, even people who don't know coffee will fall for it.

"Jingjing, this cup of Turkish coffee of yours looks very strong!" Li Mengxian said as she looked at the Turkish coffee placed in front of Xuan Jing.

Indeed, compared to the hand-poured Flona, the Turkish coffee brewed in the Turkish coffee pot is richer in color, and even if you look closely, you can see a little coffee powder in it, and of course, this appearance is closer to the instant coffee that the public has access to the most.

The cup in front of Li Mengxian looks even clearer and more transparent, if it weren't for the smell of coffee emitted by Flona, just looking at the color, it would be a cup of black tea.

"Jingjing, is that delicious of yours?" Li Mengxian took a sip when he got Flona, and the bitter taste made Li Mengxian, who had never drunk hand-poured coffee, couldn't help but wrinkle his face.

At this time, Xuan Jing also took a sip of piping hot Turkish coffee, tasted it carefully for a while, and then replied, "En...... Sweet, grace...... Then it tastes a little bitter, but it's very light, and it feels like it tastes good. ”

"Hmm......" Li Mengxian said, "My cup is so bitter!"

"But after drinking it, there is a hint of sweetness in my mouth......

Crepe Jing smiled and said: "Isn't it the taste of love after bitterness and then sweetness!

"Huh?" Li Mengxian looked at the bar and suddenly said, "What about Mr. Store?"

Crepe Jing also turned her head to look at the bar, "When did you leave?"

"Well, there's a bill here!" Li Mengxian noticed a bill in the shape of a small receipt on the tidy bar.

"I'll take a look. Cresmine reached out and picked up the ticket.

"It's so cheap!" Li Mengxian also leaned his head over. Seeing the price on the receipt, the two cups of coffee add up to only 36 yuan.

Crepe Jing smiled helplessly: "Mr. Store Manager shouldn't be bad for money, right...... If you do business according to this model, you will definitely lose money......"

Although Xuan Jing and Li Mengxian don't understand coffee, but as far as I saw the store manager use before, that perfect production method, no matter how good these two cups of coffee are, they will not only be worth this price.

Maybe it's like crepe quietly guessing, this enigmatic store manager does things completely according to his mood. However, if you think about it carefully, it is unknown whether the guests who come to the paper kite can buy a cup of coffee, and then consider the arbitrary pricing of coffee, it seems quite normal.

A cup of coffee is naturally impossible to drink for more than half an hour, after all, coffee is just a drink, and there is an optimal time to drink coffee.

After a while, Li Mengxian and Xuan Jing's cups bottomed out, and the two of them put the small money on the side of the bar along with the cup.

"Mr. store manager, thank you for your hospitality~" Although I don't know where the store manager went, Li Mengxian still shouted very politely.

After the two of them came out of the paper kite, a pair of big hands picked up the two empty cups placed on the bar, the store manager was there all along, but he seemed to have this strange magic on his body, which made Li Mengxian and Xuan Jing ignore him!

"Huh?" At the gate of the paper kite, another figure appeared, and after seeing the person clearly, the corners of the store manager's mouth rose and his eyes softened, like the warm autumn sun, warming people's hearts.

"Little Six is here. The store manager said gently.

The person who came was none other than Lee Ming-che.

Lee Ming-che walked to the bar, glanced at the two empty cups in the store manager's hand, and said to himself, "Why, the gluttony over there can already be used." ”

"Oh, it's been hard work~" Yu dotingly stretched out his big hand and rubbed the tips of Lee Mingzhe's soft hair, and he didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, disrupting Lee Mingzhe's delicate bangs.

"Oh, I'm not a kid anymore!" Lee Ming-che pouted and grumbled angrily.

Although Lee Mingzhe spoke, he did not dodge at all.

"Yes, in a blink of an eye, Xiao Zhe has grown up~" The big hand that rubbed the tips of his hair slowly slid down, gently stroking Li Mingzhe's fair face, and said with emotion.

"Can I ask for a cup of coffee?" said Lee suddenly.

"No, Xiao Zhe is not at that age yet~" Yu smiled and rejected Li Mingzhe.

"But, I'm thirsty!" Lee Ming-che didn't give up, and there was a coquettish taste in his tone.

"I've got the milk ready for you~"