[Music] Foreign [Music] I’ve compiled the Baristas do’s and Don’ts we put this together of all the Comments from other videos we’ve done For through Barista mistakes and all of Our ideas here at RTC as to what we’re Seeing in cafes still happening we want You to start making better coffee and Give your customers a very better Experience through these tips now let’s Start with the number one thing everyone Still hates [Music] Is the spoon you still can’t be holding Back your froth for your flat white so Let’s get rid of the spoon We also we have to stop tapping the Basket we spend a lot of time learning About distribution good technique and It’s really affecting your extractions And the flavor of your coffee if you’re Still tamping and then tapping Not so bad if you’re Distributing your Coffee prior to tamping but once you’ve Tamped you don’t want to disturb that Puck it’s really important for a good Extraction and good and flavor We also still see people soaking their Steam once overnight potentially putting Chemical in there You just don’t need to do it a there’s An o-ring in that steam one tip that can

Actually break down from the chemicals There’s a vacuum that goes up into the Machine and that chemical and even just The water is enough to do damage to the Steam one so just you just don’t need to Be soaking your Steam on anymore we’re Done with that instead Once you just a heavy cloth on there a Wet cloth will break down the milk that You’re trying to get off if you’re Having to soak your Steam on overnight It’s likely that you’re just not Cleaning your Steam on enough all right What else we got so Leaving stains on the milk jugs from a Customer point of view you don’t realize But you might have these dirty old Stains in the front of your milk jugs It’s never a good look so a nice clean Milk jug goes a long way and a simple Little wipe there will do the trick I Have seen people put coffees on top of Coffee machines and they’ve gone they’ve Been spilled into the coffee machines And it’s cost them a lot of money General raw don’t put any liquid on top Of your machine that includes the pumps The syrup pumps even sugar all of those Sugars will melt into the machine it’s Really hard to get it off and it just Caramelizes and it will ruin your Machine and if it was one of our Machines we wouldn’t be too impressed So let’s avoid putting anything on top

Of the machines now we don’t like Soaking the Steam on but we also don’t Need to soak our handles anymore soaking Your group Handles in a jug of water Especially if you’ve got chemical in it You might actually be damaging the Rubber in your Potter filters you can Split them there is glue in there with The thread as well so you might actually Be ruining the glue and Wrecking the Threads so we don’t need to be soaking These overnight barely even in the day We just need to be rinsing this Throughout the day to keep them clean All the time all right so it can’t be Negative about everything there is a Bunch of things that we want you to do To make great coffee and let’s start With keeping your baskets clean between Your coffees so when you knock that out Into your waste tube you need to be Giving that a nice dry wipe You don’t necessarily need to be rinsing It between every coffee but you should Have a nice clean dry basket for every Single coffee we don’t want the negative Flavors carrying through to the next Person’s coffee Every time you take that handle out of Your machine I want you to push that Button and flush the water through That’s going to mean that you’ve got Nice hot water ready for your next shot It also means that you’re cleaning that

Shower screen between every single Coffee easy thing to do will make a hell Of a difference for your next coffee All right steaming so steaming is a big One you can obviously when you’re Walking into a cafe it’s pretty quickly You can see whether they’re keeping Their steam one clean and everyone in The comments is hating seeing a dirty Steam one you’d be surprised if you’re a Barista you don’t realize how many People are looking at that and judging You so Every time you go to do a coffee we need A purge we want to get that condensation Out of the steam wand and you can wipe That off you’ve had this resting on There so that should be easy to clean All that off now we we’re ready to steam Once you’ve steamed your jug you’re Going to clean that keep that wrapped up And Purge again you want to clean out Any of the residual milk that’s been Kept in there and that is the best way To keep your old steam one clean all the Time now notice that I do have a pink Cloth for my steam wand and I’ve also Got some brown cloths from my bench that Is because I want to have a different Cloth for my bench to my Steam on you Can’t use the same cloth for your steam Onto your bench you’re just going to Transfer coffee grinds and milk it’s Messy and it’s dirty and you can’t use

The same cloth you’ve got to have nice Fresh clean cloths on your bench and for Your Steam on all the time okay so Another big one that everyone comments On is reusing milk so no we can’t reuse Milk but what we can do is get things Like jug rinses and even if you don’t Have a jug rinter just rinsing your jugs Between coffees is going to obviously Impact the flavor and give you a better Product when you’re steaming milk but we Want to make sure that we’ve got clean Jugs all the time we’re not reheating That milk and when it comes to keeping Your machine clean little tricks like Making sure that your group heads are Clean are great but also doing a little Bit more extra work on doing a cold Doing a back flush with your blind Basket in so do that regularly Throughout the day it will make the end Of the day cleaning process better but Also make sure you are clean chemical Cleaning your machine every single day We as a rule we say if you’ve put at Least a kilo of coffee through whether It’s a commercial machine or a Home Machine we always say you put a kilo Through it you need a chemical clean That machine making sure that you’re Running your machine at best is also Keeping your filters up to date so if You don’t have a service technician like Our crew keeping up to date with your

Filters you need to be keeping an eye on It because you might not be actually Sending clean water into your machine Change and that’s actually going to Create a different flavor for your Coffee and ruin your machine in the long Run and lastly it is the dirty Hopper no One likes to see a dirty Hopper on a Coffee grinder it is just a sign that You don’t care as a Brewster the simple Trick is to just get a paper towel not a Wet cloth or anything but every time You’re about to put another kilo of Coffee in just wipe the oils off coffee Has oils it sticks to the hopper and Eventually that will build up and you’ll Get that residual look to it If every single week you should be Taking that off you can do it daily if You can clean out the beans take the Hopper off give it a hot soapy wash Don’t put it through the dishwasher but Just give it a wash get all the oils off We also don’t want to transfer those old Oils to the new beans so a clean Hopper Is a must for any good Barista and any Good Cafe guys have you got more to add To this I’ll keep doing them if you just Put your comments below of all the Things you’re seeing in cafes I’m Hearing stories about Baristas that are Having a hard time making changes Because other people around them are Doing sending them send them this video

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