Grand Barista Championship

[b11c]

@1:18 Dude take your time...and let it be perfect...to the speck...

[maciejwrotek]

coffee makees diarrhea

[fodera6]

Yeah! Kill those dosers! :D

[highlycaffeinatedpro]

lmao

[hizennogo]

Any one able to point out who is the Barista in 0:21? WBC 2006 eh?

[warmgun92]

Damn I'm a super rookie barista! hahaha

[KrankfurtRules]

this seems like a great hobby or even job....

man i wanna be a barista! XD

[0Stubb0]

Foamed, steamed, microfoam(?), spinned, stretched, frothed, whatever you call it doesn't matter as long as you make good coffee.

The elitist tone from many of the baristas posting here is some of what prevents people from trying espresso-based coffees. Just make good coffee for everyone, and answer politely to any question they have. No one is born knowing what a latte or a cortado is, but they still deserve to taste it without being belittled.

[highlycaffeinatedpro]

what the hell is a 'cortado'?

[0Stubb0]

A cortado is a spanish version of the caffe latte/café au lait. "Cortado" means "cut" in this jargon, and it's basically a latte that is served in a smaller cup, with less milk, prefferably 50/50 espresso/steamed milk.

Not to be confused with a cappuccino, which has more "froth" than a cortado.

At least that's how it's served here in Norway, I've heard that in Spain, all espresso-based drinks with milk is called cortado, and you must specify the amount of milk yourself.

Hope this clears it up.

[highlycaffeinatedpro]

Sounds like a picollo latte, being a standard espresso shot, in a 90ml glass, finished with textured milk.

[tr96ai]

from what I understand a cortado is a mini flat white, least that is how they are in Wellington.

[bandocxxx]

Gdayyy coffee!

[HellyHere]

That music is great!

[yujiajie]

ihope ill be like u 1 day.u r great

[baconmeister]

Just did Dane's(DGCI) First coffee course, and Paul Jackon (the guy in the video giving out the awards) is truly amazing. Worth every cent.

[beastieboydickie]

Actually there is a reason, I am a Barista and its for the asthetic appeal of a true coffee house. Lets put it this way! When you go to a fine restaraunt and order filet mingon how does it come prepared? When you go to Mc Donalds how is it prepared? Now lets say starbucks would be a McDonalds and a local Coffee house is the fine restaraunt! TRUST ME I GET COMPLIMENTS LIKE NO OTHER AND ALSO TIPS WHEN SOMEONE SEES A NEAT DESIGN IN THEIR DRINK...

[kjy04]

A-FU***NG-MEN brother!

[Patral521]

wow linkari you sound like a real great person to meet

[emiera]

hehe, i'm a starbucks barista and i try to serve latte art when it's not busy :D happy looking coffee makes happy people. There.

and it's a little harder because of the rough looking pitcher bux uses, but with a little practice microfoam can be achieved. with luck xD

[yurivaldes]

In all starbucks they close the freking cup. why bother with disigns! And when the coffee has "microfoam" it is a cappuccino, not a latte.

[emiera]

well i'm not sure bout anywhere else but in malaysia we serve them in uncovered mugs. And you can freepour latte's if you control the amount of foam you create while steaming the milk. if you create less foam then you'll pour out less foam :) there's logic there!

[yurivaldes]

Actually no, there's no logic. A latte don't need control over nothing, the milk in a latte is just steamed milk, just taking care of the temperature not the foam, the foam is the natural steaming foam. if there is a little foam, is still a latte, making coffee is something unique and beautiful, please, don't try to make it a science. peace!!

[bmusse]

you should open your own cafe. you really know what your talking about.

[bmusse]

@yurivaldes

[johnrichardmartin]

actually, all good lattes should have a little foam-- the real difference is the ratio of espresso, milk, and (micro)foam

[rayjay1234]

you can foam it perfectly to make designs? wow...its kind of pointless if you couldnt, and you wouldnt a latte artist if you couldnt. by the way, you do realize that foaming milk is not what we do. foaming milk is what starbucks does, hence the crap they serve. we steam, stretch and spin our milks. a "foamy" milk, is un-pourable

[jmhere07]

i like the word barista it just sounds right for this industrie i want to work at a cafe when im older lol

[oziguana]

Post a video to prove it then, Linkari. :P I doubt its as good as mine. LOL

On a side note, i use coffee from the company David Makin (2nd place in 2005) works for, and he set up my La Marzocco machine. :P

[mannyfashion]

wow que forma de hacer caffe :o

[Linkari]

Beautiful... simply Beautiful... I plan to one day enter a barista competition... why? because I'm a latte artist... my latte foam is uncomparable, I can even foam it perfectly to make designs :)

[KangBatman]

Hey, you know about latte don't you? Does latte used foam, you mean a foamed milk is it?

[natalyincanada]

pero no hay que presumir....

[Hashukim]

Wow, your a real rock star.. can I be like you one day?

[ozcaffee]

You people in the coffee industry are so bitchy..