Coffee baristas Jade and Steve-who makes the best coffee??

Well over the last few weeks there have been 2 people out of all the customers we serve who have said that they would prefer Steve to make their coffees......now of course this made me wonder why and what was it about the way we bother made coffee that changed the flavor?? After all I taught him how to make coffee.....hmmmm I of course was a bit jaded and wanted to work out why.

We did an experiment where Steve made a double shot flat white and so did I in latte glasses and hit a taste tester to see if there was a difference (thanks Blayne)! He and us thought that there was very little difference between the two coffees with Steve's maybe being a wee bit stronger than mine. Really there was no real difference to squeak of. So what was it then?? 

Then I worked it out. When I pour the mill over the coffee I did it slowly and the crema rose up with the milk and sat on top, not blending in. Those people who wanted Steve to make their coffees wanted the crema blended in.

Then the other day a customer returned their coffee saying it tasted awful. Steve had made it. I made them a fresh one and voila she said it was beautiful....so the coffee snobbery continues!!