How to Make the Best Coffee

Transcript My name is Mike Jones, and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. I’m going to show you how to make an Americano. Americano is a really simple espresso drink. All it is is simply a …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones, and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. Where do coffee beans come from? They are grown mostly in tropical climate at a higher altitude, at least that’s where the quality …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones, and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. I’m going to show you how to make a French press. First there’s a few things you’re going to need. You’re going to …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones, and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. Alright, I’m going to talk to you about latte art. Latte art is kind of the exciting part of making espresso drink. It’s …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. So especially in recent years, you may have noticed that bags of coffee that you’ve bought from either cafés or coffee roasters have …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones, and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. All right, now I’m going to show you how to pour a rosetta. This is a classic latte design. It looks like a …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones, and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. I’m going to show you how to make an Iced Mocha. What you will need for this is some chocolate. I like something …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones, and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. Alright, so how do you make coffee at home? Now this is a really tricky subject in that any nice cafe that you …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones, and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. I’m going to show you how to make Pour-Over Iced Coffee using the Chemex. Now this is a really delicious way of making …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee, right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee making skills. I’m gonna show you how to make pour over coffee, using this Chemex brewer. And, I’m gonna be using the method that …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones, and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. Alright, the final design I’m going to show you is a tulip. This combines techniques used in the rosetta and the heart, in …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones, and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. I’m gonna show you how to make a cappuccino. A cappuccino is traditionally between five and six ounces. You have your shot of …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones, and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. Alright, I’m going to show you how to steam milk with an espresso machine. The wonderful thing about espresso is that besides just …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones, and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. Alright I’m gonna show you how to make a Cafe Mocha. Now all this is, is basically a latte or cappuccino with chocolate …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones, and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. I’m going to show you how to make a Cafe Latte. Now at its most basic interpretation, a latte is just espresso with …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones, and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. I am going to show you how to make an Iced Latte. This is really simple as long as you have a few …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones, and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. I’m gonna show you how to make an espresso, starting with grinding, dosing, and then measuring and tamping. The first thing to do …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones, and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. How do you become a barista? I just started working at coffee shops, I did a lot of self-teaching where I was spending …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m gonna teach you some basic coffee-making skills. Alright so I’m gonna give you a couple tips for preparing espresso, a couple things that are overlooked and that will really improve the …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones, and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. How do you keep coffee beans fresh? You want to keep them in an air tight container away from direct sunlight and at …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones and I’m a Barista at Third Rail Coffee, right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee making skills. I’m going to show you how to clean the Espresso grinder in a semi in-depth way. This is something that can be …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones, and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. Water temperature is really important when brewing coffee. It’s often overlooked especially when you’re making coffee at home. You want it to be …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones, and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. Okay, now I’m going to show you how to make a macchiato, this is one of my favorite espresso drinks. What it is, …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones, and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. I’m gonna show you how to make an Iced Americano. The process for this is almost identical to the Hot Americano in that …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones, and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. Right, so now that we’ve ground, dosed, measured, and tamped, it’s time to pull the perfect shot of espresso. Now I wish I …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones, and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. So, what are the basic parts of an espresso machine? What are the basic things you need to be making espresso? This is …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones, and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. I’m going to show you how to clean an espresso machine. Now, the basic thing that you do is a process called “backflushing”. …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones, and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. So, what equipment is used to make coffee? You have your nice whole coffee bean, but how do you get that into a …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones, and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. What is decaffeinated coffee? Decaf coffee actually still has some caffeine in it. Definitely less, to a significant amount, than you know, regular …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones, and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. So not what we’ve ground into the basket and dosed it out, you want to make sure it’s the same weight that you …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones, and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. What is the best coffee maker? I get asked this a lot, as well as I’m sure many other baristas. And all I …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones, and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. So, what sort of beans should you be buying to make coffee at home? This is kind of a tricky question because it …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones, and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. So what type of cup should you be drinking your coffee out of? Now the main difference between the different cups is just …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones, and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. Alright so you have the green beans, it’s been harvested, processed from the country, and now it’s at a roaster. It’s still not …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones, and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. So what is coffee? Coffee is actually the cherry that is grown on the coffee plant, which is a tree or a shrub. …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones, and I’m a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square Park in New York City. I’m going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills. So, what is the difference between coffee and espresso anyway? This is a question I get all the time. People will come in …

Transcript My name is Mike Jones, and I’m a Barista at Third Rail Coffee, right by Washington Square Park in New York City. Earlier this year, I competed in a national barista competition that was held in Houston, Texas. We’re at a training lab in Soho today. We’re going to learn how to make a …