I Broke on Through to the Other Side



I fully stepped my game up on the pizza today. I had to work pizza and coffee this morning, so I dropped the fucking bomb on the pie production. We've gone to round doughs (yay!) so I've started to toss them. Yes, I said that I can toss pizza dough now. I was so proud of myself when I caught the first one that I almost cried. Of course it takes YEARS of work to be a champion, and I'm sure I'll never even come close to achieving that status, but just being able to do it makes me really, really happy.

I think it's a great sort of theatre to be able to perform in front of customers, and really makes it something special and cool. Along the same lines I'd love to learn some Tom Cruise style tricks to rock on the coffee bar, ala cup flipping and the like. I often do the super long pour, which is pretty easy and looks cool, and I'm sort of starting to edge into latte art. I'm very interested in becoming a super serious and hardcore barista, and I wish I could afford to go to a real school. Alas, reading and online research will have to do. Can anyone recommend a good book about baristism?
- posted by Mason @ 11:16 PM