Every now and then I’m minding my own business and I remember the strangest drink I’ve ever served someone. They wanted a caramel apple spice… with two shots of espresso. That’s steamed apple juice. With cinnamon dolce syrup. Whipped cream. And espresso. And she acted like it was perfectly normal. I wonder how she’s doing, is she okay? Did her spaceship ever come pick her up??
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At work I needed to calibrate the coffee grinder, so I put it at the finest setting possible and ground some beans to make sure it reached a soft, baby powder texture. It should clump easily, feel soft, etc.
I wound up just grinding coffee and playing with it like moon sand and threatening my coworker with coffee snowballs.
Story Time
Once upon a time a jackass came to my Sbux. He ordered a tall mocha BUT IT MUST BE 190 DEGREES because if IT’S TWO DEGREES TOO COOL HE’LL COME BACK. So this mischievous barista began to wonder and nodded along as she steamed the jackass drink and the jackass ranted how he didn’t care if he got stomach cancer, his mocha MUST BE 190 DEGREES. This barista politely informed the jackass that it was not so much the potential cancer that made some baristas not steam the mocha to 190 DEGREES but because at around 175 the milk expands, boils, and begins to explode. If it overflows, as it almost always does over 180 degrees, then it can cause serious injury to the barista.
The jackass stared, blinked, then continued his rant about not caring about stomach cancer, his mocha MUST BE 190 DEGREES.
The mischievous barista cut the temperature at 175, finished the mocha with generous stirring and whipped cream, and handed it over to the jackass with a smile. Feeling as if he’d won, the jackass took his mocha and drank half of it in the store before leaving.
Not once did he say a word.
Moral of the story: pretentious jackasses who knowingly order drinks that are dangerous to their preparer’s health genuinely can’t tell the difference. They just need to feel as if they’re getting their way. Don’t risk your health and safety for a jackass’s drink when he can’t tell the damn difference.
STARBUCKS HOLIDAY DRINK NEWS:
New drink coming Nov, the chestnut praline latte. Get excited.
Forgot to post this, but here’s a commission I did of a client’s deceased pet wolfdog! He was a gorgeous creature from the photos and it was a pleasure and honor to paint him.
Coffee and watercolor, December 2013.
Coffee painting today, let’s goooo.
