Coffee Beans Roaster Mistakes a Sleepy Barista Makes

Morning-shift mistakes run from forgetting to clamp the dosing cup and spilling freshly ground coffee, to filling the EK grinder hopper with blend beans, mistaking a pre-order for a rush order, and washing a V60 into abstract art. Even a coffee beans roaster can get distracted by the sound of second crack and push a batch darker than intended.

The incidents are ordinary lapses of attention rather than technique failures: a barista reads an order placed past eleven at night as an immediate americano, then finds it is scheduled for the next morning. They mainly show how much of bar work depends on routine and checklists, and why early shifts call for steady hands and careful reading of every ticket.

Feeling sleepy early in the morning is only human, but for baristas busy behind the counter, a groggy state often means a series of both hilarious and exasperating operational mistakes. From forgetting to clamp the dosing cup, mistakenly refilling the blend beans, to mistaking a pre-order for a rush order, washing a V60 into a piece of art, even roasters can, out of fascination with the second crack sound, produce a batch of "Dan." This article reviews the various confusing behaviors of coffee professionals when not fully awake, offering a good-natured tease of daily work and reminding every morning-shift worker: steady hands, open eyes, and clean beans. Don't miss the product recommendations from Front Street Coffee at the end.

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As the saying goes, if you don't wake up fully, you'll be muddled all day. Can you imagine what bizarre jokes a brain that hasn't fully booted up might create once it stands behind a coffee bar?

If you can't imagine it, no worries—today we'll take you through a roundup of these coffee workers who, severely sleep-deprived, step into the bar and contribute countless absurd and hilarious moments. Welcome to our "peeking" channel, Here We Go～

A veteran barista's hard-earned lesson: after grinding beans, always remember to clamp the dosing cup back on!

Otherwise, you'll just have to watch helplessly as a serving of "freshly ground" coffee powder spills onto the counter, heartache to the point of breathlessness.

They say picking up beans from the bar floor is every barista's destined practice

Hard to say if the person is awake

But the phone is definitely awake

That night, past eleven, just about to close up, suddenly an order popped up: "Americano Plus with an extra double shot." The barista glanced at it and thought, this customer must be staying up till dawn, drinking something so strong. After the espresso was extracted, he took the receipt and looked carefully—

Good grief, it's a pre-order for tomorrow morning! The whole person froze on the spot……

You can never guess what absent-minded reflexive action a sleepy morning-shift colleague will make—

Like filling the EK grinder's hopper with blend beans too.

Don't think only baristas make fools of themselves, No～No～No, once a roaster gets muddled, the scene is truly spectacular. It's said,

The sound of the second crack

was so delightful that this roaster got completely engrossed, and as a result,

alchemy furnace

the effect also came out.

Question:

Besides picking them out by hand, is there any way to quickly separate them?

Answer:

How about trying Excel's sort by color function?

Recently, the Coffee Workshop editorial team welcomed a diligent new colleague. On a sunny morning, not fully awake yet, she was putting clean cups into the sterilizer and casually pressed the high-temperature sterilization button. With a "ding" notification sound, we successfully gained a V60 dripper melted by high temperature into a "contemporary art piece." (Since the original work is unrecognizable and our colleague has long thrown it away, the approximate shape is close to the image below—feel free to imagine it～)

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