Episode 002 | Part 1 Coffee Beans  

 
Patrizio Blandi: Welcome to episode two of the Blandi Coffee podcast, All Coffee No Sugar.
Thank you for joining me on my second episode of the Blandi Coffee podcast, I'm your host Patrizio Blandi from blandicoffee.com.
I have a really exciting topic to cover, now this topic is going to be covered in a five part series of episodes, it's how to make a consistent coffee even if you're a novice. You heard me right, you can make a consistent coffee regardless of your skill.
The skill here is not what we're focusing on and it's not the important bit, the important bit is the concept behind what makes a consistent coffee.
To make a consistent coffee, we have to eliminate variables,  ideally in an ideal world, we're going to have zero variables that means we're going to have the same coffee every time.
Variables are everywhere.
There's nothing we can do about that. All we can do is understand the variables and then we have to try to correct them minimise them and get rid of them and not introduce new ones. If we do that then we're on a path to consistency.
In an ideal world we can get a hundred percent. In the real world we're not going to get no way near a hundred percent, we're going to aim for eighty percent. If we can get eighty percent that means we're going to rock the socks of people. If you could do that every time it will be amazing.
No one out there can do it eighty percent of the time. I would say a very small percentage of people that can do that every time. If you can master this then you'll be able to make a consistent coffee that rocks the socks of everyone.
Why is it important for us to make a consistent coffee?
If we can make a consistent coffee then you can enjoy a good cup of coffee. If you're in a business your customers are going to enjoy the coffee and not only that they can enjoy it anytime because it doesn't matter who makes it, when, where, you'd be able to make coffee consistently the same every time, that's what's important. So they can have the same experience every time.
It can get frustrating because if you don't know what these variables are or if you don't understand the concepts it's going to make your job harder to try to do it. Sometimes you're going to be chasing your tail, you can start losing your passion about coffee.
We don't want that. We're going to learn the concepts so we can find out what's putting us off course then we can quickly get back on to the course. We're going to understand the variables of each part of the coffee making process so that we can repeat it every time.
If we can do this you're going to be ahead of your competition, your progress is going to be fast tracked because instead of experimenting you now know what works and your learning curve is going to just dramatically increase.
You won't be spending money on the wrong equipment, you're going to buy equipment that focuses on features that's going to help you on the consistency path.
We don't need to spend money on the best equipment, sometimes the best equipment we don't need to have we can have equipment that has features that's going to stop those variables or minimise them or not introduce new variables. So it's important to know what those variables are.
If you understand how you can reduce the variables you will know how to limit the variables and you are going to avoid introducing new ones.
Over the next five episodes I'm going to cover one topic in each episode. Today's topic is coffee, and this is part one. I made coffee the first topic because it is the most important. If you don't get this right, the next four parts are going to be irrelevant.
You are going to be chasing your tail because if you don't have a consistent coffee then the rest of parts cannot be consistent.
What makes it harder for us to be consistent? You must have a concrete base, if you have this concrete base then you can build on top of it.