@adammonks8199
When you’re stoned at your minimum wage coffee shop job and James Hoffman walks in with a camera and a scale.
@ytsucksnowwiththisrealname1096
Imagine working the Costa counter and James Hoffman comes in and orders an espresso 😓😓😓
@sk-sm9sh
Now I know why Costa is my fav chain in London. Had no idea why but now I know - my addiction to caffeine.
@feezer3017
I worked at an indie espresso bar and the process for pulling a shot was very stringent. -We weighed each dose of ground beans. We were allowed to be off by 0.1g ... if it was during a rush. -We controled the amount of water used to extract down to the gram. -We had to hit the extraction time down to the second. Each morning the opener would create the new recipe based on experimenting with the beans for that day but all parameters had to be within a specific range. Water: 36g - 39g Grounds: 27g - 29g Time: 27s - 29s (usually 28s was the sweet spot) Eg. 27.5g dose, 38g water, 28s might be the recipe but it would entirely depend on the bag of beans being used that day. New bag always meant discovering the new recipe. I'm not surprised that the chains didn't have theirs consistency dialed like other shops might. It takes some dedication. It sounds slow and pretentious but it amounted to about 45 seconds per shot.
@mcst6969
One coffee please. 'pulls out a laptop and several gadgets' 😆 (I love it!)
@adhdgaming7463
The product he is using is the Lighttells CA-700 Caffeine & CGA Meter For anyone wondering
@natus49
Someone who works at Nero here. I wouldn’t be surprised if you went back to each of these chains you might get a very different result, the reason being we don’t weigh the doses before each cup. I rate Kiss the Hippo btw, great place!
@drmedwuast
"Today, I took my caffeine-meter to 10 different coffee shops" Of course you did!
@RedfishCarolina
James needs to release his own brand of coffee called the King James Version.
@oz2322
i am so glad that james is enjoying his new toy :)
@Willjum
Kiss the hippo has got to be my favourite coffee in the UK, so cool to see it here
@Unitedstatesgov598
imagine working at a specialty coffee shop and James walks in. id half expect the employees to start whispering when James brings out the $2000 caffeine meeter 😂
@zandraling9121
Used to work as a barista for a small UK chain. The training was ongoing (you never stop learning) and that included minor machine maintenance! We also quality checks the coffee (grind extraction etc) several times throughout the day, even recalibrate grinds to account for changes in the temp and humidity levels in the air. Still love geeking out about it.
@Qurisx
Straight to the point, descriptive, Results right in front of us... perfect video. Amazing.
@whosgonnadotcom
The only thing I'd say in response to the conclusion is that variation from chain to chain doesn't really mean inconsistency. If you went to 10 Starbucks and they were all at 85mg, then that's very consistent, even if some other chain is double that
@andrewsmylie2205
I'd love to see a TikTok/shorts series where you get a double shot from a coffee shop 10 different days and see how much variation there is within each shop over multiple days/baristas. I'd guess due to quality of beans and better puck prep, we'd find a much higher consistency in specialty compared to chains.
@tessiepinkman
You just gave me another reason, on top of the mountain of reasons I have collected myself, to never, ever go to a Starbucks. They were really low on caffeine. I haven't yet, and probably never will, give that corporation my money.
@mitchylai
The coffee shop recommendations we’ve been waiting for 🙏
@juxtapode2781
Man has to be the most stressful client to serve coffee to ever, but i still love his work lol
@Namasu604