Comments on: Looking for a new challenge

By: Rob Dunne

Rob Dunne — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:07:59 +0000

MasterChef… Thats perfect. or Start brewing Gin .. haha

By: Johannes

Johannes — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:33:42 +0000

Thanks a lot for your fast reply!

By: James Hoffmann

James Hoffmann — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:20:34 +0000

You need to wrap the image in a div class. So where you want the image to go you would insert it like this, making sure the image was wide enough (751px in this case)

[div class="wide"][img src="image.url"][/div]

Sorry I can’t post the code with proper brackets, seems to break the comments, despite using the code tags.

By: Johannes

Johannes — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:15:09 +0000

Hi, sorry that I’m not refering to your post. I’m interested how you managed to paste this picture over the whole site. I looked it up on the “sugar Cane” website but I didn’t understand the instructions. How did you do it?

By: Brian Thayer

Brian Thayer — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:19:47 +0000

I’ve written a training manual for my own coffee shop. Talk about challenge! It’s never finished! I’ve been “done” with it for about 6 months, yet it seems to get longer and more detailed every time I look at it. Don’t pick this problem up unless you’re prepared to have it stare you in the face, mockingly.

By: James Hoffmann

James Hoffmann — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:54:57 +0000

I quite like the idea of writing a training manual.

As for demonstrations – they only real downside is all the equipment you inevitably need. I’ve done a couple of impromptu demos in the past, and always struggled to get things to go well because 80% of what I needed was missing. It does make for a fun challenge!

By: Sebastian Storholm

Sebastian Storholm — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:14:04 +0000

That’s an awesome idea, it would probably also raise the bar for the WBC a bit as well. :)

By: Anette

Anette — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:15:10 +0000

As much as I will regret the hours of you talking at me about your ideas if anyone should take me seriously, you should put all your crazy thoughts into one uber-performance, and do it as a warm-up before the finals round at the next WBC. The three guinea pig baristas we had before rounds in Iceland were great, it allows the judges to get into the swing of things without making the first proper competitor the ‘benchmark’ performance.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:39:30 +0000

James,
Two ideas occur to me… not THE BOOK, but a competition training manual. This way you can teach without necessarily having to meet the person you’re teaching.

Then how about a demonstration event/ competition. You know the way retired sportsmen do demonstration events, maybe you could do something similar at coffee events & tradeshows. Maybe someone could expand on this?

Mike

By: hugo

hugo — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:53:43 +0000

I scramble according to a very old Roux brothers method…. very, very slowly over a bain marie with yups of double cream at the end…. but because it’s very, very slow it’s very controllable and very easy, too easy for competition.

I’ll disagree with the boiling thing. Like espresso it’s all very easy on your own machine (have you got a real one yet?) and grinder, but vary the altitude, the room temp, the egg starting temp, the water…. it becomes much more than just a stopwatch job.

Borrowers Breakfast: a breakfast of small stuff so it looks like a normal breakfast from further away. Quails eggs on croutons, grilled cherry tomatoes, ickle mushrooms, tiny rosti…

Hope life’s getting exciting for you…

Hugo
Hugo