Steaming with soap and water

Check out this video that I found over at homebarista.com. It’s a training video where Scott Rao demonstrates steaming and latte art technique, but he’s not using milk. Instead he uses water with a single drop of dishwashing detergent. The end result looks identical to microfoam made from milk. Pretty cool.

Supreme Roastworks in the media

Lovely article about the Oslo based roaster Supreme Roastworks in dn.no a couple of days ago. A video can be found there as well. I really like the pictures in the article.
Haven’t been able to visit them yet myself, but I hear their coffees are really nice. The espresso from their “Earth” espresso blend I [...]

Barista video workshop (in dutch) with Jeroen Veld…

Barista video workshop (in dutch) with Jeroen Veldkamp. Cool stuff.

The norwegian barista championship was held last…

The norwegian barista championship was held last week. Here are the results:
1. Halvard Amble2. Jonas Lippestad Johansen3. Einar Kleppe Holthe4. Jim Ø. Pedersen5. Katrine Amdal6. Karen Aanerud
Congrats!
And here are some pictures from the competition:Alex from Stockfleth’s watching the competition and spreading joy as alwaysJudges and spectatorsEinar Kleppe Holthe pic 1Einar Kleppe Holthe pic 2Einar Kleppe [...]

Hehe, funny italian Lavazza commercial. That espre…

Hehe, funny italian Lavazza commercial. That espresso does not look good.