Making my first coffee in a coffee shop

There are experiences in life that mark you for life, and the one I am telling you about today is one of them. It turns out that the first time you do something you never forget it because it somehow marks, defines or guides you for life. That's why the first time is so fondly remembered.

Who doesn't remember their first love, the first time they went to school or their first paycheck? That feeling of doing something for the first time is special.
Why so many words about the first time?
The answer lies in the fact that for the first time I made a coffee in a coffee machine, something I wanted to do many times, but for some reason had never been able to. This experience is what this publication is about.

Coffee and me

Those who have read me here know of my love and complicity for coffee, of my taste for it and of the different ways of consuming it. I can say, without false modesty, that it is not bad for me and that at home and at work I am the one who prepares it. But I had always been attracted to the way of preparing coffee in those machines that are in the coffee shops because I have always prepared coffee in cloth bags or in small coffee pots. However, I had never been able to do it in one of those machines.

The occasion

A few days ago we carried out the activity of my management to celebrate all the women. It was a nice, intimate and very emotional activity. I never really thought that I could do something that I had been trying to do for so long and without wanting to, the opportunity arose.
It turns out that the activity was held at the Cafeteria "La Cubana" of the Comodoro Hotel, where we have a certain degree of friendship and good working relations with its workers because on other occasions we have held work sessions there.

The idea

There are days when you wake up with the ideas that come to you and this was one of them. When I saw the barista I asked him if he could teach me how to make a coffee and he said yes. Then I paid for all the coffee we were going to consume to avoid losses for the coffee shop in case the coffee was not of the required quality.

Making my first coffee

I must say that the explanation was very good and that it is a process that is not very complicated, but the skill is required by making coffee daily.

It is a process in which the water was already in the machine and the barista put the coffee in the cap and placed it in the machine because this is the most complex process. He then told me what to do. Of the 4 buttons on the back I had to hit the second one from left to right, but I hit it so softly that very little coffee came out. He told me to hit it again and all the coffee came out.

The quality of the coffee and the prize received

I must say that the coffee was not as good as the baristas make it, that is the truth, but my companions and I appreciated it and consumed it.
I must say that as a prize I received a big applause, even though I knew that the coffee was not as good as the baristas make it.

A final comment

I can say that I have been able to fulfill another of my objectives and I was able to make my first coffee in a coffee shop. It is true that the quality of the coffee was not so good, but, I have more than fulfilled one of my desires with this drink and I have been able to interact with a machine and make my first coffee in a coffee shop.

Note: I used the translator DeepL Translate.

All photos are my own, taken with my Samsung J2 phone.