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Hospitality - Cafe Skills
Prepare and Serve Espresso Coffee
The Tamper
The tamper can be either be a handheld tamper or a tamper attached to the grinder. At the school cafe we have a manual tamper.
The tamper is used to pack the ground coffee tightly into the filter basket. This means the water goes more slowly through the coffee grounds, allowing time for the flavour to be extracted from the coffee.
The tamped coffee is called a puck or cake.
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 Step 1.Fill the basket with the correct amount of ground coffee. |  Step 2.Press down with the tamper. |
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 Step 3.If you tamp the coffee correctly, the puck should stay in the filter basket when you turn the group handle upside down. |
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