Hi my name is Charles Babinski, I am the cofounder of G&B Coffee and Go Get Em Tiger
in Los Angeles, California
so, two pitchers. This is my milk pitcher
and this a pitcher, pretending to be a cup
and we are using water instead of milk because, water is cheap and you can spill it everywhere
and it's easy
first, just let it dangle
put your thumb down
and then
speed up
or slow down
and just get used to doing different speeds
and, once you get a good sense of how to speed up or slow down the water
try to go very slow to very fast
fast slow, fast slow, fast slow
next
pour very slow and go up
down
up
down
up
down
try to keep a consistent flow
next
just practicing wiggling
when you are wiggling the milk pitcher
you don't want it to be jerky, so you're not moving your whole hand
like that
you're letting it hang, right
and then letting it
sort of pick up a
a pendulum back and forth
it shouldn't be a whole lot of motion it's not like
this
it's almost like this
we have three things so far
slow fast, slow fast, slow fast
high low, high low, high low
and then wiggling
once you are comfortable with those
pour high and slow
you go down
speed up
and untilt the cup that you are pouring into
high and slow
go down, speed up
and untilt the cup that you are pouring into
and then
high and slow
go down all the way, speed up
wiggle
and untilt the cup that you are pouring into
now
putting it all together: high and slow
go down
speed up
wiggle
untilt, slow down
slow down, up half an inch
and across
you're done
a few notes on form:
you want to keep the handle of the cup that you are pouring into
perpendicular to the handle of the steaming pitcher
for the milk pitcher:
keeping the handle, parallel to your shoulders
the whole time, so,
none of this
it's always like this
your holding the milk pitcher
you want to dangle it on one finger
so, you have your pointer finger right here
just so that it is sort of naturally even
and then use your thumb
like this
to speed it up or slow it down
think about it as like the gas pedal
these three fingers right here
are stabilizing it
so, you're not clamped down on it
it's just the one finger, dangling
the thumb
speeding up and slowing down, and then the other three to stabalize
keep your elbow
close to your side
so, don't bring it up here
if you are speeding up
and you are raising your elbow to do it
you're going to rotate
the pitcher while you are do that and that's going to make things harder
so just use your thumb to speed stuff up
so two things that people do
when they are pouring and they get into more complicated pours
is they will bring the
milk pitcher
closer to the cup that they're pouring into
which you don't want to do
before it's time
and the other thing
is, everything will move around so,
stuff will start to rotate
you don't want that either