If you have ever paid attention when visiting any caf, you would often be asked whether you want one shot espresso all two shots of espresso. Have you ever paused to wonder what this is all about? When you are making coffee for hundreds of customers in a single day, you cannot afford to have your personal quirks ruling the entire setup, can you?

Each and every drink will have to be standardized in such a manner that anybody can replicate the process without any difficulty. Why don't you try the same at home? This will help you avoid complains that each and every cup you make tastes completely different.

From the quantity of coffee powder used to the amount of water and milk-everything should be standardized. The simplest and best option is to come up with two different measures. One-find out how much coffee, milk and water you need to prepare one strong cup of coffee. Once you have this figure in mind, you can make changes to the quantities of the ingredients to manipulate the taste of the cup.

Secondly, try to find out how much ingredients you need to prepare coffee for your entire family. Of course, if you have a very big family, you will have to come up with an interim measure as well. The idea is to provide a standardized base for making coffee for one person, four persons and eight persons.

Then, depending on the total number of persons who have to be served, you can the make use of simple mathematics to arrive at the conclusion. However, this approach presumes that the ingredients of the coffee are standardized.

If you make coffee with non cream milk one day and if you make use of milk with cream on the other day, it is obvious that the taste of your drink is going to differ. The smartest option is to stick to standard ingredients to the maximum extent possible.

Of course, anybody who is an expert in making coffee will tell you that it is all a question of getting the estimates right at all times. Once that is done, you just have to adjust your tongue to the taste as long as the coffee has been well prepared.

Of course, remember that something as drastic as changing the flavor of the coffee beans or the brand of the way it is obviously going to have an effect on the overall taste of the drink. This is something that even an expert cannot avoid.