November 13, 2024, 3:57 pm.
Zeng Junze remembered it very clearly because he just took a look at the Patek Philippe on his wrist.
In three minutes, it will be his unbeatable tea time every day.
The water temperature in the hand brewing kettle has dropped to 92 degrees, which is just right for brewing Geisha beans from Panama Jade Estate. He stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of his penthouse in Manhattan's Upper East Side, holding a coffee grinder in his left hand and a small brush in his right hand, meticulously cleaning out the coffee powder remaining in the gaps of the cutter plate.
There's something wrong with the sky outside the window.
Since this morning, a light green mist has been floating over New York. The news said it was some kind of rare meteorological phenomenon, and people were told not to panic and just stay indoors.
Zeng Junze doesn't care about this. All he cares about is the bean in his hand.
One pound of raw Gesha beans costs US$480. He bought three pounds for US$1,440. This is equivalent to about three dollars and two dollars per gram. He now needs to use 18 grams of powder to extract a cup of hand-brewed coffee. In other words, the raw material cost of this cup of coffee is fifty-seven dollars and six dollars.
Including water, filter paper, time cost and his own energy depreciation, the comprehensive cost of this cup of coffee is about seventy US dollars.
Value.
