3D coffee flower workshop: milk foam requirements and foam skills for making 3D coffee flower

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Latte Art, commonly known as coffee pull flower, means in the traditional Italian latte coffee, with milk bubble coffee made when the art pattern, heart shape, flower shape, swan shape, until today more developed into 3D pull flower, lifelike small animals will live on the coffee cup, make coffee more pleasing. Rather than taste coffee, make it.

As long as you move creative, you can also make unique and lovely 3D pull flowers.

Knowledge of coffee blossoms

Before learning to pull flowers, the teacher first explained some basic knowledge about coffee pulling flowers. A successful coffee pull flower, in addition to the shape and pattern clear, but also stress "durability" to maintain the shape for 30 minutes. To pull flowers to retain a long time to play out of the milk foam has a high stability, milk contains fat, lactose and protein, and milk foam to maintain a long time to milk protein encase the air to form milk foam, the finer the milk foam can be retained for a long time. The temperature at which milk is made is equally important. Since milk contains lactose, overheating and cooling cannot make it sweet, so it is necessary to pay attention to the temperature when making milk foam.

Preparation for flower pulling

After understanding the knowledge behind pulling flowers and milk bubbles, you can start trial-producing pulling flowers, and the first process is to send milk bubbles. Beginners are advised to start with cooler milk. Frozen milk allows you to heat it longer and control nature more easily. After draining the accumulated water in the steam stick, you can start foaming milk. The nozzle only needs to be placed on the milk surface in the center position. After starting the steam stick, you can hear the squeak and see the vortex, which means the position is correct.

A half-filled pot of milk can produce enough foam for two cups of coffee.

When the foam starts, you have to start moving the jug down so that the steam wand nozzle stays on the surface of the milk. The foam is about 25% of the milk. Skim milk can also be used to beat milk foam, but because of its low fat and protein, beat out of the foam easy to burst, with skim milk made out of pull flowers, most of them will not be a few minutes to disperse.

Tilt the jug to see how the milk is being whipped.

When mixing milk and coffee at first, pull out long and young milk columns.

Coffee flower tips

Coffee pull flower stress control cup gestures and pour milk stability, both need left and right hand coordination and long-term practice, we can start from the most basic heart shape. When pouring milk at the beginning, the purpose is to mix milk and coffee. You can tilt the coffee cup to make the milk hit the coffee with greater momentum. This part of the trick is to pull the milk column high and thin, and at the same time blend the milk and coffee in a circle. This step is the most important left and right hand to be stable and coordinated, milk pot pouring speed to balance while coffee cup clockwise circle, seemingly easy skills in fact, after a long time of exercise, a little careless will pour milk.

When the coffee is four minutes full, you can start to make flowers. First, slowly close the milk pot to the coffee cup, slow down the speed of filling milk foam, and at the same time use wrist force to shake the milk pot horizontally to form ripples. When the coffee is 90% full, immediately shrink the milk column and push the milk forward to the end. If the gesture is correct, you can see a delicate heart pattern emerging on the surface of the coffee.

At the end, you need to pour the milk jug close to the cup.

When making 3D pull flowers, carefully place the light version of the foam on the coffee.

Three-dimensional drawing method

If he succeeded in creating a heart-shaped flower, he would of course immediately try out the legendary 3D flower! 3D foam is lighter than regular foam to float on the surface of coffee, so steam sticks can foam with less milk but more foam. After frothing, there is still a step, that is, the milk and foam separation, will be filled with milk foam pot stable place at the same time with a spoon in the pot circle, so that the foam slowly coagulated, in the production of 3D pull flower is also more convenient.

The key to 3D flower is to put the milk foam on the surface of the coffee skillfully. Coffee only needs to be brewed in the usual way, and then put the foam on the coffee spoon-by-spoon, just like the clay glue will pile up the animal shape. After the shape is built, you can decorate the eyes with chocolate sauce for the small animals. Give full play to your artistic talent and create your own 3D flower coffee.

Decorate the cat with chocolate sauce.