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How to practice coffee flower drawing? How to make 3D coffee flowers? Fancy coffee? How to learn to make caffeine from scratch?

Coffee pull flower, English is Latte Art, the meaning is the art of latte, soak in milk on the latte painting a pattern, so that coffee in addition to the taste, aroma chic, but also add visual beauty, from the eyes began to feel yearning for coffee.

Now not only lattes can pull flowers, cappuccino can use milk foam to show beautiful patterns, with chocolate sauce, caramel sauce … And so on can make the pattern more vivid, diverse, and more colorful.

When beginners learn flower patterns, they need to go from shallow to deep: apples, hearts, leaves, flowers. Don't think about how many flowers can be done overnight. Pulling flowers is not only a visual enjoyment, but also how to use skillful strength to blend milk foam with coffee, and at the same time, you can also taste different levels of taste. This is the real knowledge of pulling flowers.

Coffee blossom step 1.

Brew a cup of Espresso and pour into a coffee cup.

Coffee blossom step 2.

Make milk foam and pour it into a wide-bottomed flower-drawing pot.

Coffee blossom step 3.

Slowly pour the milk foam into the coffee cup, and the milk foam will merge with the coffee industry. when you pour the coffee cup to the height of 2thumb 3, the coffee liquid and milk foam will roughly merge, and the surface of the coffee will show a thick shape, which is the time for the coffee to pull flowers.

Coffee flower drawing step 4.

Before pulling flowers, gently shake the kettle left and right, remember to keep the movement of the hand steady, and use the strength of your wrist to control the flower cup. after going back and forth horizontally, there will be traces of white milk bubbles in the shape of "Z" four times.

Coffee flower drawing step 5.

Finally, slowly move the flower pot backward, and reduce the range of shaking left and right, and pull forward a thin straight line as the stem of the leaf when you close the cup.

Coffee Latte Art in English means the art of latte. In fact, not only latte can pull flower, but cappuccino can also practice it. Besides practicing hand strength, coffee flower should also remember to practice the skill of beating milk.

Start "coffee pull", gently shake the flower cup from side to side, and keep your hands steady at this time. Use the strength of the wrist to control the flower cup and move back and forth 3-4 times horizontally. If you shake it correctly, the foam marks will show a white "zigzag" shape.

Slowly move the flower cup back, and gradually reduce the range of shaking, when the cup is closed, pull forward a thin line as the edge of the leaf stalk.

Tip: when it is not easy to pull flowers at first, you can use toothpicks and syrup to make the flowers a little more elegant.

Friends who like to drink coffee, when they go to the coffee shop to drink lattes, they must also like to enjoy the flowers above, but they are reluctant to drink a mouthful of coffee for fear of destroying the coffee flowers carefully designed by the barista.

Today, the editor is going to teach you some simple coffee drawing teachings. You can also practice coffee drawing at home and make a special cup of coffee for yourself or your friends.

When beginners learn coffee patterns, you can first practice simple patterns such as apples, hearts, leaves, flowers, etc., and never teach challenging coffee flowers at the beginning. Flower pulling is not only a visual appreciation, but also learn how to integrate milk foam with coffee. You can explore different levels of taste when tasting. This is also the great knowledge of coffee flower.

As long as you are creative, you can also make a unique and lovely 3D flower.

The knowledge of coffee flower drawing

The workshop specially came to the professional coffee brewing school in Hong Kong, where a group of baristas accredited by the International Coffee Association taught you the skills of flower drawing. Before learning to pull flowers, the teacher first explained to you some basic knowledge about coffee flowers. A successful coffee flower should not only have a clear shape and pattern, but also "persistence" to keep the shape for as long as 30 minutes. If you want to keep the flowers for a long time, the milk foam has to be made with high stability. Milk contains fat, lactose and protein. In order to keep the milk foam for a long time, the protein of the milk should be wrapped in the air to form milk bubbles. The finer the milk foam is, the longer it can be retained. And the temperature when making milk foam is also important, because milk contains lactose, too hot and too cold can not make it sweet, so you need to pay attention to the temperature when making milk foam.

The preparation of coffee flower

After learning the knowledge behind the coffee flower and milk foam, you can start to trial-produce it, and the first process is to dispose of the milk foam. It is recommended that beginners start with milk at a lower temperature. Frozen milk allows people to heat it for longer, so it is naturally easier to control. After removing the stagnant water from the steam stick, you can start to foam. The nozzle only needs to be placed on the surface of the milk in the middle position. After starting the steam stick, you can hear the squeak and see the vortex that means the position is correct.

A half-full pot of milk can make enough foam for two cups of coffee.

When the foam starts to start, people will start to move the kettle down to keep the steam stick nozzle on the surface of the milk, and the foaming amount will be about 25% of the milk. Skim milk can also be used to make milk bubbles, but because of its low fat and protein, the foam is easy to burst. Most of the flowers made with skim milk will disperse in a few minutes.

The pot can be tilted to observe the milking condition when handling the foam.

At first, when mixing milk and coffee, pull out the long and young milk column.

The skill of pulling flowers in coffee

Coffee pull focuses on the gesture of the control cup and the stability of pouring milk, both of which require left and right hand coordination and long practice. You can start with the most basic heart shape. At first, the purpose of pouring milk is to mix the milk and coffee. You can tilt the coffee cup so that the milk will have more impact when it hits the coffee. The trick in this part is to pull the milk column high and thin, while merging milk and coffee in circles. The most important step in this step is to ensure stability and coordination between the left and right hands, to balance the milk pouring speed of the milk pot and to circle the coffee cup clockwise. The seemingly easy skill actually takes a long time to exercise, and the milk will be poured out a little carelessly.

When the coffee is full, you can start to make flowers. First, slowly put the milk pot close to the coffee cup, slow down the speed of filling the milk foam, and shake the milk pot horizontally with your wrist to form ripples. Until the coffee is 90% full, immediately take the milk column and push the milk forward to the end. If the gesture is correct, you can see a delicate heart-shaped pattern appear on the surface of the coffee.

At the end, pour the milk pot close to the cup and pour out the pattern.

When making 3D coffee flowers, you should carefully place the lightweight version of the foam on the coffee.

The production method of three-dimensional flower drawing

If the heart-shaped flower is successfully produced, of course, the legendary 3D flower should be trial-produced immediately! The 3D foam is lighter than the ordinary one to float on the surface of the coffee, so you can use less milk but more foam when using a steam stick. After making the foam, there is still a step, that is, to separate the milk and the foam, place the pot full of foam and circle it with a spoon to make the foam slowly condense, and it is more convenient and easy to make 3D flower drawing.

The trick of 3D coffee flower is to put the milk foam skillfully on the surface of the coffee, the coffee only needs to be brewed in a normal way, and then put the bubble on the coffee, just like the mud glue will pile up the animal model. after finishing the shape, you can decorate the small animals with chocolate sauce, give full play to your artistic talent, and create your own 3D flower coffee.