A summary of the common mistakes made by beginners in coffee pulling.

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Learn to pull flowers from coffee, watch YouTube's coffee talent demonstration, pay attention to every link, but why can't you pull out a flower? The professional coffee teacher said that at this time, we should go back and check whether the ratio of milk foam to milk is wrong.

Wu Xiwen, head teacher of coffee and tea blending and catering in Landai, said that the milk foam used in the coffee flower is not all right. Whole milk must be used, and the temperature is 60 to 70 degrees Celsius and the coffee temperature is 50 to 60 degrees Celsius.

Wu Xiwen said bluntly that some people's continuous adjustment of flower drawing is still ineffective, in fact, they should go back and readjust the proportion of milk foam and milk, and do not insist on the details behind, because the failure of flower drawing is most likely due to the failure of pre-work.

He stressed that coffee flower has five elements, including coffee oil, milk foam, milk, feel, proportion, coffee oil (Crema) must be golden yellow, if the black, brown, white flowers are not good-looking, it is not easy to pull out the flower shape.

He explained that when the coffee is ready to show golden coffee oil, pour into the cup about 1 stroke 5 to 1 stroke 3 full, and then through the pointed mouth of the steel cup, it will be beaten by the milk bubble machine, and the very fluffy, soft milk and milk will be poured into the cup. When the cup capacity reaches 1 stroke 2, the hand will begin to rhythm to prepare the flower drawing, and the process of drawing flowers will be ready to end when the bubble reaches the 8-minute fill of the cup.

He said that from the beginning of pouring milk foam, it takes only about 10 seconds to pull flowers. The quality of coffee flowers is closely related to the rhythm of the hand. A good rhythm produces beautiful bubbles and patterns.

Speaking of the most important coffee oil and milk foam, he admitted that the coffee oil made by the automatic coffee machine in the convenience store is too light and too light to be suitable for making coffee flowers. Generally speaking, it is necessary to use a semi-automatic Italian coffee machine to make Italian coffee.

Professional coffee shops have the right machines, although each Italian coffee formula is different, but there can still be a thicker golden coffee oil, suitable for flower pulling.

He revealed that coffee machines suitable for making coffee flowers generally sell for more than NT $150000, with a better asking price of NT $600000 or NT $700000, but some small household Italian coffee machines can also make similar coffee flowers for as little as NT $40,000. there is even a fully automatic coffee machine that costs just over NT $20,000.

As for the key proportion of milk bubbles in the coffee flower, he believes that the milk foam beaten by hand is wetter and heavier, and it is more uncomfortable to pull the flower; the milk foam produced by the high-temperature shock of the machine is fluffy, so the coffee flower will be beautiful, and the moisture content of the milk is some more and some less, which will affect the result of the flower, and should be adjusted at any time.