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In my store, besides American coffee, lattes are the second most popular product. I think the same is true in other stores. Coffee is becoming more and more popular, but most people still prefer lattes with high milk content.

I remember that at the beginning of the business, a guest said, "Coffee (our competitor) said that your coffee beans are not good, the coffee is not bitter, and the latte is not hot." I smiled and explained to him what a good latte was. Then the guest became our repeat customer.

So, how much can you score on the latte you usually drink?

Is the milk foam too thick?

It's actually a question about the difference between a latte and a cappuccino.

To put it simply: latte is actually milk coffee, cappuccino milk foam is rich, latte will also have milk foam, but it is almost thin, usually coffee Xiaobai is sometimes difficult to judge from the appearance, so some stores in order to distinguish the two products, some will make an article on the cappuccino, such as sprinkling some cinnamon powder, cocoa powder.

The way to do it is to keep the most traditional style of cappuccino: the golden circle! (this is the origin of the name cappuccino, just like the monks of the Capuchin Church put a headscarf over a dark brown coat.)

Latte vs cappuccino

Temperature of the latte

In theory, milk has the highest sweetness and the highest concentration of carbohydrates in cold storage. But for a perfect latte, the temperature should be between 55 and 65 degrees.

Because the temperature that the human body is comfortable to accept is in this range, and if handled properly, the decomposition of protein will be the smoothest in this temperature range, just like hard-boiled eggs and 7 mature eggs, so people think this temperature is the sweetest.

Too high temperature will lead to caramelization of milk, protein solidification, too low temperature protein does not completely decompose, resulting in poor touch.

The smell of coffee in lattes

Although there is a lot of milk in the latte, it should be able to taste the coffee. This requires coffee shops to master the proportion of milk coffee.

The difference between father Xing's large latte and medium latte is that it adds more milk, while the proportion of espresso does not increase accordingly, so it almost loses the taste of the latte.

The taste of coffee is also different from that of coffee. If your latte tastes bitter, it only means that the beans of espresso are not good enough. Some chains usually choose heavily roasted coffee beans in order to unify the taste of coffee in all stores and to cover up the taste of defective beans.

Milk in a latte

If you go to a cafe, you can pay attention to what kind of milk they choose.

Most coffee shops choose boxed milk, and only a few boutique coffee shops choose fresh milk to make lattes. Fresh milk to make milk coffee, in the storage, production, have increased the cost of the store.

When we first upgraded to fresh milk to make milk coffee, we got used to it for a while, because sometimes fresh milk is not as easy to dispose as boxed milk, and it is easy to deteriorate after opening the packaging, so we must strictly abide by the standard operation and storage.

But good milk does sweeten your latte. The sweetness is brought by the milk itself, not later mixed with sugar.

One more thing, don't blindly worship imported milk. There is a chain store of an emerging brand that says it uses kangaroo imported milk as a milk coffee. Hong Kong really doesn't think it tastes better than three yuan milk.

The best cup of milk coffee I've ever had in my life is made of local fresh milk in a small shop on the road of Chengdu University. The name of the fresh milk brand is a bit eloquent, so I won't say it.

The steps of making a latte

The next time you happen to be sitting at the bar, notice how the barista makes your latte.

Grind the coffee beans, put them into the coffee handle, extract Italian concentrate (small lattes are single concentrated, large lattes are double concentrated), whisk milk, pour milk into espresso, finish! This is the right step for a latte.

Is the latte flower so important?

A few days ago, in a coffee circle discussion group, a shopkeeper said, "will you give me a takeout latte?" What about defoaming? " Seeing this question, I laughed out loud across the screen, "didn't you sell lattes when you didn't invent flowers before?"

In fact, when the guests order coffee takeout, ta has not let you pull flowers expected, pull flowers just let your coffee icing on the cake, your coffee tastes good is the key, sometimes the wrong point is quite a big head.

Studies have shown that lattes can affect the taste of coffee beans. Not to mention those three-dimensional flowers, although the feeling is cute …...