The reason why the coffee flower can not be pulled out? why did the coffee flower fail? what are the factors and how to pull it?

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If you want to learn coffee flower, watch You Tube's coffee expert demonstration, pay attention to every link, but how can you still not pull a flower shape? Professional coffee teacher said, this time should look back to check whether the foam, milk ratio is wrong.

Wu Xiwen, head teacher of Lan Dai coffee tea mixing and catering, said that the milk foam used in coffee flower pulling is not any milk, must use whole milk, and the temperature is 60 to 70 degrees Celsius, coffee temperature is 50 to 60 degrees Celsius.

Wu Xiwen bluntly said that some people continue to adjust the flower pulling action is still ineffective, in fact, should turn back, readjust the proportion of milk foam, milk, do not insist on the details behind, because the failure of flower pulling is likely to be the pre-homework is not done well.

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

He explained that after preparing the coffee with golden coffee oil, pour it into the cup about 1/5 to 1/3 full, and then pour it into the cup through the sharp mouth of the pull-flower steel cup. When it reaches 1/2 of the cup capacity, the hand will begin to move to prepare for pulling flowers. The process of pulling flowers will be ready to end when the milk bubbles reach 8 minutes full of the cup.

He said that only about 10 seconds can pull flowers from the beginning of pouring milk bubbles. Coffee pulling is closely related to the rhythm of hand feeling. Good rhythm produces beautiful milk bubbles and patterns.

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

Professional coffee shops have the right machine, although each espresso recipe is different, but still appear thicker golden coffee oil, suitable for pulling flowers.

He revealed that coffee machines suitable for making coffee flowers generally sell for more than NT $150,000, and better ones cost 600,000 or 700,000 yuan, but some small home espresso machines can also make similar coffee flowers as long as 40,000 or 50,000 yuan, and even a fully automatic coffee machine of only 20,000 yuan can also make flowers.

As for the key proportion of milk foam, he believes that the milk foam beaten by hand is wet and heavier, and it is more uncomfortable to pull the flower; the milk foam produced by the machine under high temperature vibration will be fluffy, and the coffee will be beautiful, and the moisture content of the milk will affect the result of pulling the flower, so it should be adjusted at any time.

Therefore, the accumulation of experience is very important, milk foam, milk ratio is not ordinary layman can intuitively see.