Will coffee flower-pulling make coffee taste better? (below)

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Fourth, milk foam VS flower pull

One of the most outrageous dilemmas of pulling flowers is to make bad milk bubbles. I think you know what I mean: imagine baristas making inverted swans with roses, seemingly surprised, but the foam is less than 0.1mm. I can press the pot to make coffee and add warm milk. It still tastes the same.

The elaborate cappuccino, with delicious fine milk bubbles floating on the top, gives the tasters a unique feast-a mouthful of marvelous, intertwined taste and sweetness.

I have always thought that it is a pity to sacrifice the taste for the beautiful flower, not to mention that the pattern will be deformed at the first sip, but as long as the baristas strike a balance, such a tragedy will not happen.

V. the value of social media

Taking a global view, social media is indispensable to the coffee industry and to many coffee fans. For coffee shop owners, every "like" is very important, every sharing is good for the store, and publicity can attract new customers. But if you only focus on flavor and don't pull flowers at all, you'd better be prepared that your Instagram will only have two trackers: your mother, and the friend who is only tracking you out of affection, but only drinks tea.

In media like Instagram, users only have a visual experience, so it's important to pull flowers in order to attract people to track you, so that even if someone hasn't bought your coffee, they can still be attracted to you and track you.

Sixth, drawing flowers is art

If you have seen the work of the champion of the world flower competition, you will understand how amazing it can be. For these artists, pulling flowers is art, and coffee is only the medium for transmitting art (sometimes coffee is not even used at all, such as cold drink cream art). In fact, the judges of this competition do not care about the coffee itself, and the scoring criteria focus on vision: the creativity of pattern design, the drawing of patterns, the texture of milk bubbles in different drinks, and the comparison of flowers. These intricate designs take a long time to make (and may even use food pigment), and the coffee is cold before drinking it.

Apply this scene to a busy coffee shop-customers have to wait 30 minutes to get cool but beautiful coffee, the flower is completely inconsistent with the value of coffee. But apart from the coffee shop, this kind of flower drawing still has its value.

So how much can pulling flowers add to the value of coffee? Both the pros and cons' arguments are convincing, whether for or against Lafayette. Pull flowers can bring customers a better experience as long as they do not sacrifice the taste and taste of milk foam, and they are a good marketing tool for the industry, but I personally think that we should not forget this from beginning to end: inferior coffee cannot appreciate because of excellent flowers, but high-quality coffee can make up for ugly ones.