5 tips to make your coffee flower more perfect. Are there any crash tutorials?

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Coffee flower-pulling is one of the most attractive techniques, and many beginners step into the coffee pit because they want to learn the proud "flower-pulling" stunt. However, it is easier to learn coffee than to learn, and it takes a lot of practice and perseverance to master this stunt. Here are some tips on practicing coffee flower drawing.

First, make some milk foam! Get some foam! Get some foam!

It seems difficult to make milk foam, but in fact, the most difficult thing in coffee flower is to make Italian concentrate. Even if many people become the god of pulling flowers, the Espresso they make is too good to be useful, but when you watch the video, the shot of Italian concentration is usually no more than two seconds.

But today we won't talk about Espresso, let's talk about the foam that is easy to beat. To make a delicate and smooth foam, you need to pay attention to three details:

1. The angle of the steam rod

As long as you find the angle of the steam stick in the milk tank, you can easily form a whirlpool when you dispose of the foam, which will suck in all the coarse bubbles and tear apart, making your foam delicate and smooth enough. At the same time, the whirlpool can also make the hot milk at the bottom of the vat fully integrated with the milk foam at the top. The milk foam is delicate and has a high degree of fusion, so it is easy to pull up the flowers. Tilt the steam stick into the center of the milk tank, and then translate a little to the left or right, so that the landing point of the steam stick is in the middle of the center point and the cylinder wall.

2. Moderate dismissal

After turning on the steam stick, you should be able to hear a sound of breath, which is to send off. If not, please lower the milk tank as soon as possible so that the vent of the steam bar floats a little. If the above angle is perfect, then a whirlpool will be formed at this time.

The real difficulty lies in the amount of air intake. The production of different milk coffee is suitable for different degrees of milk foam, and different patterns require different milk bubbles. Usually milk bubbles such as cappuccino are too thick, you can try to pull a simple heart or tulips, lattes can be thinner, and you can try more complex patterns, such as tulips, roses, swans and so on.

3. The temperature of milk foam

The optimum temperature of milk foam is between 55 and 65 ℃. Some people say that the low-temperature foam lasts longer, not to mention whether it is true or not. If the temperature of the foam is too low, you will give the product to the guest after you pull the flowers, and the guests will probably be cold when they drink it. What is the use of a good-looking flower? If the temperature of the foam is high enough, the protein in the milk will denature and harden, which will cause the foam to be very rough and dry, with a big discount on sweetness and smoothness, and no good-looking flowers at all.

Second, first practice the foundation, and then talk about skills

Integration is an area that many beginners will miss. If the fusion of a cup of flowers is not good enough, even the fine pattern will lose points, because it just doesn't look harmonious.

If you think of the foam as a paintbrush, the blend of coffee and milk is the canvas. If you want the pattern to look good, the blank drawing board should not have the slightest mess or stain.

When drawing flowers, there are two injection heights: 5 cm and 0.5 cm from the liquid surface. When mixing coffee liquid and foam, keep at least 5 of the injection height to pierce the top grease. When the fusion is complete, the cup is full to 4-70%, depending on what pattern you want to pull: the fuller the fusion, the stronger the surface tension of the canvas, the thinner the pattern is, the smaller the white area is, and vice versa.

3. Lower, lower, lower

Once the fusion is complete, you can begin to draw flowers. To create a perfect pattern, your cylinder nozzle needs to be very close to the liquid level (about 0.5 cm). This requires you to tilt the cup at the same time, otherwise, the depth of the cup is too high, it is difficult to form a pattern. Lower the water column, do not rush for success, and do not need too exaggerated wobble, when the milk foam slips into the coffee liquid, it will naturally form white lines.

In addition, you also need to consider how you hold the cup, hold it, hold it or hold it? The most important thing is to find a posture that makes you comfortable and natural. Pulling flowers should be a relaxing and comfortable thing in itself.

Fourth, shoot a small video

Instead of asking you to show off on Douyin Kuaishou, find someone to help you photograph the whole process of pulling flowers, and then analyze and sum up by yourself. Observe whether each step is perfect, whether the fusion is appropriate, and whether the embossing is in place. Believe me, if you look at your flower drawing process from another point of view, you can see more deficiencies and defects that you don't usually notice.

Perseverance and practice

Finally, there will be a wave of chicken soup. There is a legend in the world that it takes 10000 hours of training to become a top athlete. This is the law of ten thousand hours. Coffee flower drawing has skills and tricks, but there are no shortcuts. Even if you've been practicing for a week or two and haven't pulled out a decent pattern, don't worry, many people's first heart shape takes nearly a month (for example, editor). If you want to become a top flower god, it is impossible to succeed without a few years of persistent practice and summary. Practice a few cups regularly every day. Proficiency makes perfect.

Finally, I hope the above skills can help you all. If you feel that you have encountered a bottleneck and are always unable to break through the promotion, or if you have any questions about pulling flowers, you can leave a message to the editor.

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