Why should the milk foam be divided into cylinders before flower drawing? why can't the pattern be pressed?

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Usually when we watch some video or barista pull flowers, we always see such an action, pour the foam into another milk tank and then pull flowers. What is the point of this action besides looking handsome and professional?

Milk foam vats

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The act of pouring beaten milk foam into another vat is called dividing the vat. When dividing the cylinder, we should pay attention to the fact that the milk foam flows slowly along the wall of the cup, and it is not poured directly into it, which can easily produce large bubbles and make the foam thicker.

The main purpose of cylinder separation is to:

1. Save time. You can give away two or more cups of milk foam at one time.

2. Integrate the upper foam with the lower layer of hot milk more fully, increase the fluidity of the foam, and keep the upper layer and the lower layer consistent. When drawing flowers, the foam with high fusion degree can pull out more delicate and clear stripes. Usually, when we thicken the foam, we choose to separate cylinders to remedy it.

Dividing the vat can merge the milk foam with the milk again to a certain extent, so it will make the upper and lower layers of milk and milk bubbles more uniform, so it is not easy to have thicker milk bubbles when making lattes.

Reasons for failure of flower drawing

1. Most of the coffee cups used by Lahua are ceramic cups with wide bottom, because they are made on the liquid level, and the closer the mouth of the jar is to the liquid surface, the easier it is to draw a picture. The gesture of holding the cup before drawing is the key. The detail requirement for us to hold the cup is the tilt, slowly flatten the coffee cup with the amount of milk bubbles, the larger the cup, the greater the tilt, and flatten the coffee cup as slowly as possible.

two。 After we have solved the grip of the coffee cup, we will adjust the hand of the flower jar. Pulling a flower jar is equivalent to a paintbrush, and the hand holding the pen must be tenacious. Finger squeeze pull flower jar, pull flower is to use the strength of the wrist to control the integration of milk foam. This view is a little ignorant. We explain it with embossed video. Beginners will think that embossing is formed by shaking and pulling the vat by hand. In fact, embossing depends on the strength of the wrist to control the smooth foam to slide freely. This detail is to relax the wrist as much as possible (the main practice point in your spare time).

3. The amount of practice time is the most important. As a guide from experience, practicing with water is the best way to break through the obstacles. The content of our practice is to switch between relaxed wrists and flexible gestures, meditation steps in the process of practice, the purpose of practice is to achieve that practice makes perfect, pull flower this technology is that practice makes perfect, in the work of making coffee, many technical points are too much practice, do more can be done.

As a beginner, you must calm down and think about what kind of practice is suitable for you. After being taught, you must establish your own independent thinking. Only by developing your own independent understanding and feeling a set of your own experience can you achieve it in one fell swoop. Only by practicing more can you draw flowers well. More practice can help you accumulate experience and find a suitable way to pull flowers on your own. Pulling flowers is not only a kind of fun but also an attitude.

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