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"I'd like an American coffee, please. I'd like the one with flowers on it!"

There are many friends after reading this sentence the first reaction is: American coffee is pure black coffee, how is it possible to pull flowers without milk? In front of this article, let's share with our friends how to make a cup of American coffee with flowers.

The composition of American Coffee

American coffee refers to the espresso extracted at the powder-to-liquid ratio of 1:2 and diluted with the appropriate proportion of water. Traditional American coffee uses a coffee-to-water ratio of 1:8, but this ratio does not apply to all espresso, so how much water American coffee adds needs to be adjusted according to the beans in your hand.

In the case of espresso extracted from Esse sunburn cherries and Honduran Shirley, for example, the front street diluted the 40g coffee liquid extracted with 20g coffee powder in different proportions, and finally used 1:6 ratio (40g coffee liquid to 240g water) to make American coffee.

How to make American coffee with flowers?

| prepare ice-water mixture

Add 100g ice cubes and 140g normal temperature water to the flower jar (this is the amount of water needed to make American coffee in Qianjie, and you need to adjust it according to your own situation). This jar of ice water is the "key person" of the American flower, especially in the process of getting rid of the "milk foam".

| extract espresso |

Qianjie Coffee uses 20g coffee powder to extract 40g coffee liquid with a total extraction time of 28 seconds. Use a double-mouth handle to separate two espresso portions, one into a cup and the other to a prepared ice-water mixture.

| Coffee foam gets rid of

Since it is American coffee, you can't use dairy products to get rid of the foam. So in the "milk foam" part, we use one of the espresso to mix it with ice water to get a delicate milk foam. Since it takes time to get rid of the foam, the coffee in the milk tank will heat up quickly if you don't add ice to warm it.

In this case, not only the milk foam has not yet had time to become delicate, excessive heat will make the coffee bitter. So the temperature of coffee foam is controlled at 70 ℃-75 ℃ (note: milk foam can not be so hot, this is only the temperature of coffee foam), after all, it is too hot and difficult to pull flowers.

The thickness of the coffee is the same as the thickness of the latte, about 1.5cm, in the process we only need to inflate for 3-4 seconds, and then use the stable whirlpool generated by heating to eliminate the imdelicate foam.

| | Fusion of coffee foam and espresso

The coffee foam should be mixed with the espresso in the cup as soon as possible, and the coffee foam will dissipate faster than the milk foam, which means that the foam will also be delaminated faster. During fusion, attention should be paid to the full integration of foam and concentrated substrate, and insufficient fusion will lead to "jagged" when flowering.

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