What do you pay attention to when you go to a cafe to order coffee? Can I stir the latte O White Coffee?

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Recently, some American netizens were scolded by Australian netizens for stirring when drinking a latte (or Australian white) coffee with a flower pattern.

According to various media reports, an Australian athlete came to his country with his American boyfriend and told that the coffee culture in Australia is better than that in the United States. But the American boyfriend didn't believe it, so he went to a coffee shop and ordered a cup of coffee with flowers. The Australian athlete also recorded her boyfriend's first attempt at "real" coffee by video. However, the American boyfriend kept stirring the coffee and even spilled some milk bubbles, jokingly saying that he didn't like the bubbles, and then took a sip, which triggered swearing from Australian netizens.

Many netizens asked the athlete to quickly tell her boyfriend to stop stirring the bubble and told him to drink coffee in Australia from the bubble! Some netizens joked that drinking coffee and stirring in Australia is a reason to refuse a visa! Some netizens said that my eyes were twitching (also joking) when he stirred the foam, while others said that this way of drinking was too disrespectful to Australian coffee. Then the athlete sent a second video saying that her boyfriend had learned the correct way to drink Australian coffee and said it was really good to drink this way!

See here, I believe many netizens do not quite understand why drinking coffee stirring in Australia will be scolded by netizens, after all, mixing drinking, because it is more uniform, the taste is more integrated ah! Because Australians pay a lot in the research of milk coffee in order to form their own unique coffee culture, but also affect the whole boutique coffee market.

How strong is the coffee culture in Australia? Australian coffee has always been its own style, from roasting to beverage names and production methods, which are different from those of other countries in the world. The business of almost every cafe is very hot, when busy, the output of 2 cups per hour can reach 200 cups +, baristas are very busy, so most Australian baristas have developed a "unique skill", carrying a few cups of coffee in one hand. Although busy, the quality of each cup of coffee is still the most important thing for baristas.

Especially in Melbourne, Sydney and other big cities, the products of each coffee shop are first-class, and the price is very friendly to the people. The spelling between the cafes is not the style, but the skill of the barista, the quality of each cup of coffee. Therefore, many friends who have been to Australia will be obsessed with the local coffee.

In Australian cafes, except for regular coffee products, most cafes have an "invisible menu", which is a way to satisfy customers as much as possible to order a variety of complicated coffee, such as a cappuccino for soy milk. milk bubbles account for 3% of the whole cup (that is, milk bubbles belong to milk bubbles except espresso), even if you are busy. Baristas should also take into account some of the guests' conventional (but not outrageous) customization requirements.

And some customized drinks have gradually become regular drinks on many coffee menus, such as the familiar Australian White Coffee (flat white), as well as Piccolo Coffee, and so on. Some coffee making methods that seem to evolve from lattes are mostly inspired by Australians.

Australian coffee culture is inseparable from the Italian people with Italian coffee machines and European coffee shop culture, so espresso has become an important part of Australian coffee culture. According to Australian historians, espresso was introduced in the 1950s, but at that time native Australians discriminated against Italians, so coffee was not developed at that time. It was not until 1980 that urban renewal and middle-class development brought great impetus to the development of coffee culture in Australia.

The president of Australian boutique coffee also said that Australians love the taste of mixing velvety milk (beaten milk) with coffee. Therefore, Australians also specially study the breeds of dairy cows in order to further improve the texture of milk and make Australian milk coffee more distinctive.

With the development of boutique coffee, local baristas in Australia are constantly experimenting with and improving the quality of each cup of coffee, so in recent years many of the winners of baristas and roasters competitions come from Australia. If someone improves the quality of milk, someone will improve the quality of coffee itself.Therefore, more and more independent cafes / boutique cafes in Australia have been opened in recent years, even "repelling" Starbucks in the Australian market.

Every barista in a boutique cafe will not only pay attention to the taste of milk coffee, but also pay more attention to baking coffee beans, so that every cup of milk coffee that guests drink not only has a silky taste, but also can feel the flavor characteristics of the coffee / roasters through their own baking ideas to make a certain flavor of coffee can be shown in milk coffee, so there is the emergence of SOE (single-origin espresso). Let the milk coffee can also drink to the coffee flavor level.

Looking at the "crazy" pursuit from these pursuits, I can suddenly understand why Australian netizens are so excited to see someone stirring latte / Australian white coffee.

But people in different regions also have different habits of drinking coffee, and drinking coffee is also to relax, so they can do what they like, and they don't need to care too much about other people's views. after all, it's not against the law to mix and drink, as long as they are satisfied.