What is the key to making milk for lattes? What is the difference between pure milk ice bok and ordinary fresh milk? Can I make lattes with milk powder?

as everyone knows! For espresso, "milk" is as important as espresso. After all, in a cup of milk coffee, the remaining 80% is almost all milk. Therefore, the quality of milk will play a decisive role in the taste and taste of the whole cup of coffee. In order to make their own milk cafes have a better performance, coffee shops generally use fresh milk with a relatively short shelf life, because their material retention will be more complete and the coffee made will be more delicious. And you know, there are many types of milk, and people will change the use of milk according to different production needs. For example, if we want milk coffee to have a richer and sweeter performance, then we can replace fresh milk with purified milk. Purified milk will have a higher concentration, and the milk coffee produced will have a qualitative improvement in taste and taste. If you are lactose intolerant friends, you can choose plant milk to make and so on. Then, some friends wonder why no one uses milk brewed with milk powder to make milk coffee. Isn't milk powder also made of milk?

Ah! That's a bad thing to say. In fact, milk powder is widely used in coffee. In the world coffee competition, some contestants add homemade milk powder to the milk to make the milk get a higher texture. To say the least, Qianjie used to use milk powder instead of milk in order to save money when practicing flower drawing (although this does not have any saving effect)! Therefore, it can be seen that the use of milk powder in the production of latte is not without precedent, but very little has been put into practical application.

In fact, milk powder, like instant and freeze-dried coffee, is a particle obtained by rapid drying of the original solution. It will appear earlier than instant coffee, first in the early 19th century (after many improvements)! As long as it is mixed with proper hot water, the milk powder can be dissolved and reduced to milk. So the milk mixed with milk powder can also be used to make lattes. As for the taste. In front of the street, you need to make a drink to aftertaste!

Milk powder. Latte? The milk powder used this time is full-fat milk powder, which is only made of raw milk! The concentrated side still uses sunflower warm sun, a blend of Honduran Shirley and Ethiopian red cherries. The espresso flavor extracted by it is mainly characterized by whisky, butter cookies and black berries. All right, without saying much, let's start making lattes today. First of all, we need to prepare a portion of iced milk mixed with milk powder, because the foam needs to be treated at a low temperature for longer. Therefore, Qianjie will only use a small amount of hot water to dissolve the milk powder, and then dilute it with ice cubes to cool down. The proportion of powdered water ice is 1:3:2, and the milk powder used in front street is 40g, so you need to use 120ml's hot water and 80ml's ice cubes.

It should be noted that the temperature of the hot water should not be too high, because it will destroy some of the substances in the milk powder and reduce the taste. So the hot water temperature used in the front street is 50 °C! When we mix and melt all the milk powder, add ice and set it aside.

Then we extract the espresso. (the parameters used in Qianjie today are 20g powder, 31 seconds, 39ml)

Then, to get rid of the foam. Compared with regular milk, this special "milk" takes longer to foaming, otherwise the foam is difficult to form. Therefore, we slightly extended the foaming time by 1-2 seconds.

When you are done, you can pull flowers!

Emmmm... Finish, carry on the taste! (human problem)

Compared with a latte made from regular milk, this latte made from special "milk" will taste a little weaker. The taste of milk is more prominent, especially the unique taste of milk powder will be more obvious. Therefore, in the production, we can slightly reduce the proportion, so that the taste of milk is not so strong! Suddenly, the front street thought! Ole Coffee is a kind of milk coffee made from black coffee and milk. if we want the coffee to taste good, we need to make great changes to the extraction to get a high concentration of black coffee. Not only the flavor is not complete, the taste after mixing milk is also slightly inferior; if you directly use black coffee to blend with milk, it will be because of too much water, resulting in a thin taste and light taste. So, if we add milk powder instead of milk, can we break the deadlock? Let O'Lei coffee have both mellow taste and coffee flavor at the same time?

Just try! just try! Qianjie rushed a pot of hands to test the idea! The coffee beans used in this experiment are 90 + Juliet Rosa, which is anaerobic treated with rare flavors such as grapes and champagne. The parameters are the same, 15g powder, 1:15 powder-water ratio, fine sugar grinding, 92 °C water temperature, three-stage extraction! Skip the process ~ (don't learn ↓, the powder won't dissolve)

Since there is no warm cup, the coffee liquid drops to 65 °C after brewing. After placing it for more than a minute, it dropped to 60 °C, when we added 40g milk powder (because of the same ratio of 1:5, milk powder 1, coffee liquid 5) and stirred! Then the tasting process can be carried out.

Yeah! It's really good. Juliet's own flavor is not obscured by the smell of milk. The flavors of grapes, champagne and chocolate are all very outstanding! In terms of taste, although it is not as good as latte coffee, it can be regarded as a mellow type as a whole, that is, the unique taste of milk powder is still prominent. Another disadvantage is that the sour taste is somewhat abrupt, so when making, friends can try to lower the water temperature, prolong the extraction time, so that the sour taste is not released so much, it should be more delicious! Therefore, it can be seen that it is feasible to use milk powder to make milk coffee! Not only limited to hand brewing, black coffee such as mocha pot and Philharmonic coffee can also be used, if sometimes milk is not available or it is not convenient to carry milk, then milk powder can also be a good choice!

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