What is the difference between an oatmeal latte and a regular latte? How to make oatmeal latte good? What is vegetable milk?

Because the intestines and stomach can not completely digest the lactose ingredients in dairy products, many friends are prone to adverse digestive reactions after drinking, so they are not predestined to conventional milk coffee. But it doesn't matter, since lactose is intolerant, all we have to do is choose a lactose-free "milk coffee" ~ for example, an oatmeal latte is a special "milk coffee" made of lactose-free plant milk instead of milk!

The reason why Qianjie put double quotes on the word "milk coffee" does not emphasize these two words, but because vegetable milk is not a real dairy product, so the "milk coffee" made from them cannot be regarded as a real milk coffee!

What is plant milk? Plant milk is a cereal beverage made from plant seeds (or fruits) and water rich in protein and fat, because the presence of protein causes the color of the beverage to look closer to the milky white of milk. hence the title of "plant milk" (you can understand it by referring to soymilk). Soybeans, walnuts, peanuts, almonds and hazelnuts are all common ingredients for plant milk! Although there are many types of plant milk, when it comes to the most common plant milk products in coffee shops, it has to be oat milk!

Oatmeal milk comes out of the circle not only because of a chain brand, but also because its own texture is unique enough. When we taste directly, we can feel the rich grain aroma and rich taste layers, which complement each other with coffee. Coupled with the attribute of 0 lactose, the popularity of oatmeal lattes in recent years is in full swing. But there are many friends in the front street backstage feedback, their own oatmeal milk latte is not only not as good as expected, but also very obvious bitterness, completely not as good as the regular milk latte.

In fact, just as making lattes with milk requires a lot of attention, making lattes with oatmeal milk requires a lot of attention. Take lattes as an example, if we directly apply the formula of conventional lattes to make oatmeal lattes, the performance of the coffee will indeed be much lower. But if we can change the concept of making a little bit and redesign the formula used in an oatmeal latte, then the oatmeal latte may taste better than you think. So let's share the details of making a good oatmeal latte on the front street.

Note 1: the choice of oatmeal milk in order to make a good latte, we will specially find the milk that best suits the current coffee performance to make. The same is true for oatmeal lattes! Oatmeal milk produced by different manufacturers varies greatly in taste and taste, so the first step in making an oat latte is to choose the right oatmeal milk!

In the former street, for example, the Italian beans currently used in Qianjie are sunny blends. The espresso made with it has outstanding flavor and good mellowness. If we use a very thick oatmeal milk, the oatmeal latte will be greasy, while if we choose an oatmeal milk with a weak taste, it will easily overshadow the flavor of the coffee. Therefore, when we make an oatmeal latte, we need to match it with oatmeal milk with outstanding aroma and mellow thickness.

Note 2: the proportion problem when we choose oatmeal milk, then comes the proportion problem. Although the aroma of oatmeal milk is not weak, its sweetness will be inferior to that of milk. If we make oatmeal lattes in the same proportion, the taste of coffee will be more prominent.

Therefore, we can appropriately increase the proportion of oatmeal milk in the whole cup of coffee. In this way, the taste of the coffee is not so easy to cover the oatmeal milk, and naturally it will not be so bitter. In addition, because the oatmeal milk will be layered after a long period of rest, so before use, we need to shake to restore the state. The reason why many friends can't make oatmeal lattes well is because they ignore this point.

Note 3: the problem of flower drawing is the last detail to pay attention to! Because the protein content of oatmeal milk is lower than that of regular fresh milk, it is more difficult to initiate bubbling. If we use to dispense oatmeal milk when making hot milk coffee, there is a high probability that the pattern drift and non-shaping will occur due to the insufficient foam thickness of oatmeal milk.

Therefore, when we dispense oatmeal milk, we can slightly increase the thickness of the foam. For example, if the thickness of a regular latte is about 1cm, then you can increase the thickness of a 0.5cm~1cm foam on this basis when making it with oatmeal milk, so that the pattern is easier to form and the position is not easy to shift.

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