How are coffee flowers made? Why is the coffee flower pattern too small? How to make Italian latte and milk foam?

Although pull flowers do not pay attention to the beauty of large, but a full pattern is obviously more tension. Therefore, when teaching flower drawing, many bloggers not only emphasize that the pattern should be centered, but also that the pattern should be as large as possible, that is, full.

And this is also a difficult problem that many beginners will encounter-the pattern of pulling flowers is not big. Either the picture is not shown directly, or it is so small that it looks a little "stunted". So today, Qianjie will come to share what causes the flower pattern to be small, and how should we improve this problem!

The premise of pulling flowers before pulling flowers, we must first achieve a premise, that is to have a high-quality milk foam! When the foam does not meet the requirements, not to mention to control the size of the pattern, even to make a pattern will be more difficult. For example, when the milk foam is too thick, because the overall mobility is not high, we can not easily swing out the delicate lines; when the milk foam is too thin, and because the overall mobility is too high, the pattern is always easy to shift when making, or appear similar to zigzag lines.

Therefore, the premise of pulling flowers is to learn to send a high-quality milk foam first. So about how to get rid of milk foam, you can go straight to this article and check out → "how to get rid of milk foam? "~ when we learn to send a high-quality milk foam, we can begin to understand why the picture can not be produced and the design is too small. In fact, it is mainly caused by two reasons: distance and traffic.

Distance refers to the distance between the cylinder nozzle and the liquid level! The reason why the milk foam can form lines on the surface of the coffee liquid is because it floats above the coffee liquid, so the white stripes can be seen by us. To do this, we need to infinitely tighten the distance between the spout and the coffee level.

Because when the distance is too large, the milk foam will have a strong impact. And this force will wash the milk foam into the coffee liquid, making the milk foam float under the coffee oil and cannot be seen. Therefore, we need to try our best to put the cylinder nozzle close to the liquid surface, so that the milk foam poured out has no impact, so it can float on the surface. Well, when drawing flowers, we can tighten the distance between the cylinder mouth and the liquid level by controlling two factors, one is fusion. Fusion is the preparatory step before formal flower drawing, by stirring the milk into the coffee liquid to make the fusion between the two more comprehensive, while raising the liquid level.

The more the fusion, the higher the water level, so the cylinder does not need to tilt too much to keep the nozzle close to the liquid level. So, this is a little trick that can bring the two closer together. But if we need to make some more complex patterns, we need to leave enough space for drawing without too much fusion, then we can choose the second way: to control the weight of milk in the flower jar.

The less the amount of milk in the vat, the more angles the jar can tilt. As long as we control the milk in the jar to the minimum amount of milk needed to make a cup of latte, then the flower jar can make the maximum tilt on this basis. We can often see that baristas in some coffee shops use two milk tanks to pull flowers, one small and one big. The small-capacity milk tank is used to dispense with the milk foam, and after it is finished, it is poured into the large-capacity milk tank and then pulled flowers. This is to take the best advantage of the two cylinders to be used together. The advantage of a small capacity milk tank lies in its small capacity, and a small amount of milk can reach the height of the steam stick to dismiss the foam; while the advantage of a large capacity milk tank lies in its large capacity, and the same small amount of milk does not account for much in the large capacity milk tank, so it can be tilted more when pulling flowers.

Second, the traffic, in addition to the distance, another reason is that the flow is too small. The flow here refers to the rate of milk we pour when drawing flowers. Many friends do not dare to draw because they do not have much experience. I am afraid that because the flow rate of dumping is too large, the coffee liquid will overflow the coffee cup, or the cup will fill at once.

But as mentioned earlier, the flower pattern needs to be "portrayed" by milk foam. When the flow rate of our drawing is too small, it is not only difficult to pour the foam out, but also cause the milk to have no push and unable to push the flower pattern. The final pattern is either a small one or can't come out at all. In this case, it is easy to solve the problem, when pulling flowers, you can increase the flow on the basis of the original. Distance and flow are indispensable, so we should at the same time close the distance between the cylinder mouth and the liquid level and increase the flow of poured milk, so as to ensure that the pattern has a full image.

What we need to know is that what is shared here in Qianjie only refers to the ability to make the pattern fuller, not to be able to make a flower pattern! Although it no longer takes less skill to make a good-looking flower pattern, it still requires all friends to study hard and practice. Practice makes perfect.

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