Why is the latte flower pattern crooked to one side? How are coffee flowers made? Why is the drawing pattern not centered?

For the art of drawing flowers in coffee, whether a pattern looks good or not depends not only on the beauty of the "body" depicted with milk foam, but also on composition. Because a good composition can make everyone focus on the pattern, and better highlight the beauty of the pattern. Because of this, when drawing flowers, we not only need to outline the pattern, but also need to pay attention to "placing" it in an appropriate position. In a large number of flower-drawn "composition", the most commonly used is the central composition, simply put, the pattern is placed in the center of the cup. Because most of the patterns are symmetrical, then the center can highlight the symmetry, giving people a good impression of stability and balance. Therefore, for those simple and symmetrical shapes, we will pay attention to placing them in the center of the cup.

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But Qianjie found that many novice friends always encounter this problem when drawing flowers, that is, the position of the final pattern always deviates from the center. Then why did this happen? It is mainly caused by three situations!

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First, too thin milk foam before learning to pull flowers, we all need to learn to make a good milk foam, because for pull flowers, the quality and thickness of milk bubbles will directly affect the difficulty of drawing flowers, which is often mentioned in the front street. Quality needless to say, the focus is mainly on the thickness of milk bubbles. It determines the fluidity of coffee when pulling flowers! The thicker the foam, the lower its fluidity; the thinner the foam, the higher its fluidity.

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In the case of too thin foam, its high mobility will make it easier for the pattern to deviate from the target position when we draw. Because of the high mobility, a slightly larger flow can easily push the pattern away from the target. So this is why many stores of Australia White do not do pull flowers, the reason is that Australia White milk foam is too thin, if you want to pull flowers will be a great test of the barista's drawing skills. And this kind of situation is also easy to distinguish, as long as you see the pattern washed away or "sawtooth pattern" when drawing flowers, it is very likely that it is the result of too thin milk foam. The solution is very simple, you can prolong the foaming time the next time you pass the foam.

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Second, the speed of returning to the cup is too fast. if you want to ask beginners what is the most difficult link when they are learning to pull flowers, Qianjie believes that it should be to practice and then return to the cup. The so-called action of returning to the cup is that when pulling flowers, we need to constantly adjust the angle of the cup according to the node of the pulling flower, because the angle of the cup is from oblique to positive, so it is called "returning to the cup".

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The difficulty is that it is carried out at the same time with flower drawing, and it is very difficult for us to achieve "two uses of one brain", so it requires us to form muscle memory through constant practice. Many friends will return to the cup too quickly because they are not used to it at the beginning stage. Returning to the cup too quickly will increase the impact of the foam injection, so that the already made pattern is pushed directly out of the target position by this force. If we find that the pattern keeps deviating from the center as we return to the cup, then Qianjie suggests that we should pay attention to the practice of returning to the cup.

Third, the landing point is not in the right position, and the last reason why the pattern is not centered is that the landing point is not in the right position! Different patterns have different landing points, because their mapping steps will be different, so their landing locations are not the same. For example, the position of the heart-shaped flower is above the center of the cup, and the position of the leaf is down in the center of the cup.

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If the location of the landing point is wrong when drawing flowers, it will cause the position of the final pattern to deviate from the center, below or above the center, thus affecting the aesthetic feeling. Therefore, the location of the flower is also a key point that we need to pay attention to.

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