How to draw flowers in American coffee? Can American coffee draw flowers? What is the principle of latte flowers? How to kill the milk foam of coffee flower?

Guest: "Boss, please have a cup of coffee that looks better! "Qianjie: Okay, would you like a latte, Australian white or cappuccino for coffee? Guest: "American style! "Front Street: ...

Coffee pulling flowers, to be precise, should be "Latte Art", which translates to "Latte Art"(milk art), which means making various exquisite and beautiful flower shapes on coffee through milk. The specific method is very simple. You just need to inject air into the milk, and the protein in the milk will wrap the air, forming low-density bubbles that can float on the liquid surface. When blended with espresso coffee, due to its low density, the milk foam will float on the liquid surface like oil. Then relying on the sharp contrast between the white colors of milk and the brown colors of oil, we only need to make a slight swing during the fusion process, and the milk foam will form beautiful lines on the oil. This is the principle of making coffee flowers and forming patterns. So in theory, milk is an important material for making coffee flowers.

But obviously, milk is not irreplaceable. If there is a certain liquid that can create a lasting and stable foam like milk, then it can replace milk in the making of coffee flowers. And this liquid is right in front of you, yes, it is the coffee itself!

If you are a friend who has been following Qianjie for many years, you will know that Qianjie has shared the topic of American pulling flowers quite many times. American coffee is black coffee made only from concentrate and water, and it can also be drawn like a latte. The specific method is very simple. You just need to use coffee to foam, and then follow the normal drawing steps. Just make it ~

How to draw flowers in American coffee? Front Street shared with you the principle of milk pulling flowers, which uses foaming technology to create low-density bubbles, and then forms the texture through the contrast between the color of milk foam and oil. That espresso can actually do the same thing, because espresso also has the foundation of foaming. As we all know, there is a layer of golden oil floating on the liquid surface of espresso, and this layer of oil is actually a bubble formed by the lipids and proteins of coffee beans wrapping carbon dioxide. So in theory, espresso coffee can also be sent to create a dense foam through steam.

And this is indeed the case. But the difference from foaming milk is that the liquid content of coffee is not as much as milk. If we want coffee to reach a state where it can be beaten, then we need to use some special means to increase its liquid content and reduce its temperature. How to do it specifically? It's very simple, add ice water and stir it up. Since American coffee eventually requires water to be added to the concentrate to dilute the concentration, we can naturally add this part of water to the coffee in advance, so that the coffee has enough liquid to carry out. The reason why ice water is used is because it can effectively prolong the passing time and make the foam more dense. So next, Qianjie will share how to make an American cup with pull flowers, and also share with you what the difference is between American coffee with pull flowers and regular American coffee.

The coffee beans used in this production of Qianjie are the classic combination of Qianjie in the Qianjie bean list. The concentration extracted from it is not only mellow and rich, but also contains very rich oil, which is very suitable for making coffee flowers. The extraction parameters were: 20g powder, a powder-to-liquid ratio of 1:2, and an extraction time of 30 seconds. Because espresso needs to be divided into two parts, one part serves as the base and the other part is used to kill the "milk foam." So we can choose to split it in two after extraction, or use a splitter handle to split the concentration directly during the extraction process. Naqian Street chose the latter. After filling and pressing the coffee powder, we directly pressed the handle card into the cooking head, then placed a concentrated cup under each of the two splitter nozzles, and then began to extract.

After extracting the liquid weight of the target, Qianjie poured one portion into a flower jar filled with 80g of ice cubes and 80ml of room temperature water, and then began to "bubble"!

The steps of whipping are almost the same as whipping milk, but since coffee does not produce as much foam as milk, we need to put in more air when frothing, and then heat it to about 65°C. The reason why you want to send it to 65°C is not that it can stimulate the sweetness of coffee! Just because this temperature is not too hot or too cold, the entrance is just right.

When we are finished, we just need to follow the normal drawing process to make our own favorite patterns, and a cup of American coffee with drawing flowers is finished!

Then Qianjie made a cup of hot American style in the normal way. The parameters were: 40ml of coffee liquor and 160ml of 65°C hot water to compare the taste differences between the two!

Through tasting, Qianjie found that there was not much difference in flavor between the two. Because the beans used are classic combinations of Qianjie in Qianjie Bean List, the flavors they taste are all rich and fragrant with chocolate, butter cookies, and nuts. The main difference between the two lies in the concentration and taste! Because the American style of pulling flowers has a layer of foam, it will give people a dense touch and mellow taste when drinking, while the regular American style is very smooth and has no tactile experience brought by foam; secondly, the concentration, since the foam of pulling flowers will occupy a certain space in the cup, its water volume will actually be less than that of the regular American style, which makes the coffee more concentrated and the taste relatively more concentrated. Other than that, there is not much difference in the rest.

The above is Qianjie's sharing this time. Interested friends can still give it a try. After all, this will bring you a completely different American experience, but remember that the water volume can be slightly more to avoid the concentration being too high and making it difficult to enter.~

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