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How much should I foam Italian latte, pull flower milk? How thick should Latte's lahua milk foam be made?

Published: 2026-01-21 Author:

Last Updated: 2026/01/21, There are often novice friends who share some such cases of drawing flowers on the front street. The drawing flowers he made in the last second are still at the level of fledgling. Let alone forming them, he couldn't even make the patterns more recognizable. But in the next second, the drawing pattern he made not only had a high degree of recognition, but was even a difficult one.

There are often novice friends who share some such cases of drawing flowers on the front street. The drawing flowers he made in the last second are still at the level of fledgling. Let alone forming them, he couldn't even make the patterns more recognizable. But in the next second, the drawing pattern he made not only had a high degree of recognition, but was even a difficult thousand-layer pattern. For example, the picture below shows two cups of flowers shared by a friend on Qianjie yesterday.

Putting aside other shortcomings, we can see from the pattern alone that these two drawing patterns are simply different. There is almost no gap in making them, just two cups before and after, as if this friend has suddenly become a talented flower player. To be reasonable, the reason why such a drastic change occurred does not rule out that these friends are genius drawing flowers, but more often, it is because everyone has already learned the skills of drawing flowers and has the ability to draw flowers. The ability to draw flowers is just because they have not been able to produce any milk foam suitable for drawing flowers, so they cannot make beautiful drawing patterns. Because of this, when these friends sent out a high-quality lather milk bubble, they were able to easily create a beautiful lather pattern. Of course, we can't rule out that it was an accident.

But it is undeniable that a high-quality milk foam can indeed make it easier for us to make beautiful pull flowers, which is what Qianjie has always shared. "Exquisite and dense" and "high mobility" are the advantages needed for the milk foam suitable for pulling flowers in Qianjiekou. The delicate milk foams have better stability. When we make pulled flowers, they will not layer and foam too quickly, which can well ensure the quality of the flowers when we pull them and produce beautiful pulled flowers.

In addition, it is also important to make milk foam highly mobile. Because only if it has a certain degree of mobility can milk foam better integrate with coffee, which makes the background produced cleaner and makes it easier for us to swing clear lines when pulling flowers. The more complex the pattern you make, the higher the flow requirements for the milk foam. But what everyone needs to pay attention to is that the mobility of milk foam should be appropriately high rather than the higher the better. Excessive liquidity will reduce the stability of drawing flowers, because if the liquidity is too high, the lines will easily be uncontrolled during production, which will require higher requirements for the skill proficiency of the person drawing flowers.

Therefore, if we want to quickly learn to make a beautiful pull flower pattern, we first need to learn to make a high-quality pull flower milk foam.

How can I kill a high-quality lahua milk foam? In "How to Get rid of milk bubbles?" In this article, Qianjie shared the process of eliminating milk bubbles, so I won't go into too much detail here on how to eliminate them. Front Street here mainly shares how to make a milk bubble suitable for pulling flowers-high-quality pulling flowers milk bubble that is both exquisite and fluid. In fact, it's very simple. We can optimize the following milk bubbles from the following aspects.①. Control the foaming time: The foaming time determines the thickness of the milk foam. The longer the foaming time, the thicker the milk foam will be, and vice versa. Generally speaking, the thickness of the foam suitable for pulling flowers, that is, the thickness of the foam of latte, is about 1cm. To get this kind of thickness, we need to control the foaming time as much as possible not to be too long or too short (sounds a bit like nonsense...).

Take Qianjie as an example. The coffee machine used on Qianjie is Lelit V3 with moderate steam intensity. The foaming time when blowing the foam of the latte is about 0.5s to 1s. This is just a reference. When foaming, you need to determine the steam intensity of the coffee maker you use. The stronger the steam, the shorter the foaming time, and vice versa.

②. Control the temperature of the milk: It is best to put the milk in the refrigerator for refrigeration before using it when pulling flowers. The purpose is also very simple, that is, to reduce the temperature of the milk so that we can have a longer time in the process of sending the milk. The frosting time, which can make our milk foam more dense and at the same time have higher stability.

③. Control the time for pulling flowers: After we finish killing the milk bubbles, it is best to immediately put the milk bubbles into the production of pulling flowers to avoid increasing the time for placing the milk bubbles. Because the milk foam will be layered with the milk after being left for a long time, the layered milk foam is not fluid and cannot be used to make pull flowers at all. So after finishing the milk bubbles, we'd better start pulling flowers in a short time.

Of course, if something delays the optimal pulling time and causes the milk foam to layer, then we can also re-integrate the milk foam and milk by shaking, pouring the vat, etc., and then put into the production of pulling flowers. However, after re-integration, the milk foam layer will be faster, so it is necessary to start pulling faster.

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