Can latte be made with milk brewed with milk powder? What proportion should be used to make espresso?

As we all know, if we want to make a good cup of milk coffee, it is best to have the coffee as strong as possible. Because if the concentration of coffee is too low and the moisture content is too high, the coffee made after adding milk will easily be watery and have a light taste. After all, milk has more "moisture".

But in many cases, we have no way to make high-concentration coffee. After all, not everyone will be equipped with a coffee maker or mocha pot. Even if there is, it is impossible to carry it with you. Although we can also make a cup of high-strength coffee by hand-flushing and pressing the pot, if you have read previous shares on Qianjie, you will know that the method is not only very troublesome, but the coffee produced is far less concentrated than the coffee obtained by pressure extraction. Is there any way to easily make coffee with milk without using a coffee maker? Of course there is! In previous Qianjie shares, friends often left messages: Use milk powder instead of milk to make milk coffee. This plan is feasible! If you ask why, of course, it is because Qianjie had done this before, and it is not uncommon to use milk powder at world-class coffee competitions.

Can "milk powder" also be used to make milk coffee? The reason why milk powder can replace milk to make milk coffee is that its essence is a powder made by concentrating and drying milk. We only need to add appropriate hot water to restore it to milk. But what would happen if we used hot coffee instead of hot water to restore milk?

That's right! It is to directly make a cup of milk coffee with a strong taste and not thin taste. Because we use coffee instead of water, the concentration can be adjusted to our own preferences. Not only that, because this practice will not limit the concentration of coffee too much, we can use more hot water to extract coffee, so that the final coffee has a relatively complete extraction, and all aspects of flavor and aftertaste are also expressed. Both tend to be complete. Therefore, the feasibility of using milk powder to make milk coffee is still very high.

Just! Although feasible, there are still many matters that need to be paid attention to when actually operating. But it doesn't matter! Next, Qianjie will come and share with you how milk powder should be used under different circumstances~

1. Hand-brewed coffee is first of all low-concentration black coffee represented by hand-brewed coffee. If we want to use low-concentration black coffee such as hand-brewed coffee and milk powder to make milk coffee, then the only thing we need to pay attention to is the proportion. It's simple, don't add too much milk powder to prevent the milk flavor from overpowering the coffee flavor. There are not many requirements for the choice of coffee beans. Everyone can choose them according to their own preferences, but you can try to choose some with stronger flavors, so that the flavor of the coffee will be more prominent. For example, if you want to make a cup of fruity milk coffee, then coffee beans will be recommended to use Qianjie Boundary Estate·Xizhao in Qianjie Flagship Store. This bean is moderately to lightly baked, has anaerobic sun treatment, and has strong grape, apricot, passion fruit, and floral flavors. It is very suitable for making hand-brewed coffee, espresso and milk coffee.

In terms of extraction, the Front Street Association recommends that everyone use a slightly higher extraction efficiency, especially when the coffee beans you use are not so deeply roasted. Higher extraction efficiency can reduce the acidity of the coffee and make the milk coffee taste more harmonious. So here, Qianjie uses Xizhao on the dividing line of Qianjie to share. The parameters are as follows: powder amount used: 20 g powder to water ratio: 1:14 Grinding degree: 75%~80% sieving rate of No. 20 sieve. Boiling water temperature: 92 ° C Extraction time: 2 minutes

Skip the brewing process. After many tests on Qianjie, it was found that the suitable ratio of this type of coffee beans and coffee brewed in this way is 1:2, which is the ratio of coffee powder and milk powder (Note: For reference only, the coffee beans and milk powder used by each person are different, so please adjust the ratio yourself). We can pour the milk powder into the lower pot in advance before making coffee, and stir it with bamboo stalks after making coffee until it is completely melted. At this point, an Olei coffee/milk coffee made with milk powder is complete!

As Qianjie mentioned, it tastes silky and full, and has no sense of water at all. The same is true for the taste. The taste of coffee and milk is very harmonious without any obtrusiveness. At the same time, the flavor of coffee is also very prominent. In addition to the flavors of apricot peach, passion fruit and other flavors, we can also taste a special taste of grape milk., very good.

If what you want to make is iced milk coffee, then the ratio of coffee and milk powder can remain unchanged. Other parameters and methods can be made according to the ice brewing plan. Just pay attention to the ice cubes after the milk powder and coffee are fused. Add again to avoid the milk powder failing to melt~

2. There are also friends who just want to experience the taste of latte made with milk powder instead of milk on a whim. Well, if this is the case, we just need to melt the milk powder with appropriate hot water and mix it directly with espresso.

Of course, if you want to pull flowers, you can. It's just more troublesome to do, because we need to increase the proportion first, melt a large amount of milk powder with less hot water, and then cool down by adding ice cubes, so that we can make "milk" that can be used to beat. Several rounds of tests conducted before Jingqian Street finally found that if you use medium and deep roasted coffee beans, the ratio of milk powder, hot water and ice cubes is best 1:3:2. The milk produced in this way will have enough concentration and low temperature to be well served and make a good cup of latte.

It should be noted that the temperature of the hot water used to brew milk powder should not be too high to avoid the substances in the milk being destroyed many times. The temperature of the hot water used when brewing in Qianjie is around 50 ° C. Then concentrate is 40 ml of coffee liquor extracted with 20 g of powder, and 40 g of milk powder. According to the above ratio, 120 ml of hot water and 80 g of ice cubes will be used respectively. Then the milk made from milk powder will be more difficult to foam, so when removing the milk bubbles, we should also pay attention to extending the foaming time of the milk bubbles so that there can be enough milk bubbles to pull. Otherwise, the following situation will occur...

There is nothing to introduce in terms of taste, but it is quite good, except that the milky taste will be slightly stronger. So the above is all the content shared by Qianjie this time. If you happen to have milk powder at home, you may wish to give it a try. Qianjie believes this will be a good and unique experience~

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