Basic introduction and tools of Italian Coffee pattern

Coffee latte-art is a change made on the original cappuccino or latte.

In fact, there has never been a very clear literature on the origin of the coffee flower, only that at that time in Europe and the United States, the coffee flower was the difficult professional technology displayed during the coffee performance, and such innovative skills and the difficult technology showed greatly shocked the coffee industry at that time and attracted public attention from the very beginning. All people are deeply attracted by the magical and gorgeous skills of coffee flower drawing.

At that time, most of the coffee flowers paid attention to the presentation of patterns, but after a long period of development and evolution, coffee flowers were not only visually particular, but also the ways and techniques of milk taste and integration have been constantly improved. and then in the overall taste of the presentation, to achieve the so-called color, aroma, taste state.

Flower drawing mode

There are two main ways to draw flowers in coffee.

Pour into the formed Free Pouring

Use skilled skills to control the height of the milk pot, shake the range and speed of the milk pot, and make the milk soak on the coffee to form different pictures.

Carved Etching

Add milk bubbles, sauces and other things to the surface of the coffee, using toothpicks or thermometers to draw a variety of pictures, this way does not require much skill, only creativity, you can make beautiful coffee.

Appliances and materials

1. Coffee beans and coffee machine

Coffee flower, naturally need coffee. To make latte art, use espresso, which can be made from an espresso machine or from a mocha pot if not.

two。 Bean grinder

If you want the coffee to be fresh, the beans must be ground freshly. if you use an Italian coffee machine, you might as well buy a better one. The bean grinder is durable, and you can live a long life for several coffee machines at any time. If you use a card grinder, the hand grinder is enough and suitable for other brewing methods.

3. Milk foam

Then there is milk. There are three ways to make milk foam.

The steam of the espresso machine

Milk bubble pot

Milk stick

4. Flower teapot

There is also a flower pot, according to the steam pressure of each coffee machine and the amount of each cooking, choose a different size, generally use 0.3L/0.35L or 0.6L kettle all OK.

Tool combination

In general, if you want to pull flowers in coffee, you can choose the following combination of tools

Electric bean grinder + coffee machine + flower pot

Electric / hand bean grinder + mocha pot + milk bubble pot + pull flower milk pot

Electric / hand bean grinder + mocha pot + milk stick + flower milk pot