Four steps to teach you the skills of making coffee easily.

A good cup of coffee, half is taste, the other half is feeling. This taste and feeling, only after hand-cooked, and then according to their own mood to make different styles, accompanied by the summer sun in the leisurely afternoon taste, more and more fragrant.

Jing Yu

Carving time Coffee College senior trainer, coffee has become his way of life, as long as give him 3 minutes, you can make any fancy coffee you want.

Tips on talent

Select coffee beans

Freshness is a sign of good coffee, so try to buy fresh coffee beans that are roasted within a month. When buying, first squeeze it with your hands to feel whether it is solid, then smell the aroma close to your nose, and finally grab one or two and chew them in your mouth. If you have a crisp sound and leave fragrance on your teeth and cheeks, it is top grade. It should be noted that freshly fried coffee beans are not suitable for drinking immediately, but should be stored for a week until the fragrance is fully released before grinding.

In addition, the purity of coffee beans is another important factor. When buying individual coffee beans, you should pay attention to whether the color, size, shape and defects of each bean are similar. The beans are uniform in size and the proportion of defective beans is low.

Drink coffee healthily

Coffee lovers have been plagued by the criticism of coffee, but it is not our style to give up eating for fear of choking. As long as you drink coffee in a healthy way, you will find that, in addition to invigorating, coffee can also relieve muscle pain, speed up metabolism, improve heart function and delay aging.

Drink coffee first of all, drink 2 to 3 cups a day (about 230ml) is the most appropriate; secondly, pay attention to time, half an hour after meals can help digestion, fasting drink is easy to get stomach trouble, in order to avoid insomnia, 4 hours before going to bed to drink; again, to pay attention to sugar and calories, especially for people who need to lose weight, it is best not to add sugar or milk and other partners when drinking coffee.

Coffee flower pull

If you feel that pure handmade fancy coffee is not enjoyable, you can also challenge the more dazzling coffee Latter Art like Jay Chou in the Green Hornet. Since the appearance of the flower depends on the special layer of oil on the coffee, which can only be made by a professional coffee machine, it is necessary to use the coffee machine to make coffee and milk, and then inject the milk into the center of the coffee. at the same time, raise the milk tank up and down, so that the coffee and milk are fully mixed. When pouring to seven or eight minutes full, put the jar mouth close to the coffee liquid surface, take the coffee cup edge as the starting point, and draw the pattern with milk. This is the so-called coffee flower pull, but it is not easy to fully master the art of flower drawing, and you must go through professional study and training.

STEP 1

Use a bean grinder to grind the coffee beans to a fineness similar to cotton sugar.

STEP 2

Pour pure water into the lower part of the mocha coffee pot, add the ground coffee powder to the powder trough, and tighten the kettle body. The ratio of powder to water (for example): 7 to 8 grams of coffee powder plus 30ml water.

STEP 3

Heat the coffee pot on the induction cooker and turn off the heat when steam comes out and the coffee liquid spills over to the upper kettle.

STEP 4

Pour the milk into the milk bubble pot, draw it evenly up and down until there are bubbles on the edge of the pot, lift the strainer, take out the coarse bubbles on the edge of the pot and throw them away with a spoon, then pour some milk into the milk tank and pour the milk and foam into each other to mix well.

Tool box

Preheat the coffee cup, pour about 1 beat 8 cups of coffee into the cup, fill the cup with a mixture of milk and foam, and then draw your favorite pattern with chocolate sauce and toothpick.