Coffee blossom training in heart and leaf skills

Pull and carving are collectively known as milk pull art (Latte Art). The former directly "pulls" the pattern through technical movements such as wrist jitter while pouring hot milk into espresso, while the latter does some carving with the help of accessories such as chocolate sauce, toothpicks, bar spoons and other tools to make the pattern perfect, the drawing is the foundation, the carving is the auxiliary, the drawing tests the technology, and the carving tests creativity. A good barista must attach equal importance to flower drawing and carving.

The skill of pulling flowers with milk, which requires a lot of practice, is the "housekeeping skill" accumulated by front-line bar baristas day after day. If improving speed, creating styles, improving details and enhancing beauty are the topics that "milk flower masters" like to talk about, I often envy them today.

There are five steps to follow to learn to pull flowers with milk:

As a first step, we need to choose a tub with a pointed mouth and an 8-ounce (240ml) round cappuccino coffee cup, and make sure that we can extract excellent Espresso (preferably using an Espresso coffee machine, because the richness of coffee oil is closely related to the flower).

The second step, first practice wrist jitter, you can use water instead of milk. Then practice precise control of flow and flow, which can still use water instead of milk and soy sauce instead of coffee in the cup-of course, mixing coffee grounds into a paste can better simulate the texture of espresso.

The third step is to practice the presentation process of the basic pattern and try to make perfect with practice. Peach hearts and leaves are two basic milk patterns.

The fourth step, the use of real milk and coffee, the basic pattern of flower practice.

The fifth step, with the foundation of the fourth step, domestic sales have become qualified milk flower artists, and then it is necessary to further improve the technology and create something-it is impossible to win the respect of others without personal creativity.

Let's extract a cup of Espresso, then hold the coffee cup in one hand, tilt the cup slightly inward, and hold the milk jar in the other hand, which is about 10cm higher than the coffee cup. There is beat foam inside, and the cylinder body is slightly tilted, with the pointed mouth facing the coffee cup forward. Then we began the journey of drawing flowers.

[basic steps of drawing a peach heart]

1. Slowly pour milk into the coffee, pay attention to grasp the height, do not destroy the coffee oil on the surface, the milk injection point determines the pull grid pattern and the basic position, we choose the milk injection point can be a little bit behind the center of the cup.

two。 When the coffee and milk in the cup are close to the capacity of 2gam3, an irregular mass of "white cotton" has appeared around the injection point. At this point, lower the vat and drag it back to the top of the edge of the coffee cup to "push" the resulting "white dough" forward to form a circular pattern.

3. Begin to shake the wrist slightly in place, shaking the milk tank left and right, so that the thin layer of lines appear and push outward like a layer of water ripples. A multi-layer concentric circle pattern has basically appeared.

4. The coffee cup is gradually straightened, and at the same time, the milk jar is moved to the front of the cup, so that the injected milk is cut from the center point of the concentric circle until it is in front of the edge of the coffee cup. The heart-shaped pattern is thus formed.

[basic steps for drawing flowers and leaves]

1. Slowly pour milk into the coffee, pay attention to grasp the height, do not destroy the coffee oil on the surface. The injection point of milk determines the flower pattern and basic position, and the milk injection point we choose is just the center of the cup.

two。 When the coffee and milk in the cup are close to 2p3 capacity, move the milk jar slightly in front of the coffee cup and lower the height a little, so that the injection point is moved forward. At the same time, begin to straighten the coffee cup slowly.

3. Start shaking your wrists in the same place, shaking the milk tank left and right. It makes the curved lines appear and push outward like a layer of water ripples.

4. Move the milk jar to the back of the cup as you shake it left and right, until you reach the back edge of the coffee cup, which stops shaking and ends up again, while the coffee cup is exactly horizontal.