It is better to use those milk to pull flowers in coffee.

Use of raw materials

Do not use skim milk, because the fat content in skim milk is too low, so the taste of foam will be much worse than full-fat steam foam machine or manual milk bubble pot: what is milk foam? Milk foam is the product of a fine mixture of milk and air. The way to make milk foam is to pump air into the milk. The principle is simple, but it is not a simple thing to make a cup of dense and meticulous foam. The most common problem is that too much air enters the milk, producing too thick hard foam, which floats on the surface and cannot be fully mixed with coffee, so you can't enjoy the fine texture of foam and coffee when you drink it. It is recommended that you use a steam foam machine to make milk bubbles, which will make the process easier. Fortunately, many pump coffee machines now have this function built in, such as Delon BAR14 (single pump, which needs to make coffee and milk foam first), Delon EAM4000 (double pump, which can make coffee and milk foam at the same time) pointed mouth flower cup (beating milk jar): this thing is the most easily overlooked, although he is inconspicuous, but the effect is not small. First of all, the temperature requirements of milk bubbles are relatively high, only at 60-80 degrees will produce good quality milk bubbles, so you can feel the temperature of milk through the stainless steel milk tank. Secondly, in the production of pull style, the small pointed mouth is like a painter's brush.

Manufacturing method

Official start: first of all, add the milk foam to the Espresso coffee, and when the milk foam and coffee have been fully mixed, the surface will be thick. That's when it's over. Due to the large size of the foam, you need a larger cup, preferably a Cappuccino cup or a mug. Now the formal flower drawing begins, starting from the root of the leaf and shaking it from side to side.

Coffee pull "Gigi"

Coffee pull "Gigi"

Move the wrist of holding the flower cup (beating the milk jar), the key point is to steadily shake the wrist horizontally to the right and to the left.

Coffee flower drawing is divided into two processes, namely: flower drawing and carving. To pull flowers is to pour milk with milk foam into espresso to mix the two kinds of foam to form a unique pattern. However, carving, as the name implies, is to draw a more delicate figure on the surface of the coffee with a coffee needle, extra milk foam or chocolate sauce. Today's coffee carving art can draw the faces of more complex characters or cartoon characters. The more prominent is the coffee carving with the theme of Gigi in MiyazakiHayao's "Magic Girl House".

First, the production of milk foam

1. Pour the milk into the milk bubble pot, and the amount should not exceed 1 / 2 of the milk bubble pot, otherwise the milk will spill over due to expansion when making the milk bubble.

2. Heat the milk to about 60 degrees, but not more than 70 degrees, otherwise the protein structure in the milk will be destroyed. Be careful! The lid and strainer cannot be heated directly. (for example, make ice foam to cool the milk below 5 degrees Celsius, of course, do not overfreeze the milk and let the milk freeze. )

3, cover the lid and the filter, quickly twitch the filter to press the air into the milk, there is no need to press to the end, because it is to pump the air into the milk, so as to act on the surface of the milk; the number of times is not too much, gently twitch about 30 times.

4. Remove the lid and strainer and scrape off the thick milk foam with a spoon, leaving thick hot (ice) milk foam.