Make your own perfect foam at home

The importance of milk foam in Italian coffee is second only to Espresso. Most Italian coffee, whether classic or creative, will use milk foam to decorate, and modern Latte Art has raised the status of milk foam to an unprecedented height. How to make high quality milk foam at home? You don't need an expensive coffee machine, you don't need superior technology, you just need to read this article patiently.

1. appliance

At present, suitable for home milk foam equipment important manual milk and electric milk two kinds, electric although the price is cheap, and worry and effort, but the quality of the milk foam can not compliment, so I focus on manual milk. Choose manual milk mixer focus on the filter, preferably a double-layer filter, and the closure of the filter and the cup wall should be good.

2. raw materials

It has to be fresh milk.

3. production steps

(1)Whether the milk is cold or hot, the manual milk mixer can send out the milk foam, so the temperature of the milk can be set according to the actual demand, but if it is hot coffee, it is recommended that the milk be around 65 degrees, not more than 75 degrees, and if it is cold milk, the recommended temperature is around 5 degrees.

(2)Cover the pot and wrap a clean towel around it (see photo).

(3)Gently pull the pull rod, here is the milk foam delicate or not the focus, force must be wrist force, but not the whole arm force. When pulling milk foam, you should first pull it with high frequency and small amplitude. As the hands slowly become heavy, you should start to increase the amplitude and reduce the frequency.

(4)When the hand begins to feel heavier and heavier, you can open the lid to see the foam situation. Under normal circumstances, the foam amount of milk foam can reach 1 to 1.5 times the original volume.

(5)The coarser foam on top can be broken by shaking and then beating the table with the milk jar, or it can be scraped off directly with a spoon.