Basic knowledge | detailed explanation of heart-shaped coffee flower

Coffee, an alien species, is now loved by more and more people. Drinking coffee is not only a health but also a fashion. Let's take a look at how baristas make a perfect cup of coffee flowers.

There is no clear definition of coffeefest in the coffee industry, it can only be said that it evolved from cappuccino and latte, but it has become one of the most popular forms of artistic expression in the world. Today, the "Wordbaristacompetition" World Coffee pull Competition, known as the Olympic Games in the coffee industry, is held throughout the country every year.

Let's learn how to make a cup of coffee. First of all, you have to prepare the following equipment and utensils: a semi-automatic coffee machine, two jars, a coffee cup, the right amount of coffee beans, and a carton of milk.

One: utensils

1. Professional coffee machine: nowadays more and more families have coffee machines, but do you know? Coffee machine is also divided into: fully automatic coffee machine and semi-automatic coffee machine.

What is a fully automatic coffee machine, which realizes the automatic control of the whole process of brewing coffee, such as grinding, pressing, loading, brewing, removing residue and so on.

What is semi-automatic coffee machine, semi-automatic coffee machine is a traditional Italian coffee machine, the operation of semi-automatic coffee machine requires manual grinding, pressing, loading, brewing, manual removal of residue and other procedures.

two。 Looking for the flower jar: the flower jar should be made of stainless steel and have a backflow nozzle with a general capacity of 600 ml. You can't choose a household water cup.

3. Ceramic coffee cup: the capacity of the coffee cup is generally not too large, the best choice is ceramic thick wall, here we choose a cup with a capacity of about 210 ml.

4. Suitable coffee beans: coffee beans can be bought online, but remember to choose Italian coffee beans! Here I would like to recommend two famous Italian coffee brands: Italian illy coffee beans and Rabasa lavazza coffee beans.

5. Qualified milk: it is best to choose whole milk or pure milk, pay attention to the milk fat content should be more than 6% 100ml.

Second, preparation:

1: extract coffee solution to make coffee flower do not need too much coffee liquid, the standard is 20-30 ml coffee liquid, and the surface of the coffee liquid should be covered with reddish brown foam.

2: to make milk foam, pour 250-300 ml of milk into the flower jar and heat it with the steam nozzle of the coffee machine. The temperature of the successful milk bubble should be 55 ~ 65 degrees, and the milk foam is dense and delicate without large bubbles.

Third: pull flower chapter

1. How to draw flowers in heart shape

The ① is selected and the injection point is about 3 parts of the cup mouth.

At the beginning of ② injection, a small flow rate is used, and the grease is punctured to stabilize the flow rate.

③ small flow into the fusion, until the coffee cup is 5 minutes full.

After the "whitening point" appears in the ④, increase the traffic and maintain it.

The ⑤ maintains an increased flow and shakes the vat left and right, arm and wrist coordination.

When ⑥ shakes, it is at the selected point, do not go back.

⑦ to improve the pull vat, small flow straight-line ending.

two。 Detailed explanation of heart-shaped flower drawing technology

The coffee cup is tilted 5-10 degrees and the ① 1x3 is injected. First raise the vat by 5-7 cm and pour the foam into the foam to pierce the grease.

When ② is lowered, the mouth of the jar can be pressed against the mouth of the coffee cup to keep the flow rate swaying left and right. When shaking, it is appropriate to control the flow rate to Z-shaped shaking distance around 1cm to form a hierarchical sense of milk foam.

③ at this time as the flower jar continues to shake the heart will continue to increase, pay attention to maintain the foam flow at this time. When shaking, do not pull the vat back, when the grease will automatically form a round shape.

④ with the increase in the number of milk bubbles in the cup, slowly put the cup flat when injected, the purpose of shaking the vat left and right is to increase the layering of the heart shape, the more the number of left and right shaking, the more layering, the more beautiful our flower will be.

⑤ when the cup is filled with 8 minutes of milk, put the coffee cup flat, ready to increase the flower jar, and reduce the amount of milk foam at the same time.

When the ⑥ is nearly 9 minutes full, the vat is raised with a small flow rate, and the injection point is the center point of the heart shape.

⑦ increases the flower jar and reduces the flow rate and amount of milk.

The ⑧ foam takes in a small flow from the centerline to the end of the cup, and a standard cappuccino must make the coffee liquid about 0.5cm higher than the mouth of the cup so that it is full without overflowing.

⑨ at this point you will find that the thickness of the milk foam in the coffee cup is 1-1.5cm. Congratulations on the completion of the heart-shaped flower drawing of a perfect cappuccino coffee.