It's more important than beautiful flower drawing-- fusion.

There is no doubt that for a cup of fancy coffee, a symmetrical, well-defined flower is so eye-catching that it can easily cause a bunch of screams.

However, is the bright flower drawing really that obvious help to the essence of a cup of coffee-the drink?

The answer is:

Has a negative effect. Flower drawing will affect integration. Which affects the taste of a cup of coffee. So if you are receiving more responsible teaching. The master will certainly tell you not to pull flowers. Let's make sure this cup of coffee tastes good. Then pulling flowers is just a few tricks. Add one more point. If you want to pull flowers to look good. That cup of coffee is almost impossible to drink. On the Internet, many video clips are added to the concentrate. Chocolate. Cocoa powder. Will make it easier to pull flowers. I haven't tried anything else. I can't talk nonsense. But it doesn't taste good. I won't tell you that some of the coffee after the pull video is poured out directly.

So what is integration?

Mixing milk and espresso evenly is called fusion. The coffee after fusion is called milk coffee. The result of non-fusion is that the concentrate you drink is concentrated and the milk is milk. That has the same effect as taking a sip of condensed milk with you.

It can be said that integration directly affects the taste and taste of a cup of coffee and directly affects the customer's drinking experience, the importance is self-evident.

A cup of milk coffee can only pull flowers without merging, or you can only fuse without flowers.

The key is just how you choose.

Next, let's talk about the main point: the skills of "integration".

1. Cup height: refers to the distance between the milk jar and the coffee cup

The distance between the normal milk jar and the coffee cup is about 5ml 10cm (reference), which should be the distance between the mouth of the bottle and the coffee liquid level. Each person is different on this point, there is no exactly the same height and distance, there is no fixed height, but the purpose is only one point, that is, to fully integrate milk foam and coffee, because the density of milk foam is small and light, we often choose to increase the distance between the milk tank and the coffee liquid surface to avoid destroying the cleanliness and color of the oil. So we have to understand that the thicker the bubble, the higher the distance (impact), on the contrary, the thinner the bubble, the lower the distance.

two。 Milk flow size: refers to the thickness of the milk flow when the milk in the milk jar is poured into the coffee cup

The normal reference value is that the milk flow is a little thinner under constant conditions. The purpose of the milk flow size is to ensure that the cleanness and color of the oil will not be destroyed while fully merging the milk foam and coffee. The coarse milk flow will have a greater impact and will have a certain chance of breaking into the bottom of the cup to produce turbulence. Therefore, we will generally choose a finer milk flow to carry on the fusion. If we are more flexible, the size of the milk flow should match the quality of the milk foam. For example, if the milk foam is thicker, we need higher distance and finer milk flow, on the contrary, we can choose micro-coarse milk flow and closer milk flow to merge.

3. Fusion techniques: fusion techniques are roughly divided into three types: one-word fusion method, circle fusion method, fixed-point fusion method.

These techniques do not have a great impact on the fluidity of flower drawing: let's start with the differences between the three methods.

The one-word fusion method is the de-fusion of swinging left and right on a line, which greatly reduces the area of damaged oil and achieves the purpose of fusion.

The circle fusion method is the circle de-fusion method, which moves on the grease surface to a large extent to achieve the purpose of fusion.

The fixed-point fusion rule is to carry out fusion at a point, which hardly destroys the surface cleanliness of grease and achieves the purpose of fusion.

The three fusion methods have their own advantages and disadvantages, and the circle fusion method (that is, large area de-fusion) is the best in terms of fusion state and uniformity. The reason is very simple, the larger the fusion area, the easier it is to fully integrate milk foam and coffee. Fixed-point fusion and one-word fusion requires super grease and very good milk foam. Therefore, it is recommended to circle a large area to merge.

4. Fusion quantity: refers to how many milk bubbles are fused into the cup, and the amount of fusion liquid mainly affects the fluidity of the liquid surface during flower drawing (the following example assumes that the grease, milk foam and fusion techniques are consistent).

The process of fusion is actually the process of pouring milk into Espresso:

The amount of fusion liquid = the number of milk bubbles poured in = the fluidity strength of the liquid surface.

Less fusion liquid (that is, less milk bubbles poured in), less bubbles on the liquid surface and less resistance, so the fluidity is high.

If there is more fusion liquid (that is, more milk bubbles are poured into it), the more bubbles on the liquid surface, the greater the resistance, so the fluidity is low.

Therefore, the amount of the fusion liquid is different, and the fluidity of the liquid surface is also different.

In the style of flower drawing, there are also several schools. Let's compare the fusion weight of Japanese and Korean patterns:

The main feature of Japanese style pattern is that it covers a large area, and it is conceivable that a liquid surface with high mobility is needed for a large range of patterns, so the fusion weight of Japanese patterns is usually relatively small.

The main feature of the Korean style is that the pattern is neat and symmetrical, and the pattern with high symmetry needs a liquid surface with low mobility. So there are usually a lot of Korean pattern fusion.

So when we pull flowers, we choose the right amount of fusion according to the effect we want (mobility). One of my favorite words about fusion is to think of fusion as building and laying foundations. The more the fusion, the more stable the foundation. The less the fusion, the stronger the mobility of the foundation.