Eight practical steps to quickly improve your coffee art skills

Latte Art is a unique way of expressing Italian coffee. The biggest feature of latte art is that professional BARISTA will constantly innovate different patterns to please customers and reflect their professional accomplishment . Of course, perfect ESPRESSO and steamed milk are the basic principles of latte art.

As we all know, latte art is based on espresso and is a beautiful milk foam design. Being able to make beautiful latte art is probably what every barista wants to do. In fact, the essence of each cup of latte art is the fluid collision of milk and espresso. There are many complex patterns, and the techniques are similar.

1. Latte art can basically be divided into the following three parts:

1. Height

Before you start to draw, you need to let the milk foam blend with the espresso. When you start pouring the coffee, pour the milk foam into the coffee from a height of about 5 cm above the coffee surface, and the milk flow should be as thin as a mouse's tail, or even thinner. When pouring the milk foam, try to get the mouth of the milk jug as close to the coffee as possible. You will find that as the mouth of the jug gets closer to the coffee, more white milk foam will float on the surface of the coffee instead of all blending with the coffee.

2. Position

When you pour milk foam into coffee to create a symmetrical latte art design, remember that you are pouring one liquid into another. The force of the milk foam pouring into the coffee will push the latte art pattern and the coffee in the cup forward. When pouring the milk foam, you have to blend the white milk foam and the brown coffee as you pour. If you pour the milk foam steadily from the center of the coffee, you will get a pattern that radiates outward from the center; but if you deviate from the center, the force of the milk foam pouring into the coffee will draw a long, clumsy line that curls in the cup like a snake.

3. Flow

The amount of milk foam flow is an important factor in determining whether you see a colorful or chaotic pattern in the cup. Pouring too much milk foam too quickly will destroy or even disintegrate the pattern we have already completed on the coffee base. If too much milk foam is poured too far away from the coffee, it will splash everywhere, making the pattern a mess and disorganized.

Please note: To increase the flow of milk foam, you must lower the mouth of the kettle, not both at the same time. You should increase the flow of milk foam when you lower the mouth of the kettle to the lowest point or closest to the cup. This continuous combination of lowering the mouth of the kettle and increasing the flow will allow you to pour the white foam in the milk tank from the bottom of the kettle, allowing you to easily (skillfully and artistically) place the milk foam on the surface of the coffee.

2. How to quickly improve coffee art skills in a short period of time?

1. Follow a master and complete your learning under his guidance;

2. Watch more learning videos and improve through practice;

3. Participate in coffee competitions and complete the summary during the competition;

4. Enroll in latte art courses and complete the skills during the training;

There is no shortcut to skills. The so-called short time, fast effect and low recurrence all come from diligent practice after mastering the skills!

3. Eight practical steps, try slowly, don't rush:

1. At this point, you have a cup of espresso and a pot of milk foam in your hand. Set the 1/3 of the cup mouth as the latte art landing point, tilt the coffee cup 10-15 degrees, lift the milk pot to about 10 cm, and start pouring a small amount of milk foam into it to pierce the grease.

2. Pour the milk foam in a steady and small flow until the coffee cup is 50% full.

Keep the flow of milk froth steady.

3. When "white spots" of milk foam appear on the coffee surface, lower the milk jug close to the mouth of the coffee cup, increase the flow rate of milk foam, and use your arms and wrists to shake the milk jug left and right in a Z shape, with a shaking distance of about 1 cm.

4. Shaking the milk jug is to increase the heart-shaped layers. As the milk jug continues to shake, the area of ​​the milk foam will continue to increase and form a circular shape. Pay attention to maintaining the flow of the milk foam.

Gently shake the milk jug in a Z-shape from side to side.

5. When the milk foam in the cup increases, slowly lay the cup flat while pouring it in. When the coffee cup is 80% full, lay the coffee cup completely flat and prepare to raise the latte art pitcher while reducing the amount of milk foam poured in.

6. When the teacup is 90% full, slowly lift the pitcher and reduce the flow rate. The injection point is now the center of the heart shape.

The position of the reel determines the right-left symmetry of the heart shape.

7. The milk foam flows from the center line to the end of the cup at a small flow rate.

8. The line is wound up and a cup of heart-shaped latte art is ready!

A beautiful heart shape appeared.

The end!

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