Coffee latte art, the art of cup top! How to make beautiful latte art?

A cup of coffee in the morning is an appetizer for many urbanites to start the day, recharging them for the new day. If this cup of coffee has latte art like a work of art, it will be even more pleasing to the eye, and a good mood will come naturally.

A cup of fragrant coffee, if mixed with warm and dense milk, is the result of the delicate art of skillful hands. A cup of latte will no longer be just a latte!

Coffee latte art has its own difficulty and skills. When making latte art, you need to consider the different sizes of coffee cups and adjust the pouring distance. When pouring, different injection angles may also affect the clarity of the pattern drawn when making coffee latte art. Coffee latte art is a skill, knowledge, and art. Before learning how to make latte art, first understand the timing and principles of coffee latte art!

The right time to draw

The timing of making latte art depends on the complexity and size of the pattern you want to draw. If you want to draw a larger and more complex pattern, you will need more drawing space. It is recommended to bring the mouth of the latte art cup close to the surface of the coffee when the coffee is 50% full to form the latte art.

However, the timing of the cup mouth approaching the surface depends on the type of cup used. Generally speaking, a high, narrow-mouthed cup (such as a mug, take-out cup, etc.) requires a higher fusion ratio. It is recommended to blend to 60% or 70% full. Otherwise, when you want to make latte art, the distance between the steel cup mouth and the coffee surface is too far, and the high penetration of the milk foam will prevent the latte art from forming. When using a wide-mouthed short cup, the steel cup can easily shorten the distance between the steel cup and the coffee due to its wide mouth. For this reason, using a wide cup can start making latte art earlier. If you want to draw delicate graphics, a wide-mouthed cup would be a good choice!

Injection height difference

The technique of latte art is exactly the opposite of the fusion technique. During fusion, the milk foam injected from a high place increases the downward impact force of the milk foam due to the height difference, so that the milk foam will not float up but be brought down into the Crema to combine with the coffee.

If the milk is poured from a lower height, the downward force of the milk foam can be slowed down, allowing the lighter milk foam to float up and form clear white lines on the surface of the coffee. Therefore, when making latte art, the spout of the latte art cup should be lowered to the height closest to the surface of the coffee.

The thickness and angle of the milk column

The relationship between the extensibility, penetration and angle is that when blending, a thin column of milk should be used for injection. The closer the angle is to vertical, the greater the downward penetration can be. On the contrary, if a thicker milk foam is used for injection, the angle between the milk column and the liquid surface will be smaller, the slower the penetration, the greater the force pushing toward the plane, and the easier it is for the milk foam to expand and form on the surface.

Therefore, if you want to make clean and contrasting latte art, you must grasp the relative position between the mouth of the steel cup and the coffee.

“When blending, a small column of milk is injected from a high place to combine with the coffee. When making latte art, the steel cup should be lowered to make the milk foam thicker and stacked on the latte art surface.”

When fused, it is high and thin.

When drawing, it is low and thick.

Changes in points, lines and surfaces

Latte art starts with "dots". The "original form of latte art" can be considered as a dot. When we continue to inject milk foam at the original spot, the milk foam will stack outwards layer by layer, and then the small dots will gradually expand into a large circle.

And if we keep moving the injection path to the sides and backward while injecting the milk foam, the small dots will be connected into a line.

Latte art is a pattern made up of dots and lines. By combining different pouring techniques, various patterns can be created.

Stacked points and moving points.

Master the timing of latte art and the pouring gesture to create patterns with milk foam: