How can you bear to drink those magical and beautiful coffee latte arts?

Latte art is the most eye-catching visual feast in coffee culture. Professional coffee masters can easily draw magical and beautiful patterns, combining vision and taste to add a sense of "hand-made" honor to coffee tasting.

It may seem easy to draw a square and beautiful pattern on a coffee cup, but it is not easy to make the same pattern continuously. It requires long-term training and many variables and details to be considered. For example, to make a stable milk foam, it is necessary to maintain the milk foam at the best temperature and thickness, which is the accumulation of experience. Use different colors of syrup to draw petals and swirl patterns to create a visual layering and rich taste.

In fact, latte art is like the art of integrating time and space. It is to quickly inject milk foam of the right temperature at the right time, and blend the fragrant coffee and milk together through stacking, so that people can taste the aroma of coffee and milk at the same time with every sip. So just watching the live performance of latte art masters is already a visual enjoyment. They have flexible control over speed and proportion. Behind every ingenious pattern, there is a perseverance of continuous practice without fear of failure!

The secret to great latte art?

Yang Yaohui, the first Chinese winner of the New York Coffee Fest Latte Art Championship in 2012, said that latte art is the result of continuous practice. At that time, he was just a 24-year-old Hong Kong youth who had worked in a coffee shop for 9 months, but he stood on the world stage with his perseverance.

Success is not accidental. This is the result of his self-training before the competition: after the coffee shop closes at 11pm every night, he practices alone until 3am the next morning and can make more than a dozen lattes a night.

He said that to create beautiful patterns instantly, he relies on continuous practice. He would watch various demonstration videos of masters online, imitate their techniques, and then try to do it himself. He said, "This is the secret to quickly mastering patterns."

Yang Yaohui also revealed a little-known secret: the interaction between coffee and milk will affect the pattern, and "the simpler the pattern, the more difficult it is"!

The oil content and roasting degree of coffee beans will affect the overall taste and color depth, while the oil content, temperature and whipping skills of milk will also affect the beauty of the pattern. A professional latte artisan needs to constantly experiment with the color matching and composition of coffee and milk to think of new possibilities and train his creativity.