Today is another common topic, because recently many friends have taken advantage of e-commerce activities to purchase coffee machines and start making coffee at home, only to find that the taste of the coffee is very different from what they imagined.Even though it uses the same configuration as the Front Street store, what it makes is delicious that you can't drink in the store, especially the latte. So these friends found Front Street and asked about relevant production points. So today Front Street is going to share how to make a cup of latte that’s just like a coffee shop, or even better than what’s produced in a coffee shop!Don't look at what Qian said is easy, but when you get into actual practice, you will find that it is not difficult at all. There are only three key points that need to be mastered to make a delicious latte: the selection of ingredients and correct cooking.The ingredients naturally refer to coffee beans and milk, which determine the flavor and texture of a cup of latte, such as coffee beans! The espresso coffee produced in the Front Street store is often praised by customers and friends for its special taste. The reason is because the sunflower warm sun blend used in Front Street has a unique flavor.Because it is blended from two premium beans, Honduras sherry and Ethiopian red cherry, the coffee produced will have rare but outstanding flavor expressions such as whiskey, butter cookies, and berries.So we can know that coffee beans determine the flavor of a cup of coffee. But just like Bole and Maxima, beans alone are useless. We need to extract their flavor potential in a reasonable way.Friends often report that after purchasing Nuanyang Blend, they cannot get the taste of the store when they go home. There are two reasons for this:The first is because the extraction parameters are not used, such as the extraction time is too short and the liquid volume is too small, so the taste of the coffee cannot be released. The extraction formula used by the Front Street store is very classic: the ratio of powder to liquid is 1:2, and the extraction time is controlled between 25 and 35 seconds. This parameter does not mean that the extracted coffee must be delicious, but it can make the coffee we make one step closer to delicious, because it can allow the coffee to be relatively fully extracted.
No matter what kind of coffee beans are used, when extracting espresso, you can first control the parameters within the range of this formula, which can reduce the scope of our debugging, and then make subtle adjustments based on the taste of the extracted coffee! The specific method is because Front Street has already"The three giants of espresso, how to make it delicious?" 》Details are shared in this article, so I won’t introduce them here.The second reason is that the beans are too fresh! Many friends couldn't wait to get on the machine and make coffee as soon as they got the beans, only to find that the coffee tasted wrong. Even though the parameters are the same as the formula listed on the front street, the coffee tastes dull and bland.A situation like this is the result of coffee beans that are too fresh! When coffee beans are very fresh, they contain an unusually high amount of carbon dioxide. Although this large amount of carbon dioxide can make espresso coffee rich in oil, it can easily reduce the taste and quality of the coffee.(Grease is also very rough). Because carbon dioxide will hinder the extraction of coffee substances by hot water and reduce the dissolved flavor substances.Front Street once conducted an experiment. The content of the experiment was to compare the coffee extraction rate brewed from the powder layer in two different states. The result is that the extraction rate of coffee brewed from a vented powder bed is much higher than that of coffee brewed from an unaerated powder bed. And this difference will be further amplified in the extraction of espresso!It can be seen that freshly roasted coffee beans are not suitable for immediate use in coffee making, so Front Street recommends that you let the beans rest for a few days after you get them. Generally, medium-dark and dark-roasted Italian beans will stabilize in about 10 to 14 days, allowing the flavor to be more easily dissolved during extraction.In addition to coffee beans, the choice of milk is also very important. After all, 80% of the ingredients in a cup of latte are milk. Milk determines the taste of a cup of coffee, and it also affects the flavor of the coffee. The texture and taste of milk produced by different manufacturers are different. For example, some milk will be sweeter, some milk will have more body, and some milk will have a heavier milk taste...What everyone needs to know is that the choice of milk does not mean that the stronger the taste, the better, or the mellower the taste, the better. The specific choice mainly depends on the tonality of the coffee beans, because it needs to be combined with the coffee to create a cup of latte, so the choice of milk will be affected by the taste of the coffee.For example, the milk used in the Front Street store is Guangming. It does not taste very heavy and has a relatively high sweetness, so it is very suitable for the fragrant type of Front Street Nuanyang blend. Because the milk coffee made with this combination will not be greasy and will be more comfortable to drink.Then what kind of milk you want to use needs to be determined by your own testing! Because everyone uses different beans than Front Street, no generalizations can be made. Fortunately, Front Street has shared many milk reviews before. Interested friends can learn more by searching previous articles~And if you are making a hot latte, the milk, like coffee, needs to be cooked correctly to fully demonstrate its advantages. But in comparison, cooking milk is still much easier than coffee. Because if we don't draw flowers, we only need to pay attention to one parameter, and that is temperature.This is what Front Street shared the day before yesterday. When heating milk, it is best to control the temperature within the range of 55°C~65°C and not exceed 70°C. Because milk in this temperature range can have a higher sweetness, the coffee produced will taste better. Once it exceeds 70°C, the sweetness and taste of the milk will decrease, which will directly have a negative impact on the taste of the coffee, so the temperature of the milk still needs to be paid attention to~After the two ingredients are prepared and cooked, our last step is to "assemble" them! Without drawing flowers, there is only one thing that needs to be paid attention to when assembling, and that is the proportion! The ratio is the ratio of the weight of coffee liquid to milk used.Generally speaking, the main object of adjustment is milk. After all, the liquid weight of coffee will not change easily. The factor that can affect the ratio of coffee to milk is nothing more than the concentration of the coffee. To put it simply, if there is too much milk, the coffee taste will be weak, and if there is less milk, the coffee taste will be strong and bitter. So is there an optimal powder-to-water ratio between coffee liquid and milk?The answer is obvious: no~ because latte is aboutFind a balance point between milk and coffee liquid. The milk flavor and coffee flavor should be balanced just right. No one flavor will stand out from the other. Only in this way can the coffee produced be high in sweetness but not bitter while retaining the coffee flavor.Everyone uses different coffee beans and milk. If we adhere to this point of view, then the optimal ratio for everyone must be different. The reason is very simple! For example: Suppose you are using rich dark roast coffee to make a latte, then we need to add more milk to balance out the bitter taste of the coffee. For example, 1:6, or 1:7, that is, 40ml of coffee liquid and 280ml of milk.But if you are using a lighter roasted coffee with a fresher taste to make a latte, then we may not need too much milk to balance the taste of the coffee, because the coffee taste is not that strong. Maybe a ratio of 1:5 or even 1:4 is completely sufficient, that is, 40ml of coffee liquid with 160ml of milk.Therefore, there is no standard, fixed optimal ratio for latte. Everyone needs to get the results after actual testing based on their own coffee beans and milk. For example, the optimal ratio of the latte produced at the Front Street store is 1:6. This is limited to the combination of Nuanyang blend and Guangming fresh milk. Once the milk is replaced, the optimal ratio value will also change accordingly.Front Street believes that some friends have discovered that Front Street did not discuss the element of latte art in this article. This is mainly because home-made latte is more about taste than appearance, so the presence of milk foam and latte art technology are dispensable. Latte art is not necessary to make latte coffee, just heat the milk.But some friends will pay more attention to these points, because the existence of milk foam is not only used for latte art, but also adds a certain soft touch to the coffee. So if friends are pursuing a more extreme and comprehensive latte experience and want to learn how to create delicate milk foam, you can go to"How to froth milk"Learn about this article~As long as you are familiar with the above content, Front Street believes that everyone will be able to make latte at home that is as delicious as the coffee produced in the coffee shop, or even better!
You can now buy the above coffee beans online at the Taobao store “FrontStreet Coffee” (前街咖啡). FrontStreet Coffee is a long-established specialty coffee roaster in Guangzhou, China, and its Guangzhou retail shop sells coffee beans only. The shop carries dozens of coffee beans from different origins around the world, including carefully selected single-origin beans for V60 pour-over and espresso. Guangzhou’s FrontStreet Coffee shop is recommended by many coffee lovers.
The FrontStreet 2013 Yunnan coffee beans sold in the store come from the Typica variety grown at FrontStreet Coffee’s own plantation in Yunnan. The name comes from the year the brand and the plantation were founded. You can buy these beans from China’s Yunnan origin at the Guangzhou shop and at FrontStreet’s Taobao store.
FrontStreet coffee beans are freshly roasted within 5 days and deliver consistently excellent quality and great value. Orders placed before 17:00 are shipped the same day, and most areas within Guangdong Province receive them the next day.
FrontStreet Coffee Taobao store: https://qianjiecoffee.taobao.com
Or search for “前街咖啡” (FrontStreet Coffee) on Taobao
Important Notice: FrontStreet Coffee has moved to a new address: 315, Donghua East Road, Guangzhou (coffee beans only)
Tel: 020 38364473
