Cappuccino, it can be said to be the earliest Italian milk coffee. Although both cappuccino and latte are made from milk and coffee, due to differences in the ratio and thickness of milk foam, the taste and texture of cappuccino can be said to be quite different from that of latte.
Mellow and rich, dense and smooth, these are the two most profound impressions of cappuccino. Today Front Street is going to share with you how to make a delicious cup of cappuccino at home.
Make and share
The composition of a cappuccino is very simple: milk, espresso, and solid, thick milk foam. Of these three ingredients, the first thing we need to get is espresso. If you have a coffee machine or a hand-pressed coffee machine at home, I believe you can make it yourself without any introduction. Take Front Street as an example. The espresso parameters used by Front Street when making cappuccino are: 20g powder, a powder-to-liquid ratio of 1:2, and an extraction time of 30 seconds.
The espresso extracted with such parameters has a high enough concentration and is relatively fully extracted, with relatively excellent performance in all aspects of taste and mouthfeel.
But it doesn’t matter if we don’t have a coffee machine at home. We just need to find another way and use other tools to make a high-concentration coffee instead of espresso. We can also make a delicious “cappuccino”.
Among all the coffee making tools, the one most recommended by Front Street is the Moka pot. The Moka pot is also produced in Italy and also uses pressurized extraction to make coffee. It can also produce a high-concentration coffee close to espresso.
If you want to drink a more traditional cappuccino taste, Front Street will recommend that you choose to use darker roasted coffee beans to make it, especially the Italian blend, which will be more cost-effective. For espresso with milk, the classic blend of Front Street is the first choice. The espresso made with it not only has the mellow aroma of chocolate and nuts, the smoothness of cream, but also the sweetness of caramel, perfectly replicating the classic taste of traditional espresso.
If you like coffee that is refreshing and not bitter, buy Front Street Grana Geisha SOE. It uses a sun-dried process and is roasted to a medium temperature to bring out the flavors of berries, oranges, and persimmons. When paired with milk, it has the characteristics of toffee.
Flavor
Once we have solved the problem of getting coffee, all that remains is to get a thick and dense milk foam to make cappuccino~
Making milk froth is also very easy! Conventional cappuccino thick milk foam is made by the steam wand of the espresso machine while heating the milk. The principle is very simple, that is, air is blown into the milk to form bubbles, and then the milk foam is cut and smoothed by creating a whirlpool. In this way, a thick milk foam will be whipped when the milk is heated.
There are many alternatives, but because these methods cannot heat the milk, we need to use other methods to heat the milk first, heat it to about 65°C, and then start frothing the milk.
The more common one is to use an electric whisk to create a vortex to push air into the milk to create milk froth; in addition, you can also use a French press! Here is a brief introduction on Front Street: First, we pour the milk into the French press, and then continuously pull the filter, and the pulling speed changes from slow to fast.
When you feel the pulling resistance is very strong, the milk foaming is completed. It is very, very simple! It should be noted that since it is difficult for beginners to control the thickness of milk foam, it is best to bring out a single portion of milk to prevent all the milk we use from being foamed into milk foam.
So the above is the sharing of making coffee and milk foam. After we learn to make a strong coffee and a thick milk foam, the next thing to do is to "assemble" these materials to create a delicious cup of cappuccino~
Hot cappuccino: First, we pour the prepared espresso into the cup. The cup can be preheated in advance. The best capacity is about 200ml.
Then, we pour in the milk froth. The ratio used in Front Street here is 1:3, that is, 40ml of espresso mixed with 120ml of milk.
After pouring the milk, we can spread the milk foam on the surface until it is 11 minutes full, and a delicious hot cappuccino is ready!
Ice cappuccino: Making ice cappuccino is also very simple, but the order is slightly changed. The capacity of the cup must be more than 300ml because of the addition of ice cubes.
First, we add about 100g of ice cubes into the cup, then pour the same amount of milk as above, and then pour espresso on top of the ice cubes.
Finally, cover it with milk foam, and a delicious and beautiful iced cappuccino is finished~
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
