I don’t know if my friends still remember, but Front Street shared an article about"Why Dirty can't be taken out"of tweets. Then some friends left messages in the background saying that they found that many coffee shops do not offer takeaway cappuccino, and only have two options: dine-in and takeaway.Because Dirty needs to keep the milk and concentrate stratified while creating a temperature contrast, it is understandable that it cannot be used for takeout. But why can’t cappuccino, which is a direct fusion of milk and coffee like latte, be available for takeout? And the same type of latte and Australian white will do... This can't help but make many friends have doubts.In fact, it’s easy to understand! Although cappuccino, latte and Australian white are the same as Italian coffee with only milk foam added, they are different in taste and characteristics! Therefore, the main reason why cappuccino cannot be produced as a takeout is because it has characteristics that cannot be retained by takeout.Latte focuses on balancing the taste of coffee and milk. In order to prevent the taste of coffee from being too prominent, a large amount of milk needs to be added to balance the taste of coffee. Take Front Street as an example. The parameters used when making hot latte in Front Street are generally 40ml of espresso.(20g powder, 1:2 ratio, 30 seconds)Pair with 200ml hot milk. Then, in order to make the taste softer and perform latte art, when heating the milk, it is also necessary to create a milk foam with high fluidity and moderate thickness.The focus of Obai is to make the coffee taste strong but not bitter. To this end, it does not use as much milk as a latte. Moreover, when we make espresso, we will reduce the amount of extracted liquid, so that we can avoid the bitter taste of coffee and make the coffee strong but not bitter.Take Front Street as an example. The parameters used by Front Street when making Australian white are generally 30~35ml of espresso.(20g powder, 1:1.5~1.8, 30 seconds)Pair with 160ml of milk.Then, in order to make the coffee have a smoother taste, when heating the milk of Australian White, we will create a highly fluid and delicate milk foam to enhance the texture of Australian White.Cappuccino focuses on highlighting the taste of coffee, so less milk is used to make cappuccino. Take Front Street as an example. The parameter used by Front Street when making cappuccino is generally 40ml of espresso.(20g powder, 1:2 ratio, 30 seconds), then mix with 140~150ml of milk. Since there is less milk, the taste of coffee will be very prominent. For friends who are new to coffee, this taste is difficult to accept.In addition, cappuccino also has a very iconic feature, which is that it must have a dense and thick layer of milk foam. Why? Because we need the dense and mellow taste brought by this layer of milk foam! For this reason, we need to introduce a lot of air when whipping milk to generate a large number of bubbles, thereby forming a thick milk foam.Even after cappuccino was transformed into an ice drink, its iconicThick milk frothStill retained. That is enough to show that the existence of this thick milk foam is crucial to cappuccino. Without this milk foam, the cappuccino may not be called cappuccino.Based on the above brief introduction of Front Street, everyone will know the main difference between cappuccino, Australian white and latte. In addition to the taste, there is also a difference in the milk foam. The reason why cappuccino is not sold as a takeaway is precisely because of its iconic thick milk foam.As mentioned before, the essence of milk foam is bubbles! The liquid film wrapping the gas will become thinner and thinner due to the gradual loss of liquid. When it reaches a certain level, the bubbles will collapse. Therefore, the milk foam will gradually dissipate over time.(20 minutes difference between before and after)There will be a period of delivery time for the takeaway from the store to the customer's hands. Although this time is not too long, it is enough for more than half of the milk foam in the cup to disappear. In addition, in order to allow customers to get a cup of warm coffee, many coffee shops will specifically heat the milk to a higher temperature than the usual dine-in milk. Excessively high temperatures will cause the milk foam to dissipate faster.The reduction of milk foam will make the portion in the cup look smaller. This is a phenomenon that can easily cause misunderstandings and lead to disputes among guests who don’t know much about coffee. Therefore, in order to reduce disputes, many coffee shops simply choose not to serve takeaway cappuccinos, so that there will not be too many disputes.
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
