Latte coffee: aroma yourself, infect others

Abstract: Some people say that the character of latte is more like what is said in Taoism, which emphasizes the integration of inner and outer world, which is very consistent with the traditional Chinese personality. This article will briefly introduce this kind of latte coffee with Chinese flavor.

ABSTRACT: This article is an introduction to Latte.

"Latte" is the transliteration of the Italian word "Latte". Coffee Latte is a fancy coffee, a classic blend of Italian espresso and milk. Italians also like to drink latte for breakfast. In the morning kitchen of Italians, coffee and milk are usually cooked on the stove in the sunlight. The ultimate blend of coffee and milk - Italian latte is pure milk and coffee, while American latte replaces milk with milk foam. Café Au Lait can be regarded as European latte, which is different from both American latte and latte.

1. Freehand Latte

A cup of authentic latte is made with 70% milk, 20% milk foam and 10% coffee. Although coffee has the least ingredients, it is what makes it coffee. There is an important implication here: the minority does not necessarily obey the majority, and the minority often becomes the protagonist in a specific environment.

Many people like to drink latte coffee, and their personalities seem to be somewhat similar to latte coffee. Some people say that the latte personality represents a kind of fashion. However, the latte personality is more like what Taoism says, which emphasizes the integration of the inner and the outer world, and is very consistent with the traditional Chinese personality. People with the latte personality are not like the petty bourgeoisie who pursue others' appreciation, pursue deliberateness, and are not influenced by others. At the same time, they do not reject tradition.

The "latte" group is actually using their own way of thinking to inject a warm milky aroma into the bitter coffee of life. They make the originally difficult and boring life inadvertently glow with a sweet fragrance, adding to the love of life. Who can say that this is not an art of life? If you want to do it, be a "latte". It will not only make yourself fragrant, but also infect others.

2. The Origin of “Latte”

The famous phrase "I'm either in a café or on my way to a café" was said by a musician in Vienna. The air in Vienna is always filled with the smell of music and latte. The first person to add milk to coffee was Kochilsky, a Viennese, who also opened the first café in Vienna.

In 1683, the Turkish army attacked Vienna for the second time. At that time, Emperor Obold I of Vienna had an offensive and defensive alliance with King Augustus II of Poland. As long as the Poles learned of this news, reinforcements would arrive quickly. But the question was, who would break through the Turkish siege and deliver the message to the Poles?

Kochilski, a Viennese who had traveled in Turkey, volunteered to deceive the Turkish army besieging the city with his fluent Turkish, crossed the Danube, and brought in the Polish army. Although the Ottoman army was brave and good at fighting, it retreated hastily under the attack of the Polish and Viennese armies, leaving behind a large number of military supplies outside the city, including 500 bags of coffee beans - coffee beans that the Muslim world had controlled for centuries and refused to flow out easily fell into the hands of the Viennese. But the Viennese didn't know what it was, only Kochilski knew that it was a magical drink.

So he asked for the 500 bags of coffee beans as a reward for his escape, and used the spoils to open Vienna's first coffee house, the Blue Bottle. At first, the coffee house's business was not good. The reason was that people in the Christian world did not like to drink coffee grounds like Muslims did; in addition, they were not used to this thick, black, bitter drink. So, the clever Kochisky changed the recipe, filtered out the coffee grounds and added a lot of milk - this is the original version of the "latte" coffee commonly seen in coffee houses today.

3. How to make latte?

1. Soak the cup in hot water (warm the cup), let it temperature rise, then pour out the excess water.

2. Grind the dark roasted coffee beans, pour the coffee powder into the tamper, flatten the coffee powder with a pressing rod, then attach the tamper to the espresso machine to extract Espresso (the ratio of coffee to milk is 1:1).

3. Take an appropriate amount of milk and place it under the steam nozzle of the espresso machine to steam it into hot milk.

4. Pour the steamed milk into the cup.

5. Shake the cup up and down to make the milk foam rise.

6. Finally, pour the espresso slowly into the cup.