Comments on: 5 Things You Should Know About Coffee

By: George Clooney

George Clooney — Tue, 05 May 2015 20:18:25 +0000

1. Amount of foam in the coffee does not make a difference.
WRONG: Amount of foam do matters greatly.
Cappuccino has more foam and latte has just a thin layer. They are not done differently for different names.
Foam,which are bubbles giveing a texture feel but it does not integrate with the espresso, as much.
So a cappuccino will be more bitter as lesser milk gets blended together with the espresso.
As for a latte, it means “Milk”.
It’s an American drink, also a French drink known as Cafe Au Lait,. It should have little or no foam.

2. Latte Art – “it is an indicator of how serious a barista is about his trade as it reflects how good the milk is”
WRONG. If the barista is serious, buying expensive machines talking about thermal stability and the bringing out the best of flavours with fanciful unused controls.
Shouldn’t he be more concern of the TASTE than VISUAL?
The problem with latte art is simple, during pouring, there will be two portions to control.
One is pouring and frothing the milk froth, second is the liquid milk.

LATTE is a milky drink, something smooth, so it should be mostly liquid milk in the first place, there shouldn’t have much froth in there.
As mentioned above, pouring too much foam makes it a cappuccino and more bitter.
Here comes the problem with LATTE ART.
When a barista strive to draw his brown canvas, he will pour in excessively much foam, making it neither LATTE nor CAPPUCCINO.

Particularly if you have a big bunch of baristas, when different baristas may froth and pour with different amount of foam, base on preference, technicalities, or the drawing.

Thus if we put into perceptive.
We can say for sure, latte art will not make the beverage better but becomes a component of causing a consistency issue.
It absolutely disagrees that the barista is doing better.

P.S: Latte Art was invented by the Americans in the 80s when their coffee culture was so bad until recently.
Put into facts and figures, even today, less than 3 percent of Americans drink espressos.
Despite beautiful and feature rich machines invented by the Americans in recent years, they are not espresso drinkers and don’t appreciate espressos well.
Back then, you can say latte art was gimmicks, today the new American machines are, just like the one on your picture.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Sun, 13 Apr 2014 15:12:00 +0000

I quite agree with all the points above. Not sure about how you can determine the quality of milk through latte art; Unless if you get a really good, neutral-tasting soy milk, it always have that ‘bean’ taste. I’m lactose intolerant, so I would still have my latte with skim milk, since it would have much lesser lactose compared with full cream milk. Non-fat milk is an absolute no.

By: Sylvia

Sylvia — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 07:29:17 +0000

Point 3 is not correct. I have been a barista and soy milk drinker myself for years. Soy milk in fact is so mildly flavoured compared to full cream milk that it is full cream milk that overpowers the coffee taste, not the other way round. Point 3 is only valid when ill-informed baristas steam yeo’s soy milk or some local sweetened soy milk (tao huay cui), trying to pull it off as a soy latte, where the problem occurs.

By: Leanne

Leanne — Sun, 19 May 2013 14:07:40 +0000

I never have sugar in my coffee, I find it overpowers the coffee. I always say a good coffee never needs sugar unless it is a bad coffee and needs urgent masking!

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 18 May 2013 15:13:58 +0000

strangers reunion is such a lovely place to be, thanks Ryan for your cup of coffee that morning, the mocha was awesome…and the foam art on top was impeccable.

By: michael

michael — Fri, 17 May 2013 00:53:11 +0000

I think you should do more research. While points 1,3 & 4 are technically correct you should provide more information as to why. Points 2 & 5 are not correct.