Howdy Howlers and welcome back to the Wolff Weekly Vlog and our milk texturing and
latte art series. Today we're going to be looking at the basics of the pour.
So first of all how to hold everything correctly and then how to get the milk
into the cup and make it look good. Alright, so first things first the jug.
So there are a few different options when you're pouring latte art.
Most people feel comfortable is by supporting the weight of the handle in
four fingers and using their thumb to point where they want to go.
Personally I like to support the weight in three fingers and grip on either side.
The one thing I don't like to see is people supporting the weight and tucking their
thumb in because you have very little control over where the milk goes.
Secondly how do we hold the cup. Now if you're a right-hander you're more than
welcome to hold the cup from the handle as I'm a left-hander I support from the
base which I do find gives you a little bit more control the one thing you do
want to avoid is putting your fingers anywhere anyone's going to be drinking on.
So just nice and gently from the base.
Now when we have latte art and we present it to someone we want to make sure that when it's given to them with
the handle to the right that the latte art is centered and towards them and
that's very very easy to achieve if you just hold the cup the right way
So if you're a left-hander what you want to do is make sure the handle of the cup
is perpendicular to your belly button and away from yourself that means when
we pour the latte art and pull through it's going to be nice and in line with
the handle. If you're a right-hander what you want to do is make sure the handle
is pointing towards your belly button so when you pull the latte art and serve it
it's facing towards the customer. Alrighty so what we're going to do when
we pull latte art will happen very quickly I'm going to talk you through it
a little bit first. Like a painter needs a canvas, a latte artists also needs a
canvas and we want one that is nice and even golden creamer colored so what we
need to do for the first half of the pour is simply pour the milk through the
crema so we're going to sink the milk through the crema - mix it in
nice and evenly so at about half to three quarters of the way full we just
have a nice even crema color to pour our latte art into. Now think of this like
diving. So the Olympic divers they don't want to create a splash we don't want
any white splashing out onto our canvas So what we do is we dive into the deep end
of the pool when you hold your cup tilted you'll notice that the crema has
a deeper area what we want to do is pour directly into this and that's going to
sink it through. Mix in mix and mix in You're pouring a little bit faster and a
little bit higher than you normally do when you're actually pouring the art.
If you notice any white bits pop up all you do is pour over them and you're
going to sink it through generally people like to draw a little circles in
the deep end when it gets to three-quarters of the way full or half
full wherever you're comfortable it's time to start the pour to do that we
want to make the white bits come out onto the brown bit to do this all we do
is drop our jug position down and tilt a little bit more and if your milk is well
textured it will naturally pour out and create nice contrast between the white
and the golden crema when you're pouring you do want to keep your cup at a
little bit of an angle this is going to increase the surface area and make it
easier for you to pour so we mix in, we mix in, we mix in,- we break the pour let
the milk still. Drop down and when we're ready to pull through our Cup will
almost be flat we go up and through so we're doing that sinking motion again to
create a nice line in the center. Alrighty so pouring is easy. Mix in mix in
mix in. Stop. Break the pour. Drop down, create your latte art, up and through for
the pull through and that's all there is to it. Alrighty see you next time