3 Tips to Improve Latte Art

what's up everyone lance hedrick here and today we're going to take a look at the top three tips to improve your latte art [Music] so i would like to ask that first you hit that subscribe button hit the like button maybe leave a comment or something to help the video out i am going to do my best to continually provide you with high quality videos of things that can help you with your brewing at home or in a cafe so yeah go ahead and hit that check out the patreon below i also have one of those in order to increase my production value and as well as the equipment that i use in these videos anyway let's get going so today i'm going to look at three tips that i want to give off to you that will improve your latter almost immediately we're going to look at a an example of each preceded by an example of what would happen if you don't do the tips that i'm giving which these are very common flaws that i see and so i'm going to give you fixes for them so if you see any of these things and the mistake pours that i make then your fix should be given to you right here so the first one that we're going to look at is spout proximity even though i preach this all the time i still see people pour way too far away from the surface of the of the of the surface level of the liquid so first thing we're going to look at is spout proximity second thing is where you're starting your design so often i see people thinking well if i want the heart in the middle of the cup i need to start to the pour in the middle of the cup no you need to start higher up in the cup we need to start higher up the top where you drop in is going to be the top of your shape if it's a one pore shape and the more stacks you do in a shape or the more layers you do in a shape the deeper you need to start your design and then finally what we're going to take a look at is pushing forward during the design so often i see people freak out and drift backwards whether it's on a heart whether it's on a tulip whether it's on any of those things you always need to push forward so let's get started with spout proximity so i'm going to get my shot and my milk prepared and i'm going to show you an improper example and then we'll show you how to fix it all right so this is what it looks like when you don't have good spout proximity we're going to lay our base but then watch see how far away i am from this the top look look so as you see here because i was so far away that white wasn't able to come out crisply that the the force of gravity and that increasing velocity of the milk forced the foam to kind of submerge just somewhat and it caused this beiging out you see that so i'm going to pour another rosetta with the same ripple rate but i'm going to do it with a close spout proximity so let's go ahead and watch this again up close with the slow-mo so you can see what i'm talking about the further up you are the more white side to side whipping is going to happen the closer the spout is the less side to side is going to happen because you're much closer there's not as much room for that milk to come out and sway side to side this is going to give us more control and more capability of those lines to flow up in the cup instead of getting stunted as they hit so let's watch that slow-mo then we'll go to a good example [Music] here's an example of close about proximity we get really close so as you see there i have really crisp white lines that came out because i got really close to the surface of that liquid that allowed that that foam to skate out on top as opposed to sink and beige out so as we see these side by side you see how big of a difference it is not only did my wraps go up higher because i was allowing the malleability of the surface to take effect when i was close and allowing those small side to side ripples but on top of that i was able to negate that beiged out part and was able to get crisp white and crisp brown as opposed to this beigey color so the second one as i said is going to be where you drop in the cup so spout proximity is is very important that's the first one the second one is where we're dropping so very often what i see people do is with a heart they'll drop in the center and what happens is that shoots the design to the back of the cup and it can cause the base to blow out when you get too close to the back then you're getting too much velocity of that foam coming out and it can hit the back wall quickly and cause the base to flatten you want to start higher in your cup what i always tell people is if they're doing a rippled heart to start at the one quarter mark and when they're done they should finish about the the the three-quarter marks all right so you start behind halfway and finish past halfway that's what i typically tell people start up higher in that cup now if we expand to more than one shape or more than one drop and a drop just refers to okay there's one uh drop of foam and here's another drop of foam the more drops we do the deeper in the cup we can go because every successive pour is going to cause the preceding pores to wrap higher and higher and higher because if you think about it if you're if we're starting up here if this is where we're pouring is right up here okay then if we start here and we pour more into that first design so let's say we do a ripple right here and then we pour more into it it's going to wrap up quickly and it's going to kind of look like an onion but if we start the ripple down here we could put a tear here a tear here and a tear here and the whole time this is going to stretch to where the sinkhole is all right now some of these terms are unfamiliar to you please make sure you watch my ultimate guide to latte art i also have smaller versions of them that you can look at and get a good sense of what's going on but that ultimate guide is going to really help you follow along anyway let's go ahead and get to the improper way to find your beginning i don't know what i'm trying to say here let's do an example of going too deep in the cup for a heart and then i'll show you an example of doing a proper heart and an example of doing a two-tiered design and where you should start that and we're gonna get the shot and everything prepped and here's an example of going too deep in the cup so let's watch this rippled heart here so watch closely i'm gonna start too deep in the cup so as you see at the beginning it started to blow out a bit you have a little bit of a horizontal issue going on also you see i wasn't able to wrap all the way because i was trying to get it to wrap throughout the whole cup which just isn't possible so if you look closely we have the heart in the bottom part of the the cup if i didn't have such thick crema this is really freshly roasted coffee it would have blown the base out even more with less thick crema there's going to be less of that viscosity this would have blown out even more and would be more more horizontal on the bottom but so that's what you see whenever you drop too low so i dropped right about here and that's where the the shape kind of stopped is right where i was all right so i'm going to do another one with a proper where i'm supposed to be dropping which is back here just behind halfway all right and i'm gonna get that set up right now all right so here is the first good example of placement all right so on this one i'm gonna place up right behind halfway see right here and now i'm rippling so as you see with that one i have a much more full design i was able to get a rounded shape as opposed to that flat bottom so let's see them side by side and there you go this one actually fills the cup because i started up here and filled it this one i started too low and wasn't able to do it so let's do another example but with the with a two-tiered shape all right so here's an example with a two-tiered shape where you need to drop a little lower so watch i'm gonna drop right at halfway instead but watch because i'm doing another shape watch how that base is wrapping up so because i did a two-tiered shape there's four layers but two tiers so tier one is that rippled base tier two is this i needed to drop a little further in the cup but you see how it still wraps up all the way so these are the examples that you want to do based off of where you're dropping the more tiers you're doing in your cup one two the more deep you want to drop with your first drop the less tiers the less deep in the cup so if it's a one tier design so if it's a three-layered heart or a rippled heart you wanna start right about here if it's a two-tier you wanna start about halfway three tier and more you wanna start at the bare minimum halfway if not a little further down because with each successive tier it's gonna wrap the design higher and higher all right so the final tip to immediately improve your latter is to move forward with your designs so unless you're doing a rosetta where obviously you move back you need to always move forward and even with rosetta you move forward at the beginning of the design so often i see people doing hearts or doing different designs where they're kind of drifting backwards so i'm going to show you what i'm talking about when i see people doing these onion type of hearts where instead of rippling forward as you saw in the second step which was the uh where you drop if you go back and watch my rippled heart you see i ripple forward the whole time i'm always moving forward if you drift back you're gonna get an onion we don't want onions we're not shrek layers all right shreks are ogres ogres are made of layers not parfaits not cakes everybody loves a parfait i know but we're not doing that we don't want onions we don't want parfaits we want voluptuous lineated hearts okay thank you all right here's the bad example of not pushing forward so watch i'm going to start here and it's going nice and good nice and good but watch i'm just going to kind of now look at this look at this the lines don't wrap we have a friggin onion that's an onion you see how the lines are kind of frilled up like this it's almost like a it's like a fat feather it's like the plumage the top plumage of a peacock okay we're not watching we're not streaming peacock plus here what we're trying to do is make a lineated heart this isn't a heart except for maybe you could argue that middle part is sort of a heart but really this is an onion this is an ogre this is shrek and it's not acceptable all right so on this one i'm going to place up right behind halfway see right here and now i'm ripping all right so here's an example following the good heart of pushing forward so we're going to start our design start out here and we're going to ripple forward forward forward forward forward forward forward forward forward let's start here forward forward forward forward we're going to go here and forward so as you see with each successive tier i rippled forward forward forward forward forward forward forward push forward push to make sure they wrapped all the way and there we have a fully wrapped design because of the successive pushes no onion all right well i guess it's time to wrap up thank you so much for watching the three tips to immediately improve your latte art again if you enjoyed the video please you know hit the subscribe hit the like turn on the bell notifications so you can see all the goodies that come from this channel um you know if you don't well you know okay i'm just gonna drink my steamed milk anyway just a little leftover tastes delicious had those um so sweet and nice anyway thank you so much for watching i do appreciate it until next time i hope you brew something tasty and cheers

Channel: Lance Hedrick

Views: 303,045

Keywords: how to latte art, how to make coffee, how to make espresso, lance hendrick, kyle roswell, emstagrim, james hoffman, sprometheus, latte art tutorial

Id: p0ZC0RB5OIw

Length: 11min 58sec (718 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 04 2022