Flat white

and

(Look at the shine on that baby!!  Smooth, no bubbles.)

It's taken me over a year, but I can finally do the rosetta pattern for the Flat White each and every time!!!!  Trust me, this is a huge accomplishment.  I finally have what the motion of the milk flowing from the jug at the time the foam starts feels like.  I have had the texture down for ages, it was just the wiggle that was getting me.

Here is the goal:

From: http://www.ratemyrosetta.com

What this means.

Because I have always been good at making the milk and not the execution tells us that I have always felt rushed and not confident in my coffee making.  Now, because I can consistently make the rosetta, even when it is busy, tells us that I am finally confident and controlled in my coffee making.  This is huge.   It might even mean I like my job.

Since I started at the new store, I have been expected to be one of the expert coffee maker, meaning I am constantly on the machine.  Most of the time I am on the coffee machine my whole shift.  At the Bradford shop I didn't get on the machine much, or they let me get away with not wanting to be on the machine.  Now, I would rather be on the machine than the till.

There are tons of cool pictures on the internet (and youtube has some amazing tutorials), however, at Costa, we are not allowed to use instruments like chocolate, toothpicks or spoons, therefore, I wouldn't be able to do many of the patterns at work.  Now if I had a machine at home...

If you want a complicated explanation of how to make a rosetta go here.

Here is a video