Espresso machine owners - latte art?

[LINUS]

Anybody here do it? I never can pour those cool rosettes, but this morning while on hold on the phone I was screwing around & this was the result:

[CorvallisBMW]

nice...

[Jean]

[Bill-B]

lol

[blunttech]

dude dont listen to these fags who are calling you gay. they are probably drinking some vanilla hazelnut decaf soy fag shit. im out of milk but when i return home from the store i will post my latte art. my machine is warming up now

[LINUS]

dude dont listen to these fags who are calling you gay. they are probably drinking some vanilla hazelnut decaf soy fag shit. im out of milk but when i return home from the store i will post my latte art. my machine is warming up now

Haha....trust me, being called gay ain't nothing. I remember the slippery slope of espresso machine ownership/upgrade-itis that led me to where I am now. If 7 years ago anyone even told me I would know what a "rosette" was, I'd have called that a real stretch.

But now I find myself trying to pour the damn things, and I just can't get the hang of it.

But if the other guys want to call me a fag, let 'em. I'll still be trying to pour rosettes tomorrow morning.

I still can't get the foan to "push" out to make the "leaves" of the rosette. My results look like I had a epileptic seizure across the cup, then drew a line through the middle.

[Jean]

wasn't calling YOU fag, just the whole latte art thing is fruity that's all ;)

[blunttech]

linus, im too jazzed up to make another latte tonight but i will present you with my artwork tomorrow. what machine do you have?

[LINUS]

Jean - It's cool, you could have really been calling me a fag, and I wouldn't have lost sleep. It's just the intarwebz.

Besides it's not like you called me a 'nerd' (see that other thread?).

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Blunt - I'm so gay (Jean was right & didn't know it) I have both an Isomac Millenium & a ECM Giotto. The Isomac is plumbed to the house, the ECM is backup. Mazzer Mini grinder since that's more important than the machine.
If you aren't on www.coffeegeek.com , don't. You will find justification at some point to spend way too much on a machine hanging out over there.

I'd kill to find a good groove to get a good rosette, probably part of my O/C.
I've never used richer than 2% milk, so maybe that's part of it. I used to drink a lot of breves(doc made me quit = high cholesterol), but that was before deciding to try latte art, so I've never tried with 1/2 & 1/2.

[rThor432]

I made a scorpion

[Maluco]

LOL, for sure .

Expressos and Cappucinos taste good and pack the punch but, art? LOL..

[SandyEggoE30Girl]

You guys are full on coffee geeks! But I wish I had a better machine.:(

A few years ago I thought it would be cool to buy a Miele built in, and I am so not happy with it. Oh well it looks nice in my cabinet, but coffee art? FORGET IT!

[LINUS]

LOL, for sure .

Expressos and Cappucinos taste good and pack the punch but, art? LOL..

So then, what's your take on the BMW art cars?

Art is everywhere in life, and if you don't agree then do not participate any further in my thread.

Call me gay all you want, but the concept of art in anything you do isn't too hard to grasp, save having a simpleminded intellect.

And for the record I'm hetero, not that that makes me better than any gay person.

And your spelling is horrid.

I'll let blunt tell you what flavor dick you should eat, if he choses.

[blunttech]

So then, what's your take on the BMW art cars?

Art is everywhere in life, and if you don't agree then do not participate any further in my thread.

Call me gay all you want, but the concept of art in anything you do isn't too hard to grasp, save having a simpleminded intellect.

And for the record I'm hetero, not that that makes me better than any gay person.

And your spelling is horrid.

I'll let blunt tell you what flavor dick you should eat, if he choses.

i think in this case he should eat a chocolate macadamia nut with a shot of irish creme flavored dick

[FredK]

Expressos

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