Pour Score
Pour Score · Questions
Latte art questions, answered
Short answers for home baristas. Each links to the page with the full guide.
What is Pour Score?
Pour Score is a latte art coach app for home baristas. It guides each pour step by step: a path draws across the cup in time with the pour, and your phone shows your jug angle live. It teaches nine patterns, from the monk's head to the swan. It is in early access and for adults (18+).
How do I learn latte art at home?
You need an espresso machine, a milk jug, a cup and a phone you can prop up. Start with milk texture, because a pattern only holds on well-steamed milk. Then practise one pattern at a time, beginning with a monk's head and a heart. Rehearse the hand movement dry first, then pour.
What is the best latte art app?
There is no single best app, because they do different jobs. Some score a photo of your finished cup, and some track your shots. Pour Score coaches the pour as you do it: a path draws across the cup in time and your phone shows the jug angle live. It is in early access.
Should I take a latte art course or use an app?
A course gives you a tutor who can watch you pour and answer back. An app gives you short lessons at your own pace, beside your own machine. Pour Score is the second kind: there are no live classes and no certificate. If you want a qualification or a tutor, choose a course.
How do I practise latte art without wasting milk?
Rehearse the movement dry with an empty jug and cup. Follow a slow pour and mirror it: the rocking for a rosetta, the lift and quick pull-through for a heart. It does not teach milk texture, but it takes the movement out of your head. Rehearse in the evening, pour in the morning.
Why does my latte art heart have a fat line through it?
A fat line through a heart usually means you stayed too close for the pull-through. Slow down just before the cup is full, lift the jug high, then draw one fast line through the middle. Speed is what makes the line thin and straight.
How do I steam milk for latte art?
Two stages. In aeration, the jug tip just breaks the surface in short bursts, early on, to make bubbles too small to see. In incorporation, lift slightly so the tip sits just under the surface and the whirlpool breaks the bubbles down. Judge it by height and sound, not by time or temperature.
How much milk do I need for a flat white or a latte?
Typical starting points are 150 to 180 ml for a flat white, 140 to 160 ml for a cappuccino and 200 to 230 ml for a latte. Adjust to your own cup. A 450 ml jug is the all-rounder, enough for one latte or two smaller drinks.
Which latte art pattern should a beginner learn first?
Start with the monk's head, which is a heart without the tail. Everything else is built on a clean one. Then move to the heart. Pour Score teaches nine patterns in a set order, from the monk's head to the swan, so each pattern prepares you for the next.
Practise it with Pour Score
Pour Score draws the path across your cup in time with the pour and shows your jug angle live. Rehearse the movement with an empty jug first, then pour. Join the early access list to try it before launch.
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