Latte Art Enthusiast Course | Cornwall

I bought an afternoon’s course with Origin for myself and my partners anniversary. We both enjoy our casual coffees at home and wanted to improve our coffee knowledge, with a specific interest in making latte art. And that’s exactly what we achieved today, thanks to Maddie’s help. She was welcoming, knowledgeable and friendly, helping us to understand the skills that go into coffee milk art. We came away with lots to practice but both satisfied that we now have the understanding of the basics to improve on! I would however say the course is quite expensive for what it is; the main reason being that, between 4 people, there was only one “at home” style milk frother to teach us with. They have a Sage machine (which is similar to my home one, and one reason I booked this course as could be reliable to transfer my taught skills to my home coffee machine) but it sat broken in the corner. It would be really helpful to have a working “at home” style coffee machine, as was stated when booking, that actually works because between 4 people, there was a lot of waiting around to get the chance to use the milk frother machine and that let that productivity and learning have to be held up which was a real shame, especially with how much we paid for today. Maddie however did the best she could with the equipment she had and allowed us as much time as possible to practice and was a great instructor. Thank you Maddie!

I’ve not got a coffee machine so this was a great new experience. Informative instructor and plenty of time to try to steam the milk to a micro foam and make some latte art. We practised over and over again and I can say the staff are in no danger of losing their jobs to me as I wasn’t very good at it!! It was interesting though and have to admit I struggled to throw the coffee away each time to try again as the coffee and milk taste so good. Will leave it to the experts and just order their coffee beans for my aeropress!