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Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Is an Italian latte really with cold milk?

I used to work in coffee in Seattle and around there a latte is also steamed milk. The difference between a latte and a cappuccino is the amount of foam to milk ratio.

Latte is mostly milk with a topping of foam. Cappuccino is half foam half milk (and some people like even more foam in their cappuccinos).

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Rinox@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Those terms are an American invention. As for Italy

Latte = plain old milk. Can be cold or hot, it’s milk

Caffelatte = probably the origin of the American “latte”, literally means coffee and milk, usually made and home with cold or hot milk and moka coffee

Latte macchiato = big cup of frothy milk with a shot of espresso in it

Caffè macchiato = espresso with a shot of milk, can be frothy
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- Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Interesting, thanks for the info! What is moka coffee? Mocha here means a latte with chocolate basically. Sometimes with whipped cream instead of foam.
  
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  - Rinox@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Coffee made with a Moka pot
    
    What you call mocha should actually be called Mocaccino, although it’s more similar to what we call Marocchino in Italy. They’re both derived from the “Bicerin”, a drink typical of Turin.
    
    Marocchino is like a Cappuccino with powdered cocoa (mix the espresso and cocoa before pouring the milk).
    
    Mocaccino is instead made up of three layers, a layer of melted chocolate, then a layer of espresso, then a layer of frothy milk.
    
    Afaik they’re not massively popular in Italy, but here in the north I see Marocchino more often than Mocaccino.
    
    PS: if you want to pronounce them correctly, “chi” and “che” are pronounced “ki” and “ke”, while “ci” and “ce” are pronounced “chi” and “che”.
    
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    Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    It sounds like an American mocha is most similar to the mocaccino, since we mostly use a thick chocolate sauce for the chocolate, not cocoa powder.
    
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- gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Certainly the origin of the American “latte” is the macchiato, because that’s exactly what you receive if you order “a latte” in the US.
  
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kn0wmad1c@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I was just trying to keep things simple, but you’re right

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- Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Oh got it. You got me very intrigued! 😄
  
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