If I ask for a latte, and you give me a coffee with milk, I’m gonna be upset. There’s a big difference between steamed milk and just milk.
Thank you!
Submitted 7 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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hperrin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Zwiebel@feddit.org 7 months ago
If I ask for a latte, and you give me a coffee with milk, I’m gonna be upset. There’s a big difference between milk and coffee with milk
hperrin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You do know that when you steam milk it changes the consistency, right? It’s like the difference between a coke and a completely flat coke.
Landless2029@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I ordered an almond joy latte and went back in asking for another drink cause it was horrible.
Turns out it was a coffee not a drink. I hadn’t had coffee in so long I couldn’t identify the lack of steamed milk. 🫤
Renacles@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Half of this are wrong though
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Excuse me, but I have had a lot of tea and I can confirm that it is not coffee.
ABCDE@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Right, a flat white is definitely not white.
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 7 months ago
A latte is also a white coffee, and most baristas are going to think you want an americano with milk.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s a guide for stupid people written by stupid people. I bet they’ll call you “woke” if you order a cappuccino there.
9point6@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Hmm, I don’t think I’d want to buy coffee from this place
spacecadet@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Was going to say, if my coffee shop doesn’t know the difference between coffee and an espresso, I’m not buying a coffee from them.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Espresso is coffee. And it’s not like they’re making the advertisement for themselves lol
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Exactly … it’s the kind of place with one cheap coffee machine that buys the cheapest ground bulk coffee they can find and probably spike the grounds with a bit of salt to make it palpable for their regular customers who all don’t care about their coffee because they’ve been visiting the same place for over 20 years.
SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
I know everyone is here for the same thing, and we’ve all been correcting this image since it showed up five years ago, but an Americano is not a black coffee.
It is however, coffee that is black, but if I ordered one and got the other, I’d know somethings up.
Also, I really don’t know why people drink americano. To me they just taste like cigarettes, but I’m currently drinking chicory so my opinion is moot.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
By “a black coffee”, do you mean drip/filter coffee? Because a caffe lungo is also a black coffee, for example
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
An Americano isn’t coffee.
It’s a watered down espresso.
The only reason it exists is because Americans visiting Europe would ask for coffee, and many euro coffee shops only had espresso, so they just added hot water to espresso and that was close enough for the tourists.
At least, that was what I heard.
sushibowl@feddit.nl 7 months ago
I’m confused now, because espresso is also coffee? Like, it’s all made from coffee beans. I agree that Americano is espresso with water, but to me that is absolutely a kind of coffee.
oldfart@lemm.ee 7 months ago
For whatever reason, at the time Italian coffee names became so popular 15 or so years ago, coffee became either super intense or a dessert. I’m old and I just want a mild coffee like I used to drink before the fashion, not a super strong one. Call me a lightweight if you want, I don’t take pride in doing stimmulants.
sushibowl@feddit.nl 7 months ago
an Americano is not a black coffee.
It is however, coffee that is black,
Hold on now, I’m not getting this. What meaning could “black coffee” possibly have other than a coffee that is black?
SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
It’s color is black, but it’s not black the type. Cold brew, espresso, and chickory are also blackthe color, but they’re not what you ordered if you wanted black the type.
bitwaba@lemmy.world 7 months ago
As an American living in Europe for over a decade, Americano is the default I have to drink when I’m out unless I go to a hipster coffee shop. The main reason being practically no one does filter coffee, but almost every restaurant has an espresso machine.
And it tastes like cigarettes because even though every restaurant has an espresso machine it doesn’t mean they clean it, and doesn’t mean their staff knows how to use it properly. Water temps too high, too much coffee grounds, over compressed, lowest quality beans. Fucking everywhere. It’s awful.
Rinox@feddit.it 7 months ago
even though every restaurant has an espresso machine it doesn’t mean they clean it, and doesn’t mean their staff knows how to use it properly. Water temps too high, too much coffee grounds, over compressed, lowest quality beans. Fucking everywhere. It’s awful.
And this is why, as an Italian, I can’t drink espresso anywhere in the world. 9/10 is just awful
monogram@feddit.nl 7 months ago
espressocompressed coffeeJusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Coffee^2
remotelove@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Espresso pressed so hard it’s squeezed out of the third dimension?
rsuri@lemmy.world 7 months ago
TeaSoupthanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Leaf broth
Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Coffee is just a bean soup
fushuan@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I prefer the Spanish names.
Americano - half coffee half water Solo - just coffee. Cortado - coffee with a “cut” of milk. Cafe con leche - half coffee half milk Leche manchada - milk “dirtied” with a dash of coffee.
Then expresso and all the other bullshit.
srestegosaurio@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Fr, the amount of times I found myself having to say “just half coffee half milk” because I forgot the fucking dumb nonsensical name…
noxy@yiffit.net 7 months ago
caramalized onionswarm onionshperrin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
tunafishsalmonfishswordfisheelfishoctopusfishchickenfishtigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
red fish, orange fish, stabby fish, long fish, arm fish, feathery not fish
SOB_Van_Owen@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Only know about chicken fish from Tom Waits and John Lurie.
dch82@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
breadflour with waterNo, it’s milled wheat grains with water
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Keep your wheat. Rye is where it’s at.
Landless2029@lemmy.world 7 months ago
For all you coffee snobs hear me this!
Affogato!
Get a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Pour a shot of espresso over it. Heaven!!BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I don’t like coffee but I think this could be the gateway drug.
Landless2029@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You get the warm bitter espresso then the cool sweet vanilla icecream. You need to eat it quick while it melts then drink it when it combines into a coolish sweet coffee thing.
Its fantastic and so simple.
boonhet@lemm.ee 7 months ago
It is. Vanilla ice cream with coffee is delicious.
hperrin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
As a coffee snob, I can confirm, this is heaven.
ICastFist@programming.dev 7 months ago
For anyone that sees espresso and thinks express, as in something fast, it’s actually meant to be pressed, as it’s an Italian term. So that’s hot water that went through pressed coffee powder.
sushibowl@feddit.nl 7 months ago
So that’s hot water that went through pressed coffee powder.
The “pressed” doesn’t refer to the coffee powder but to the water: the water is pressed through the coffee grounds using high pressure (around 9 bars or so).
ICastFist@programming.dev 7 months ago
Ops, my mistake!
berengal@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It also means express in italian. It’s a pun. The reason it was invented was to make coffee brewing faster so coffee breaks wouldn’t take so long.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months ago
Espresso makes me Expresso.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
But an espresso is strong coffee and not neccessarily miniature…
cm0002@lemmy.world 7 months ago
A more apt description would be “Concentrated Coffee” lol
Psythik@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And an Americano is a watered-down espresso. That said, it tastes identical to coffee to me but I don’t drink the shit so…
Astronauticaldb@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Well, it’s supposed to taste like instant coffee as found in WW2 rations for Americans, hence the term.
Threeme2189@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Do you drink double-quad espresso shots or something?
They’re definitely miniature compared to a cappuccino or and americano.
Sylvartas@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This is gonna make a lot of Europeans mad.
Source : am french. I love me some American coffee, but the default here is the espresso. You can also get a “long espresso” which is basically a diluted espresso, and is still not the same as an American (and this is where my coffee knowledge stops, so I’m not sure what the differences are exactly). I also have some Italian family and they would probably disown me if I said that the American is the “default” black coffee
yamanii@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I thought flat white and latte were synonyms and they both meant milky coffee. Now I’m confused, so it’s just the foam?
HeurtisticAlgorithm9@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Flat white is 2 espresso shots and equal parts steamed milk. A Latte is more steamed milk (idk the exact ratio if there is one), most places just fill up whatever latte cup they have which should be bigger than the flat white cup, and has a small amount of head/foam.
g0nz0li0@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Flat white is always made with some milk foam on top, traditionally less than a Latte.
So the difference should be in the ratio of coffee to milk to froth, which is also true of other varieties like cortado.
Eiri@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
If I order an Americano and you serve me a filter black coffee, I swear …
tourist@lemmy.world 7 months ago
caffeine in suppository formass coffeeAnnoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 7 months ago
Espressoconcentrated coffeeSmoogs@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Quality shitpost.
Matombo@feddit.org 7 months ago
That’s just “Other nonsense” e.g. whats wrong with Tea and Hot Chocolate?
sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Shop owner only sells cheap coffee made from instant pulver
duckduckohno@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This is just bacon style marketing.
hOrni@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Flat white, cappuccino, latte and machiatto are the same thing. It’s just coffee with milk.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 7 months ago
But where’s the Cortado?
Meron35@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They forgot to list the Jackson, which is a coffee that starts out Black but turns White
Empricorn@feddit.nl 7 months ago
I will not be ordering a “chalky coffee”.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Americano cafe negro ultra rebajado
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 7 months ago
I think it’s easy to point how this is pretty off in some ways, but if you think of it as being aimed at someone with no coffee knowledge, I think it’s not a bad overview of how that person is likely to experience those types of drinks.
shneancy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
as someone who knows fuck all about coffee i can confirm this is how i see coffee. The one thing i know is that i like milky carmel cappuccinos:3
kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 7 months ago
Here’s a quick tidbit I always have in the back of my mind:
If it’s an Italian name, it’s espresso-based, for example:
Americano - Espresso and water
Latte - Espresso and regular milk
Cappuccino - Espresso and steamed milk
Breve - Espresso and steamed half-and-half
If it’s a French name, it’s coffee-based, for example:
Café - Plain coffee, sometimes called Café Noir Café au Lait - Coffee and regular milk Café Cremé - Coffee and cream (or sometimes half-and-half) Café Americano - Coffee and water, it’s the French version of the Italian style.
What’s the difference between coffee and espresso? Coffee is brewed and steeped. Espresso is created by forcing water through very, very densely-packed coffee grounds using high pressure. Coffee is typically enjoyed in cups and espresso is typically consumed in “shots” because of the strong flavor.
crozilla@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Wow, I thought I was the only person who didn’t know anything about coffee!
JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah, my partner has to explain to me what the difference is between two drinks at least once a month. I just know I like the sweet ones and hazelnut goes good with most of em
fushuan@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I’m sorry but an americano is half coffee half water. It’s not black coffee. Black coffee would be a “solo”.
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 7 months ago
My point is that a non-coffee drinker is going to drink that and think it tastes like black coffee. Their experience of it will be what’s on the sign even if that’s inaccurate.
Also just an FYI, an americano is espresso shots in water, not coffee. Similar to what you’re describing, but a little smoother.