Starting with Italian concentration, debate on the definition of Italian Coffee

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"such a thin cup? That's not the way I drank macchiato somewhere else! "

The guest takes it? Is it a cup of 1 oz espresso with a brown surface and a little white foam floating?

Coffee with milk and coffee

Macchiato, interpreted as contamination, is a kind of espresso. The authentic cafe macchiato is a drop of milk foam on the surface of a unit (single shot) espresso, as if it had been contaminated. There is a drink called latte macchiato, which pours a cup of brown coffee on snow-white milk foam. Although some people think that the mixing of milk and coffee in this drink is more uneven than that of cafe latte, I do not think so. I still remember that when I was an enthusiast, in order to save money, I often asked the barista to separate the Italian concentrate from the milk foam and pour it into the milk after tasting the bottom of the coffee. This effect is exactly latte macchiato.

Another guest asked if they had seen latte macchiato, cafe latte, flat white and cappuccino in other stores. What's the difference?

Whether it is coffee with milk or milk with coffee, our shop is classified as "espresso with milk". The weight of milk and the thickness of milk bubbles may be interpreted differently in different places. Take cafe latte as an example, it is in fact no different from latte macchiato. According to Wikipedia, flat white is a name changed by Australians and is no different from cafe latte in production. Or because of the hot coffee culture in Australia in recent years, it uses "change its name" to highlight its voice. Like espresso, there is a store in Australia that wants to be called short black.

Cappuccino's "one-third rule"

Cappuccino, on the other hand, is probably the most available version of any espresso with milk. Cappuccino, many people would say foam coffee. The word Cappuccino comes from the brown robes worn by medieval monks. According to Espresso Coffee:The Science of Quality, a book by coffee veteran Andrea Illy, the traditional Italian cappuccino is very small: one unit (1 ounce or 30 milliliters) of espresso plus one unit of milk and one unit of foam, known as the "one-third rule" (rule of thirds), adds up to only 90 milliliters. But according to the American Fine Coffee Association, cappuccino is "a cup of www.scaa.org with hot milk and a hat that looks like a capuchin monk." And perform? The judging criteria adopted in the World Barista Competition (World Barista Championship) of espresso coffee are even more vague: a cup of visually correct (visually correct) cappuccino is a coordinated mixture of coffee, milk and foam, and stipulates that the 150ml to 180ml drinks should be served in ceramic cups with handles and round bottoms.