How many ways to make American coffee? What is American coffee and shot? Long Black means

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American coffee _ what is American coffee

American coffee is easy to say, but hard to say! It's just espresso with water, iced American coffee with ice water, hot American hot water--

however! There are two ways to subdivide it: add water first or add water later.

The two different production methods are:

Americano and Long Black

One is to add water first and then Espresso--Americano.

One is to add Espresso first and then water-Long Black

They all have the same ratio of coffee to water (1). Is there any difference in flavor? Yes, there are different reasons why the two methods have different degrees of retention of grease (crema) on the surface of Espresso.

Americano: the aroma is weak and not obvious, the bitter taste is heavy, and the flavor change is not obvious after cooling.

Long Black: the aroma is strong and rich, the bitter taste is weak, and the flavor is light after cooling.

Is Flat White really just a cappuccino with thin foam or a latte with less milk?

Allusion: Flat White literally translated as plain white coffee, also known as "fresh milk espresso", Chinese Starbucks named "fragrant white coffee", derived from fancy coffee from New Zealand and Australia. It is said that during World War II, Italians emigrated to New Zealand and Australia and brought coffee culture to the region, which gave rise to Flat White coffee in the 1980s. To this day, the people of the two countries are still debating who is the birthplace of Flat White.

Features: the proportion of coffee and milk in Flat White is similar to that of Cappuccino, but the fineness of the upper layer is similar to that of latte and less foam, and the taste is between latte and cappuccino, but after it is spread to different countries, the practice is slightly different.

I wonder if you have noticed that in the above introduction to several types of fancy coffee, only the word Ristretto appears in Flat White, so what's the difference between Ristretto and Espresso?

Italian translator:

[ristretto]: adjective, the original meaning is narrow, the extended meaning is thick and condensed. Stretto is an adjective with a tight, narrow meaning; ri is a prefix for repetition. Together, it's twice as tight, so it's more concentrated.

[espresso]: adjective, the original meaning is fast; the root has the meaning of pressing and pressing.

[lungo]: adjective, meaning long, extended means light, thin.

In other words, Ristretto is an Espresso made with half the normal ratio of powder to water, the only difference is the degree of grinding of coffee powder. Since coffee extraction is first strong and then light, the flavor of Ristretto is stronger than that of Espresso per unit time. [lungo] the opposite is true.

In fact, the use of Ristretto to make Flat White is due to the improvement of Starbucks, which is not exquisite in other cafes, including the Flat White produced in local cafes in Australia, which only uses Espresso as the base, the ratio of coffee to milk is close to cappuccino, and milk foam is much thinner than latte (some even have none), usually below 5mm, so there is no complex pattern.

Finally, I feel that I have answered a lot of rookie questions at once, but in the end, the editor still has to nag that different regions and different cultures will have different coffee recipes. Don't copy mechanically and don't understand when ordering in a cafe. You still have to ask the barista, if you don't understand when learning to make fancy coffee, ask the master more. Don't talk about the banner of the editor! Don't think that what the editor said must be right, and it must be applicable everywhere.

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