The difference between caramel macchiato and macchiato introduction to the origin and practice of caramel macchiato coffee

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"Hello, two caramel macchiato, hot, medium, thank you!"

Standing in front of me, the girl in a little floral dress said to the Starbucks waiter.

"Why not order lattes and cappuccinos? "I think they taste good," the boy next to him asked, seemingly the girl's boyfriend.

"We just want to drink caramel macchiato," said the little girl.

I stood at the back, witnessed this scene, laughing in my heart, young boys always do not understand the hearts of girls.

The "caramel macchiato" coffee that the girl insisted on drinking, do you know the meaning behind its name?

Caramel macchiato Caramel Macchiato, the name means "sweet mark".

Girls in love are full of fantasies about love, always like to use a few things, some details, to convey love, to express their feelings to each other.

At Starbucks, when a girl wants to order caramel macchiato coffee, she is expressing that she wants these two cups of coffee to witness "our sweet and happy time together".

Stupid!

However, smiling at the boy in my heart, in fact, it was the same with each of us when we were young.

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Macchiato coffee

Speaking of caramel macchiato, let's first talk about macchiato coffee.

Caramel macchiato is just a type of macchiato coffee, which we'll talk about later.

Macchiato coffee, called Macchiato in Italy, is also translated as Macchiato in China, which means "imprint, imprint" in Italian.

It was the Italians who invented macchiato coffee in the first place.

Since the Italian invented the machine that uses high-pressure steam and hot water to extract coffee, Italy has become the birthplace of fancy coffee in the world. Now, the familiar lattes, cappuccinos and American coffee all come from Italy.

Who makes the Italians so smart? the espresso Espresso extracted by this coffee machine completely "extracted" the aroma and richness of the coffee beans, and greatly reduced the caffeine content in the coffee, immediately sweeping the whole Europe.

Then, lazy Italians, who like to enjoy life, grope around and accidentally add milk to the coffee, and one of the products is macchiato coffee.

However, the practice of macchiato coffee is not to add milk directly, to be exact, to add milk foam.

Milk foam, that is, in frozen milk, steam is introduced into the machine (pictured below) to make the milk full of bubbles and become bubbly milk.

In espresso, pour some milk foam to make the coffee float with a thick and delicate layer of milk foam, which not only neutralizes the acidity of the coffee, but also protects the coffee temperature. This is macchiato.

This layer of foam, like the imprint and embellishment on the coffee, is the origin of the name macchiato.

Drink a mouthful of macchiato coffee, in the gradual integration of foam and coffee, you can taste the mellow aroma of Italian coffee, but also appreciate the sweetness of milk, intertwined in the mouth, wonderful.

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"cocktail" coffee

If I asked Mr. Zheng to evaluate macchiato coffee, I would say that it is a kind of "cocktail" coffee.

Once, I had a conversation with a female reporter from the newspaper in a coffee shop.

She drank a latte and I drank macchiato.

When she heard me describe macchiato as "cocktail coffee", she laughed. I said, "more than that, the lattes you drink, and cappuccinos, are all cocktail coffee."

The female reporter propped up her chin and expressed her confusion.

"you see, they are all mixed, just like cocktails, made up of several base wines, except that they are not shaken to thoroughly mixed like a cocktail party."

"the latte you drink at 1:2:2 is a superposition of one espresso, two milk bubbles and two hot milk."

"macchiato, an espresso, with some milk foam on top."

"as for cappuccinos, espresso, hot milk and milk bubbles each account for 1/3."

"Oh, yes, and mocha, two espresso, two hot chocolates, and one hot milk. Are they acting like cocktails? "

I said to the female reporter.

"unexpectedly, Mr. Zheng knows not only red wine, but also coffee," the female reporter winked with a smile. "but what are the characteristics of their respective tastes?"

"if nothing else, let's just say that you and I drink, macchiato coffee, just a little bit of milk foam, drink more is the strong smell of coffee."

"and the latte, 4/5 of the milk content, is basically like drinking milk. I call it a coffee-flavored milk drink."

"well, you don't have to be so sarcastic!" The female reporter pretended to be angry.

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Caramel macchiato

Macchiato Coffee is famous all over the world, thanks to Starbucks.

In the 1980s, Schultz, who later became the boss of Starbucks, went on a business trip to Italy and came into contact with fancy coffee like lattes and macchiato for the first time. He thought they would be popular in the United States, so he went back and tried to sell them.

At the same time, Starbucks has improved these coffees, adding caramel and skim milk to macchiato coffee, while traditional macchiato coffee only adds a few spoonfuls of milk foam.

As a result, Starbucks' original "caramel macchiato" coffee was born.

Among the many fancy coffee, the method of caramel macchiato is quite different.

Maybe you stand at the counter and watch the way Starbucks waiters make coffee. The method of caramel macchiato is different from that of latte and cappuccino, and it is also different from that of "its mother" macchiato.

It is first in the cup, drop vanilla syrup, then pour in hot milk, then pour in espresso, then add hot milk foam, and finally, use caramel sauce to draw pictures on the milk foam.

Perhaps, if you are careful, you will also find that the caramel macchiato of Starbucks has three horizontal and four vertical circles, just like waffle.

This is to ensure that no matter where you import, you can drink caramel sweet, so as to avoid the bitter taste of coffee oil mixed with milk foam.

At Starbucks, caramel macchiato is divided into hot drinks and cold drinks.

Hot caramel macchiato, it is best to drink directly, do not stir, so that you can drink all levels of flavor, caramel, coffee, milk, imported in turn, three or four unique flavors, mixed in the mouth, full of unexpected surprises.

However, it also retains the tradition of the Macchiato family, and the coffee is much stronger than other fancy coffees.

Cold caramel macchiato, you can try to suck it with a straw, it's more interesting.

You can most directly feel the obvious "ups and downs", from the sweetness of syrup to the purity of milk, to the bitterness of coffee, the softness of milk foam, and finally back to the sweetness of caramel sauce, you will sigh that all kinds of things in the world gather in a cup of caramel macchiato.

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The strange Macchiato.

Some ideas are confusing and confusing.

For example, lattes combine with macchiato to produce latte macchiato Latte Macchiato, a new breed of Starbucks coffee.

It is said that the milk is beaten into foam and then poured into espresso. This practice is exactly the opposite of traditional macchiato coffee, where milk becomes dominant, and coffee is more like a mark or mark on milk.

Compared with the latte, the latte macchiato has a stronger sense of hierarchy, with milk, coffee, milk and coffee alternating with more milk bubbles and a stronger milk flavor.

However, the combination of latte and macchiato always makes people feel awkward, as if some people say a word with a few English words in the middle.

As for, there are any black tea macchiato, spring macchiato of the four seasons.

This is like macchiato coffee, it can't be hit by half a pole!

It is a new tea drink created by a milk tea shop, which adds all kinds of tea leaves and cream together to make it look like macchiato coffee, so it is named after macchiato.

However, I seriously doubt whether there will be wine macchiato drinks in the future.

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