What is espresso? What are the common espresso with milk? The difference between them

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Espresso (Espresso) is a type of coffee with a strong taste by using hot water at 92 degrees Celsius and 9bar under high pressure to grind it into a very fine coffee powder. It was invented and developed in Italy and began in the early 20th century, but until the mid-1940s, it was a drink made separately through vapor pressure. After the invention and successful commercialization of the Spring Lever (spring piston lever) coffee machine, espresso was transformed into a drink known today.

What are the common espresso?

1 espresso

Italian concentration is the basis of fancy coffee. Generally speaking, espresso is a very small cup, about 30 milliliters, bitter, with a thick layer of coffee oil floating on the surface. In Italian, espresso means "cooked for you", and its process is through rapid extraction in a short period of time.

Cafe Americano

American coffee is actually an Espresso mixed with more than half a cup of boiled water, usually the ratio of water to coffee is 2:1, of course, many cafes now use drip coffee pots.

Latte is a classic combination of Espresso and milk, and the ratio of milk to coffee is generally controlled at 1.5. Some milk bubbles will be added to the top of the coffee, and a good barista can show you a beautiful flower.

Cappuccino is easy to mix with lattes, and the difference between the two is that cappuccino has more bubbles than milk in the ratio of milk to foam.

Mocha Cafe

Mocha is a kind of coffee with a complicated formula, with chocolate sauce and whipped cream in addition to Espresso and milk. The advanced version will also be squeezed with chocolate sauce or sprinkled with cocoa powder, cinnamon powder and so on.

Macchiato added a few spoonfuls of milk foam to the Espresso to match the strong coffee with the delicate milk foam. But Starbucks also has a caramel macchiato, which tastes good.

The collocation of Kangbao blue Espresso and fresh cream is also relatively simple.

White coffee Flat White is actually 1 Espresso and 1. 5 servings of hot milk. But this white coffee is not Malaysian white coffee, which is roasted at a low temperature.