It is a coffee made with the big machine I mentioned above.Ĭontrary to the coffee made at home on the stove, with the so called moka machine, this machine can make a good coffee instantly. Contrary to a hot cup of tea, where you can wait for it to become colder, here when the hot goes away also the foam does, so what you drink is not a cappuccino anymore.Įspresso means express, as you might guess. Hot temperature is necessary to produce the foam, but a too hot cappuccino will hurt your tongue. Anyway nowadays they are selling cut down versions of the bar machine, which can produce bar-like cappuccinos (and coffee) even at home. Because of the high pressure involved it is normally not possible to produce a cappuccino at home, at least not using a standard stove. The steam is produced from a pump part of quite a large coffee machine, which is the standard equipment of any Italian bar. When travelling abroad, I see this as a standard feature, but here it is on request. Apart from the taste, the powder filling the foam pore gives a pleasant look to the drink. You might ask to add also some chocolate powder. It is a milk-and-coffee drink with a peculiar topping: a milk foam obtained with steam. I am answering here as it applies to Italy, elsewhere it can be different.Ĭappuccino in Italian means little cappuccio, which in turn means little cap. It gets more involved than this but I'll let others answer those questions.
In a cappuccino the frothed microfoam is poured over the espresso. Whatever microfoam might have been created while heating the milk is then poured over the top. In a latte the heated milk and espresso are poured together into a serving cup. (If you've ever heated or foamed milk you'll have noticed how the milk changes state as it's being heated.)įinally the way the milk and espresso are combined is different. In a cappuccino the milk is frothed (converted into a microfoam) to about double it's original volume.
In a latte the milk is heated as opposed to being frothed. A cappuccino is 1-1 milk to espresso and the latte is 2-1 milk to espresso.Īnother difference is that the milk is treated differently. There are several differences between a latte and a cappuccino. (Unless you're in a really bad diner in which case you shouldn't be ordering lattes there.) So, what's the difference between a latte and a cappuccino? Are they the same thing? Take a shot of espresso and add steam milk. Take a shot of espresso and add steamed milk It's delicious by itself and some like to add sugar. It's a small-cup of coffee extracted under very high pressure. I'm going to assume that you've had an espresso.
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