Americano should be listed as Italian. When American GIs ordered their espresso watered the Italian baristas started calling it an Americano
Americano should be listed as Italian. When American GIs ordered their espresso watered the Italian baristas started calling it an Americano
Iâm Italian. This hurts more than you would think (the mistake in the guide).
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It looks like it's just the etymology of the actual word, not the reason that its called whatever it's called. It's interesting, but not really that relevant.
I feel like whenever coffee is discussed on the internet it just ends up like
Person 1: [Thing]
Person 2: "No that's wrong"
Just coffee? I think that's just the internet in general
Oh don't get me wrong, I agree lol. Just seems to have the highest disagreement rate on the internet. Despite how other topics on here get, at least there're at least one person in agreement :P
Haha! I remember that one
Never ever have I seen milk in a Turkish coffee...
Yes this guide is quite wrong for some things. Like frappĂ© for example. I guess the etymology of it being a French word is correct, but thatâs not that useful. The drink pictured is just wrong and doesnât explain where it came from.
No idea where the OP found out their info??
Frappé coffee
FrappĂ© coffee (also Greek frappĂ© or cafĂ© frappĂ© Greek: ÏÏαÏÎÏ, frapĂ©s) is a Greek foam-covered iced coffee drink made from instant coffee (generally, spray-dried Nescafe), water and sugar. Accidentally invented by a Nescafe representative named Dimitris Vakondios in 1957 in the city of Thessaloniki, FrappĂ© is sold primarily in Greece and is among the most popular drinks in Greece and Cyprus, and is available at virtually all Greek cafĂ©s. The word frappĂ© is French and means 'chilled with ice'. The frappĂ© has become a hallmark of post-war outdoor Greek coffee culture.
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I love Italy.
We no speak americano!
Did you know that in Japan most coffee shops call it an Italiano? When I asked why the barista said, "Because it's from Italy?"
I've seen ăąăĄăȘă«ă translated as "weak coffee" and it cracked me up
There was a vending machine near my place that had "American Coffee" and it was basically just coffee with lots of milk and sugar.
That's a Dydo coffee. I have a Dydo vending machine in the bottom floor of my apartment building.
Dgaf what anyone says, American Coffee is delicious, fight me.
Lol, I've yet to find a canned coffee I like so I'll throw down on that topic.
What's next calling French fries, Belgian fries? /s
You mean freedom fries?
Whatâs the difference between an Americano and a Lungo (diluted espresso)?
An Americano is a cup of espresso you poor hot water into after it's done brewing.
A Lungo is like an espresso you brewed a bunch of extra water through. It tastes good instead of gross, but think of it like a Keurig with a 4oz setting and a 12oz setting but the same k-cup size. The last 8oz of water through the k-cup are very diluted, but of course still contain more coffee than straight water.
A lungo or a longer k cup extraction will be way overextracted, though, drawing out bitter and astringent flavor compounds, which is why adding water to the brewed coffee (occasionally called "bypass brewing" when using brew methods other than espresso) will produce a smoother and better-tasting cup than putting more hot water through already spent grounds
It was also a dig at them, because they can't handle full-strength espresso.
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You're going to go there?
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I didn't think so.
Kinda.
And Amerigo de Vespucci was an Italian anyway.
Iâve had an americano exactly once. Such a waste of money and espresso
Cool.
irish coffee
Origin: England
REEEEEEEEEEEEE
I mean it's not called Na hĂireannaigh. It's like Welsh/Cymraeg.
Nah it kind of makes sense that the English word for Irish people comes from Old English
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So was I. I'm confused
That's just saying what modern language the current name is from
I find "streamed milk" and "whiskey" look very similar, so to be safe just always put whiskey in your coffee.
Where's the flat white?
Took me a while to realize that the white doesn't mean anything. I mean when was the last time you saw a cup filled to the brim?
She means the type of coffee called a flat white. But I appreciate your desire to help.
Oh looks like I'm just retarded lmao
Look, I'll bet your comment helped someone out there :)
The colors are too alike and turkish coffee is nothing like what this shows. It's originally brewed with only fine grounds and a tiny amont of water, its serving size is close to an espresso. Sugar is optional and milk is out of the question.
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Yeah the rest are kind of correct but Turkish coffee is very wrong. Especially the milk bit. Was confused.
A lot of the recipes are debatable. People have been making these drinks for so long that regional differences have developed over time. For example, I'll argue all day that a flat white is just a cappuccino.
While you are correct, I stand by my statement. I'm pretty confident no one pours milk into their turkish coffee.
I'm mostly thinking of the milk and espresso drinks. The difference between a lot of them are just proportions and those vary a lot between stores and countries. The use of microfoam for example changes how we talk about recipes and the difference between steamed milk and foamed milk.
I'm Bosnian, and once as a child I asked for milk to add my Turkish coffee. Got my ear chewed off and never made that mistake again.
Flat White and Long Black missing! (NZ&Australia)
Isnât a long black just americano? In honestly donât know the difference
A long black you put the water in first and then the espresso, while an Americano you put the espresso in and then add water.
I'm sure coffee snobs say they are different. đ
Actually is not about the way you put the water, but the amount of water you put into it.
*Long Black = 90 ml of water + coffee shot.
Edit: format
The accepted standard is a double shot of espresso for both and the same amount of water but in a different order as I said. See eg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_black
Actually is not 2 shots, it's called double shot (which is the standard). Also the amount of water differs, since Long Black has an established volume and Americano could be as big as you want. If you want I can edit wikipedia so you can rely on something closer to the right thing.
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We had a chart like this under the cash at the little independent cafe I worked at. Came in very handy. Even after a year it's tough to remember what's called what, even if you can make it blind.
TIL that Vienna is a city in Italy.
It says "the Italian city name" as in the city's name in Italian. Vienna is the Italian (and English) name for the Austrian capital. The German name is Wien.
The now deleted reply from etymologynerd (presumably same person who was the creator of the graphic) suggested that he/she believed Vienna to be a city in Italy.
No I messed that up, which is why I deleted it. This was from how the Italians called the city of Vienna
Then perhaps if you said something along the lines of âthe Italian name for Viennaâ
Oh okay! Well I guess you could still kinda use my explaination if you wanted to ;)
So thats where Vienna sausages come from!
Itâs also I town in a bunch of US states. Thereâs one in Virginia and Texas!
And Illinois, too.
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I am no expert in etymology, Italian geography, or coffee, but I do know that the Viennese, residents of the capital city of Austria, are nuts about coffee. Surely that is the proper attribution?
They absolutely are (source: lived in Wien for a bit) which comes mostly from the Kaffee Haus culture. In Vienna a âViennaâ coffee is called an EinspĂ€nner, named after the traditional Viennese one-horse carriages (you can also get a DoppelspĂ€nner with double the cream and espresso); thereâs also a Fiaker coffee named after a carriage too.
The Viennese coffee is generally considered to be the Melange which is something like a cappuccino.
This guide is kind of interesting but also kind of useless because the etymology of the word doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the coffee. I mean black, really? It's the etymology of essentially random words.
Yeah the title is awful. It should be: Different types of coffees.
This guide is pretty bad. The ingredients should've been next to the pictures, and most of the descriptions have nothing to do with the actual drink.
Thanks for the etymology lesson, though.
Wow I never knew Turkish was a thing, might become my new favorite coffee
I said this in another comment but i'll say it here too. This is very inaccurate, you can find better tutorials on how to brew turkish coffee online.
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Also, no milk
I think that's a consumer preference.
Can sometimes be found at a local hookah cafe or Greek food place.
Turkish coffee is gods gift to caffeine. Get some of that and a dab of rose water ice creme and consider my nut busted.
I don't even like coffee and this guide is so full of shit even I know that and like I said, I don't even like coffee
No flat white?????
One nit-pick, but affogato is typically a smothered gelato, not ice-cream.
How does an Americano and Lungo differ? Seems like they're both diluted espresso...?
An Americano has regular shots with added hot water, ends up diluting it to taste sort of like dark roast brewed coffee.
Lungo (or long shots) are espresso shots that use extra water to pull through the coffee grinds. That means the water spends longer in the grounds, extracting a lot more bitter flavor.
Other than flavor (Americano smooth, lungo bitter), the Americano can have as much volume as you like, while lungo shots are usually about 2-3x the volume of a regular shot.
Thanks.
Ristretto is not a concentrated espresso, it's a less extracted shot of espresso, which results in a sweeter and thicker (also shorter) coffee.
This is a little stupid. I'd rather know why they call it Irish coffee then knowing where the word Irish comes from,for example.
Yeah, I donât need to be told that the word âblackâ is an english word but it would be interesting to know why they call it a âblack eyeâ.
"Espresso", when talking about coffee, has nothing to do with the word "esprimere", it just means "quick". Source: I'm Italian
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they all have the same etymology but cannot be conflated. The meaning in the guide is just wrong: historically it got that name because it was done "on the fly" for a customer requesting it, while other forms of coffee like filtered or moka cannot be done so quickly.
Espresso is just the past participal of esprimere, they both come from Latin before that.
And yet despite the title, it shows everything but the etymology of âcoffeeâ.
That's a cool guide
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Or a Mocha Choca Bullshit
An Irish Coffee should be made with heavy cream not whipped cream.
Directions unclear, do I make latte with steamed milk or whiskey?
Guess I'll try both
No mention of piccolo ?
I would be interested in the etymology of it if anyone is on hand to satiate my curiosity. I understand the composition of the coffee is pretty much a latte, but the origin of the name interests me
Piccolo in Italian means small. And it's not a latte.
Piccolo = a shot + some milk foam on top
I know both of those facts suprisngly. Was hoping to know why they just decided it gets called "little" instead of the numerous other small coffees available. You know, something etymological... I guess some answers are painfully underwhelming.
This is useless and unreadable because of the key using all the same colors of brown and not specifying which one is which next to the drink. Very poorly thought out.
These name orgins are ridiculous
Where's my vietnamese coffee
Wheres the egg coffee? such a western list
Take note Starbucks drinkers: thatâs what a macchiato really is
I thought it was 2 parts espresso to 1 part milk, not 1 to 1.
The ratios are up for debate, but itâs certainly not a 32oz caramel drenched sugary bullshit that Starbucks makes
I've had macchiatos at some places where it's almost 1 to 1 like a micro cappuccino and other places where they take a tiny teaspoon of milk foam and float it on top the espresso and that's it.
Very interesting, although the latin nouns are a bit off.
Bulletproof Coffee - is that the one with butter and brain drops or something?
Thanks for this
I don't think the port of Mocha had anything to do with chocolate.
what's the white ingredient at the top of every cup
Disappointment
Missing Cafe Cubano. Whatâs the point if youâre going to skip the best kinds?!
Cappuccino is from cappuccio, not cappucio.
Americano is more likely from the Italian, not Spanish.
Now I want a guide about the "entomology" of coffee
"Named for Amerigo Vespucci"
Is this a joke? This is like a third grade book report on where coffee drink names come from.
Its the etymology of the word, not the reason the drink is named that way, which can seem confusing. Certainly not as helpful as a guide to why the drinks are named that way.
Ohh, I see. Well that certainly is confusing. That doesn't seem very useful as a guide.
Then you have half the shit people buy at Starbucks. Just a cup that is 90% pink. (Sugar)
Former employee, can confirm. Starbucks is functionally an ice cream shop that has an espresso machine that gets used from time to time.
âan espresso machine that gets used from time to time.â Thatâs comedy gold! :)
Cappuccin is from Austria, it's a monk order in Vienna. The italians add the "o" ... to the end.
No cafe su da?
What's the difference between lingo (diluted espresso) and americano?
Over extraction vs extra water
The definition of an affogato seems to be changing in the U.S.
Until recently an affogato was the same as in Italy: A scoop of vanilla (or Fior di Latte) ice cream with a single shot of espresso poured over it, which is nowhere near enough coffee to cover the ice cream. But lately it's been morphing into a whole cup of coffee with the scoop floating in it.
This infographic seems to be on board with the new definition.
Can I get an Irish minus the whipped cream, sugar, and espresso. Actually, can you make that a double while you're at it.
No Magic?
If you were wondering :
A magic is steamed milk poured over a double ristretto and served in a smaller 160ml cup giving it the optimum coffee to milk ratio.
Hard to read with the ingredients to the side and being hard to tell apart, should be listed under each coffee. Sometimes incorrect as well. Shame, much wasted potential.
Ice cream does not go into Irish coffee.
Iâm colorblind and this is completely useless. Not just because of the color issues, itâs also just pretty poorly done.
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Thank you for posting this
What no africano ?
Am I dumb, cause I don't understand the difference between lungo and Americano... diluted espresso vs espresso with water.... is the dilution not water?
Over extraction vs extra water
This would be so much more useful if the colours were labelled directly every time instead of using a legend.
Poorly designed.
This is coffee according to muricans. Where's the Ristretto? I love the USA, but the coffee sucks.
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The colors are hard to tell apart, better to use patterns like the dark spots used for âconcentrated espressoâ
It's like light brown vs other slightly different light brown
As far as I'm concerned Whiskey is used in about half of coffee drinks
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I want you to know that we all love you. But your drinking is destroying the family.
No, /u/jacxy it's your reaction to it!
Why have a key off to the right? Just write the words on the glass or right next to it and it would be so much easier to read.
And is "spices" even used at all?
mastic flavoured turkish coffee is pretty popular but i dont know if that counts as a spice, not heard of much else
Turkish I think
Yeah using just text instead of color and patterns would be a lot easier to read.
Also that "coffee" text logo at the top looks like doodie smears.