That full to the brim mini-shot cup is literally more quantity than a short expresso.
Yes but it also has 3× the caffeine compared to an American large. They’re just efficient
Yeah, no… I’m there all the time. The coffee is the same as far as caffeine goes by type or volume. An espresso is an espresso, an Americano is the same as a normal cup of American coffee. Europe doesn’t have “magic beans” with triple the caffeine, and no sane person is ordering triple-shot European “large” cups to go. I bring home ground or whole coffee all the time, it’s the same.
What Europe does do is put the shot of coffee in a smaller “large” so you can actually taste the coffee and not drown it in as much milk or put sugary crap in it. The American norm is the “dessert” in a giant cup nominally called coffee, which is essentially a flavored milk drink with a dash of coffee. “Why is the coffee so much better here?” is something I hear often enough in Europe, and that’s the answer. Less crap.
🍺 vs 🥃
“Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death and sweet as love”
The coffee machine at work allows you to queue up cappuccinos, so I can fill my mug with a double.
Espresso espresso cappuccino at my office. But no queue, just people giving me side eye as I keep pressing buttons.
Haha, amazing
Pathetic
Culture shock turns into an electric shock when the paramedics try to revive him
Potion of Ventricular Tachycardia (grande)
Here is a medium size from america:
Would you like fries with that? For $1.30 extra you can biggie size it….
Because we have 2x the amount of beans. We dont drink «coffee», we drink ¡coffee!
Does nescafe even count as real coffee?
No. And it’s a crime against coffee and ecology.
Yeah, on this slightly newer table, the US is the 70th highest consumer of coffee per capita. The vast majority of European countries consume more dry coffee.
Espresso takes more coffee per serving than American drip, so comparing dry is going to he misleading.
Same amount of coffee, less water… This is efficiency.
But there’s more caffeine in that than in the gallon jug full of syrup and milk you get in the US.
We probably have as many normal cafes here as we have sugarbomb-starbucks corpo type places, especially in the cities. They’ll serve you a 12oz or 16oz black coffee and you add what you want into it at a self service counter. I usually add a splash of oat milk.
Cold brew with a little oat milk is great
Europeans don’t like taste that’s the problem
Stole the spices across the world, made bland food. Sad.
Edit: Europeans mad their food isn’t as good as they believed. Raided the world and came up short, not my problem.
What
That’s a lot of generalization for a whole continent, and how is coffee even related to that?
It isn’t. It’s a joke.
People are just so sensitive especially Europeans
Ah yes, espresso, known for its especially bland taste.
Specifically my point
UK is not the whole of Europe though
Oh yes the delicious foods like maggoty cheese, excessively fermented fish, bull testicles and head cheese.
Delicious
Don’t forget the salted licorice!
I actually kind of like the salted licorice…
Americans: how many gallons of milk do you want me to put this burnt filter coffee in?
Starbucks coffee is actually espresso-based, if you order drip coffee in a Starbucks it won’t have a gallon of milk in it. They just both taste burned because of the heavily roasted beans.
Starbucks regular coffee is drip, not espresso.
I’d argue that Starbuck’s drip coffee isn’t really their main/default/standard product. Most people who choose Starbucks over other options are going for the “bucket of milk with a little espresso” drinks, their drip coffee is more of a “I want to stay in this café for a while and spend as little money as possible” option.
I’ve not been to the States, but is drip coffee likely to get over-extracted (which is what we tend to describe as “burnt”)? I would have thought that it would be stale from sitting on the hot plate, and flat if the water’s from a reservoir, but probably under-extracted unless the water’s too hot to start.
Burnt in this case would be leaving it on the hot plate for too long methinks
As another commenter says, it’s their custom of making drip coffee and then leaving it on a hot plate to denature all flavour remaining after the aromatics have been cooked off
Listen. I am a coffee snob. I have friends who send me unique coffees from their travels, coffees that have light roasts and mangosteen flavor notes. I am adept at using a Hario pour-over, with a scale, and beans that I grind myself every morning. I know how to tweak my pours to change the flavor and body of my coffee, depending on the roast and bean. With all of that being said, I still have, deep in my heart, a love for that stale, black charcoal water that’s been sitting on a hot plate since time immemorial, poured into a scratchy ceramic mug and slid over to me with minimal effort and even an air of contempt by a woman who smells of Virginia Slim cigarettes and calls me “hon’” when impatiently asking me for my order. Nothing pairs better with crispy corned beef hash and runny eggs. Nothing.
I love the romance of that scene, and I do enjoy an American dinner, but I’m sorry that coffee is just dreadful
Partly over extraction, but mainly all of the “common” coffee here are medium dark or dark roast adjacent blends, which tends towards those maltier, burnt flavors and tends to be “smoother” when mixed with creme and sugar than more fruity light roasts.
There are plenty of light and medium roasts everywhere, but if you dont specify, you will get a darker roast.
At least we make real coffee instead of tea with coffee flavor
What’s “real coffee”
Coffee is made from ground up coffee beans steeped in water.
Do you just eat the beans?
Is this the European health secret?
“Americano” got its name from US soldiers coming to France during World War 2. They didn’t like our coffee, it was too strong for them. So the French added water and named it “Americano” to mock Americans.
Ehhh, the French mocking people is hardly something to stand on as an argument. Other things the French will mock people for:
- pronouncing bread names wrong
- attempting to pronounce bread names correctly
- liking the Eiffel Tower
- not liking the Eiffel Tower
- speaking French
- not speaking French
An Americano is also not just coffee, it is espresso. This is like saying someone can’t handle their liquor because they ask for a cocktail they can sip on instead of straight shots of vodka. I do like shots of espresso as a pick me up sometimes, but other times I want something I can sip on whilst talking with a friend or working. Much like how sometimes I will slam back whiskey like it’s water, or make a nice cocktail if I’m taking it easy and want to enjoy myself.
FYI espresso is normal coffee.
It absolutely is not.
Coffee is brewed in ratios of beans:water that varies depending on the style being made. An espresso in Europe should be more or less the same size as an espresso in the states. Same for pour over, cold brew, lattes, etc
America:
