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Mar 10, 2019 15:18:43 GMT
Post by sf on Mar 10, 2019 15:18:43 GMT
I confess I'm also among those who order "An Americano with milk" since plan regular black coffee seems to have been abolished in the modern coffee shops with all their fancy names. "Would you like room for milk in your black coffee?" (I hear this more often than you'd expect. WAY more often.) |
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Mar 10, 2019 15:40:35 GMT
Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2019 15:40:35 GMT
I confess I'm also among those who order "An Americano with milk" since plan regular black coffee seems to have been abolished in the modern coffee shops with all their fancy names. I think they call it filter. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2019 15:46:13 GMT
I confess I'm also among those who order "An Americano with milk" since plan regular black coffee seems to have been abolished in the modern coffee shops with all their fancy names. Cappuccino is, as Emily and Burly say, something different with a lot of froth, Flat White something with less froth but still frothy and Latte has a completely different different milk:coffee ratio than "black coffee with a bit of milk in it". Yes at the risk of outing myself as one of those terrible "baristas" a cappuccino is 1/3 espresso 1/3 milk 1/3 foam. Whereas a 'true' latte should be 1/3 espresso 2/3 milk (but most will stick a bit of foam on top to make it look pretty!) A flat white is pulled differently in terms of espresso shot (shorter, stronger) and the milk foamed more 'densely' (for want of a better word for it). There is a filter coffee option in both Costa and Starbucks now for those in want of an 'ordinary coffee' but I find that isn't strong enough (see above post, it's for the safety of others I do it) |
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Mar 10, 2019 15:49:34 GMT
Post by theglenbucklaird on Mar 10, 2019 15:49:34 GMT
I confess I'm also among those who order "An Americano with milk" since plan regular black coffee seems to have been abolished in the modern coffee shops with all their fancy names. "Would you like room for milk in your black coffee?" (I hear this more often than you'd expect. WAY more often.) I always say yes, even though I drink it black. Living on the edge me |
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Mar 10, 2019 16:36:21 GMT
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Post by shady23 on Mar 10, 2019 16:36:21 GMT
That just means they give you less though?!
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Mar 11, 2019 1:13:29 GMT
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Post by Backdrifter on Mar 11, 2019 1:13:29 GMT
I stopped going in the chain places years ago due to their terrible coffee.
Independents all the way for me. I highly recommend the Milk Bar in the Victorian Market in Inverness if you're ever up this way. (Excellent ice cream too).
My standard order is a long black with hot milk on the side so I can add just one or two teaspoons. I can't recall ever being asked if I want milk. My main issue is usually the size of the cups. Most of the time I have to stop them making it in a giant cup.
One coffee a day is fine for me.
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Mar 11, 2019 8:24:07 GMT
Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2019 8:24:07 GMT
I confess I'm also among those who order "An Americano with milk" since plan regular black coffee seems to have been abolished in the modern coffee shops with all their fancy names. "Would you like room for milk in your black coffee?" (I hear this more often than you'd expect. WAY more often.) Maybe they would just rather put the milk in themselves, because it's easier to order a black coffee with room than to order a white coffee then watch the barista like a hawk to make sure they put in precisely the required amount of milk and not a single drop more. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2019 8:30:53 GMT
"Would you like room for milk in your black coffee?" (I hear this more often than you'd expect. WAY more often.) Maybe they would just rather put the milk in themselves, because it's easier to order a black coffee with room than to order a white coffee then watch the barista like a hawk to make sure they put in precisely the required amount of milk and not a single drop more. Exactly this. I show the coffee some milk and it's better to have it on the side rather than having to yell STOP! at some poor barista to make sure they don't drown it. Also because as pointed out above, 99% of the time you're ordering an 'Americano' or 'Filter coffee' as the product, not a 'black coffee'....and also again a lot of people DO want milk and it's a reflex question to ask for the 100th time that day if someone wants milk with that. As a similar comparison, many purists would argue one doesn't take milk with Earl Grey tea, however a lot of people do so it's easier to just ask... Honestly I don't want to get on my high horse here but there's a LOT of 'oh aren't people who work in coffee shops so dumb' actually no. Firstly all the major chains, and CERTAINLY the indies train in coffee making, coffee origins and all that jazz. Secondly baristas are working for minimum wage dealing with the great unwashed day in day out, sometimes you forgoe 'the correct way' for 'the easiest way' and if 80% of your customers want milk with an Americano, then it's bloody well easier to ask if they all want milk. |
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Mar 11, 2019 12:42:53 GMT
Post by Backdrifter on Mar 11, 2019 12:42:53 GMT
Also, there are probably a lot of customers who put so much milk in their coffee they really do need "room" for it (baffling though it is to me, but each to their own) and the baristas have learned to check for this. Similarly, when ordering a long black - which should be a double shot as standard - the reason I often have to ask for a much smaller cup is that enough customers want their double shot in a big one for the staff to treat this as the normal order. This seems odd to me as it effectively dilutes it back down to a single, but again each to their own and I assume some like a larger amount of a weaker coffee than a shorter stronger one. A few years ago at a really nice Italian cafe in Bermondsey the barista actually said in his experience in the UK the general preference was for weaker coffee (and was actually surprised by my request for a 2-shot in a short cup). Sadly that cafe is now gone.
I suppose I just like coffee to taste of coffee, maverick that I am. Likewise tea (to taste of tea, not coffee) - seeing people drink stuff that looks like very, very slightly off-white milk makes me gag.
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Mar 11, 2019 13:33:53 GMT
Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2019 13:33:53 GMT
The things people do to their hot drink of choice does sometimes make me wonder how much they actually like them. Indeed, the reason I stopped drinking coffee in the first place was because even teenage me could figure out that four large sugars and an inch of milk was probably a really hefty clue that I didn't particularly like the taste of coffee. I also know someone who takes his tea as basically a mug of boiled water that someone dropped a teabag into by mistake but don't worry I'm pretty sure they got it out before it managed to steep at all. I have suggested he may want to try other beverages but apparently he's happy, so I just leave him to it...
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Mar 11, 2019 14:21:59 GMT
Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 11, 2019 14:21:59 GMT
Let’s keep things simple. I’ll have the Double Ristretto Venti Half-Soy Nonfat Decaf Organic Mocha-Choca-YaYa Brownie Iced Vanilla Double-Shot Gingerbread Frappuccino Extra Hot With Foam Whipped Cream Upside Down Double Blended, One Sweet'N Low and One Nutrasweet, and Ice...with Wiiiiiiings.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2019 15:06:22 GMT
Let’s keep things simple. I’ll have the Double Ristretto Venti Half-Soy Nonfat Decaf Organic Mocha-Choca-YaYa Brownie Iced Vanilla Double-Shot Gingerbread Frappuccino Extra Hot With Foam Whipped Cream Upside Down Double Blended, One Sweet'N Low and One Nutrasweet, and Ice...with Wiiiiiiings. Would you like chocolate on that? |
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Mar 11, 2019 15:14:38 GMT
Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2019 15:14:38 GMT
Let’s keep things simple. I’ll have the Double Ristretto Venti Half-Soy Nonfat Decaf Organic Mocha-Choca-YaYa Brownie Iced Vanilla Double-Shot Gingerbread Frappuccino Extra Hot With Foam Whipped Cream Upside Down Double Blended, One Sweet'N Low and One Nutrasweet, and Ice...with Wiiiiiiings. Would you like room for milk?  |
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Mar 11, 2019 16:50:38 GMT
Post by Backdrifter on Mar 11, 2019 16:50:38 GMT
When people order lattes are they asked if they'd like to leave room for some coffee?
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Mar 11, 2019 16:56:12 GMT
Post by Backdrifter on Mar 11, 2019 16:56:12 GMT
even teenage me could figure out that four large sugars and an inch of milk was probably a really hefty clue that I didn't particularly like the taste of coffee. Hahaha! Did you just carry on drinking hot milk and sugar after that?! I also know someone who takes his tea as basically a mug of boiled water that someone dropped a teabag into by mistake but don't worry I'm pretty sure they got it out before it managed to steep at all. I have suggested he may want to try other beverages but apparently he's happy, so I just leave him to it... That's the tea equivalent of those stories about people who make a martini by measuring out the gin then opening a bottle of vermouth across the other side of the room. I know people who might just as well pour out the hot water then hold it next to a photo of a tea bag. |
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Mar 17, 2019 15:34:37 GMT
Post by Tibidabo on Mar 17, 2019 15:34:37 GMT
After spending half the morning on the phone to Nespresso in an effort to get my coffee to land in my cup instead of in the drip tray that languishes within the bowels of my machine, they are coming to take it away for fixing on Wednesday. And lending me one in the meantime. How considerate. Cannot fault the service.
However, a warning to anyone in my path tomorrow and Tuesday, when I shall have to make do with (it even hurts to type the word...) instant....😡🤮
DO.
NOT.🔪
MESS.😱
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Mar 17, 2019 15:41:44 GMT
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Post by Backdrifter on Mar 17, 2019 15:41:44 GMT
After spending half the morning on the phone to Nespresso in an effort to get my coffee to land in my cup instead of in the drip tray that languishes within the bowels of my machine, they are coming to take it away for fixing on Wednesday. And lending me one in the meantime. How considerate. Cannot fault the service. However, a warning to anyone in my path tomorrow and Tuesday, when I shall have to make do with (it even hurts to type the word...) instant....😡🤮 DO. NOT.🔪MESS.😱Well, you'd already been making do with Nespresso. |
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Post by TallPaul on Mar 18, 2019 15:26:08 GMT
For his sake, I hope Mr Tibs is away at a conference this week.
I have to admit I know next to nothing about Nespresso, but isn't it just instant coffee in liquid form, like Camp coffee, but in an overpriced capsule?
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Post by anita on Mar 18, 2019 15:30:48 GMT
I'm happy with instant. I don't know what any of these fancy names mean.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 18, 2019 15:36:11 GMT
For his sake, I hope Mr Tibs is away at a conference this week. I have to admit I know next to nothing about Nespresso, but isn't it just instant coffee in liquid form, like Camp coffee, but in an overpriced capsule? I think you will find that it is the very FINEST ground coffee that 39p can buy. Rich with the lifeforce of the bean and with a distinctive crema that only a true connoisseur can appreciate. “Camp” may describe the hot drink selection round at yours but me and tibs have higher aspirations 😑. I thank you. |
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Post by sf on Mar 18, 2019 16:07:05 GMT
For his sake, I hope Mr Tibs is away at a conference this week. I have to admit I know next to nothing about Nespresso, but isn't it just instant coffee in liquid form, like Camp coffee, but in an overpriced capsule?
Camp coffee has one use, and one use only: it is better than anything else for putting coffee flavour into a coffee cake.
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Mar 18, 2019 16:33:39 GMT
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Post by TallPaul on Mar 18, 2019 16:33:39 GMT
You've changed you, BurlyBeaR. "Lifeforce of the bean" indeed. 🙂 For over 40 years, rain or shine, summer or winter, at 6.30 every morning, before he left for work, pater would boil a pan of milk. He'd pour most of it over his Weetabix, and with the rest he'd make himself a cup of Camp. ☕ |
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Post by Backdrifter on Mar 18, 2019 18:15:32 GMT
For his sake, I hope Mr Tibs is away at a conference this week. I have to admit I know next to nothing about Nespresso, but isn't it just instant coffee in liquid form, like Camp coffee, but in an overpriced capsule? I think you will find that it is the very FINEST ground coffee that 39p can buy. Rich with the lifeforce of the bean and with a distinctive crema that only a true connoisseur can appreciate. “Camp” may describe the hot drink selection round at yours but me and tibs have higher aspirations 😑. I thank you. Nah it's what @tallpaul said. |
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Post by Tibidabo on Mar 20, 2019 15:48:38 GMT
For his sake, I hope Mr Tibs is away at a conference this week. I have to admit I know next to nothing about Nespresso, but isn't it just instant coffee in liquid form, like Camp coffee, but in an overpriced capsule? I think you will find that it is the very FINEST ground coffee that 39p can buy. Rich with the lifeforce of the bean and with a distinctive crema that only a true connoisseur can appreciate. “Camp” may describe the hot drink selection round at yours but me and tibs have higher aspirations 😑. I thank you. Good heavens Burly! Have you swallowed the manual? I like to see how long I can get the sugar to sit on top of the crema before it sinks in. Mmmmm. |
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Mar 20, 2019 22:19:16 GMT
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Post by danb on Mar 20, 2019 22:19:16 GMT
Does anyone else feel horribly guilty chucking another tassimo/nespresso/insertbrandnamehere empty pod in the bin? I only bought my machine on the cheap in January but decent coffee every morning is a real treat. I used to love Gold Blend but they changed it and now it’s undrinkable.
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