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[โ€“] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Are you suggesting it's not espresso since the stick doesn't stand up on its own?

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

still don't know what op is trying to espresso here

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well put you're thinking cappuccino on @ figure it out.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I Ihink it's more that you can continue to see the stick well below the submersion point. No espresso I've ever seen is thick enough to make a stirrer stand up, turkish is the thickest ive encountered and it wouldn't be able to, but I wouldn't consider something that looks as weak as this image espresso either. This is what fairly weak coffee looks like.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It stands on its own in this one:

You can measure the thickness of the crema:

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Holy shit my sides

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

And here I thought it's soy sauce.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

It's called Expresso when it looks like that

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The place I got it from has bags of coffee on the floor and all that. Sells espresso machines. Very performative.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Espresso means "no creamer," right?

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nah, it just means they serve it to you really fast.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No no, that's Expresso. Easy to get those mixed up.

[โ€“] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Easy to do because that's how it's pronounced.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'm dying. ๐Ÿคฃ

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I suspect this was made by mixing "espresso syrup" and hot water.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It actually came out of an espresso machine. A large ass, commercial machine. That's why I was so shocked.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What kind of machine? A good machine will produce a good espresso. Maybe it's a supermarket automatic coffee machine?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it was a 3-head La Cimbali.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a darn good machine. So it must be other factors, maybe the barrista...

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Former barista here, it's definitely the barista.

Though to be fair, the blame is mostly on the shop owner for not emphasizing quality and training the barista well

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Other factors: coarser ground, longer pull, (maybe) unscaled machine...

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I've never had used motor oil but imagine it would taste similarly.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah they've left the dipper in it too.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Grind. Just... grind.... at all....