Starbucks caramel macchiato, do you know the meaning of its name?

"Hello, two caramel macchiatos, hot drinks and medium cups, thank you!"

The girl standing in front of me, wearing a little floral skirt, said to the waiter at Starbucks.

"Why don't you order a latte and a cappuccino? I think they are delicious, "the boy next to me asked, looking like a girl's boyfriend. "

"We just want to drink caramel macchiato," the little girl pursed her lips.

I stood in the back and witnessed this scene, laughing internally. Young boys always don't understand girls' hearts.

The girl insisted on drinking caramel macchiato coffee. Do you know the meaning behind its name?

Caramel macchiato, caramel macchiato, the name means "sweet mark".

Girls in love are full of illusions about love, and always like to use some small things and details to convey their love and express their good feelings for each other.

In Starbucks, the girl wants to order caramel caramel macchiato, which means she wants these two cups of coffee to witness "our sweet time together"!

Stupid!

However, the boy with a smile in his heart, in fact, when each of us was young, it was like this!

Speaking of caramel macchiato, let's start with caramel macchiato.

Caramel macchiato is just a kind of caramel macchiato, which I will talk about later.

Caramel Macchiato, known as Macchiato in Italy, has also been translated into Macchiato in China. In Italian, it means "imprint, brand".

It was the Italians who first invented caramel macchiato.

Italy has been the birthplace of fancy coffee in the world since the Italians invented the machine for extracting coffee with high-pressure steam and hot water.

Now, the latte, cappuccino and American coffee we are familiar with all originated from Italian coffee.

(espresso, please see this article "latte, mocha, cappuccino, all" espresso "! 》)

Who makes Italians so smart!

Espresso, the espresso extracted by this coffee machine, completely "extracted" the aroma and richness of coffee beans, greatly reduced the caffeine content in coffee, and immediately became popular throughout Europe.

Then, lazy Italians, who like to enjoy life and fiddle with their work, accidentally add milk to their coffee, and a big "by-product" is caramel macchiato.

However, caramel macchiato's method is not to add milk directly, but to be precise, to add milk foam.

Milk bubble refers to the introduction of steam into chilled milk by a machine (as shown below), so that the milk is full of bubbles and becomes foamed milk.

In espresso, some milk bubbles are poured to make the coffee float. A thick layer of milk bubbles not only neutralizes the acidity of the coffee, but also protects the temperature of the coffee. This is caramel macchiato.

This layer of milk foam, like the imprint and embellishment on coffee, is the origin of caramel macchiato's name.

Of course, for romantic lovers, this layer of "imprint and embellishment" is transformed into "commemoration of their happy time"

So, that's why a girl with a literary head wants caramel caramel macchiato.

If I were to judge caramel macchiato, I would say it is a kind of "cocktail" coffee.

Once, I chatted with a female reporter of Zhejiang Daily in a coffee shop.

She had a latte and I had a macchiato.

When I commented that Macchiato was "cocktail coffee", she scoffed.

I said, "Not only that, your latte and cappuccino are both cocktail coffee."

The female reporter shook her head with her chin propped up, expressing incomprehension.

"You see, they are all mixed, just like cocktails, which are made of several base wines, but they are not like cocktails that are shaken until they are completely mixed."

"The latte you drink, 1: 2: 2, a cup of espresso, two milk bubbles and two hot milk, are stacked together."

"Caramel macchiato, an espresso with some milk foam on it."

"As for cappuccino, espresso, hot milk and milk foam each account for one third."

"Oh, yes, and mocha, two cups of espresso, two cups of hot chocolate and a cup of hot milk. Are their practices very similar to cocktails? "

"Unexpectedly, Zheng Xiaotu not only knows red wine, but also coffee." The female reporter looked at me and asked, "But what are the characteristics of their respective tastes?"

"If nothing else, just say it was you and me, caramel macchiato, just put a little milk foam, drank too much, and the coffee was very strong."

"Latte, with four-fifths of milk, is basically like drinking milk. I call it a coffee-flavored milk drink. "

"Ha ha, Zheng otter, you are so funny, don't be so sarcastic." The female reporter clapped her hands and laughed.

Caramel Macchiato is famous all over the world, thanks to Starbucks.

In the 1980s, Schultz, who later became the owner of Starbucks, went to Italy on business.

In Italy, he first came into contact with fancy coffee such as latte and macchiato, thinking that it would be popular in the United States, so he went back to try to sell it.

However, Starbucks has also improved these coffees.

They add caramel and skim milk to caramel macchiato, while traditional caramel macchiato only adds a few spoonfuls of milk foam.

Thus, Starbucks' original "caramel macchiato" coffee was born.

Among many Italian fancy coffees, caramel macchiato is quite different.

Perhaps, when you stand in front of the counter, you will also see the Starbucks waiter making coffee.

The production method of caramel macchiato is different from latte and cappuccino, and it is also different from its "mother" macchiato.

Is to drop vanilla syrup into a cup, then pour hot milk foam, then pour espresso, and finally, draw a picture on the milk foam with caramel sauce.

If you are as careful as I am, you will also find Starbucks caramel macchiato, which has three horizontal, four vertical and two circles, just like waffles.

This is Starbucks to ensure that you can drink caramel sweet wherever you go.

At the same time, avoid the bitter taste of coffee oil mixed with milk foam.

In Starbucks, caramel macchiato is divided into hot drinks and cold drinks.

Hot caramel macchiato, it is best to drink it directly without stirring.

In this way, you can drink all kinds of flavors, caramel, coffee, milk, and three or four unique flavors, and there will be unexpected surprises.

But it also retains the tradition of "Macchiato family", and the flavor of coffee is much stronger than other fancy coffees.

Cold caramel macchiato, you can try to suck it through a straw, which is more interesting.

What you can feel most directly is the obvious "ups and downs".

From the sweetness of syrup to the purity of milk, to the bitterness of coffee, to the softness of milk, and finally to the sweetness of caramel sauce.

You will sigh that all kinds of life are gathered in a cup of caramel caramel macchiato.

Some ideas are incomprehensible and confusing.

For example, the combination of latte and macchiato produced latte macchiato, which is a new coffee variety of Starbucks.

It is said that milk is foamed first, and then espresso is poured in.

This is the opposite of caramel macchiato, where milk is dominant and coffee is more like a mark and trace on milk.

Compared with latte, latte macchiato has a stronger sense of hierarchy, with milk, coffee, milk and coffee alternating in pairs. At the same time, there are more milk bubbles and more rich milk flavor.

However, the combination of latte and macchiato always makes people feel uncomfortable. Just like when some young people come back from studying abroad, as soon as they speak, they pop up a few English words.

As for, what else? Black tea macchiato and four seasons spring macchiato.

This has nothing to do with caramel macchiato!

It is the tea drink that the tea shop "plays gimmicks"!

Add all kinds of tea and cream together and it looks like caramel macchiato. Then in order to attract people's attention, it was named "Macchiato".

Actually, Zheng Aote, I seriously doubt that there will be red wine Macchiato in the future.