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What style coffee do you prefer? How often do you drink it?
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I love a good cappuccino. Mostly from home because most places get the ratio wrong add add way to much milk. I upgraded my machine to a Bezzera Duo MN and the foam that thing can make is amazing.
To be clear: the places that get it wrong aren't aiming it to make it more of a latte are they? The USA tends to do odd things, like make sushi sweet, or Italian foods sweet, or Chinese foods sweet - basically add a bunch of sugar to literally everything - and I wonder if even for that Italian-style drink if they tried to "Americanize" it?
It should be 1/3 each espresso, milk, and foam. Most places do 1.5 oz shot of espresso and then just fill an 8 oz cup with foamed milk in whatever ratio they made. So way to much milk.
Sushi should be a bit sweet. It literally means sour and is traditionally made with sweetened vinegar. Usually a 4:3 ratio of vinegerâ‹®sugar.
I've always heard that "overly sweet" (so, a higher degree of such than merely "sweetened") sushi is the mark of a non-authentic restaurant, probably in an attempt to cater to a more Americanized audience. And similarly for Chinese foods as well.
I don't know why all the milk though - possibly it's cheaper and they are trying to skim some profits for themselves.