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[-] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It stands on its own in this one:

You can measure the thickness of the crema:

[-] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Holy shit my sides

[-] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

And here I thought it's soy sauce.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

It's called Expresso when it looks like that

[-] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Espresso means "no creamer," right?

[-] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I'm dying. 🤣

[-] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago
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[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I think it was a 3-head La Cimbali.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago
[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah they've left the dipper in it too.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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

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