Latte vs Microfoam - What's the difference?
latte | microfoam |
A drink of coffee made from espresso and steamed milk, generally topped with foam.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A similar drink, where the espresso is replaced with some other flavoring ingredient such as chai, or matcha (green tea).
A pillar capped by a hemispherical stone capital with the flat side facing up, used as building supports by the ancient Chamorro people and now used as a sign of Chamorro identity.
Foam consisting of very small bubbles, specifically as an element in the steamed milk used to make certain types of latte coffee.
*2009 , Roseane Santos, An Unashamed Defence of Coffee , p. 188:
*:When a barista steams the milk for a cappuccino , microfoam is created by introducing very tiny bubbles of air into the milk, giving the milk a velvety texture and sweetness.
As nouns the difference between latte and microfoam
is that latte is a drink of coffee made from espresso and steamed milk, generally topped with foam while microfoam is foam consisting of very small bubbles, specifically as an element in the steamed milk used to make certain types of latte coffee.latte
English
(wikipedia latte)Etymology 1
Abbreviation of , from Latin lac'', ''lactis .Alternative forms
* (nonstandard)Noun
(en noun)T time, passage=Yet in “Through a Latte , Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.}}