What coffee do you have?

When it comes to lattes I must be missing a trick, they just taste like hot milk to me.

I have purchased them from Costa and Starbucks and I just don’t get the coffee feel.
 
Starbucks - Caramel macchiato.
Work - I avoid the commercial Pod machine they have installed in the kitchen (which is free) and go for a douwe egberts instant.
Home Filter/Stovetop : Taylors hot Lava Java with frothed milk. if i can be bothered. otherwise more douwe egberts... it was a very large Jar I bought!)
 
When it comes to lattes I must be missing a trick, they just taste like hot milk to me.

I have purchased them from Costa and Starbucks and I just don’t get the coffee feel.
They are. That's why I prefer a flat white. Double shot of coffee, smaller cup so 20% coffee to 80% milk. A latte is about 5% coffee.
 
Rountons Daybreak at the moment. 18g in, 40 out made in to a Americano. Since I got a proper espresso machine at home I realised that the high street chain coffee is quite frankly awful

You do need to be prepared to go on a learning journey though
 
Starbucks Aged Sumatra Espresso.
Or a flat white.

Starbucks coffee is roasted a lot darker than any of the other major brands. The French Roast is close to charcoal
 
Isn’t a cortado with steamed milk? I do lots of cycling in northern Spain down to the basque region and I am sure that they use warm / steamed milk .

Edit. Probably variations of the same drink
In the Canaries it’s espresso with a shot of milk, it might be hot milk.

My personal coffee choice in the UK is espresso (always two, one’s not enough) or americano with hot milk. In Lanza it’s espresso (two again) cafe con letche (never fantastic) or a Cortado.
More than two espresso’s and I start shaking like a shïttïng dog 😂
 
Isn’t a cortado with steamed milk? I do lots of cycling in northern Spain down to the basque region and I am sure that they use warm / steamed milk .

Edit. Probably variations of the same drink
There are lots of very similar drinks that different countries and regions have. Some of the names are different for the same thing and others are the same name for different things.

A cortado is sometimes a small latte, sometimes just a splash of milk, a macchiato in Italy is similar.

The UK, America and Australia sell all these things in various establishments and the names can vary in all of them.
 
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