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[clickdedoo]

i'm getting really good at making wet cappuccinos...although some would argue the foam's what's important in a cap, i donno - for some reason i can't steam it hardcore like my mom can. hm.

found my class of 09 mac lj-community (koko, get your ass there and join, beotch) and now i'm a little more optimistic towards the year. i was a little

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[nananadia]

Okay, this is a ridiculous diagram, but this is what I got.



A latte is steamed milk and espresso with just a little quarter-inch of foam.
Capuccino is half steamed milk and espresso and half foam.
So therefore a wet cap is somewhere in the middle of more than a quarter inch of foam and less than half of it being frothy.

Does this mean you have an espresso machine? I'm very very jealous. I always die of caffeine withdrawl on my days off work.

P.S. This comment wasn't at all supposed to be a "haha, I know everything more than you," but more of an opportunity to tell you what I knew, and display my mad diagram-making skills.

P.P.S. (I really just enjoy making diagrams)

[clickdedoo]

no, actually that's really helpful! yeah, we have an old crunker of a machine - the little wheel for the steem is gone, so you have to do it with a wrench (i love it!).

so yeah, i guess what i make is like a ...wet-cap-latte. the problem is the milk steaming. i can't steam all of it, so i always have milk in there somewhere, which makes my results wetter, so to speak. unless there's no possibleway to steam all the milk, and i'm just crazy....

thanks! and show me how sometime!

[nananadia]

I was just about to suggest that I'd be happy to pass on some of my knowledge...there's a special little technique to doing it. Although if you told anyone I'm sure Tully's would have me killed, they have a policy in which I'm not allowed to talk to anybody about our secret recipes/techniques. Keep it on the low down, eh?