Milk coffee
Cortado
Spanish for "cut": a double shot cut with about the same amount of warm milk and almost no foam.
How it's made
- Start with a hot cup.
- Pour in the doppio: 58 ml.
- Pour in the steamed milk: 58 ml.
Its proportions
What makes it this drink and not its neighbour on the menu. The café in Cuppology judges every one by these.
- Shot: espresso or ristretto
- Coffee 30–90 ml
- Milk 35–80 ml
- Milk per coffee 0.5–2.2×
- Foam under 8 mm
- Milk 40–75 °C
More milk coffee
- Macchiato: "Stained" espresso: a shot with a spoonful of foam.
- Piccolo: A single ristretto topped with silky milk in a small glass.
- Flat white: Less milk and a thinner layer of foam than a latte.
- Latte: The milkiest of the three: lots of steamed milk and about a centimetre of foam, often served in a glass.
- Cappuccino: A thick cap of airy foam over less liquid milk.
- Magic: A Melbourne favourite: a double ristretto with silky milk in a small cup.
- Vanilla latte: With a pump of vanilla syrup. The milkiest of the three: lots of steamed milk and about a centimetre of foam, often served in a glass.
- Caramel latte: With a pump of caramel syrup. The milkiest of the three: lots of steamed milk and about a centimetre of foam, often served in a glass.
- Hazelnut latte: With a pump of hazelnut syrup. The milkiest of the three: lots of steamed milk and about a centimetre of foam, often served in a glass.
- Vanilla flat white: With a pump of vanilla syrup. Less milk and a thinner layer of foam than a latte.
- Caramel flat white: With a pump of caramel syrup. Less milk and a thinner layer of foam than a latte.
- Mocha: A latte with a pump of chocolate sauce added before the milk goes in.
- Caramel macchiato: Vanilla syrup and milk first, then the shot poured through on top — the reverse of most milk drinks.
- Long macchiato: A double shot marked with a spoonful of foam.
- Latte macchiato: "Stained milk": steamed milk first, then the shot poured slowly through the foam so it settles in layers.
- Marocchino: An Italian café drink: a shot of espresso, chocolate and a cap of milk foam in a small glass.
- Spanish latte: A latte sweetened with condensed milk instead of sugar or syrup: the condensed milk in the bottom, the shot, then steamed milk.