Spit in it?

 

when i make soy milk in our new soy milk maker, there are incredible amounts of froth in the cannister when it's finished! i've thought to myself many times that it would be excellent on top of a soy cappucino...but don't have an espresso machine to make one with. (a cappucino is espresso mixed with lots of milk, right?)

 

I assume so, and for some reason I think it has chocolate on it too. I just have black instant myself. But it's one veggie nearer to being vegan even with the capuccino. Wean, damn you wean

 

I make soy cappucinos at work all the time.

The soy milk always foams up REALLY well... never had a problem with it... :shrug:

 

Cappucino: Espresso with milk foam, and maybe a bit of the milk itself

Latte: Espresso with steamed milk (lots) and maybe a bit of foam on top

Mocha: Latte with chocolate

Macchiatto: Espresso with equal parts foam and milk

Americano: Espresso with hot water

Cafe au lait: Drip coffee with steamed milk

every shop has its own variations of these, but in general, this is what you can expect

 

I've passed on the froth comments

 

i dunno but i discovered starbucks carries soymilk, the iced caps are premixed with milk but you can ask for an iced coffee with soymilk and a shot of chocolate flavour, and it's really good.

i never really liked froth anyway lol. at the coffeehouse back home before it shut down i'd always get a sumatran or a mocha milkshake. those things were damn good! i wanna try making them with soy one day. he used to make them with homemade chocolate syrup and a shot of espresso blended with ice cream. heaven.

 

I used to be a Coffee Jerk/Waitress in a little french bistro. I never had a problem with soy foaming. If he/she is making it at HOME that's probably the more likely culprit.

Home machines are harder to froth upon, and soy being of different ilk than milk (good rhyme, huh?), a poor frother might have more bother (ahhhh. another good one.) with soy than milk.

Also, Randy's above assesment of coffee chemistry is correct- 'cept for one thing I am wondering about.

I always was taught that lattes were made, as above, but NEVER with foam.

Cappucinos were the same as lattes, but with more esspresso coffee, less milk (though enough to fill the cup), and froth-

while a Macchiato was the esspresso shot with a dab of froth on top. (little cup)

Cafe au lait here and in France is made exactly as the latte above. (Esspresso and steamed milk) The two terms are interchangeable here.

 

He's going to have another go with the soya milk and let me know what happens...

 

Silk soymilk makes mocha flavor now. It's addictive. I drink about 3 containers a week. I never was much of a coffee drinker. I worked at Starbuck's when they first introduced soy milk, and it's insane how much we sold. Most of them weren't vegans, though.

 

no starbucks does it for the healthnut yuppy types. a lot of them switch to soy just because it's "less fatenning". whatever.

i bought a new soymilk brand (new to me) called Natura... it's really good!! i never tried it because it's in those tetra packs that are kept on shelves rather than in the coolers, and i always prefered buying the cold ones before, but this one was on sale and i didn't want a huge 2 litre thing so i went for it, got the chocolate one. yumm!! i have tomorrow off so if i get frisky and have time amongst cleaning and stuff, i might make a mocha. and those oatmeal cookie things

 

NO STARBUCKS IN OB!!!

 

"it's in those tetra packs that are kept on shelves"

Is there any other sort? Blimey.

No STARBUCKS in Canterbury either! Actually I've never been inside one in my life. Have I missed anything.

 

you've missed paying three pounds for a large cup of strong, but fairly mediocre coffee, teri.

 

Yeah! No Starbucks in OB or Canterbury! YEAHH! (I got your backs!)

Unfortunately Montreal is crawling with them. They even turned the old Anton Wilfer Luthier into one.

Blasphemy.

 

I don't really go there often, but on the occasion I have (usually with other people) I have found it highly sub-par.

For ridiculously over-priced coffee produced in inhumane manners I prefer Java U. There is one near, and in, my school. They are all about soy, and have vegan muffins even.

And I think their Coffee has crack in it. It's good. Oh yeah. Full of crack. I'm pretty sure.

 

actually there is a Starbucks in OB, right on the main drag. the good folks in OB picketed, signed petitions, went to the media, asked starbucks nicely and did everything else they could to keep the bucks out of OB, but Starbucks came in anyway. i still see signs and bumpersticker and hear angry conversations about it a year later.

http://www.activistsandiego.org/aler...wncouncil.html

 

OK, it's official. I made cappuccino with soya milk. I think. It might've been Macchiatto. I nuked some soya then whizzed it with a Braun handheld and got 30% froth. I think this is probably the first coffee with soya milk I ever had!

I've got a stinking cold and it was very comforting. I could go right back to sleep this minute..........zzzzzzzzzzzz

 

soy milk froths! cept i do mine cheaply with a hand whiz...no glam cappacino machiene for me lol.

 

excellent teri

i never have any problems with frothing soy milk either.

my room mate has one of those small whizzers and i put some soymilk into the saucepan, heat it slowly and whizz it at the same time. nice and frothy

mmmm mmmm

 

Alrighty...as for the descriptions here's what I've learned..

Machiatto- means litteraly 'marked with froth'. No milk involved, other then the froth which could essentially be made soy.

A capp is third espresso, third milk, and the rest froth. Should be lighter then the others.

Iced Capps do not exist. It is impossible to ice hot froth. Only way to make this drink is as an iced latte. '

Starbucks is evil, their beans are over roasted and the new machines are made so a monkey can do the job, no training etc needed anymore.

Also learned any coffee drink can be made soy. Star*ucks also carries organic milks now but IMO too little to late, same as McDeath.

oh and cafe au lait ( coffee and steamed milk ) is generally what it says. Brewed drip coffee, not espresso. Espresso and steamed milk would be a latte?