After the warm reception to my Basic guide to making milk drinks on Nespresso (cortado, flat white, cappuccino, latte, latte macchiato) I’m following up with a guide to iced espresso drinks. Your comments are welcome and I’ll edit this with any good suggestions or tips I receive.
Capsules to use
You need a concentrated punch of coffee flavor, which can easily get diluted as we add ice, milk, and syrup. So we use espresso shots (40 ml) for all of these drinks. If the drink is larger or has more dilution, you will likely need to extract more than one pod: use 2, 3, or 4 Original pods depending on the drink and your taste. In Vertuo, you can use the double espresso pods. For the drinks with milk or a lot of dilution, I think the stronger pods are best. For the less diluted drinks, you can really use any pod you like. The iced pods are designed to be chilled and keep some flavor and many people like them but the normal pods work just as well. Experiment to find what you like.
Chilling the espresso
This is the heart of making an iced espresso drink. These techniques will apply to almost all of the recipes below.
Ice cubes. The simplest approach is to fill your glass with ice cubes and extract the espresso(s) over the ice. The ice will melt and water down the espresso. This may be just the flavor you are looking for, in which case this technique works for you. Larger ice cubes melt less (because the center portion continues to cool the drink with less surface melting). Nespresso sells or gives away on promotion silicone ice cube trays with large cubes that work very well. You can also buy silicone ice cube molds online or in stores.
Coffee ice cubes. A way to combat the dilution is to make ice cubes (in the silicone trays) with cooled espresso or coffee. This is a good way to use up pod varieties that you ended up not liking. Then when the cubes melt, they are not diluting the iced drink.
HyperChiller. You can greatly reduce your use of ice and melting by purchasing a HyperChiller (from Amazon or other online stores). You keep this unit in your freezer. It contains a collar of water that freezes. When you pour hot espresso into it, it will cool it significantly without any dilution. It will not chill it all the way to iced temperature so you will still need to add a few ice cubes (or coffee ice cubes) but the cubes will not melt so muc
... keep reading on reddit ➡I took my nieces out to help my SIL have an afternoon to herself. They're 10 and 12 so they're mostly easy. We had a day out where we went on a quick park walk together to see the dogs, went to Target, went to a bookstore, and I made them sack lunches so we ate them in a different park.
Everything was going fine until they asked if we could go get a treat. I figured we could go get a pack of those small mini cupcakes at the grocery store. But when we got there they both demanded venti Frappuccinos. They insisted their mom got them all the time. I asked if they meant they wanted to share a Frappuccino. They said no, they each wanted their own because they wanted different flavors. 12 year old wanted java chip, 10 year old wanted vanilla.
Keep in mind those drinks are both over 500 calories. It wasn't anyone's birthday or a special occasion and I don't want them to associate me with that. Hell, I wouldn't even get myself a venti Frappuccino and I'm an adult woman and I'm definitely no supermodel.
They both got upset and when they went home they told their Mom how mean I was. She asked me why I didn't get them the frappuccinos and I said that was way too much sugar for them and that I'd gotten them a carton of mini cupcakes and they each ate one instead.
I didn't say anything about calories to the kids or to my sister, just about how it was too much in general. My sister is now publicly shaming me because I'm the mean auntie who won't give a kid a treat. Her friends/followers turned it into a whole rant about diet culture and how kids shouldn't even have to think about that stuff. Which I agree with... and why I never said anything to them about it but it's up to adults to guide them to make healthy decisions, and I think a cupcake is better (and honestly, cheaper) than a coffee slushy! AITA?
Look, my store has me on bar my entire shift and the only time I get off is for breaks (which whatever I know many of us can relate). In addition, crying about drive times all day (also okay whatever) AND we’re chronically short staffed... like shut up... I’m gonna batch Frappuccinos. Even when you tell me not to I’m going to say okay and as soon as you leave I’m going to do it again. You cannot cry about drive times, be short staffed and expect me to make an order of 7 caramel frapps one by one. No I’m sorry I will not. Lastly, being short staffed means we hire just anyone which also makes baring hard when they are not ready to dto alone
And I know the die hard OG baristas are gonna come for me but like I don’t care. The pay isn’t worth the stress at this point.
Due to delivery restraints we just used our last bottle of frapp base.
If this is the last post you see by me, know that I went down making customer connections and slinging drinks. I fear without their main source of sustenance, the frappires will devour us all.
F's in the chat.
Dear lord. I hope y’all don’t mind a small vent. I’ve been working part time in a very small to go only Starbucks for about a week or so now, and the way my brain absolutely melts when someone wants a Frappuccino. I was lucky enough that when I made one last week without the supervision of the coworker, the customer was very very sweet and understanding that I was new. Her poor strawberries and cream frapp was pink and unsweetened, she had every right to complain. It is my first job and I have massive anxieties the night before work, I’ve had some issues with scheduling misunderstandings, I suppose I should be more forgiving of myself since it’s only my first week and my manager is very very nice. But I’m so so worried that they’re going to get sick of how difficult I’m being or how frappuccinos make me want to cry. I do feel at the same time very very lucky for my job, I enjoy working here over other places, and I also get free drinks and sometimes free food at the end of the day. Again with frappuccinos, is there a certain trick to pouring them out of the blender so that the mush doesn’t go everywhere?
Hi! Yesterday I went and got my free birthday drink from Starbucks. I got a Venti Chocolate Cookie Crumble Crème based Frappuccino, with no modifications except for extra Jawa Chips. The Frappuccino was very thin, almost as if they hadn’t blended it with ice, but I saw the person making my drink and I noticed she did blend it. It basically tasted like Oreo milk with whipped cream. Since I had used a birthday drink, it was free so I don’t really care about getting a refund or anything, I was just wondering if there was a different way to order so I can avoid this problem. Thanks to everyone!
My team does it but when I check the app, it doesn't show any pumps of classic? Also how many pumps of cold bar syrups are for tall, grande and venti ? Do we follow the pumps shown on our shaker bottles..?
