Ludicrously small coffee cups

[Hollis]

I shudder to think what Tony Hancock would think of the state of modern coffee.

£2.90 for this thimble-sized cup, and that's before you've considered the froth!!!

 

[danski]

Depends what you've asked for. How you decide to take your espresso dictates the size of cup.

 

[Hollis]

This isn't an espresso... It's a full-blooded cappuccino.

 

[danny la rouge]

This isn't an espresso... It's a full-blooded cappuccino.

After 11am?

 

[danski]

This isn't an espresso... It's a full-blooded cappuccino.

Looks about right.
One third espresso, one third milk and one third foam.

 

[chilango]

This isn't an espresso... It's a full-blooded cappuccino.

Looks the right (i.e. Italian) size to me.

...but I think we need a time stamp on the photo.

 

[furluxor]

According to Wikipedia, EU cappuccino is 140 - 180ml, U.S. - 360ml. The cup should be small, 180ml maximum. For a large drink, you want a latte.

I think it's good if the place serves coffee in the right size cup, it probably keeps heat better and there's less packaging waste. Then again, if I drink a coffee with milk, it's a flat white, so I'm used to the small size. The first time was somewhat surprising.

 

[Hollis]

Someone did explain to me last year that coffee cups had got smaller due to flat whites.. something to do with the ratio's of milk/water.

Anyway - this cup was probably about getting towards half the size of a large cuppucino from cafe nero/starbucks..

 

[danny la rouge]

Someone did explain to me last year that coffee cups had got smaller due to flat whites.. something to do with the ratio's of milk/water.

Anyway - this cup was probably about getting towards half the size of a large cuppucino from cafe nero/starbucks..

Coffee cups were traditionally small. I have a 70s coffee set in which the cups are small. Mrs LR also likes a small coffee (with oat milk or specific almond milk brands which “aren’t too almonds).

One of Mrs LR’s favoured coffee cups. Tomato for scale.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Anything bigger than a flat white is basically wrong. I want coffee, not coffee-flavoured water/milk.

So assuming you have normal-sized hands, that cup is the maximum size a coffe cup should be. For espresso/machiato, smaller than that.

 

[Hollis]

Anything bigger than a flat white is basically wrong. I want coffee, not coffee-flavoured water/milk.

See my problem - rather like alcohol - is that I simply like drinking stuff! So the bigger the better.... I hate sitting in a coffee shop with no drink in front of me, and I struggle to drink slowly..

 

[littlebabyjesus]

See my problem - rather like alcohol - is that I simply like drinking stuff! So the bigger the better.... I hate sitting in a coffee shop with no drink in front of me, and I struggle to drink slowly..

Yes, that's fair. I have a similar problem re drinking alcohol in pubs. I mostly like macchiato but that's over in a few seconds. Flat white is actually my compromise 'big' drink.

 

[two sheds]

Bloody big thimble there

Actually looks five or six times the size of coffee cups I got used to in the Netherlands, but if you tried having Dutch coffee in a coffee cup that huuuuge you'd die of caffeine poisoning Even this one below is double the size of a lot of cups you'd get in a cafe.

 

[Looby]

Cafe Nero large coffee is about the size of a small/medium anywhere else but is not cheaper.

 

[danski]

Someone did explain to me last year that coffee cups had got smaller due to flat whites.. something to do with the ratio's of milk/water.

Anyway - this cup was probably about getting towards half the size of a large cuppucino from cafe nero/starbucks..

The large drinks in those places have 2 or 3 shots therefore 2 or 3 times the milk and foam but keeping the right ratio.
Although most don't make a cappuccino right

 

[furluxor]

mostly like macchiato but that's over in a few seconds.

Oh damn, I think I have just discovered the perfect drink. There's always a little too much milk in a flat white!

 

[Wookey]

When I lived for a bit in France, I liked the little coffees that you get at the bar, you go in, stand, two minutes later, you're out the door. Mainlining caffeine. No fucking about.

Milk is for babies.

 

[Wookey]

A coffee for people who mean it.

 

[gentlegreen]

Even if I could find a place that made drinkable coffee I would struggle to know what to ask for to approximate my morning coffee.

 

[danski]

Even if I could find a place that made drinkable coffee I would struggle to know what to ask for to approximate my morning coffee.

Espresso lungo, perhaps?

 

[cesare]

Oh damn, I think I have just discovered the perfect drink. There's always a little too much milk in a flat white!

I love a double macchiato but it's pricey and twitchy afterwards

 

[two sheds]

A coffee for people who mean it.
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THAT's more like true coffee cup size.

 

[moose]

A coffee for people who mean it.
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I've often wondered why they bother with the saucer and the spoon - no time for that shit! Down yer neck.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I shudder to think what Tony Hancock would think of the state of modern coffee.

£2.90 for this thimble-sized cup, and that's before you've considered the froth!!!
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Have a nice cup of tea instead.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Have a nice cup of tea instead.

Nowadays that will probably be £2.50 or more.

And you'll just get a tea bag in hot water.

I'd order a coffee of some kind on principle.

One thing I miss since the disappearance of greasy spoons is a cup of strong tea from an urn. Properly stewed.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Nowadays that will probably be £2.50 or more.

Just take a flask of hot water when you are out and about.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Then there's the so-called large tea. Which is a bigger cup with more hot water and the same tea bag.