What's the difference between an espresso and a cuppacino?!
Answers: I am not a coffee drinker at all but was thinking of buying a coffee machine for someone. All i can find are espresso machines?
Espresso machines generally produce espresso coffee, to which you add hot frothed milk to make a cappucino. Most espresso machines these days have a milk frother so that you can make a cappucino, or any other type of coffee you like, such as a latte, a flat white or a mocha. All of these need espresso, or black coffee, as a base.
-''Espresso or caffè espresso is a concentrated coffee beverage brewed by forcing very hot, but not boiling water under high pressure through coffee that has been ground to a consistency between extremely fine and powder.''
-''Cappuccino is an Italian, coffee-based drink prepared with espresso, hot milk, and milk foam. A cappuccino differs from a caffè latte—which is also from the Italian coffee menu—in that a latte is prepared with espresso and twice (or more) the amount of milk as a cappuccino and little or no milk foam. A cappuccino is traditionally served in a porcelain cup, which has far better heat retention characteristics than glass or paper. The foam on top of the cappuccino acts as an insulator and helps retain the heat of the liquid, allowing it to stay hotter longer.''
Espresso is an element of Cappuccino. Without espresso you will have no Cappuccino.