Microfoam

Finely textured milk used in coffee drinks / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Microfoam is finely textured milk used for making espresso-based coffee drinks, particularly those with latte art. It is typically made with the steam wand of an espresso machine, which pumps steam into a pitcher of milk.

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Microfoam (top) is used to make a wet cappuccino, whilst milk frothed with larger bubbles, called macrofoam (bottom), is used for a dry cappuccino.

The opposite of microfoam is macrofoam (also called dry foam, in contrast to the wet foam of microfoam), which has visibly large bubbles, a style of milk commonly used for cappuccinos.