Italy·No added fat or sugar
Ristretto
Same dose, half the water, twice the body
Restricted, not just short. You stop the shot before the thin, bitter tail arrives.
Espresso cup
Ratio
1:1.3
Time
22–28 s
Water
93 °C
Servings
1
Ingredients
- coffee, one step finer than your espresso grind18 g
- out24 g
Method
1
Grind finer
Same dose, tighter grind, so you keep the time up while the yield drops.
2
Stop early
Cut at 24 g. It should look like warm syrup and taste sweeter and denser than your normal shot.
3
Use it in milk
A double ristretto is the flat white base — it survives 120 ml of milk without disappearing.
Notes
- If it tastes sour rather than sweet, it is under-extracted rather than truly ristretto. Go finer still or raise the dose.
What you need
- Espresso machine (pump) or Lever / piston machine
- Scale (0.1 g)