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What drink do/did you always screw up? (self.starbucksbaristas)
submitted by mysteriousjuror
Whether you forget how to make it, never remember the recipe or just fk up for some other reason, what is it?

For me, I always forget how many scoops of matcha in some sizes, and the Iced Brown Sugar Shaken Espresso. I forget it’s blonde half the time and that cinnamon comes with it. I’ve improved though 🤭😂
yeeterskeeteryall 179 points 1y ago
I always forget the classic in the strawberry frap 👀😭
HornbillHorticulture 51 points 1y ago
Did not even know it came with it…. No ones ever told me it’s wrong 🙃
OtherAcctTrackedNSA 28 points 1y ago
My baristas forget it goes in the matcha one as well
trtaylor1124 5 points 1y ago
I thought they changed that a while back
OtherAcctTrackedNSA 14 points 1y ago
I actually looked it up on storelink just now and…as of January it does still go in the matcha green tea Frappuccino BUT I’ve been using the wrong amount. I thought it was 122 like with the strawberry Frappuccino, NOPE it’s 234! AFAIK that makes it the only Frappuccino that gets 234 full dose pumps. Wow… I’ve been at Starbucks for over 5 years and have always done 122.
Timely-Neat-1082 8 points 1y ago
i know it’s 122 for full pump and 234 for half pump 😫 did it change?
Aliciarox11189 13 points 1y ago
They change the recipe every 5 mons so you're forgiven lol
eeeeeeeeeveeeeeeeee 10 points 1y ago
TILThat
Kivic 4 points 1y ago
This! Same with the matcha frapp. I never remember the classic!
HappySunflower0210 3 points 1y ago
Wait I was always told it didn’t get classic.. plus the app says it doesn’t unlike how it says the matcha does. I’m confused 😂😭
Comprehensive_Cup177 2 points 1y ago
I was JUST about to comment that
official_koda_ 1 points 1y ago
It really doesn’t even need extra sweetener, adding classic shouldn’t even be standard
Physical-Juice-1028 46 points 1y ago
I thought breve was ✨heavy cream✨ I would really make like a venti latte with allll heavy cream….
sadilg 7 points 1y ago
HAHAHAH I LOVE THAT
Bieb 6 points 1y ago
Welcome to Dutch bros
lilpears 5 points 1y ago
ITS NOT????? what is breve oh no
ashley-leigh 7 points 1y ago
Breve is half and half :)
lilpears 2 points 1y ago
thank youuuuu
here_forthefun 6 points 1y ago
Oh dear
NotyourangeLbabe 34 points 1y ago
Cafe vanilla Frappuccino’s. I always put vanilla bean and vanilla syrup because I can never remember which it’s supposed to get
[deleted] 51 points 1y ago
it gets the vanilla bean, it's basically the vanilla bean frappuccino except it has coffee in it
NotyourangeLbabe 10 points 1y ago
See, this is my point right here! One person says vanilla, other says vanilla bean!
[deleted] 13 points 1y ago
if you check the app it'll have the recipe there! i know off the top of my head because it's one of my favourite drinks but it's also good to double check
NotyourangeLbabe 5 points 1y ago
Since I got conflicting answers I did check and you’re right!
kqs13 6 points 1y ago
It's vanilla bean. It's a vanilla bean with frap roast, just like how the java chip is the double chocolate chip with frap roast! It's on the side of the order screen if you ever get confused, and also there should be recipe cards at your store too!
NotyourangeLbabe 3 points 1y ago
204 here. Believe me, I’ve checked. I know the resources. Every time I check, I just forget again 🤷🏽‍♀️ it’s just one of those things that won’t stick lol
Canadiansbux 2 points 1y ago
🤣
darkwolf523 -44 points 1y ago
So close. It’s vanilla :) understandably why you can’t remember so no harm no foul
NotyourangeLbabe 4 points 1y ago
After 3.5 years it should definitely be something I remember 😭😭😭 but thank you
darkwolf523 -16 points 1y ago
No problem.
NotyourangeLbabe 24 points 1y ago
I actually checked the Starbucks app just now and greys007 is right, it’s vanilla bean and not vanilla syrup
raptoraptorr 32 points 1y ago
Reading these comments make me realize ive been here too long 😂
[deleted] 27 points 1y ago
literally all of the shaken espressos i made yesterday, i thought they got 1, 2, or 3 shots in them
mysteriousjuror [OP] 7 points 1y ago
LITERALLY SAME 🤣
throatsofgoats 1 points 1y ago
I finally got the number of shots right, but I never remember to make them blonde. 😭
[deleted] 2 points 1y ago
I FEEL THAT
nowateramericano 26 points 1y ago
Flat Whites for me. It’s not even that I don’t remember the recipe it’s just that I forget to move the cup to the side when making the hot version. (Mastrena I) So my hot Grande/Venti usually gets that fourth and final shot when it should only get three. I just forget almost every time! But I’m a whole milk lover so never forget that.😁

For those that forget recipe it is:

Hot: 2,2,3,3 Ristretto
Iced: 2,3,4 Ristretto
BaristaWoosa 10 points 1y ago
You still have Mastrena 1s?!
nowateramericano 10 points 1y ago
yup unfortunately. They have been down completely on and off for the past month. It's time for them to go but we don't know when we will finally get upgraded.
AtTheBarMatt 5 points 1y ago
We still have mastrena 1s in a tier 1 store....techs are out multiple times a week to fix them.
BaristaWoosa 1 points 1y ago
Damn I’m so sorry that has to be crazy frustrating 🥺🥺 last year I let another store borrow me for a few days to help with staffing and they still had Mastrena Is as well. It took me a minute to readjust on bar 😂
_pkthunder 22 points 1y ago
I am still new (5 days/8 days with training) and I've come to realize that so many of my Mocha cookie crumble frappes that I've ordered in the past were made incorrectly! Most baristas make it like a normal frappe, blend everything together and dump it into a cup BUT I've learned that it's whip cream at the bottom, then cookie crumble, the frappe, whip cream, mocha drizzle, and more cookie crumble.... I WILL NEVER MAKE THAT DRINK WRONG, I VOW IT!!!
joviante 21 points 1y ago
don't worry you'll change your mind vv soon, most likely because someone orders four of them at the window during peak, or you don't have mocha drizzle bottles out, or you don't have frap chips, or base, or mocha.... you get the idea.
_pkthunder 6 points 1y ago
You have a point haha under those circumstances it's almost inevitable to make them incorrectly. 🤣
joviante 6 points 1y ago
yeah, welcome to everyday :,)

i hope you wont be like a lot of us an just stop caring that much
horriblyIndecisive 4 points 1y ago
Ppl think i make it wrong sometimes but it's cuz my whip floats to the top!! I don't wanna put too much but too little and it'll float up lol
dallizzlee 3 points 1y ago
Omg mine has been floating lately what am I doing wrong
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emccladd 21 points 1y ago
I thought the guava passion fruit drink had passion tea and made it with it for 6 months 😅😅 I didn’t find out till a month after we ran out of guava
HappySunflower0210 2 points 1y ago
Dude me too lol
sammiipiie -2 points 1y ago
I haven’t made one in months now bc we’re out of it lol but I think it does have passion tea? Isn’t it passion tea to the tea line and then guava juice and coconut milk to the lil half lines and then the pineapple ginger syrup? (And ice obvi)
P_2_P 8 points 1y ago
Nope. Guava to the tea line. Pineapple ginger syrup and coconut milk. Makes no damn sense
kortette 20 points 1y ago
I didn’t know a lot of shit until I switched locations and had to do the training again. Never knew you put classic in any fraps, and would always forget how many matcha scoops to put in matcha lattes. Oh, and I didn’t know for months that you’re supposed to put vanilla syrup in VanCrm Cold Brews. Though it was just the vanilla sweet cream lol
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b8824b 16 points 1y ago
I forget the pumpkin spice powder on top of the pumpkin cream cold brew
throatsofgoats 1 points 1y ago
I just now realized it’s supposed to have it!
Cautious_Ad_3559 15 points 1y ago
I don’t think that this one is my fault but anything with just regular cold foam cuz Starbucks keeps changing the recipe
silentwhisperer1484 3 points 1y ago
This!!!!!! My partners and I are always fighting about whether it gets vanilla or not. But when our customers order it, they tell us they want the foam that tastes like nothing. So I don’t use vanilla in it and that’s the way I was taught.
LZARDKING 14 points 1y ago
I still don’t know how to make iced London fogs and I don’t care
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ayrihanae 13 points 1y ago
Ice coffee. Evidently it has classic syrup.
sadilg 7 points 1y ago
I hate that part tbh
wanderer1522 5 points 1y ago
Yeah I just ask literally everyone who orders one if they want it sweetened or not. I think it's pretty dumb for classic to just be included in an iced coffee 🤷
[deleted] 12 points 1y ago
this reminded me to ask, how do you make iced cappuccinos?? and an iced flat white?
sadilg 14 points 1y ago
you live, laugh and try not to go on life support
renjaminbutton 9 points 1y ago
For me.. the cappuccino, I do the shots on bottom and then foam whatever milk they asked for in the foam blender on 4, pour to line, add ice. For an iced flat white, I just do ristretto shots like normal and then whole milk to line and then ice. 🤷‍♀️
Sparkflyr 7 points 1y ago
For Iced Cappuccinos its the standard amount of shots, ice to the 2nd black line and blended 2% on four the rest of the way. Of course of they requested a different milk make it with that.
Suaydia 6 points 1y ago
Wait what my manager has been having me steam foam for an ICED Capp omg
kqs13 9 points 1y ago
That was the old way to do it and they changed it once we launched cold foam
bsta19 11 points 1y ago
i’ve been putting classic in the green tea lattes… turns out it’s only in the matcha frappuccinos oops
indiemads 4 points 1y ago
WHAT THIS IS NEWS TO ME
wanderer1522 3 points 1y ago
To be fair to both of you the old recipe for the matcha latte included classic. They took it out a couple years ago though and it was basically a footnote in a weekly update so it would be easy to miss.
bsta19 1 points 1y ago
that makes so much sense now🥲 i just came back to sbux after two years so thank you for helping my sanity.. i thought i was going crazy
bsta19 2 points 1y ago
I KNOW.. i had to double check the app😭
indiemads 4 points 1y ago
I can’t believe this right now 😭😭😭 I’ve been putting classic in both and no one has ever said anything or corrected me
bsta19 2 points 1y ago
i just do my own thing sometimes when my brain short circuits & i only realize it after i’ve handed it off..by then it’s too late🤭
ObnoxiousR 10 points 1y ago
(INSERT NAME) Frappuccino
Appropriate_Royal932 8 points 1y ago
my fav coworker was making iced chais with water in them cause no one explained to her its not the same as the hot chai....
mysteriousjuror [OP] 2 points 1y ago
I watched a green bean make an Iced Chai by adding hot water to the iced drink. I freaked because the plastic cup would just melt and warp lmfao. It was funny though
MayaSnowday 7 points 1y ago
Salted caramel cold foam cold brew- I know it’s easy, but I’m *stupid*
mommymary 2 points 1y ago
we were out of salt since i started (320**) so i never officially learned how to make the SCCFCB, i would just do half pumps caramel, cold brew, ice, and vanilla cold foam. I think that’s how the old recipe was, just with salt in the foam? Anyway, we got the salt back and they changed the recipe, I checked the iPad recipe card and I SWEAR the updated recipe was just plain iced cold brew with the SCCF (1 full pump caramel, 2 salt) but my coworkers were telling me there’s vanilla in the cold brew with the SCCF on top. 🥴🥴🥴🥴 no clue and honestly idk if anyone cares
lizzykk 2 points 1y ago
🤣🤣
YorkTownBratty 7 points 1y ago
Lately I keep forgetting to put classic in the shaken espresso😬
Dragonfruitme 7 points 1y ago
I thought the shaken espresso would come with whole milk. Turns out it doesn’t lol
LZARDKING 2 points 1y ago
I thought double shots came with half and half for the looooooooongest time
DeadstockEvocative 6 points 1y ago
chocolate drizzle in hot chocolates
PiscesQueen24 6 points 1y ago
I had no clue certain fraps had classic in them Lmao I actually learned thru this subreddit and I’m pretty certain I’ve been messing up flat whites this entire time , I’m still not sure about shots in shaken espressos
Adventurous1031 6 points 1y ago
🤣🤣🤣 I work at a proudly serve on a college campus after being away from Starbucks all together for almost 2 years and the manager over the Starbucks on campus asked me to help out for the DM visit the other day. I’m not sure when I was the only person on bar I made any of the new drinks right but I tried and no one returned drinks. 😂😂🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🙃😜🤪
HCon5 6 points 1y ago
I most recently worked at the bux after living in the UK for a few years. I moved from London to Virginia; so often some serious southern accents to contend with. Every time someone ordered a Caramel Cloud Macchiato I though they were saying Caramel QUAD macchiato. Okay, weird way to order, but 🤷🏽‍♀️. After about the fourth time I made a the drink with four shots everyone was so irritated with me. 😬
amqnia 5 points 1y ago
if its a frappucino i basically make crappucinos 🥲🥲
firepaper 5 points 1y ago
I’ve noticed literally no one else puts mocha drizzle on hot chocolates😭😭
seriouslystresseddd 0 points 1y ago
doesnt come with it anymore…. :/
firepaper 3 points 1y ago
Yes it does
mysteriousjuror [OP] 1 points 1y ago
Maybe you’re thinking about the vanilla? I still add vanilla though lmao
bunnysbigcookie 5 points 1y ago
don’t ask me what goes in a matcha lemonade because i still don’t know other than matcha and lemonade
silentwhisperer1484 2 points 1y ago
Water! Lemonade to the first line, water to the second, matcha, ice, shake!
bugzyys 5 points 1y ago
When I was a green bean I thought a dirty chai just mean a chai tea latte with no water 🤷🏻‍♀️🥲 made it like that for a good month before I found out it was wrong
LZARDKING 2 points 1y ago
But it doesn’t say dirty chai on the sticker do you mean you rang it up wrong?
bugzyys 2 points 1y ago
Not really: at my first store, unfortunately, I was neglected/hazed a tad so at night it was common for me to be left up on the floor alone while everyone else was doin idek what in BOH or just talking and not helping me. I would be taking orders in drive/cafe myself, getting all food, and making all the drinks and it would get a lil busy sometimes too. I was too new to know that they weren’t supposed to be doing that lol.
paigemclachlan 5 points 1y ago
Matcha will be the death of me 😭😭
New_Consequence_5184 5 points 1y ago
Soy milk is cursed for me. No matter what I do, when I go to make a drink with soy milk it explodes. The drink's usually fine, but I always end up smelling like a soy latte 😅
WingsofFlight 4 points 1y ago
I suck at Flat Whites. I have practiced the milk so many times but still struggle with the consistency.
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mysteriousjuror [OP] 2 points 1y ago
Whenever ppl get this drink, I just ask if they want it with water or lemonade. I want to spare them the bad choice of adding coconut milk lmfao
livinlikeluis 4 points 1y ago
Matcha lemonade is cut with water
Canadiansbux 4 points 1y ago
I always forget the pumpkin spice on the pumpkin cream cold brews.
alimcc0220 4 points 1y ago
The difference between strawberries and cream frap verses the serious strawberry not the recipes but when they switched from one to the other then back again
LeiyoZynne 4 points 1y ago
For me it's always the classic in the matcha frapp and I ALWAYS confuse Iced Caramel Macchiatos for Iced Chais. I glance so fast I make a whole different drink.
AcanthisittaLazy2681 3 points 1y ago
i’ve never once remembered to put the pumpkin cinnamon topping on the pccb
mommymary 1 points 1y ago
i ask for it off anyway because it tastes bad just sitting on top 🤢
wunderkyn 3 points 1y ago
…all of em…😐
Mcnugget_unlimited 3 points 1y ago
I always forget to put vanilla in the green tea Frappuccino
rukittenmerightmeow- 5 points 1y ago
Its classic
Mcnugget_unlimited 4 points 1y ago
Oh lol well that’s good to know
brokenleftjoycon 3 points 1y ago
I learned a venti caramel ribbon crunch has 6 dark caramel pumps (according to the app) literally tonight after telling a friend that a customer asked for like 6 extra sugar packets for their frap. I’ve been putting 4 this entire time.
rest_aura_nt 7 points 1y ago
Okay I figured it out. The app factors in the dark caramel sauce that you pump over the whipped cream at the bottom of the cup. Its 1 pump for tall, 2 for grande or venti. So when you add that to the actual caramel blended frappuccino, it goes 3, 5, 6. You were doing it right!!
rest_aura_nt 3 points 1y ago
WHAT. You're absolutely right, it says that on the app, but on the retail recipe card it says 2, 3, 4. does starbucks even know starbucks recipes?????
deathnapsnicecream 3 points 1y ago
for some reason, caramel macchiatos. i can’t ever remember to put the vanilla in the milk
ImpressiveVariation0 3 points 1y ago
I thought the s’mores frappe got milk in the frappe itself not just on the bottom, it wasn’t until one of my coworkers asked why her creme based one still looked brown
rlogranite 2 points 1y ago
All of them!!
_mxrx 2 points 1y ago
been working for a year and i still mess up almost everything except for coffees and teas 😭😭😭😭
Elliotisnotokay 2 points 1y ago
Brown sugar oat shaken espresso i often forget the cinnamon. And I never knew mocha cookie crumble got crumble on bottom and top. I thought it was just on top
throatsofgoats 2 points 1y ago
I…it gets cinnamon?!
Elliotisnotokay 3 points 1y ago
Yeah. Two shakes of cinnamon powder shaken in
Short-Speech-5397 2 points 1y ago
anything y’all r saying w classic im making wrong LMFAOOO
Crybaby_ly-lah 2 points 1y ago
Blended strawberry lemonade 🧍🏻‍♀️
andyboy232 2 points 1y ago
I can never remember if plain cold foam is made with 2% or nonfat 😂
ImportantWeekend 2 points 1y ago
Strawberry funnel cake, honestly don’t know if I’ve ever made it 100% correct.
mommymary 1 points 1y ago
doesn’t matter since no one orders it anyway 🥲
rasperries 2 points 1y ago
When someone orders a caramel macchiato but they want whipped cream on it. I always do the drizzle and then realize
ThrowawayTheOmlet 2 points 1y ago
For some reason, despite working here for 2 years. I keep forgetting to put honey in the honey citrus mint 🤦‍♂️
august401 2 points 1y ago
frappuccino's but i do on purpose always put my own twist on them which makes them better
sayowats 2 points 1y ago
Classic in some of the fraps, at the beginning I forgot vanilla in caramel macchiatos, the amount of pumps in cold brews. To this day I’m still pretty sure I get those wrong LOL
Astraterris 2 points 1y ago
I struggled with the damn cloud macchiatos for a long time. Glad they’re gone.
youjustgottaignite 2 points 1y ago
Doppio macchiatos and cappuccinos lol
8ultaoreune 2 points 1y ago
not sure if this counts but for its me its the undertow especially during a rush
jennalahuee 2 points 1y ago
I almost always forget to put frap chips in the mocha cookie crumble frap
ShyCoconut0_0 2 points 1y ago
Two things, when I first started working for sbux I made all caramel fraps with dark caramel instead of caramel syrup \*facepalm\* and I didn't know that the mocha cookie crumble frappuccino had frappuccino chips in it until I reviewed the recipe again :(
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hgfdv -10 points 1y ago
None. I'm an exceptional barista.
Couldn't make a proper dot on a latte to save my life though.
NotyourangeLbabe 10 points 1y ago
🙄
tenthwalker 5 points 1y ago
You mean a dot on a flat white?
hgfdv 1 points 1y ago
On both actually. They always come out pretty much white, too much foam. My Mastrenas are both seven years old, so the steam wands often put out either not enough steam or not hot enough. Tough to heat a decent milk, thus the shitty latte art.
throwawayofcw2020 4 points 1y ago
I can’t tell if this is satire or not
hgfdv 5 points 1y ago
I was kidding, yeah. The joke is not that obvious apparently, my bad.
For a most honest answer : I stopped adding hot water in Chai Tea Lattes like two weeks after I learned how to make it. And I pretty much always add a couple pumps of flavor syrup in regular frappuccinos.
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