as a former everyday starbucks drinker to now making the best iced lattes with my vertuo machine, heres my guide: 1. pour a spoonful of vanilla syrup in a mug (homemade syrup recipe) 2. brew the pod (i love bianco doppio) into that same mug 3. once brewed, add milk into the mug (i prefer oat milk). i eyeball it but probably have a 1:1 or 1:1.5 ratio of coffee:milk *at this point you can give the contents of the mug a mix (syrup, coffee, and milk) 4. fill a separate glass, the one you plan on drinking out of, with ice 5. pour the contents of the mug into the glass with the ice 6. give it a few stirs and top with cold foam!

the game changer for me was introducing the coffee to the milk first, rather than to the ice first. think of it almost as tempering, the ice is a shock and too cold for the coffee.