@adamaliabarnes Thanks for your comment. From cold to100 F degrees milk can be stretched. from 100-150 it should only be heated. There are some great reference guides about this too...check out "Espresso Coffee, Professional Techniques" by David C. Schomer, among others. Happy steaming!
Hmm. . . Two shots poured into milk? Did you ever get around to stirring that? I assume you are drinking it as a layered drink if not. This seems like a latte macchiato hybrid, or a macchiato on steroids.
Pour it fast, and you're practically there, a couple of swirls and it's incorporated more or less. The point is to show how quickly and easily you can make a very good drink at home, skipping some of the rules of drink assembly. Additionally, if you foam well and make a nice slippery steamed milk, you don't get a mountain of foam, stiff and yucky, that the coffee can't co-mingle with.
I wanted to get into latte art, just for fun to make for my family and loved ones, do you think this would be an adequate machine to make some latte and foam to start my practicing and coffee art.
BTW Lizzy (if that's your name) I love your enthusiasm and personality. The way you closed off the video actually made me smile ^_^
It's tricky to make properly textured foam for detailed latte art with this type of machine because it injects quite a bit of air into the milk while steaming. The result, even though nice micro bubbles tends to have a little too much foam volume for a rosetta, but you can manage to pour a nice heart with practice. Tape over the inlet air hole in the steam wand, and that helps reduce foam volume, carefully tend to your milk stretching, then swirl your milk continuously while your shot pours.
You can certainly make something like it. Espresso is 1 oz of coffee pressed at 135 psi for 20-30 sec. So unless you have mad skills to build a contraption of this kind ;) you'll have to settle for a cafe au lait, perhaps. To make this, you can use brewed drip or french press coffee, and combine with heated or whipped milk. For foamed milk, you could try the hand whippers on the market. You won't get the nice micro foam that the steam wand will produce, but you'll get some texture. Good lck!
i bet the son is taping it
manoli8989 1 year ago
100 degrees??? WHAT? 70 is maximum, or you will destroy protein bonds in the milk, and it will be bitter and horrible.
adamaliabarnes 1 year ago
@adamaliabarnes Thanks for your comment. From cold to100 F degrees milk can be stretched. from 100-150 it should only be heated. There are some great reference guides about this too...check out "Espresso Coffee, Professional Techniques" by David C. Schomer, among others. Happy steaming!
Lizzysfreshvideo 1 year ago
that took more like 5 mins..
mcb0613 1 year ago
Hmm. . . Two shots poured into milk? Did you ever get around to stirring that? I assume you are drinking it as a layered drink if not. This seems like a latte macchiato hybrid, or a macchiato on steroids.
Starbuckscp 1 year ago
Pour it fast, and you're practically there, a couple of swirls and it's incorporated more or less. The point is to show how quickly and easily you can make a very good drink at home, skipping some of the rules of drink assembly. Additionally, if you foam well and make a nice slippery steamed milk, you don't get a mountain of foam, stiff and yucky, that the coffee can't co-mingle with.
Lizzysfreshvideo 1 year ago
Oh ya, you have a beautiful kitchen
dreemaze 1 year ago
I wanted to get into latte art, just for fun to make for my family and loved ones, do you think this would be an adequate machine to make some latte and foam to start my practicing and coffee art.
BTW Lizzy (if that's your name) I love your enthusiasm and personality. The way you closed off the video actually made me smile ^_^
dreemaze 1 year ago
It's tricky to make properly textured foam for detailed latte art with this type of machine because it injects quite a bit of air into the milk while steaming. The result, even though nice micro bubbles tends to have a little too much foam volume for a rosetta, but you can manage to pour a nice heart with practice. Tape over the inlet air hole in the steam wand, and that helps reduce foam volume, carefully tend to your milk stretching, then swirl your milk continuously while your shot pours.
Lizzysfreshvideo 1 year ago
greate, but can this machine make other coffees ? like I use it for cappuccino?
noralain 2 years ago
Of course! Steam milk first in pitcher. Pull 2 shots of espresso into 6 oz cup, then pour milk-foam right into cup with espresso.
Lizzysfreshvideo 2 years ago
cant i make it without the machine?
kawaiiushii 2 years ago
You can certainly make something like it. Espresso is 1 oz of coffee pressed at 135 psi for 20-30 sec. So unless you have mad skills to build a contraption of this kind ;) you'll have to settle for a cafe au lait, perhaps. To make this, you can use brewed drip or french press coffee, and combine with heated or whipped milk. For foamed milk, you could try the hand whippers on the market. You won't get the nice micro foam that the steam wand will produce, but you'll get some texture. Good lck!
Lizzysfreshvideo 2 years ago
Amazing!
AestheticFlavor 2 years ago