Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!hao!noao!terak!suze From: suze@terak.UUCP (Suzanne Barnett) Newsgroups: net.cooks,net.consumers Subject: Re: Re: Expresso/Cappucino Machines Query suggestions Message-ID: <1029@terak.UUCP> Date: Thu, 30-Jan-86 10:58:55 EST Article-I.D.: terak.1029 Posted: Thu Jan 30 10:58:55 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Feb-86 02:50:26 EST References: <1205@lll-crg.ARpA> <4881@alice.UUCP> Organization: Calcomp Display Products Division, Scottsdale, AZ, USA Lines: 36 Xref: watmath net.cooks:5891 net.consumers:4086 > > I just bought a Caffe Portofino; this is a stovetop espresso/cappucino > > maker. I haven't tried it for coffee yet, but I'm having problems > > steaming milk. Basically, my milk never gets frothy the way it does in > > restaurants. I get more froth by scalding the milk in a saucepan. > > Anyway, here's the secret to making good steamed milk: > > 1. Arrange to get as much steam as you can from your > steam-maker. It should really gush out. > > 2. Put the tip of the nozzle just below the surface of > the milk before you start the steam. > > 3. Start it all at once, and HARD. You're doing it right if > you get a noise that sounds like a cross between a > jet airplane and a vacuum cleaner. If milk spatters > all over the place, the nozzle is too high. If you > don't hear vacuum cleaner/jet airplane noises, the nozzle > is too low. > > 4. As the foam rises, use the sound to keep the nozzle in the > right place. You should be able to more than double the > volume of the milk as you turn it to foam. > > 5. If you start getting huge spattery bubbles on the surface, > you've gotten the milk too hot and nothing you do will get > any more foam on the surface of that batch. Time to > start again if you don't like it the way it is at that point. How long should it take to steam, say 1/2 cup, of milk? -- Suzanne Barnett-Scott uucp: ...{decvax,ihnp4,noao,savax,seismo}!terak!suze CalComp/Sanders Display Products Division 14151 N 76th Street, Scottsdale, AZ 85260 (602) 998-4800