Best Espresso Machine Reviews: How to Steam Milk with an Espresso Machine

In this post, I’ll teach you some basic coffee-making skills. I’m going to tell you how to steam milk with an espresso machine. The wonderful thing about espresso is that besides just a straight shot and an Americano, there’s a multitude of milk drinks you can make. But first, you have to know how to steam it right, which is a little bit tricky.

How to Steam Milk with an Espresso Machine Maybe your own machine has a steam wand like mine which is a knob that rotates, or other will have a button that you push, or a level that you pull. You want to start out with high quality whole milk that’s cold as well as a pitcher that’s also cold. After you get ready for all the things, there’re a few motions that you’ll go through when doing this.

The first is to submerge the tip of the steam wand just below the surface of the milk. Start off with the pitcher straight up, and then angle it. This way when you turn it on you’ll create a whirlpool. The first thing you do when you turn it on is let a little bit of air in. However, you can only keep this for a few seconds. Otherwise you’ll end up scorching the milk. Once you’ve let the air in, you will sink the tip of the wand in and just let it whirlpool until it gets the correct temperature.

How to Steam Milk with an Espresso Machine Alright, we can be able to steam this up till now. The first thing you always want to do is purge. There can be a buildup of milk or water in the tip and you don’t want that going into the milk. So again, we just let some air in. It’s going to make a slight hissing sound, and then we will make a whirlpool. Then again, always purge afterwards to get that milk out of there. So once you’ve steamed it, you can give it a couple knocks. You’ll see that there’re just a few bubbles in there. Next, swirl it around to incorporate all that foam you just made. You’ll see it’s nice and glossy. This is called micro foam. If you see too many spidery bubbles, that means you’ve either let too much air in, or not enough. After what you done, you will find that’s so perfect.