@rob_mcgee: If you want steam, perfect silky milk for your lattes at home here’s what you need to do. First, lower your steam wand into your milk, aim for the center and submerge the tip about a quarter inch. Then slightly tilt your milk pitcher to the side Allow the steam wand to start swirling the milk in your picture before you do anything. Once it’s swirling lower your milk pitcher until you hear a gentle hissing sound. That’s called aeration and it’s important. What it’s doing is adding air into your milk and stretching it out to make it lighter. Once you aerate for 3 to 5 seconds gently raise your milk pitcher back up to stop the aeration process and continue your swirl. Continuing to swirl helps reintegrate all that air into your milk so that it’s white and frosty and has a nice silky texture. Once you’ve reached your desired temperature, you can turn off your steam wand, but do not remove the milk pitcher until the steam has stopped completely Doing so may add additional air to your milk in an undesirable way. Remove your milk pitcher wipe down your steam wand to get any old milk off of it. Give it a perch to get any lingering milk or steam out of your steam wand and you’ll be good to go.

Rob McGee

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Monday 12 January 2026 18:09:30 GMT