Frothing milk for latte art with the De'Longhi Dedica EC685 

This is seriously the best tutorial I have ever seen on youtube. So much information, but not too much, you explained everything using videos and stopped whereever it was necessary and did not use any confusing descriptions and got to the point instantly. Also a big like for giving an explanation e.g. why you insert the nozzle into the milk after frothing it.

Exactly what I wanted to know before buying this - thanks a million!

Thank you so much for showing with such details! Loved it!

This was fantastic: thank you

That's what I've been looking for, thanks!

Amazing video and great personality. You are the best

thanks a lot man! this was very well explained, no bs!

Great video, thanks for the tips!

Gotta say I'm impressed with what you've achieved with that machine 👏🏾

Very simple but informative! great video.

Great alternative to having to buy a steam wand, install and mod it voiding your warranty. Thanks man 👍🤙

Awesome, You have explained it wonderfully better than many barista videos. Cheers mate and thanks

This is great, thank you! Look forward to trying your recommendations :)

Really great tutorial. I've always struggled to get the milk silky on mine. This explains why perfectly!😊

Wow. Thank you Javier Bardem for the great tutorial.

Dude, you are legend! I spent ages to figure out what I am doing wrong. I tried your solution and it blew my mind. Worked a 1st attempt! Wtf? 🤯 Great Job! 💪😁

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. This is a vast improvement for frothing. I haven't yet mastered the latte art, but the consistency of the milk is so much better. Today was the best latte I've had since I purchased this machine. Great video!!!

Really thanks for sharing this great video

I installed the Rancilio wand on my Dedica today and just improved it massively. This looks just as good without stripping the machine down. Excellent tutorial. Thanks!

Thank you, great video!

Useful as usual.

Great Idea! Thanks!!

VERY good video!!! Thank you!!!

Hey this video really saves my everyday morning! With my machine it was frothing the milk fine for some months but since one month the steam became very difficult to control. With this method I am able to make my Latte perfect again. Awesome tips! Thank you!

Amazing! Thank you x

Great Work! Thanks for this video :)

I've had my Delonghi espresso machine for a while and couldn't quite get the hang of steaming milk. I can't believe I struggled with this for so long. It's impressive why I only saw your video just now. Now, I can enjoy café-quality drinks whenever I want. Thank you very much for sharing your expertise!

Amazing details!

This one video is worth a subscribe. Thank you so much.

I appreciate you for sharing this. Simple yet very practical solution! When I saw your frothing milk technique, your approach made sense and will work ( it was the same as I was taught a few months ago) Kindest regards! ☕🧔🏻💓

Thank you, I was able to do it after a long time🙏🏼❤️

THANKS ! you give me hope

Thank you for this great video I have the exact same machine and love it. Its about 5 years old already and I just descaled it today.

Can't tell you how much this has helped me! I always thought I'd need to upgrade my machine if I "really wanted to go 'get into' espresso." Turns out all I needed was a zip tie and my good ole ECP 3420. :) Now I just need to get better at latte art...

Very informative video with great explanation. Great idea using the plastic cable tie, that will help tremendously. You sir deserve a like and and subscribe 👍

I have this coffee machine for 6 years, and never successful to create microfoam. I met this video yesterday, and finally my foam was smoother than ever! Where have I been?! Thank you so much for your video, now I need to practice to make latte art.

Thank you!

I literally removed the panarello wand a while ago and I thought I was crazy and the only one who did that. But it works and now I feel validated bc i saw this video lol THANK YOU!!!

Superb. Thanks.

Now you know: the problem is not the machine, it's YOU 😂

super helpful, im so glad I found this video, much better even than all those pro videos with millions of views

Thank you so much I get what am looking for

wow thank u so much 🙏

Best asmr ever! Please make more videos

Great tutorial 10/10

That was so smooth explaining and an understandable . i will try it out tomorrow. I hope it is gonna work with me as im about to give up on this machine.. thanks for the video

Perfect, trank you a lot!!!! 🎉

Fantastic tutorial! Completely applicable to the Smeg (which seems to be this with a Smeg skin). Will be purchasing the wand, but in the meantime, the milk I was steaming has improved 1000%!!!

谢谢你，我是来自广州中国的观众，按照你的方法，我成功做出了latte art

Thank u it too short & helpful 💕

Grazie Mille!

Thanks you!

it worked!! thank u

wow! :D I Bought Dedica EC685 Today :D Time to learn how to make a coffe :D Thank You :)

That was on point. I have always complained about the wand. Now its like a whole new machine. Thanks.

Thank's for making this video! I'm going to try removing the panarello on my Delonghi ECP3120! It creates too much big bubble foam on top.

Great video - so lovely to see something beautiful in life and fun - I have just bought more or less the same one myself and would love to be able to do latte art - as you say practice makes perfect - nice to know it has the capability to do it so thank you - look forward to more videos from you!

Man... What a livesaver

thank you! :)

The temperature hack is genius

Thanks a bunch! Saved my money from buying a metal steel wand! Now off to practice my latte art!

thanks!!!

hello everyone. i have this machine and never did latte art before. tried making some art with the panarello wand for a month (changing 1-2 things every time to see if it'll help) with no good result. after watching this video i felt some hope thinking now i will be able to do some art. it didn't help, i got better pitchers thinking they may be the problem, not them either. used different milks, no result. after a while i stumbled upon dritan alsela's tip on practicing latte art. he puts one pinch of finely ground coffee and practices latte art multiple times on that setting. i tried that too. and after second or third repetition i began to see some patterns. so i figured my foam is not correct, either it has to dissolve a little or it's not homogenously dispersed in the liquid. at the moment i'm able to get some patterns and i'm excited. so here're my tips: 1-don't rush. your circumcised wand is a domestic steam wand, you won't get a whirlpool as fast as you see on those latte art tutorials. keep your wand under the surface until you get your whirlpool going. it's better if you have colder milk and bigger volume, so you'll have more time. 2-don't rush. you don't have to stretch the milk too much. if you are hearing the spitting sound like in the video you are going to stretch it faster but have bigger foam. deep voiced man is able to make art because of his experience. bigger foam produces the cappucino and it's not possible to paint with it. when you're stretching you have to hear a constant and quiet sound. and after the milk temp reaches your palm's sink it a little, just enough to not hear the stretching. it's hard to develop your latte art skills with 2 empty canvases a day but i feel like i'm getting better with the help of this video. thanks.

Dedica 685 is very good machine, but with rubber wand much better foam milk always, thank for video, I did the same.

oh, you have no idea, how helpful this was! You are my hero, man. Now... where the heck do I buy a zip tie? :D

NIce video

finally thank you. I have been using hot milk, then switching to cappucino mode and that made the milk too thicc. This is perfect thank you very much.

nice

Great video, I do recommend the cable tie on the rubber nozzle,mine blew off on the first attempt. Not nice having steam and hot milk splatter around. I enjoy hacking standard kit to get the best out of them, looking forward to more recommendations.

This is exactly what I was looking for. I wanted to see if anyone else was having the same issue w the tip shooting out or if I was doing something wrong. Thank you. The shooting of the tip happens to me very often and it splatters everywhere. It’s scary too! I probably still have PTSD from this. I was about to order the metal tip until someone said that it could void the warranty so, I guess I will try the plastic to hold the tip.

Good video but sounding like a bond villain takes it to the next level.

Do we have to take the plastic cable off the rubber wand every time we have to clean the wand and reuse it or do we put a new one every time?🤔

This is the video I’ve been looking for! Thank you! I haven’t got the results I want yet but I’m getting there. Great to know there’s an option beyond the purist opinion that “super autos just aren’t capable of good foam and you’ll need a ‘real machine’” Can the steel steam wand you mentioned be installed on the Delonghi Magnifica? They appear to have the same wand

I bought from the same machine. Successful for latte art for a shiny crema that needs to be steeper and on the edge 😎👍🏻

Great advice! I have a delonghi 35.31 and I’ve been having trouble getting the right consistency for frothing milk. This helps massively. I do want to ask though, how do you clean the rubber wand when it’s zip tied? Can you still take it off and run it under water or do you just wipe the residue off with a cloth?

Same sentiments as everyone else. This video has been hugely helpful and saved me a lot of hassle. Can I ask why the non-pressurized basket is better than pressurized?

Great video! I'm using the DeLonghi ECP 33.21 with same 51mm filter but with manual pump switch. Can advise how many mils in your expresso here? I assume it's the double shot in the Dedica.

Great video! Just got a Dedica myself and want to try this out. What size is your frothing pitcher?

Great video. Is there a special kind of milk that should be used? We have skim milk in our house.

Thank you for your excellent video, may I ask is there any good for the metal panarello wand, is it good for producing cappuccino with big bubble? If you out a cable around the plastic tube , you could not put the metal wand back, could you? Then can you still perform cappuccino?

Hi there! Your vid helped me immensely. After trying for so long I started to give up on myself. My concern is, will the hot temperature of milk damage / Melt the rubber? And when do i fell the need to put on the cable tie?

Thank you for this video, may I ask where did you buy non pressurised baskets for the delonghi dedica machine ? I’m in Australia.

At the end of the video you talk about using non pressurized basket. Did you find some compatible with this Dedica? I've been looking but never found one ... Anyway thank you, great video!!!

Thank you for your video! Does the machine overheat for you aswell when frothing milk? It usually does for me when I do it without the panarello. Any thoughts?

Great video, do you have pressurized or non-pressurized basket ?

Great tips! I've done the same with my machine and used a cable tie and I can definitely see the difference. The one issue I'm having now though is that the milk doesn't seem thick enough when I pour it. I get the nice swirl and the glossy texture when I've finished foaming the milk and it looks like it will be good , but then when I pour it seems very milky and doesn't allow for any (or very little) latte art. Or sometimes, it might be a little bit thicker but only really the top part of the milk and again when I pour, it is quite thin. Any tips for that?

Great job. What milk you use?

Hey, was thinking of doing this cable tie mod with mine, same model. Do you think there is a risk of damaging the machine if the reason the rubber shoots out is the pressure of the steam? Or yours works fine with this mod?

Hi, i just got the same machine, and i'm happy with it so far, and did this hack. But i have problem with my steam wand. When i turn on the knob, the steam pressure seems delayed, it takes couple seconds to finally comes out, whether the panarello is attached or not. What should i do?

How did you use cable tie...any suggestions what sort of tie to use

Excellent video! However, I tied the pannarello with a zip tie, and it still goes flying after approx. 15 seconds. Any idea about what could be the issue? The steam wand should be clean on the inside and outside.

did u changs the black rubber wand cos mine is really shorter?

If my DeLonghi Stilosa's rubber nozzle were LONG ENOUGH, I would try this, but it can't reach 4 oz of milk in a 12 oz pitcher. Darn. Suggestions? BTW, liked and subbed.

Hello, I would like to know at what temperature you have your coffee maker (low, medium or high) because I set it on high so that the coffee would come out hotter and I think it is influencing the vaporization of milk because the jug with the milk heats up right away and it ends up coming out foamy so I can't do my drawings

Can you show us how to foam the milk using the Panarello wand that comes with the machine? Appreciate with thanks!

Did you purchase a different rubber wand? Mine is much much shorter than that, probably only an inch? (Watching w/o sound, in public :)

May I know how much espresso you use and what size is the cup? Great video btw!

Wow how did yuou remove the metal part ? Thanks a lot

thank you for the tips. I tried it with my delonghi, however, when I tried frothing the milk, the rubber nozzle blowed off. Can you show me how to fix the problem please? Another issue that I faced is that water still come out with the steam.

Hi thanks for your video, I just bought the non pressurized basket for my 35.31 delonghi but the extraction is way too fast, 15gram to 30ml is around 8 seconds and end up with sour espresso. I have the delonghi KG89 grinder, will that grind fine enough for non pressurised baskets or will I need to purchase a new one? One tip I got from another video for practicing frothing milk without wasting milk. Substitute milk for water but add a drop of dish washing soap. This will create bubbles or microfoam if your technique is correct !