The Biggest Milk Steaming Mistakes You're Making 

A good tip for feeling when temp hits the right two temps (100 degrees max for aeration, and between 155-160 for final) is to gently hold the bottom of your milk pitcher and when you feel it go from cold/cool to just warm by touch you have hit the 100 degree temp and you can now dip the wand into the milk and bring up the temp to desired range. When it's too hot to touch immediately bring the wand out. You don't have a lot of time to make that determination but you rather get it out soon as the temp can be over quickly. You'll roughly spend no more than 1/3 time in aeration and 2/3 time in emulsifying

Steaming has always been my issue. Thank you for the video. I am not consistent. The moment I do get it right I never paid attention to what I did lol.

I am having trouble at steaming as it gets too hot to touch before even being foam enough, thank you saying that I need more milk❤ my father is getting some.

Thanks for this. I recently got my first job at a highway-side coffee shop and the milk always screams for dear life when I steam it. ESPECIALLY with the non-dairy milks! I know there’s a trick to doing it right but I guess I missed that part of training lol

Such a great video. best instructions ive found so far.

Thanks for the info. It was very informative..

Thank you for doing this! I especially appreciate that you even filmed those messy scenes with milk overflowing or flying everywhere

SO FAR BEST I EVER HEARD. 🙏WELL DONE THANKS

I’ve been trying to make latte art for a few years now, and this was the single best video I’ve seen. I love explaining what to expect when you mess up at different steps. Reminds be of something you’d see in “The Food Lab”

Brilliant!! Thank you

THANK YOU! I just got a barista pro and this helped me before I FINISHED the video!

I enjoyed these helpful and unique tips that I have not seen on other sites. She is so fun to watch especially when she is cracking up. I feel like I am in the audience laughing too! Thanks.

Great description!! Thanks, Sam!

Absolutely fantastic video. Deadly intro. You guys are clearly just deadly peeps. The most massive takeaway for me in this video is turning the pitcher so the handle is perpendicular to your body. I have struggled with not wanting to turn my machine or position my body awkwardly in order to use my steam wand. My machine with the wand straight out towards me does not come up at an angle high enough to make it easy to get a good swirl going. I cannot for the life of me realize why I didn't just turn my pitcher to match the steam wand when I put the steam wand to the side of the machine. It literally makes so much sense with a wand that can't come up enough straight off the front. Not only that you're then tilting the pitcher towards you making it easier to see what you're doing. Love from canada :) xoxo

“If you do not aerate enough, the milk will let you know.” That is exactly why I started searching RU-vid for videos, it was screaming loud and did not result in a good milk product. Thanks for calling this out!

You guys are amazing teachers, no fluff just the technics and simple terminologies.

Very helpful, thank you.

Essential information admirably presented.

Thank you! 😊

Great stuff as always. Thanks a bunch 🌹🌷🌹

Ahhhh thank you I did experience milk explosion. Milk was everywhere. Was scared to repeat that experience. Cause I am too lazy to get a bucket and mop out. ; )

good tips here.

Watched this video then had to come back to comment. Your tips are the most useful I've ever seen and have lead to the best (although still very much beginner) art I've managed. Cheers!

Thanks I learned some good tips. And shes adorable.

That is by far the best steaming video out there - I challenge anyone to find better. Like a golf pro showing you how to hit a golf ball - it's all the stuff one doesn't get right which contributes to the final outcome. Well done. A brilliant educational video. Thanks.

do you think you could make a video on showing what it looks like when you add too much air while steaming and not enough air and just the right amount if you can even tell? Thanks!

Great video!

What helped me was changing milk brands. Then I got great foam

This was exactly what I needed to see. Just got a espresso machine for Christmas and I had no idea how to steam milk properly.

Thanks for this. I suck so bad at steaming milk!

Great video. Who makes the blue cup you’re using? Really like it!

Awesome video…thanks…but one question I’ve never seen answered is about how many steam holes in the wand are ideal? My machine has options of two holes or four holes. Any comments? Thanks

any advice of best ways of using 4-hole steaming-wand-tip ? Verus 2-hole? Thanks.

Thank you for the advice! I bought a Breville half a year ago and only succeeded in pouring art once by accident. I know I am not steaming milk correctly and thus no latte art. I think I may not be aerating the soy milk enough and thus not enough foam to draw. I seem to get only enough foam to start the art and then nothing more would come out. I am actually either going to pay for a class in latte art or forget about it. I am leaning towards the latter.

Hi there, great video! Just wondering if you could help.. I am using Oat Milk Figure Minor and 2 times out of 3, I get a nice silky surface but when I swirl for grooming, I can see the milk is separated. What do I do wrong? Aeration or the submergation part at the end? I've been watching lots of videos, practicing a lot as well but can't tell what I do right when I get this perfect milk or what I do wrong when it separated. Hope you can help. Cheers ! :)

Milksplosion… *giggle😊

I was on my shift and suddenly forgot how to steam milk 💀 this helped a lot so thanks 😂😂😂

Does this apply to plant-based milks as well? As I have a family history of Cancer and need to avoid the estrogen and BLV in dairy. Thanks for sharing

I have a two-hole steam wand and have yet to figure out the correct position, angle, and orientation of the holes to make good foam. Should one hole be pointing "up" and the other down? Should the holes be in the same direction (parallel) to the closest edge of the steam cup? Any advice would be much appreciated.

Thank you for these tips, I noticed that I'm doing some steps incorrectly.

which milk pitcher are you primarily using in these videos? cant find my ideal one around just yet. thanks!

Great vid, thank you! One question. I typically for two drinks will steam 8 oz on my Profitec 500. I find that I can make decent latte art with the first cup, but for the second cup its a bit thicker and not as neat. I use Oatly barista edition. Any thoughts? Thanks

Im using an inexpensive espresso machine and the steam wand is rather short and although my frothing technique is okay when I’m making a drink with higher volume of milk like a latte, I struggle with frothing milk for cappuccinos because I'm using less milk. I switched to a smaller pitcher, which has helped but im still not getting consistent results. Any suggestions?

Can u use this technique for the espresso personal machine?

What can you do with the milk left in the pitcher after pouring? Use again? Throw out?

Just failed my first milk froth and came here 😂 u were right, I heated it way to much before aerate it tasted like sugar at the end its just coffee and milk😂

I have Philips 2200 Series with Classic Milk Frother and when i use the steam wand to steam my milk it creates too many bubbles and microfoam so i can't do any latte art. Any suggestions?

The part I never get is how they do that motion that means "ok, I'm now drawing and not just pouring milk". I get that the foam will stay on the top and the liquid milk will sink, but it feels like they get to choose when to start pouring foam, and that makes no sense in my brain.

The pipe makes a lot of noise. Do you have a solution? Thank you!

Why my skim milk latter art sinks after a few seconds of pouring? 😢 not enough swirl after steaming?

I can get nice smooth texture but bubbles tend to appear a few minutes after it's been poured. Any ideas why that happens?

How do I use Heavy Cream instead of Whole Milk? Can you do a video using Heavy Cream....please !!

I feel like I use the correct technique but when I try to pour the art it’s just too thin. I use oat milk so maybe that’s why

3:14 "while the milk is still cold" how does this work with a frothing wand? I see many videos of people warming the milk first between 50 and 65 degrees, and have great success with the final art.

I find 6 seconds too short to get the heat that's too hot to touch. Is my steamer defective?

the wand position depends on how many holes your steam wand has try this method with a 4 hole steam wand and its not going to work well

Almost every cafe I go to virtually all of them do a hands free steam of the milk locking the steamwond and jug in on an angle. Never had bad milk yet 👌. Position may not be as important.

How many seconds should I hear kissing sound before raising it up

That seems weird; half and half (what we call semi skimmed) has to be aerated *longer* than full fat, but non-fat ("skimmed") has to be aerated least of all....?

Only one thing which can't understand.."more fat milk.more need to aeration".then why 6 seconds for full fat milk and 8 seconds for semi skimmed milk

This is frustrating

She’s cute. Nice fingers.