jgriff wrote:I know this is a little OT, but now that I've had Anita for almost a year I really don't understand all the fuss over the No-Burn stuff. I would appreciate having the better valves on mine, and having them pivot around in any direction would be nice, but the no-burn feature has never seemed that important to me. Hot wand=don't touch, except for the little rubber on it. Do other people get burned that much, or is it that much easier to clean?
Yeah, I have to say that I don't really get it either. I'm sure that they must be easier to clean than steam tips that have a lot of flat surfaces, like the Synesso steam tip. I know that I have a steam tip floating around that has a whole bunch of ridges on it so that you can get some grip when you're screwing it on and off. That thing holds milk like no other. I have heard that it is an Isomac tip, but I'm not sure. The no-burn wand requires one or two wipes with a damp cloth to clean, as do most of the decent steam wands that I have used.
A friend of mine had a machine with a no-burn wand and he ended up having to remove the plastic inner tube because his steam was spurting ... I think that the tube might have melted or something. He said that it was then a super-burn wand because the outside of the wand was quite thin.
The one thing that does kind of make sense to me is that the holes seem to aim a bit straighter forward than some of the standard prosumer machine steam tip, which seems to make them a bit more intuitive to use. That has absolutely zero to do with the "no-burn" factor, but I still think that it's a pretty cool feature. Seems to me that the "no burn" thing is just something cool that can be marketed, in the same way that marketing spiels make a big deal of bigger numbers (how many $150 machines have you seen that advertise an 18 bar pump).
Just my $0.02,
Luca
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