Forget all the reading....I'll just follow this guy's steaming video for the "perfect Latte"



Up Periscope!

Endo wrote:Forget all the reading....I'll just follow this guy's steaming video for the "perfect Latte"

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Up Periscope!

OMG up Periscope indeed, and fire all torpedoes!!! That video should be rated RX. (Ridiculous Xtreme) Man where did you find such a stellar tutorial video!

Though I must say that was a great example of how to make classic cotton ball milk. And oh yummy, pre-ground coffee. Such detail to distribution and tamping. Suppose it didn't hurt it too much more than it already was by locking it in a hot group and just letting it sit there. Then again, probably as good as some of the dreck I made decades ago first experimenting with a steam toy...

HB wrote:You're so right, the key to steaming on Elektras is do as little as possible. It takes some [un]learning after years of jockeying the steam wand on other espresso machines.

Thanks Dan. I think this is what i'm going through, after using a starbucks Barista machine for ten years and now having a cimbali commercial style lever machine. I try and try to do things that I used to do to get good foam and all I get is bubbles. The thing is so powerful it blows the milk out of the pitcher. I'll keep practicing, but I think I still have more to unlearn about stretching and plunging.

Hi guys,

well I tried the 'do as little as possible' approach on my Elektra T1 and mostly it ended in warm/hot milk, nothing more. Normally I try to surf the tip a little bit creating very small bubbles at the beginning, afterwards I just swirl the milk in the jug mixing everything and warming up the milk. I also discovered that it's much easier to block the two holes in the original tip if you want to steam small volumes of milk (ie. for a single cap), otherwise the fun ends far too quickly and you can't really do too much about it (or you end up with half of milk outside of the jug:)).

Regards,
dsc.