This is after steaming a few minutes. There’s this oily floating substance in the milk. Anyone have any thoughts on what this is? I have had some issues with the machine taking longer to steam birth wand is really hot, not sure what’s going on.
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Milk fat? Are you using some high fat milk? Idk
, looks a little bit like butter
Are you using non-homogenized milk or something like that?
butter
it’s made from milk
What’s the fat % of your milk? Use 3.7 or lower. This is likely some full fat home milk in the range of 5-6%
Steaming a few MINUTES??
A few minutes?
Bro you’re on your way to making cheese.
I think a few minutes is a long time, when I steam (and from anecdotal timing at shops near me) steaming takes on the order of tens of seconds, from 20-50 seconds.
Milk is an emulsion and it looks like you’re breaking it, essentially, I’m pretty sure these are butter bubbles from breaking the milk emulsion.
Steamed it for a few minutes lol you cooked your milk and the fat completely separated. That’s clarified butter in your milk.
Ideally steaming should be less than 30 seconds.
Are you not placing your free hand on the pitcher to let you know that the milk had gotten too hot? If it’s too hot for your hand, it’s too hot for the milk.
Might aswell steam it a bit more and make butter
I don’t think this will happen with homogenized milk. Your milk has a cream top…not homogenized.
What temp did this get to? Do you use a thermometer? Ideally you should stop before the 150-160 range at most
Brother…first of all, you steamed the milk for minutes?
Second of all, what the fat percentage milk is that?
Even crappy machines should steam milk in under a minute, I’ve never seen anyone steam for more than 90 seconds for some seriously stiff foam
It might be because you’re meant to steam it for like 40 seconds or less 💀
I steam mine until the metal is to hot to touch you’re steaming it to long
You’re late to the butter coffee trend
Bro made butter 💀 kind of impressive honestly
r/NoStupidQuestions !!🤷🏻♂️
To those that say it’s butter, no it’s not. I have the same thing before frothing it. I still don’t know what it was. I normally mix oat milk and whole milk so I thought it’s because I did not shake oat milk but I’m still not sure if this was the reason.
# STEAM FINER
I’m gonna start calling mine a birth wand
That’s one of the funniest posts I’ve seen here, don’t worry op, you will get there 😉 I suggest you watch a tutorial video on how to properly steam the milk
Olive milk
That’s some nice fatty milk!
Buttered coffee is a thing.
Hold the bottom of the jug and steam only until its uncomfortable to hold. Any further and you are cooking the proteins and ruining the drinking experience.
You ever put oil in that cup? Did you wash it well? Sometimes oil will stick the side of dish that hasn’t been properly washed, then float to the top of whatever liquid you put in there. Especially if the oil gets warmed up.
It definitely looks like fat that has separated from the milk.
I bought a cheap laser thermometer that works for liquid and I use it to check my milk periodically when I’m steaming it so I can stop at exactly 150°F. A probe thermometer would likely be more accurate, but I needed a laser one for another project anyway, so it just serves another purpose.
Something like that might help you to know how long to steam it for.
There is full cream milk and there will be…
I get that straight from the bottle without steaming if I use the Cream on Top type of Milks.
steam for like 22 seconds at max
I’m afraid you’re gonna have to grind finer