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So I've managed to break my second Bodum milk frother. This one lasted a couple of years. It makes great frothy milk as long as you use skimmed milk but being glass & pump operated you have to be a bit gentle with it. So do I buy another one for £15 or buy a Dualit electric one for £50? Anyone used both or can comment on the quality & durability of the Dualit?
I've got a Nespresso one.
Been very reliable and you get two paddle things to control the amount of froth it produces as it heats the milk.
I've also got the Nespresso one. Had it for a couple of months so can't comment on longevity but its a doddle to use and clean and it works really well. It bought it as part of a bundle with a coffee machine. The uber-frother paddle thingy that www mentions produces loads of very 'rigid' froth.
Nespresso here, been good. Or 20 x £2.50 IKEA ones 🙂
Ours is made by Judge. Solid stainless steel, won't break, simple, works.
Krups frother here. I've had it for a year, used daily and it shows no sign of packing in yet...
It has three settings for 'frothiness' and takes three diffent volumes of milk to correspond. It makes a really good hot chocolate on the high volume / low froth setting, or will do latte (medium volume / froth) or cappucino (low volume / high froth) milk on the other two.
Milk really is piping hot when it is ready.
EDIT - Can be a pain if you are doing two cups in a row - I have a two cup stove top coffee maker so wanted to be able to heat two cups of milk - which is why I chose the Krups as it had the high volume option... not as frothy as when you just do one, but at least you don't have to wait between them.
Bialetti Tuttocrema for me.
Fill it with milk, heat milk on the pan. Pump handle
till a nice frothy consistency is acheived. Find them
really good at making hot chocolate from cocoa powder as
well.
Cheers. I've ordered the Bialetti Tuttocrema.
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+1 for the Bialetti Tuttocrema. It's what we used before buying a gaggia. Always thought full fat milk gave better froth though.
Cheers. I've ordered the Bialetti Tuttocrema.
Nice one. Its a cracking bit of kit with nowt much to go wrong really. Just dont heat the milk with the lid on obviously, and rinse under a tap asap. Left on for a while once and it went a bit pongy. Took ages to get rid of the gone off milk smell.
Actually recommended one to a mate once. He wasnt that happy with how it frothed. Turned out he was pouring cold milk and and pumping away hahahaha.
We've got one very similar to the Bialetti and it's good for larger volumes of milk.
We've also got a couple of Nespresso frothers which are the go-to device now. One was faulty out of the box (teach me to buy from eBay seller) and they swapped it no probs.
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This was dead cheap, and makes frothy milk. Ikea £1. Buy a couple each time I am dragged there.
+1 for the IKEA £1 job + microwave. I bought a £20 kettle style frother/heater thing recently. Underwhelming...
Initially misread the thread title as "Milk Brothers".
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Don't get the dualit one, it's bobbins. Either you have too little milk and it burns or too much and it overflows. The margin for error from the optimal milk volume is I estimate (as I've never managed it) 0.005ml
Dualit frother for me, as long as you stick to the min max markings on the the metal spinning thingy its fine. Had it for over a year and makes a cracking hot cup o froth, then simply add some espresso Tassimo shots for a perfect latte/espresso etc