A cloud of delicate milk foam is primarily associated with aromatic coffee, but experienced chefs know that such a foam suits not only lattes and cappuccino, but also many cocktails and even mashed soups. Is it possible to whip milk if you don't have a special coffee machine with a frother? It is possible, and very simple. There are several ways.
It is necessary
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- milk frother
- French press
- glass jar with a lid,
- microwave.
Instructions
Step 1
With a milk frother. This little device is familiar to many. A tiny spiral on the handle, in which two AA batteries are hidden. In order to whip them into foam, you first have to heat the milk. It is important not to boil the milk, but only to bring it to a temperature at which it is no longer safe to touch it.
Step 2
Remove the milk from the heat, pour it into a tall and narrow vessel, tilt the container slightly and lower the frother into it. For this procedure to be flawless, you must, firstly, remember to leave room for foam in your vessel, that is, milk should occupy no more than 1/3 of the volume, and secondly, do not confuse the procedure. First, lower the device and only then turn it on. After a while, no more than a couple of minutes, you have a fluffy milk foam ready.
Step 3
Switch off the frother and remove it from the milk. If you do the opposite, you can splash not only yourself, but the whole reality around you.
Step 4
To make the foam silky and dense, you need to lightly tap your vessel on a flat surface and twist it a couple of times around its axis. These simple steps will remove large bubbles from the milk froth and make it smooth.
Step 5
Using a French press The procedure for frothing milk in a French press at first differs little from the above. The milk should also be heated and poured into a French press flask. Now pay attention to the plunger - a piston with a spiral under the lid of the coffee press - with its help you have to whip the milk. Hold the lid and use vigorous up and down strokes of the plunger to froth the milk mass. This, of course, will take a little more time and effort than whipping with an electric frother, but the foam, if you do not forget to "knock and twist", will be just as tender and weightless.
Step 6
Another way to get delicious froth is to use an ordinary glass jar with a lid and a microwave oven. In this case, you do not need to heat the milk. Pour it into the jar so that it takes up no more than half of the total volume, close the jar with a lid.
Step 7
Begin to shake the jar vigorously until the milk froths and doubles in volume.
Step 8
Leave the lid on, place the jar in the microwave for one minute in the heating mode. The microwave will stabilize the froth and heat the milk.
