Milk Steaming Tutorial, Swan Retro, Delonghi Dedica, Gran Gaggia & More

A fellow coffee botherer asked the other day if I could create a milk steaming tutorial for the Swan Retro, AKA Kmart Anko or Aldi Ambiano (and other names).

So I thought I'd create one tutorial on steaming milk with this espresso machine and a couple of other low cost domestic espresso machines.

The technique is similar to that which I've demonstrated in the past with the Bambino Plus & the Gaggia Classic Pro, but it's just slightly different on each machine.

The main thing to take away from this video is that if you're using a low cost domestic espresso machine, you can ignore most milk steaming guides that you can see are being done using commercial espresso machines.

It's completely different when you're using a prosumer or commercial espresso machine with much more powerful steam, with some of these the whole thing is over in 15-20 seconds, and often only requires a few seconds of aeration time.

No matter what espresso machine you have, if it's a low cost machine, with either a very small steam boiler (as with the Gaggia machines) or with a thermoblock or thermocoil water heater (which most low cost machines have) it'll be a very similar process to this.

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