POV Tutorial | How to Steam Milk on the Decent Espresso DE1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ค. 2024
- In this video, I cover pitcher + wand placement, errors in milk steaming, and the result in the cup. It seems many DE1 owners are aerating too much or having trouble with their wand placement. I hope this video can help solve some of those challenges! As always, let me know if you have any specific questions. Thanks for watching!
NOTE: I personally didn't notice much difference between the resulting FW updates. Although some of you have noticed a drop in quality as of the last FW. I was used to steaming pre FW upgrade (the big one that upgraded our steam) so that's been my frame of reference. My other comparison is to my Gaggia Classic which was way worse than the DE1.
The amount of air you inject will depend on what type of drink you're making but the following steps can help you execute easily:
1. Pull wand out
2. Push wand to the right
3. Tilt wand to the right 20-30 degrees
4. Rest Left Wrist on Group Head Handle
5. Move the pitcher up/down to aerate + incorporate
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I couldn't figure out how to make steaming milk, but it helped me a lot because I was able to figure out what was wrong with my steaming milk.
I think it will be easier to adapt because all the environments in the video are very similar to me.
Thank you for sharing a good video.
Thanks for watching. Glad I could help! If you have any questions let me know.
I personally don't think there's a standard of how much air you can and can't have, or how thick or thin the milk is--it's preference and the style of drink you're making. I find the key to success is really about how well you can execute incorporation of air (desired texture) while also hitting the temperature you need to either 1) reach desired milk sweetness (and different milks will behave differently) or 2) get the drink at the desired temperature you like to enjoy it at.
people (specially barista) are confused about the right milk steaming technique! it’s all right! it’s depends on what you want! it’s that easy 😅
Another great video Brian. Needed this one.
Thanks a ton! Let me know when your setup arrives. I chatted a bit with monomax owners and you're definitely going to have to get good at puck prep. The Max is such a great grinder that you can be punished for bad prep even on something like the DE1. I'm putting together a video with the Discord guys showcasing good puck prep, building a WDT tool, and raking/WDT patterns (contrary to many of my own videos of using a toothpick LOL).
@@BrianQuan thanks I just received it. Since the max comes tested I had a good starting point on grind size. I've pulled a bunch of decent shots, nothing undrinkable luckily lol just using the default profile for now.
I think a puck prep video would be a great idea.
Did you say there was a telegram or discord group?
Yeah join here in the discord and we can chat more! discord.gg/jusPa7gj2g
We've been figuring out some new content to make and def would love some input. It's a great community and you can learn a ton.
Thank you for this video. I already tried your tips and it works great ! What's your calibration for steaming with de DE1?
I've left my steaming calibration stock since I got the machine.
OMG you are my favorite channel. I just watched one other video, then saw this title. I literally have not steamed on my Decent because I feel clueless, after reading about it, how to do it right. When I try, I get milk everywhere. (I'm a brew coffee guy, the decent is my first and probably last foray into espresso!)
By the way, I see the accupuncture needles. I made a WDT with them and it works great.
Hi Taylor,
Thanks for the comment! I hope the video was able to help. It's a lot more difficult to explain techniques over text so a solution to that is strapping a camera to my head to make videos. John does have a few videos on the Decent channel showcasing ghost steaming so you can check those out.
@@BrianQuan I will try to find his videos. I saw one that made it sound easy, but it did not tell you when to adjust the height of the milk jug, or what you are actually doing, like you did. I tried milk again last night, it was not good but at least I have some clue of what to do. I have the angle totally wrong. It seems pretty hard to position the milk jug when you have a thermometer in there (I'm using the decent one)
Great vid! Your illustration helps even for other espresso machines. It’s very clear.
I have a question, isn’t more challenging to steam milk while the pitchers are outside the fridge? Do you think if your milk was colder you’d get even better results or it wouldn’t matter?
While preparing my espresso, I leave the pitcher with the milk in the ‘freezer’ so it’s as cold as possible.
Having a cold pitcher and/or colder milk can help those struggling with creating great steamed milk as you have longer to incorporate the air introduced at the beginning of the process. Using milk which is of a warmer temperature would give you less time before it reaches the ideal drinking temperature (55C to 60C for many people).
I prefer the first one and usually the texture I aim for. Lol. #3 texture is too thin for me, but easier to produce complex latte art. IMO, foam is too thick when you can’t make latte art (because foam isn’t thin enough to have good petal separation) and #1 still produced great latte art with good petal separation.
Love the videos Brian - are those 6 oz glasses?
hi Brian! :) I'm wondering if you already pulled a shot and steam milk back to back to the point where you will feel that the machine is getting tired? I've been really interested with this machine because i want better tasting coffee as well but at the same time i also want to practice latte art from time to time :) do you think the machine can keep up? :) thank you so much for this video! :)
Why should the machine get tired? It can produce steam as long as water is in the reservoir. It has no "boiler" which needs to be heated up or such.
@@obiwan007 happy to say my decent didn’t get tired hehe, very satisfied with the machine
are you able to change steam tips?
Brian, what temp are you using? Do you just go until it’s uncomfortable to hold and figure it’s about 165?
Yep! When the pitcher is hot you should be in the ballpark of what works. But it depends on what milk and size of drink you are using.
@@BrianQuan Yeah, I can generally hold the bottom up to about 140º then I have to back off and just touch for 2 secs at a time. I like to pull it at about 160º . BTW, what brush is that? Like it!
It's a standard cleaning brush! There should be a set on amazon you can get that comes with a hard bristled one for your group head and soft ones for everything else.
Which de are you using and what voltage?
I have the DE1PRO 1.3 on 110v.
Don't you have to purge the steam wand before steaming with the Decent?
You do not because it is steam on demand
@@BrianQuan yet another feature i like about the Decent. I just ordered a DE1XXL and i'm very excited to play with it 🤩
Hey! I'm interested to get this, but are you able to steam and brew at the same time?
It can't. You can steam right after pulling the shot, but doing both at the same time is not possible
I don’t know man. Even the example that’s supposed to work, didn’t. 😅
His examples are horrible. So, he explains how he makes mistakes but dont put in the title "Tutorial" since Im expecting an actual tutorial... not just your examples of mistakes. Please consider of not just taking that one take and take multiple takes so you can show proper examples of bad... good... best.