Thank you so much for taking the time to make such comprehensive tutorials. I’m new to all of this and I feel like you’ve helped my progress by leaps and bounds in a short amount of time. QUESTION: If my machine won’t let me make the espresso and steam the milk at the same time, which do you think I should make first? I’ve been steaming the milk first and swirling it until the espresso is ready. 🤷🏼♀️
After watching many milk foam tutorials I'm shocked that you are the only one smart enough to show with glass and water so we can see the wand depth and positioning! That was very helpful.
I've watched about 12 million videos on how to prepare the perfect silky milk. This one is by far the best! It is short and to the point, covering the main points. The glass container makes it a lot easier to understand the position of the steam wand. I'm an instant fan. Thank you.
Seriously the most concise but nuanced take on perfecting milk steaming. Excited to try it out. And can't go wrong with the half way and a quarter dance too lol
Going from stretching to incorporating once milk is body temp is a gem of a tip - this is the thing that let me be consistent with different types of milks, different amounts etc. Much better than trying to time it, or judge by how much volume has increased etc
I genuinely feel this is the strongest video when it comes to a “how to texturize milk” tutorial. Considering there are hundreds on TH-cam, I would consider that a job well done!
Love the video length it was perfect for someone who has already watched your full video a few times. I would love some refreshers or tips about various traditional latte art shapes like tips for tulips or a video about rippled variants. As always the content is immensely helpful to a home barista. Appreciate your help and knowledge. Cheers Lance!
such a great refresher! you’re always my first look for tutorials, and whenever i am training baristas, i always teach steaming like you do because you do it best! and before i go to train anyone i always have them watch your vids first :) thanks for making good tutorials so accessible
Thanks for your excellent tutorials, Lance! Though I followed your instructions carefully I just got hot oat milk and almost no foam when steaming on my new La Pavoni Cellini Mini. This morning I put the milk jar into the fridge for a while to see if that lower temperature would make a change. It worked wonders! From the first second, I knew that this was the missing variable. The milk slowly rose to a smooth, silky foam to the mug's rim. I couldn't imagine that a small temperature difference could make such a big difference. 🙏
I am New to your channel and new to the barista world so I have a lot of listening to do!!! I have watched at least 40 videos on milk steaming techniques and this is by far my favorite video. Why? 1- you use glass (see-thru) pitcher! Just Genius! 2- you show different angles to pinpoint exact hand /wand placement 3- you don’t ramble on and on! I’m in love!!! Thank you soooooo much! I can’t wait to try this technique on the espresso machine. Do you have a video on how to make every espresso drink and how best to memorize recipes?
Hey man! I manage a not-for-profit café in Melbourne - literally just opened properly this week after a crazy year. We provide training and support to people looking for community, social inclusion, and a supported pathway to employment. Your videos are so, so helpful. I take the view that the more seriously - and nerdy - I take the coffee thing, the more robust the skills training is for our trainees and volunteers. So just a shoutout of thanks for me, this is super helpful. Keep doing your thing!
I just buy the coffee maker today, and I’m very newbie for this coffee society, but I found your videos are very useful, explain clearly. I really love how you describe and stress out what exactly to do. Anyway, Thank you so much and have a great day. Love it
you have the best demonstration with the clear pitcher. It makes is so easy to see how to angle the wand and the pitcher. I'm still learning, Thank you
I found your first video when I first got my machine, it made me go from really horribly bubbly milk to silk smooth milk - thanks for all the help so far!
I agree with the other comments, this is the best you’re stealing video I have watched, as a teacher. I’m very impressed by your teaching chops, my friend.
YOUR GUIDELINE OF HOW MAKE SILKY MILK (HALF WAY AND A QUARTER) MADE MY LATTES LOOK AND TASTE AWESOME!!!THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE JOURNEY SO FAR.... LOOKING FORWARD FOR NEW LESSONS P.S. I'M VERY HAPPY WATCHING YOUR SUBSCRIBERS INCREASING EVERY TIME YOU UPLOAD A NEW VIDEO :)
Thanks for the concise explanation : 'stretch' first, then immerse tip further to incorporate stretched milk, is what I think you said. Will try this v.soon.
Thank god! Finally a decent video!!!! It's absolutely astonishing how many useless videos there are on this subject. Thank you so much for this, I really needed this for work:)
I know I'm late to this one but I thought I'd share my experience: I work at a local coffee shop but I got my own espresso machine (a Bambino Plus) about two months ago. While I could get good results on the machine we have at work, the milk I was steaming at home was seriously lacking. Just this morning, I tried your technique and it made a huge difference. Thanks a lot!
So far have been able to make really nice tasting latte's, but haven't mastered the milk quite yet. I am not getting the silky, frothy texture. Only been at it for a couple days but will keep watching until I get this. Love your teaching style, clear and repetitive to drive home the important points.
Lance, want to say thank you. You really changed the coffee experience for me and my friends. Super good explanation and strong tutorial. Keep up the great work, will follow your career.
This was super helpful: for some reason my milk steaming has been garbage lately, and the refresher reminded me of what I have been getting lazy about.
Wow thank god i found you, i have wasted alot of time trying to find the art of coffee with peoples tutorials. This was so so helpful. Im now going to lool at the rest of yoir videos and hope i can learn more Thanks for explaining this so well.
This is a fantastic way of explanation, very clear, especially using a transparent jug to show the position to inject air. this is the right way to clarify it. Otherwise, it will be hard to know. Thank you so much. It helps me a lot 🥰
Watched a lot of your videos. Love em. Good refresher from a decade plus out of the coffee shop. Love your teaching style and I have to say, The clear pitcher with the water injecting water… incredible visual for understanding.
The view of the difference in the amount of air as you changed the depth of the steam wand is so helpful! I have been struggling with my Breville Infuser and its low pressure steam wand. Now, I want to test the depth with a glass pitcher.
I really laughed out loud a couple of times! You’re a wonderful maestro! Great personality, I enjoyed this video… 2024 and I just got my first espresso ☕️ machine, BREVILLE Oracle… I’m going to do this manual technique now thanks so much !
Just watched your more in-depth milk steaming video yesterday! Love the short length and level of detail in this video. Only just starting out on this hobby and struggling to get my milk to stay on top of the espresso / crema (to attempt art), although I'm sure it's just the milk texture I need to perfect. Thanks again!
Appreciate the refresher. Actually reminded me of a (very minor) mistake I was making. I was doing 0.75/0.25 (or putting myself in the middle of that back right quadrant). Still got silky milky in that position, but I think bringing it back to the middle that extra 0.25 will definitely help with consistency.
Yo! You are so much fun to watch, 1/2 way and a quarter!!!!! I've just got a new machine and feel like I'm starting my milk steaming journey all over again. I'm a give this a go in the morning, thanks for the video, great content.
Your explanation of this has helped me so much. I just got a linea mini a week ago and this has greatly improved having a baseline to start with. Now I just need to get the movements and stretching time down!
This video helped me a lot in understanding what the full process is to get great steamed milk. I still can't seem to get it to flow though. I get foam but can't blend it together.
This was perfect! I appreciate your original video's thoroughness, but it is nice to have a video that's mostly technique after having learned the theory and terminology.
Hi Lance! I just discovered your channel and it is excellent! I have been a home barista for over decade and your steam wand position advice has already started to help me get even better. Question: do you change the positioning at all depending on the number of holes in your steam tip? I have seen lots of different advice for 2 hole vs. 3 hole vs 4 hole positioning. Obviously, timing will be different, but have you played around with your technique with all of them? Also, in one of your videos, you mention that it "works" on all milk varieties, noting that some alternative milks might need a little more aggressive introduction of air. Would you please do a video working with skim and 1% milk? Lots of people want their lattes with the "more healthy" option but I find it much more challenging to get silky milk with those. Thanks!
Always good to go back to basics, I do around two Latte's a day some times four and I always seem to get out of position on my first steaming, thankfully the BBE steams slower so I can correct my position and get a ok foam on first Latte by second always better, lol great video Lance :)
Love the content, Lance!! I’m just starting to get into the world of drinking milk drinks after drinking nothing but straight spro forever. Keep being you man you’re amazing
Watched your full length video and loved it and helped me out so much making better and better coffees. But it was amazing to see now what is actually happening in the pitched when you are stretching! Gave me an even better understanding to the art of steaming milk! Thanks lance!
Ah yea. So, you'll approach both the same way. Just, the periods will be much shorter on the commercial and vice versa on the delonghi. All about control and reacting.
Excellent tutorial 👌 Just starting out and struggling with the microfoam. I'm definitely over thinking it too much! Ps You remind me so much of Jack Black when you say Boom! 🤣 Great video thanks 😊
Welcome to the comments! I respond to every single one!
Please take some time to hit like and subscribe! Thanks very much 🙏🏻
Shorter length much appreciated. Thank you - this is now a video I can send to people.
Fantastic! Glad you enjoyed it's friend
Thank you so much for taking the time to make such comprehensive tutorials.
I’m new to all of this and I feel like you’ve helped my progress by leaps and bounds in a short amount of time.
QUESTION: If my machine won’t let me make the espresso and steam the milk at the same time, which do you think I should make first?
I’ve been steaming the milk first and swirling it until the espresso is ready. 🤷🏼♀️
U read my mand said what i wanted to lol thnx both
the see through glass really helped reconcile your verbal instructions with what's happening.
After watching many milk foam tutorials I'm shocked that you are the only one smart enough to show with glass and water so we can see the wand depth and positioning! That was very helpful.
He’s also the only one with a song and a dance and a bada bing, bada boom!
I've watched about 12 million videos on how to prepare the perfect silky milk. This one is by far the best! It is short and to the point, covering the main points. The glass container makes it a lot easier to understand the position of the steam wand. I'm an instant fan. Thank you.
Seriously the most concise but nuanced take on perfecting milk steaming. Excited to try it out. And can't go wrong with the half way and a quarter dance too lol
If every video you’ve watched was only 30 seconds, you’ve spent 4167 full days watching silky milk videos.
Same here!
Going from stretching to incorporating once milk is body temp is a gem of a tip - this is the thing that let me be consistent with different types of milks, different amounts etc. Much better than trying to time it, or judge by how much volume has increased etc
Absolutely. Timing doesn't help at all from milk to milk. Thanks for your support and kind words!
I genuinely feel this is the strongest video when it comes to a “how to texturize milk” tutorial. Considering there are hundreds on TH-cam, I would consider that a job well done!
Wow huge praise! Thank you so much! Appreciate the support
Love the video length it was perfect for someone who has already watched your full video a few times. I would love some refreshers or tips about various traditional latte art shapes like tips for tulips or a video about rippled variants. As always the content is immensely helpful to a home barista. Appreciate your help and knowledge. Cheers Lance!
Fantastic! Latte art tid bits. You got it!
What would be interesting is a video explaining how the number and size of the holes in the steam tip affect your milk frothing.
such a great refresher! you’re always my first look for tutorials, and whenever i am training baristas, i always teach steaming like you do because you do it best! and before i go to train anyone i always have them watch your vids first :) thanks for making good tutorials so accessible
Thank you so much Elijah! I'm so happy that my videos have been found useful
Lance, we are ready for some swag “half way and a quarter” “silky milky” “breaking the crust” “spro over”
hahaha! I always said once I hit 100k subs, i'll go the merch route! And those are definitely ideas lol
Thanks for your excellent tutorials, Lance!
Though I followed your instructions carefully I just got hot oat milk and almost no foam when steaming on my new La Pavoni Cellini Mini. This morning I put the milk jar into the fridge for a while to see if that lower temperature would make a change. It worked wonders! From the first second, I knew that this was the missing variable. The milk slowly rose to a smooth, silky foam to the mug's rim. I couldn't imagine that a small temperature difference could make such a big difference. 🙏
I am New to your channel and new to the barista world so I have a lot of listening to do!!!
I have watched at least 40 videos on milk steaming techniques and this is by far my favorite video.
Why?
1- you use glass (see-thru) pitcher! Just Genius!
2- you show different angles to pinpoint exact hand /wand placement
3- you don’t ramble on and on!
I’m in love!!!
Thank you soooooo much!
I can’t wait to try this technique on the espresso machine.
Do you have a video on how to make every espresso drink and how best to memorize recipes?
Hey man!
I manage a not-for-profit café in Melbourne - literally just opened properly this week after a crazy year. We provide training and support to people looking for community, social inclusion, and a supported pathway to employment. Your videos are so, so helpful.
I take the view that the more seriously - and nerdy - I take the coffee thing, the more robust the skills training is for our trainees and volunteers.
So just a shoutout of thanks for me, this is super helpful. Keep doing your thing!
That is absolutely fantastic to hear. Thank you sincerely for sharing! And keep on! Appreciate your work
The glass pitcher was immensity helpful! Thanks!
Fantastic! So glad it helped you!
one of the best steaming tutorials I have seen
Thanks so much for the close up and explanation with water glass. Very clear.
I just buy the coffee maker today, and I’m very newbie for this coffee society, but I found your videos are very useful, explain clearly. I really love how you describe and stress out what exactly to do. Anyway, Thank you so much and have a great day. Love it
Incredible! Thank you so much. I am so thankful for your kind words! Happy brewing
you have an excellent teaching style
The most efficient video on steaming milk ever. This is what anyone needs to be able to! Thank you!
Got a Breville Infuser last week and this video helped so much! Thank you, Lance for providing such helpful instructions.
This is really helpful Lance - and first time I’ve seen it in a glass pitcher which makes so much sense now. Thank you!
you have the best demonstration with the clear pitcher. It makes is so easy to see how to angle the wand and the pitcher. I'm still learning, Thank you
I found your first video when I first got my machine, it made me go from really horribly bubbly milk to silk smooth milk - thanks for all the help so far!
Absolutely! So happy you enjoy the content. Thanks for the engagement!
genuinely the most detailed and understandable videos out there
Spat my coffee out and couldn't help but chuckle at "silky milky"
😜🤣 true to my videos, I'm a weirdy lol
Love the short form video, Lance. Concise and to the point. Excellent!
That was brilliant. This video deserves to be #1 on steaming milk for espresso.
Halfway and a quarter to get Silky silky milky. Thank you Lance!
This is a perfect length and tone for an instructional video for my needs. Thanks a lot!
Fantastic! So glad you found it so useful. Thanks for watching!
Huge congrats on passing 60k subscribers. 👏🏻
That silver TH-cam plaque is in sight! 😉
Thank you so much! Past halfway! Can almost smell it! Lol
@@LanceHedrick - Won’t be long now, Lance! 💪🏻
I agree with the other comments, this is the best you’re stealing video I have watched, as a teacher. I’m very impressed by your teaching chops, my friend.
YOUR GUIDELINE OF HOW MAKE SILKY MILK (HALF WAY AND A QUARTER) MADE MY LATTES LOOK AND TASTE AWESOME!!!THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE JOURNEY SO FAR....
LOOKING FORWARD FOR NEW LESSONS
P.S. I'M VERY HAPPY WATCHING YOUR SUBSCRIBERS INCREASING EVERY TIME YOU UPLOAD A NEW VIDEO :)
thank you so much! Means a lot you are learning from my videos. Thanks, as always, for the postiive comment!
You’re such a G! I love this video Lance
you the man! hope you are keeping well, friend
Thanks for the concise explanation : 'stretch' first, then immerse tip further to incorporate stretched milk, is what I think you said. Will try this v.soon.
Thank god! Finally a decent video!!!! It's absolutely astonishing how many useless videos there are on this subject. Thank you so much for this, I really needed this for work:)
I know I'm late to this one but I thought I'd share my experience: I work at a local coffee shop but I got my own espresso machine (a Bambino Plus) about two months ago. While I could get good results on the machine we have at work, the milk I was steaming at home was seriously lacking. Just this morning, I tried your technique and it made a huge difference. Thanks a lot!
Excellent illustration with glass jug
Thank you! So happy you enjoyed it
I'm digging the art on the fridge. Need more of that.
haha! I'll pass it along. That is shot at my friend's house lol
So far have been able to make really nice tasting latte's, but haven't mastered the milk quite yet. I am not getting the silky, frothy texture. Only been at it for a couple days but will keep watching until I get this. Love your teaching style, clear and repetitive to drive home the important points.
Lance, want to say thank you. You really changed the coffee experience for me and my friends. Super good explanation and strong tutorial. Keep up the great work, will follow your career.
Incredible! Thank you so much for sharing. Things like this make my day
This was super helpful: for some reason my milk steaming has been garbage lately, and the refresher reminded me of what I have been getting lazy about.
This is a nice refresher short video to the longer video you made on the same topic. I need a reminder every once in a while.
Lance-a-Lot, this was your best milk tutorial because you showed positioning in a glass jug. That really helped me. Thx!
Is fantastic Ted! I'm so glad that visual helped you
Wow thank god i found you, i have wasted alot of time trying to find the art of coffee with peoples tutorials. This was so so helpful. Im now going to lool at the rest of yoir videos and hope i can learn more
Thanks for explaining this so well.
finally.. was waiting for the past 2 hours just for this video to drop!
Haha! I had some issues uploading. Sorry for the wait! And thanks for the support!
This is a fantastic way of explanation, very clear, especially using a transparent jug to show the position to inject air. this is the right way to clarify it. Otherwise, it will be hard to know. Thank you so much. It helps me a lot 🥰
Genuinely one of the best guides. And funny too when you made the injecting air sound I lost it 🤣
Best explanation I have seen.👍
Watched a lot of your videos. Love em. Good refresher from a decade plus out of the coffee shop. Love your teaching style and I have to say, The clear pitcher with the water injecting water… incredible visual for understanding.
The view of the difference in the amount of air as you changed the depth of the steam wand is so helpful! I have been struggling with my Breville Infuser and its low pressure steam wand. Now, I want to test the depth with a glass pitcher.
Absolutely! So glad the imagery was helpful
Lance is the boss!
I really laughed out loud a couple of times! You’re a wonderful maestro! Great personality, I enjoyed this video… 2024 and I just got my first espresso ☕️ machine, BREVILLE Oracle… I’m going to do this manual technique now thanks so much !
Thanks for posting Lance!
Absolutely Amanda! Thank you for watching!
You are literally a legend!
Half-way and a quarter is now indelibly etched in my consciousness. Awesome vid Lance-a-lot.
thank you so much for showing this in a glass pitcher! very helpful
Love it. Maybe a 5min latte art one. I really need help with steaming and art. 😂
Oh I am for sure working on this
Just watched your more in-depth milk steaming video yesterday! Love the short length and level of detail in this video.
Only just starting out on this hobby and struggling to get my milk to stay on top of the espresso / crema (to attempt art), although I'm sure it's just the milk texture I need to perfect. Thanks again!
Yes. Once you get that silky milky, you'll understand flow a lot better
@@LanceHedrick Thank you! Will keep practicing, thanks again for the awesome video.
Very short sweet n informative. No long story nonsense. Thank u❤
Dude seriously thank you so much. This was brief and extremely informative. Definitely practicing this ASAP!
Thank you for sharing… I will try it out.
I've been binging your videos and I just want to be your friend. :-) The amount of education in a fun way with sound effects is perfect!
Im getting better because of youuu ! Thanks lanceee !!!
That makes me so happy to hear! Thanks for the comment, sincerely!
Appreciate the refresher. Actually reminded me of a (very minor) mistake I was making. I was doing 0.75/0.25 (or putting myself in the middle of that back right quadrant). Still got silky milky in that position, but I think bringing it back to the middle that extra 0.25 will definitely help with consistency.
For sure. Especially when you venture from dairy. Dairy is easy from loads of angles, but this will give you silk with any bevy
@@LanceHedrick oh, I've ventured. 😜
Haha! Love it.venture into the unknown, as Elsa says
Bravo 👏. First time I’ve gotten the concept of when to stop the stretch thank you!
Perfect! So insanely stoked you enjoy the video and find it helpful!
One of the best tutorials for steaming milk
Your video was recommended to me to watch, and I can see why. Very helpful to me, and you explained things really well. Thank you so much.
you are a legend bro
Yo! You are so much fun to watch, 1/2 way and a quarter!!!!! I've just got a new machine and feel like I'm starting my milk steaming journey all over again. I'm a give this a go in the morning, thanks for the video, great content.
This guys videos are top notch !
Thank you so much Mike!
You could literally make a fortune doing a silky milky tour of north america, I’d sign up for a master class for sure!
! Something certainly to consider
Thanks for the video Lance!
I appreciate you watching! Thank you
Was perfect. Just switched milk and struggling, this was good reminders
Love the shorter format, killin it dude!
Thank you Ross! I'm stoked you dig it
Back to the espresso machine to practice!
thank you ! this was so easy to understand !!
Your explanation of this has helped me so much. I just got a linea mini a week ago and this has greatly improved having a baseline to start with. Now I just need to get the movements and stretching time down!
This video helped me a lot in understanding what the full process is to get great steamed milk. I still can't seem to get it to flow though. I get foam but can't blend it together.
Legend! Worked a treat for me first time… Art needs a lot of work but finally getting there! Thank you 🙏
I don't even have an espresso machine but your videos are so fun to watch :D
Haha that is fantastic! So glad I am able to generally entertain 🤣 hopefully you liked the halfway and a quarter dance 😜
This was perfect! I appreciate your original video's thoroughness, but it is nice to have a video that's mostly technique after having learned the theory and terminology.
Thank you so much! So happy it was helpful to you
This is very helpful Lance
Thank you Josh! I'm stoked you enjoyed it
Great refresher as always. Good teaching techniques to take from this too for barista trainers. Thanks
Thank you! My impetus for the channel was to help baristas, so hearing this warms my heart
That is such a good video! You are an extremely good tutor!! Many thanks for this - amazed that I have mised it for so long
i’m begging you to do a hair care video! your curls are amazing :)
Hahaha! You would be disappoonted to hear my hair care regimen lol
This was so visually informative! The glass jug is so good. Im finally grasping stretching and whirling ❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍
Fantastic! I'm so glad the video was helpful. Thank you for commenting
Hi Lance! I just discovered your channel and it is excellent! I have been a home barista for over decade and your steam wand position advice has already started to help me get even better. Question: do you change the positioning at all depending on the number of holes in your steam tip? I have seen lots of different advice for 2 hole vs. 3 hole vs 4 hole positioning. Obviously, timing will be different, but have you played around with your technique with all of them? Also, in one of your videos, you mention that it "works" on all milk varieties, noting that some alternative milks might need a little more aggressive introduction of air. Would you please do a video working with skim and 1% milk? Lots of people want their lattes with the "more healthy" option but I find it much more challenging to get silky milk with those. Thanks!
Always good to go back to basics, I do around two Latte's a day some times four and I always seem to get out of position on my first steaming, thankfully the BBE steams slower so I can correct my position and get a ok foam on first Latte by second always better, lol great video Lance :)
For sure! Definitely never a time we don't need a quick brush up. Thanks for watching and the support!
Found it, you are the man Lance!
Love the content, Lance!! I’m just starting to get into the world of drinking milk drinks after drinking nothing but straight spro forever. Keep being you man you’re amazing
Watched your full length video and loved it and helped me out so much making better and better coffees.
But it was amazing to see now what is actually happening in the pitched when you are stretching! Gave me an even better understanding to the art of steaming milk! Thanks lance!
Thank you so much for the support and watching! Means a lot
Thanks Lance
I currently have access to a commercial machine at work and the steam is a lot more powerful than my dinky little Delonghi at home
Ah yea. So, you'll approach both the same way. Just, the periods will be much shorter on the commercial and vice versa on the delonghi. All about control and reacting.
I love the way you explain every step in detail 🔥👌🏿 your presentation is so enjoyable and i am going to try this tomorrow
Excellent tutorial 👌 Just starting out and struggling with the microfoam. I'm definitely over thinking it too much!
Ps You remind me so much of Jack Black when you say Boom! 🤣 Great video thanks 😊
Life goals, silky silky milky..milk. Great video as always, short is good, when the quality is good, which on this channel, is top notch 👍🏼💪🏼🇮🇪
Haha thank you so much. Really appreciate it, Thomas!
Thanks a lot for your video. It helps me to understand how to point the steamer. I shared it to our work group as well. Good job pal 👍.
Absolutely the BEST video out there
Excellent thanks
My kids love it when I make cocoa babyccino’s using your method. Thanks for the lessons.
Cocoa baby-chinos lol
Haha fantastic! I make the hot choccys for my kiddo, too
You’re amazingly clear. Thanks