Capresso Froth TEC Automatic Milk Frother

Delicious!
Coffee latte with strong espresso and frothed heated milk in the morning is one of life's great pleasures. However, it is not so easy to duplicate the product of a professional coffee shop at home. The high pressure espresso machine of the pros produces an intense brew which only the most expensive home machines can approach. And then there is the frothed milk.

This is a head to head comparison of two milk heater-frothers, by Capresso and Jura. They cost about the same. I used 6 oz of whole milk and followed the instructions carefully. My report:

-Design and build quality. The Capresso is a lovely precision design, with a glass milk container. It has a removable frothing disk that rotates in the bottom. The Jura is somewhat simpler, and the milk container is teflon. The capacity of the Capresso is larger, if you are trying to froth up your partner as well as yourself. So to speak.

-Frothing efficiency. They both worked well but the Capresso produced a...

Not as good as the Capresso Froth Pro
There is nothing I enjoy more than a cup of nice frothed milk or hot chocolate, and I've owned a number of milk frothers and espresso machines to use for this purpose. What I'm looking for in a milk frother is that it will make a nice cup of dense heated froth (not a lot of runny milk) be easy to clean, and not dangerous or difficult to operate.

I confess I thought this frother wasn't really up to snuff. The frothed milk it produced was low in foam (just a lot of warm milk with a very little foam on top) it took a long time to heat up, and it cooked milk onto the bottom of the froth container, which made it harder to clean There are lots of small parts you have to individually clean. Not good.

Compared to other excellent products like the easy to use, Capresso Frothpro, which this company also makes, with only 1 part you have to wash, and no problem cleaning, this machine was a pain. The milk I made in it was low in froth filled with air, and the scalded cooked...

Big, Slow, and Excellent


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