Steamer Curdles Milk ?

[EDDIE51]

My wife has developed a liking for Latte coffee. Fed up with the cost of buying the sachets of instant Latte mix I decided to buy a milk steamer. But every time I try to use it ,it curdles the milk. I am using full cream milk. What is going wrong? Milk is well inside its use by date .

[Fitzer]

Sounds like you might be heating it too long, what frother have you got? Whole milk is the trickiest to get right, skimmed is easiest to start with.

[EDDIE51]

I'll try skimmed, but we never normally bother with it as you may as well use water IMO

[gingejbee]

Milk steamer? Are you talking about (usual name) milk frother, that heats and froths the milk? Try semi-skimmed and don't over-heat . I have one (cheapo from Aldi) and it's never curdled the milk.

[EDDIE51]

^ I'll go with that I don't mind semi skimmed.

[Toorak]

I was told once to use a stainless steel jug for frothing and semi-skimmed milk: it seemed to work fine

[EDDIE51]

It's a Hinari Cafe Continental coffee maker with a steamer arm. You can set it to brew coffee or steam milk.

[Toorak]

I think that a stainless steel jug works better with these machines - apparently it heats more slowly so less likely to split the milk

[EDDIE51]

I was using a pyrex glass jug, I'll get a stainless steel one and use semi skimmed. I'll report how it goes.