Milk heater

Chris C

Chris C

Chris C

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I'm very partial to some hot chocolate at this time of year and I usually heat the milk in a pan. (No I won't entertain the idea of making hot chocolate with water) Is there an easier way?

I have a milk frother thing I got ages ago but it doesn't get the milk hot enough.

I also enjoy a nice latte, am I looking at investing in a coffee machine to do both?
 
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frother , whose body, would go in microwave ?
I make hot chocolate from cocoa everyday using espresso machine ie. steamed chocolate.. key is dissolving cocoa & sugar in a paste with small amount of hot water before adding milk

jpaul said:
so for the parents with a microwave the bodum one that could go into that, after, or before, it is throthed seems interesting, some degree of energetic manual work though.
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If you're feeling exceptionally lazy and have a coffee pod machine, you can put the milk into the water tank and it'll pour it at a decent temperature for hot chocolate.
Just make sure you run some water through it to clean it out after, otherwise it'll smell of off milk in the morning.
 
There are lots of equivalents to that Hotel Chocolat hot chocolate maker out there. But when you read the user reviews, they all tend to get complaints of not quite getting the milk hot enough too. (Edit: reading your post again, this might be what you're talking about already having. Sorry if so!)

The answer (apparently, only repeating what I've read) is to heat the mug with boiling water before pouring the hot chocolate in. That apparently makes enough difference to cancel out the not-quite-hot-enough.

Example (picking the Dualit because it's a known brand, but there's hundreds out there):
 
bazzabear said:
There are lots of equivalents to that Hotel Chocolat hot chocolate maker out there. But when you read the user reviews, they all tend to get complaints of not quite getting the milk hot enough too. (Edit: reading your post again, this might be what you're talking about already having. Sorry if so!)

The answer (apparently, only repeating what I've read) is to heat the mug with boiling water before pouring the hot chocolate in. That apparently makes enough difference to cancel out the not-quite-hot-enough.

Example (picking the Dualit because it's a known brand, but there's hundreds out there):
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Tried this today and it's definitely helped! Not sure it's quite as hot as I'd like, but it's made enough of a difference that I'll probably just carry on using my milk frother and preheat the mug. Thanks :)
 
I Microwave milk for my "Latte" 90 secs. Then mix the instant and back in for another 30 secs if a normal mug an extra 60 secs if its a big almost pint worth..
 
The reason they might not be getting the milk hot enough for your liking is that if you heat milk over 65-70°C you lose the sweetness as and texture of the milk, you wont notice the sweetness as much in a hot chocolate but can have quite an impact on flavour of milk based coffee drinks.
 
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