Crowdsourcing again: this time luxury

[neadods]

Thank you all for the shirt ideas! (I realized that this is my first major wardrobe redo in about 5 years. Wow.)

Now... anyone want to help me crowdsource something a little lot more pretentious?

Long story as short as I can make it - I've been buying chai for breakfast for years, but the new job* means that I can't spare the time to stop at the bakery every morning to get it.** I know from previous experiments that milk heated on the stove or in the microwave just isn't the same, so I'm thinking that I'm going to put part or all of my Discover bonus into a milk steamer/frother.

... a machine about which I know diddly.

Anybody out there got recommendations/warnings for steamers, cappuccino, or espresso machines?



*Seriously, the only reason there aren't steel cage death matches over parking is that they'd have to take spaces out to put in the cages.

**I bet the machine pays for itself in a month over the price of overpriced drink mix and a bakery bagel, TBH.

Comments

[shawan-7.livejournal.com]

I bought a frother for $25 at Williams-Sonoma. Warm up the milk, froth it up, drink. Clean frother.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Williams S looks like it has a unit that heats the milk as well as froths it, which would be perfect.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Turns out Ikea has a frother for about $4. I'm giving it a try.

[benbenberi.livejournal.com]

The cheap way to do it would be to heat the milk in the microwave, then froth it with an Aerolatte ($20 at Bed Bath & Beyond, Amazon, etc.). I can vouch for the Aerolatte being an excellent for doing things like whisking eggs for omelets, making salad dressing, & mixing hot chocolate; I've never actually used it for milk-frothing, but that's supposed to be one of its intended uses.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Hmmm.... I keep running into that thing everywhere I look, from Target through Ikea. It's good, eh? Certainly it's cheaper than buying a steamer.