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  • Are there any particularly "good" supermarket milks for steaming? In Ireland the best option was always Avonmore Super Milk, which you sadly cannot buy here ..

  • Are there any particularly "good" supermarket milks for steaming?

    What do you mean by “good”? I just use supermarket whole milk (usually Sainsbury’s because that’s my local supermarket). It’s homogenised, like most milk is now, which makes it very consistent. Every now and then I’ll get a bottle that won’t steam nicely and it froths up like washing up liquid, but it’s rare. Sometimes I’ll get semi-skimmed if I fancy my cups a bit lighter. If I want that really Italian cappuccino taste I’ll get a carton of UHT because it’s closest to their milk. I haven’t tried the filtered milks like Cravendale though.

    I wouldn’t get a Jersey milk or any other unhomogenised gold top, because you’ll have to work hard to reincorporate the cream and it’ll behave inconsistently when you steam it.

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