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tom
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 Steaming Milk with Breville Cafe Roma - 2008/02/23 06:34 I am completely new to espresso machines, bought a Breville Cafe Roma yesterday on a friends recommendation. I prefer capuccino to espresso so milk steaming & frothing will be important to me from a machine.

Should I be getting water out of the steam wand?

When i set it to steam, the "Heating" Light immedieatly goes on and stays on telling me that the thermoblock must be being powered to get hot enough to produce steam. Is the "Heating" Light supposed to be always on when steaming? Also as soon as I set it to steam, the pump turns on and stays on. (I think its the pump, its a dull thud every second or so, like a vibration pump I think)

Anyhow, in the 1st 20 seconds of steaming a bit of water pours out and in that period 7.5ml of water is produced. This seems like a lot. I would think introducing water to the milk is not good.

If I let it steam for a while (1 minute), then stop it, replace the pitcher with an empty on, turn it back on and steam again for 1 minute I get another 17ml in that minute. Again seems like a lot since steaming/frothing milk takes a while and there isn't that much milk there in the first place.

I am out of milk now so I can't experiment
But I get the feeling even as I start to learn to get a better consistency in the milk, it will be difficult because of the water that the steam wand produces.

Is the water in the milk bad and if so is it unavoidable with this machine? Do I need a boiler machine for decent steaming? I can still return my Roma.

Thanks,
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