Sorry Gary, Milk has no place in good coffee leave the milk out and enjoy coffee at it’s best

Just my opinion and preference.

MichaelR

Cows do not produce milk to an exact specification 🙂

Also there may be variations in the distribution of the microwaves inside the oven chamber. That may cause localised overheating. The starting temperature of the milk and water mix may also affect the result.

Robert.

My Mum always heated up whole milk in a dedicated saucepan (usually until it boiled over) then she would stir in a heaped teaspoon of Nescafe. I remember her distress when the powder became unavailable, and she had to use these new-fangled granules instead – they really weren’t the same.

My father drank tea at home but Camp Coffee essence in hot water with milk and lots of sugar at work in his shop.

I weaned off sugar in my mid-twenties, and am really a tea lover, but I drink cappuccino when I’m out and sometimes make it a home in a proper machine. Espresso and black coffee are abominations best saved for removing paint or staining wood.

I still take a guilt pleasure in microwaving a mug of semi-skimmed milk and adding a spoon of Nescafe (granules) now and then, but it’s not the same taste as over-boiled whole milk.

Neil

There used to be special saucepans called milkpans with a) a pouring lip, and b) a taper wide at the top to contain the froth if it boiled.

Farmers get a report on their milk from the dairy because they are required to meet specific levels of fat, protein etc and have to modify the cow’s diet to meet it. Failure means rejection of the load and a whole day’s income literally down the drain. Rather than meaning a strict uniformity it means the milk will vary daily as the farmer struggles to minimise supplementary feed costs while meeting spec.

I never realised some people have weird ways of making coffee.