Terrible steamed milk no matter what

Terrible steamed milk no matter what

I just bought a Gastroback barista express or something 2 days ago. The first espresso I made was amazing compared to my garbage delonghi 100$ machine! My espresso’s were starting to get bad over time, I think I know why, I made grind to 4 instead of 5 and didn’t use enough coffee and tamping pressure! it felt like drinking dirt and water and there were some grounds in my coffee!, crema looked good btw but anyway, The main problem I have is that I never made good forth! not even with my previous delonghi machine This is what I do, I fill the pitcher that came with it around 1/4 3% fat milk and add a little bit of low fat milk then I turn the steam wand on until it starts to steam, turn it off, insert it to my milk turn it on again, then start to lower the pitcher until i hear little *PST* every 0.5 seconds or so, the milk starts to whirl and after the bottom gets warm I move it to the … (more)

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