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Check out this video that I found over at homebarista.com. It’s a training video where Scott Rao demonstrates steaming and latte art technique, but he’s not using milk. Instead he uses water with a single drop of dishwashing detergent. The end result looks identical to microfoam made from milk. Pretty cool.

I have to try that sometime. Don’t know if it will work as well with the types of detergent we use here in Norway. Up until now I’ve used plain water when I’ve taught friends how to steam. I find that people relax more when they don’t have to worry about the end result being bad and having to throw away the milk. After all, the most important thing to learn is tip placement/sound when stretching the milk, and the overall stages of the process. After 2-5 tries we normally start using milk.

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