hello fellow coffee botherers i'm kev from coffeeblog.co.uk and in this video i'm going to be talking about making cappuccino and other milkies at home without a coffee machine when i say milk is by the way i'm talking about all milk and espresso based coffees including but not limited to cappuccino and when i say without a coffee machine i mean with a very inexpensive manual coffee brewer or even without that and with a very inexpensive option for frothing milk the traditional way to make milk is is with an espresso machine with a steam one such as some of these behind me if you do want to buy an espresso machine to do this of course you can do you don't need to spend the fortune cheaper sub 200 pound domestic espresso machines will do it for you such as a swamp retro espresso machine for example and click here for my video on that machine the delonghi dedica ec685 in my opinion does a better job and it's often available for around 150 to 180 pounds and click here for more on that machine if you really want to get into the home barista hobby though rather than just getting an espresso machine as means to an end you'll need a different type of machine but for more on this click here to watch the video i've recently done on all of the different kinds of coffee machines but what if you don't want to spend anything like this on a machine but you still want milky such as cappuccino latte and so on at home not only is it possible but it's simple and it can be just about as cheap as you want it to be so what you're going to need is a way to make the coffee and a way to froth the milk so let's talk about the coffee first so if we don't have an espresso machine we're going to need to find another way to make espresso style coffee and i say espresso style because if it's not made with an espresso machine i can't bring myself to call it espresso but there are ways of making similar concentrated coffees which are close enough for many people once mixed with milk personally i would use a manual brew for this but i have to say it while i wouldn't want to use instant for the espresso part you certainly can if you want to if you usually drink instant coffee and if you want to use instants such as nescafe gold espresso lavazza instant purchase espresso nescafe 0 espresso and so on they mount 5 for you in terms of taste but personally and i'm biased because i'm passionate about specialty coffee i'd recommend brewing fresh using great quality coffee beans firstly for taste while you might be happy with the taste of instant now you may be surprised by the huge range of different tastes you can get from different beans when you're using high quality speciality coffee beans second for cost if you're using some of the instants i've just mentioned they tend to work out with between two to five pound per hundred grams which is between five to twelve pounds fifty per 250 gram bag or 20 to 50 pound per kilo for instant coffee this is the kind of price you'll pay for really high quality speciality coffee beans that have been roasted in the uk by a speciality small batch roaster so i know what i'd go for given the similar cost just a quick point about this this is quite a big subject there are so many arguments for specialty coffee versus commodity coffee including sustainability and traceability but the one thing i'm going to say here is that the huge difference between high quality coffee beans you'll buy from uk small batch roasters and commodity coffee beans is variety you'll notice that most instant coffees are much of a muchness there's not much variety in taste the main difference is simply down to the mix of arabica and robusta some are blends and some are 100 arabica when you start trying different freshly roasted coffee beans though you'll notice there's a huge variety of flavors depending on the varietal of the coffee plant origin processing methods and roast profile when you're making milkies and you're trying different coffee beans from different roasters you'll find your milk is taste completely different depending on which coffee beans you're using you'll never get this kind of variety with instant coffee so if you're brewing fresh i think the easiest options are sieve cafeteria or french press aeropress or stovetop i won't go into too much depth here about these brewing methods i'll do other videos on them and if you do a quick search on youtube you'll find other videos on these brewing methods but in a nutshell the sieve method involves putting medium to finely ground coffee at a high coffee to water ratio say about three to one water to coffee in a cup or bowl with water just off the boil you leave it for a minute or so stir it leave it again for a couple of minutes and then pour through a sieve into your cup it's not really espresso but it's not a million miles off either if you have a cafeteria or french press you can do the same the only difference is that you're using the plunger of the cafeteria to separate the grounds from the coffee instead of pouring it through a sieve it's a similar method with aeropress basically with all these methods you're just aiming for a concentrated coffee so if you try it and it's too weak just use a higher ratio of coffee to water next time with aeropress though there are some methods you can try to get a bit closer to espresso and there are quite a few videos on youtube showing this but there's no real need to over complicate things we just want to make a concentrated brew with a higher ratio of coffee to water than we would if we were trying to make filter coffee for example with stove top you literally just use them as they're made to be used the stovetops are designed to make espresso style coffee a few quick tips though for stovetop start with hot water as it's a shorter heating time then and less time for the coffee to end up tasting bitter and stop brewing literally as soon as it starts making the gurgling sound at the end of the brew and run the pot under cold water at that point so that's a coffee covered and by the way i'll put links to these brewers in the description below so now to talk about the milk there are loads of different milk frothers you can buy and i'll do another video on these but in the meantime see coffee blog code uk forward slash milk frothers some of these heat and froth the milk for you at the same time but in this video i'm focusing on the very cheapest methods so i'm going to use two methods the bodum latio milk frother and the kitchen craft lee express whisk these little hand whisks have been around for years you could get them from ikea for a pound at one point and they simply whisk air into the milk the bodum milk frother is basically an adapted cafeteria you can do this method using a cafeteria so if you have one you don't need to buy anything like this but bodum have made this slightly different to a cafeteria when it comes to the mesh on the filter so in theory it makes it more effective when it comes to frothing the milk and we'll actually do a video at some point comparing using the bodum frother versus cheaper glass cafeterias in theory i prefer these manual milk frothing methods to use in more expensive electric frothers which froth and heat the milk at the same time for the simple reason that you have more control over the aeration this way i'm going to heat the milk using a microwave i'm going to aim for about 65 degrees celsius so first of all i'm going to make an espresso style coffee using the sieve method and then i'm gonna make a cappuccino with milk frothed with the bodum milk frother so we'll pour in with the brewista artisan kettle and click here for the review i've done of this kettle by the way and i'm using a little backup scale because i forgot to bring my usual time more black mirror that i'm using at the moment what this will do there we go it's bubbling or blooming [Music] give it a quick stir pour in now through the strainer or [Music] sieve i'm just giving it a push with a spoon to get all the coffee out there we go looks like espresso ish so starting to pump the frother the plunger and as you can see there's milk coming out because i've not got the lid on properly and that's because i'm an idiot i just needed to turn the lid around slightly to cover the spout that's why that's happening i did that about 60 65 times which i think was a bit too much because the milk is a bit on the stiff side as you'll see in a sec so probably do it more like 40 to 50 times next time but not bad [Music] next i'm going to make a cappuccino using the aeropress and the lay express whisk again i'm using the brewster artisan kettle and i'm using the inverted method the aeropress is a very versatile brewer use it various ways this is the inverted method i found it a little bit easier [Music] just getting rid of the air easy to press like that without the lid on than pressing all the air out after when you put the lid on and the filter and pressing it into the jug so i can pour it then into the cup just because the aeropress doesn't quite fit onto this cup i'm using [Music] and there we go no crema but we've got concentrated coffee which is what we're after so i'm starting off with the whisk partially breaking the surface to pull the air in and then when it's starting to look glossy there's air in there it's stretched enough and then trying to bury the whisk as i would bury the steam one tip of an espresso machine to stop aerating i do think i've taken it a little bit too far so i'd experiment with this and just try and air it a little bit less because the milk is aerated quite a bit it's quite stiff again as with the building it's nice and glossy [Music] it's not bad it's a little bit on the stiff side it's okay and i'm slightly messing up the latter because i didn't lift the jug up high enough but never mind [Music] so there you go that's how to make cappuccino and other milk is at home without a coffee machine thank you very much 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