Bar32 can make good foam

[Surfer]

So I've had a Bar32 for like 6 months now, always had iffy foaming ability. Sometimes it was ok, sometimes it seemed ehhh. Seems this machine much prefers a longer warmup. So today I let it warm up for 40 minutes, and even switched to steam to get the boiler hotter once, then turned on a few times to heat up internals. So after making the espresso, went to steam the milk in the metal pitcher. Usually I use a smaller cup so I only did half a cup of milk before, I used a larger cup now so did 3/4 of whole milk..... it worked perfect. For the 1st time it made excellent foam, just smooth thick paint like consistency. Coffee was so good this morning.

 

[shadow745]

Any espresso machine will benefit from an extended warmup. Just because a minimum time limit has been reached or a READY light clicks ON/OFF means little, as most owner manuals would have you to believe.

Switching to steam for a few seconds before extracting can help heat the boiler a bit which gives more temperature consistency. This is common practice for alot of Single Boiler Dual Use machines.