While the convenience of standard milk frothers is taking the market by storm, there are a few individuals who will treasure the purity of a milk steamer and finding the right style for you coffees is important.

There are ideally, just two designs that most individuals will want to look at.  The first being the stovetop frother.  This device allows you to heat up water in a canister device.  Once the water is boiling and steam is being created, you can steam your milk into a creamy froth.  Although these are relatively inexpensive, they do come with a few disadvantages such as only bing able to produce froth for one or two cappuccinos.

If you are going to be entertaining on a much larger scale, then an automatic milk steamer is probably a much better bet, being able to produce around 20 cups worth of foam in one sitting.  With an internal thermastat, they can be left on for longer durations allowing for seconds and they are almost always very easy to operate and clean.

Steamers that allow for heating of milk as well as foaming will broaden your spectrum of coffees allowing you to make lattes and other hot milk drinks such as hot chocolate.