This Bodum coffee and milk frothing bundle allows you to create café-quality beverages from the comfort of home. The bundle includes a 10oz electric milk frother and an electric blade coffee grinder, both in sleek black Bodum Bistro designs. The milk frother quickly heats and froths milk with its heavy-duty motor. It makes thick, creamy, long-lasting froth to top your favorite hot beverages. The nonstick interior ensures easy cleaning. It froths enough milk for 1 serving at a time. The coffee grinder has durable stainless steel blades that spin at high speeds to freshly grind beans. Its powerful 150W motor and push button controls allow you to fine tune the grind size. The transparent lid lets you monitor coarseness. It grinds enough beans for up to 8 cups of French press coffee. With the frother to make silky frothed milk and the grinder for optimized extraction from fresh grounds, this bundle equips any home barista. The pair of countertop appliances complement each other beautifully. Their matching Bistro styling also makes a fashionable statement.
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mmd-llc –
My wife and I used mostly for non-dairy milks (Soy, Flax, and Coconut). It didn’t really froth these milks greatly. Soy yielded the best results. The frother got the milk nice and hot. Used 2-4 times a day for 6 months until it stopped working just last week. Used for caffe latte’s, chai teas, and hot cocoa. While it was working, we really enjoyed it. It was super user-friendly and simple. Customarily, we would froth the milk, rinse it out with hot water then store it upside down in our kitchen sink strainer.
If I had been more on top of thoroughly cleaning it after each use, it probably would have lasted longer. (I don’t fault the company for this, nor does my star rating reflect my own personal negligence).
The stir-tool in the center of the cup was magnetic and pulled out very easily for cleaning. The heater was at the base of the reservoir, so after a few days of use, there would be a layer of solidified, or caked-on milk that would collect on the bottom. After struggling to clean this effectively for a while, the successful formula that worked for me was to, once a week, soak it in vinegar, then scrape that caked milk off with the flathead end of a Tupperware orange peeler. I used this because the sharp edge was plastic and didn’t damage the non-stick coating of the reservoir like a knife or spoon would. After the big chunks were shaved away, I would then take a toothbrush with a bent neck 90°, then use that to agitate/clean the bottom surface of the reservoir. Sounds tedious, but it was not bad. I already had the toothbrush in my arsenal.
Then to clean the “frother” tool (spring looking device), I would soak in vinegar then take a toothbrush to it.
Sometimes to soften up the caked-up milk at the bottom, I would run the frother with 1/4 vinegar in it to heat everything up…that seemed to help.
Near the end of it working, the motor still seemed to make a noise, but the frother tool wasn’t spinning. It was almost like a grinding gear sound. It was intermittent for the last couple months, until one day we never got it to spin again. Tossed it in the trash.
I don’t regret buying this, it was our first frother. I will probably buy another one of these eventually. In the meantime, I am going to try out a couple other brands in the price range. For $30 can’t beat it. That’s the price of 6 caramel macchiatos from Starbucks!
Christine –
One of the best product I tried. Fast, takes minimal space to store, easy to clean, and most importantly, yummy froth !
Kat Brunetto –
A friend turned me onto this many years ago, and I’m on my second version of this. The first one just plum wore out as the milk seem to burned onto the base of this. And then it just stopped turning on. With this new one, I make sure that I scrub it after every single use. Pretty quiet, love the machine, takes about two minutes to finish frothing. I’ve done many different types of milk and I’ve noticed that regular 2% milk with a little bit of coffee mate cold creamer seems to froth up the best.
Christopher W Mulherin –
I love the frothier, I make my coffee, then put my milk in the frothier, turn it on and about 2 minutes later the milk froth is ready.
My coffee tastes like a genuine latte from Starbucks !
My coffee is delicious !
Stoobie –
For the price, this milk frother is amazing. Within a few seconds I have perfectly frothed milk for a cappuccino from my nespresso coffee/espresso machine at a fraction of the price of an expensive all in one machine. And I find it extremely easy to clean after each use. I love how dense the foam is, better than when it gets watered down with a steam attachment and much hotter too. At $26, will buy again even if the motor goes out in a year as some have said. Also wondering if those complaining about longevity cleaned it after each use, which I could see affecting the life of the motor.
Mine automatically shuts off after completing a cycle, not sure why some of the reviewers say theirs doesn’t?
Websurfer –
Excellent frother! I use daily and it does a great job of frothing my Chiboni Sweet Cream for a perfect start to my day! Keeps things warm and frothy for the second cup. Cleaning is simple. I know that there are folks that believe that the only good froth is done with steam, but this is quick and easy and the results are very good. Try it. You may find it saves you a trip or two to Starbucks!
Amazon Junkie –
I own a Nespresso milk heater/ frother so I wanted to get a second one for the office but they’re kind of expensive, so I bought this name brand one, thought it’d be pretty similar. It’s not. This lacks the quality, heft and feel of the Nespresso one, it is much noisier and just seems lower quality. I guess that’s to be expected considering the difference in price. It does work though, it heats and whips the coffee. Like the Nespresso one you can remove the spiral whisk attachment from the spindle that spins, so it still froths the milk and makes foam but not as much. It heats the milk, not as quickly as the Nespresso one, but it does. Does not seem to make it as hot though. It also keeps the milk warm after the whisk stops spinning, you can heat/ whip your milk, leave it switched on and it’ll maintain that temp. It is lined with Teflon that makes it easy to clean. If you’re not familiar, these use magnetic drive to spin the whisk. The whisk has a magnet in it, the drive motor in the base also has a magnet, the whisk sits down on a shaft and the magnetism couples the two and keeps the whisk in place so it remains water tight and easy to clean.
End of the day it works fine, if I didn’t have any experience with the Nespresso one I’d probably like it just fine, but the differences in quality and how noisy it is are obvious to me. I guess worth the price. Kind of disappointed that Bodum would allow their name to be used (licensed) on a fairly poor quality appliance, Bodum has always stood for quality coffee appliances to me.
Dave –
I bought this after a rando el-cheapo unit from a discount big box store simply quit working after six months. Figured, hey it’s Bodum, a few extra dollars means quality, right?
But No. Do NOT buy this.
Some engineer/designer at Bodum messed up, badly. This thing should never have been released, and Bodum knows it. There are a couple warnings hidden in the manual about “don’t do the thing everyone is going to do anyways or you may burn the unit out” – so they *know* this is a design flaw, but they sent it to market anyways.
THE FATAL FLAW: The unit has a mechanical On/Off switch that is only overridden by the thermostat when the temperature gets high enough. When the temperature drops and the manual switch is still on, the unit will turn on until it heats up, then turns off, then turns on again when it cools down – lather, rinse, and repeat this heating/spinning/cooldown until it burns out. Hopefully the circuit breakers in your kitchen and house panel are functional and will keep a fried Bodum from burning your entire house down.
Consider this scenario:
1. As part of your “heading to work” routine, you make coffee and turn the manual switch on the Bodum to froth/heat some milk. Great, it worked. Pour that into your travel mug with your coffee.
2. You rinse/wash out the Bodum, probably with warm/hot water
3. You place the unit back in its stand. Because the unit is still warm, it’s internal thermostat prevents it from turning on
4. You hop in your car with your travel mug of coffee and warm, frothed milk (so far so good) and head to work
5. BUT, you forgot to turn the mechanical switch OFF, didn’t you (yes, you did – just like everyone will at some point)
6. After the house is empty, the Bodum will now spend the entire day cooling down, and then automatically turning back on to heat and spin air, and then turning off when the unit gets too hot. Over and over and over until either it burns out – or you come home from work and notice the unit heating and spinning, and FINALLY, flip the mechanical switch OFF.
Even the el-cheapo unit I originally bought got this design correct (not with quality parts, apparently, but at least they got the basic design correct). Frothers like this need a one-time ELECTRONIC switch that turns on, and then switches COMPLETELY OFF after the milk heats ONCE. The user then needs to push a physical button to turn it back on again.
Until Bodum fixes this design/engineering flaw, buy something else.
Amazon CustomerJD –
I’ve had mine for over a year and bought this for a friend recently. She loves it too! Works great! Very quiet. Froths great (heats milk too, I don’t use that feature but it only requires removing the small whisk in the bottom). Super easy to clean (be sure to clean after after each use to avoid burnt milk on the bottom). Be sure to follow directions for how much to fill. If you overfill for frothing, you’ll make a mess when it overflows. I’ve used skim, 2%, and whole milk. I’ve added flavored creamer for my mother’s drink and I add sugar free vanilla syrup (a very small amount) to add a little flavor. Buy it! It’s not Starbucks, but it’s cheaper and super easy!
Ken johnson. Esq. –
It is not good with small amounts of mild. Need big hand to hold with one hand while using spoon in the other hand to scoop it out.
Excellent for size to clean. well priced.