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Foaming mad

13 May 2015

I have a handheld milk foamer for my coffee. I can foam milk to twice its volume when it is cold, out of the fridge, but it barely foams at all when heated. Why is that?

Mark Alberstat, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

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