One time, not looking, it happened: Milk boils over very quickly.
A simple tip will save you this mess.
Hot milk with honey, milk for the pudding - there are many reasons to bring the white liquid to the boil.
And it has happened to everyone before that she boiled over and messed up the whole stove.
But that doesn't have to be the case.
Why is milk boiling over?
The reason why the milk boils over is simple.
The fat droplets in milk are separated from the water because they contain the protein casein.
If you heat milk,
the casein loses its effect from around 80 degrees
and the fat droplets combine to form
milk skin
, which is dreaded by children and adults
alike
.
If the water below slowly evaporates, the steam cannot escape through the milk skin and therefore lifts everything until it overflows.
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.
Spoon trick prevents milk from boiling over
To save yourself the future that your kitchen smells like burnt milk and you have to laboriously scrub the stove, you should take a look inside your cutlery drawer.
Here you will find the
ingenious helper in the fight against milk that boils over
- the
tablespoon
.
Put it in the saucepan with the milk and turn up the stove.
The metal of the spoon dissipates the heat and breaks open the milk skin.
In this way, the milk can boil safely.
The trick works just as well with a knife or fork, of course.
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