The 3 Best Milk Frothers of 2025

Top pick

This little machine can heat and froth both dairy and nondairy milk. It makes dense foam (even with cold milk) and can melt chocolate for hot cocoa, too.

The Instant MagicFroth 9-in-1 is a little countertop barista, heating and frothing your milk for you in a matter of minutes. It produces velvety milk foam at three temperatures, even if it’s straight from the fridge, and can admirably froth even nondairy milk into a thick, stable foam.

Like our other picks, the MagicFroth can quickly mix powdered additions into cold milk, but it can also melt and mix small chocolate pieces for a rich, café-quality hot cocoa. The stainless steel pitcher is comfortable to hold, easy to pour, and best of all, it’s dishwasher-safe.

The controls are straightforward. The control panel on the MagicFroth’s base is simple to operate, with buttons for temperature control and froth level, as well as a button each for starting and canceling the frothing program. As basic as this sounds, we found the separate start and stop buttons especially useful because you don’t have to worry about the machine automatically starting a program while you’re still choosing the settings.

The MagicFroth has three temperature settings (cold, warm, and hot), as well as three froth settings (stir, foam, and extra foam). These settings can be used in any combination, which gives you a bit more agency over your drink.

It makes delicious foam at the right temperature. Sweet, dense, and decadent, the foam from the MagicFroth is tasty enough to eat by the spoonful — which is exactly what we did. The regular foam setting makes silky, glossy microfoam that, with a few hard swirls of the pitcher, can be deftly poured into the perfect latte. With a bump up to the extra foam setting, you get a slightly airier, stiffer foam fit for a traditional cappuccino.

Heating milk on the warm temperature setting consistently brings it to just slightly above 140 °F, the literal sweet spot for steamed milk. The hot setting brings your milk to around 165 °F, for those who prefer a hotter, more custardy milk foam. When we made cold foam, our milk remained within 15 degrees of its refrigerator temperature, still refreshingly cool.

It handles mix-ins with ease. We used the highest temperature setting and the stir setting to make hot chocolate with mini chocolate chips. The resulting hot chocolate was completely smooth, with no trace of solid chocolate left either in the pitcher, whisk, or sieve. In order to fully mix cocoa powder with cold milk, we had to bump the stir setting up to foam, but the finished mixture was also entirely homogeneous, without a single granule of unincorporated powder.

It’s dishwasher-safe. The MagicFroth’s stainless steel pitcher lifts off the powered base and doesn’t contain any electrical components. This means it can be submerged in soapy water or thrown in the top rack of the dishwasher along with the lid and the whisk. This is especially handy if you’ve accidentally left the pitcher out and it’s caked in stubborn dried milk.

It pours smoothly. With a sharp spout and a design that’s similar to a milk steaming pitcher, the MagicFroth pours cleanly, with no dripping or dribbling. It offers a good amount of control, and is capable of pouring a thin stream of (finely textured) milk.

The whisk is magnetic. Keeping track of the small detachable whisks that come with pitcher-style milk frothers can be a difficult task, especially if they’re falling out of the pitcher. The whisk’s magnetism keeps it attached to the inside of the pitcher, so it’s not likely to land in your cup while you pour.

It also adds some assurance that the parts stay together when you’re not using them. If you’re prone to misplacing small items, you could even stick it on the side of your fridge (as long as you can remember it’s there).

It beeps when it’s done. In some small appliances, beeps and chimes can drive people up the wall. But with this machine, they’re actually pretty handy. Your milk shouldn’t sit for too long after it’s frothed, or it’ll start to cool and separate before you have a chance to enjoy it. Unless you want to hover over the frother, waiting for the moment it’s done (it really is mesmerizing to watch), you may appreciate the MagicFroth’s beeps when the frothing cycle is finished, so you know it’s time to pour your drink. But if you really can’t stand it, the sound can be turned off.

The MagicFroth comes with a one-year warranty.

Flaws but not dealbreakers

The stainless steel pitcher gets hot. You have to be careful not to touch its sides, or the platform it sits on, after heating milk. Fortunately, the handle, while also steel, stays cool and is large enough to keep your knuckles from brushing against the body of the pitcher.

It takes a long time. The Instant MagicFroth is by no means instant. When heating cold milk, the cycle can take five minutes and occasionally a little longer depending on ambient temperatures and the temperature of your milk. The results are well worth the short wait, but if you don’t have time to spare, the handheld MatchaBar Electric Matcha Whisk or Golde Superwhisk can whip up foam in under a minute (though you still need to heat the milk first), and the pitcher-style Breville Milk Cafe can heat and froth milk within two.

It can only make one or two servings at a time. Though its maximum capacity for heating milk is 500 mL (about 2 cups), the MagicFroth can only make thick foam from 200 mL (under 1 cup) of milk at a time. This is enough for two drinks (or one generously milky drink), but it doesn’t serve a crowd. If you foresee yourself regularly making lattes and hot chocolate for a group, you may be better served by the Milk Cafe, which has over twice the capacity.