Where we land on it A touchscreen that shows the milk temperature as it climbs and stops at 149 °F. Three dollars above an identical-capacity sibling whose only difference is the lack of a screen.
What the maker puts in writing
Heat 240 ml / 8.1 oz · froth 115 ml / 3.8 oz
LED touchscreen: mode and real-time temperature
Stops at 149 °F or when frothing completes
4 functions · milk above 3% fat recommended
Detachable base, dry-burn protection
The screen is the product
Its own stablemate on this shelf holds the same 240 and 115 milliliters, runs the same four modes, and costs three dollars less without a display.
Whether a live temperature readout is worth three dollars depends on whether you intend to learn anything from it. It is the only thing you are buying.
The capacity is the limit
A hundred and fifteen milliliters of milk foams into roughly one cappuccino. The two largest frothers on this shelf froth 250.
That is the number to check before the screen.
Availability
Read on the day this page was built: $47 at the American Amazon shop.
Read from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and price both move without notice.
What it gets right, and wrong
Strengths
One of only two frothers on this shelf that display the milk temperature as it rises, rather than only beeping at the end
Publishes the exact stop temperature — 149 °F — which three frothers here give and six do not
Dry-burn protection and a detachable base, both published
Compromises
115 milliliters of foam is the joint-smallest frothing capacity on this shelf, barely one cappuccino
Three dollars above a sibling with the same capacities and no screen, which is the entire difference
No froth time, no noise figure and no material named beyond "non-stick coating"
Where this one stands among its neighbors
At $47, it is the 7 cheapest of the 9 models in this category published here.
Least costly of the neighbors$8
Median$37
Most costly of the neighbors$60
Specifications
Heating capacity
240 ml / 8.1 oz
Frothing capacity
115 ml / 3.8 oz
Display
LED touchscreen showing mode and real-time temperature
What does the screen add over the cheaper sibling?
A real-time temperature readout and a visible mode. The capacities are the same — 240 ml heated, 115 ml frothed — and so are the four functions. On this shelf that is the whole published difference, for three dollars.
Is 149 °F the right temperature for milk?
It is where this frother stops, and it is the same figure two other frothers here publish as 150 °F and 65 ±5 °C (±9 °F). Steamed milk for latte art is usually taken to somewhere around that range; nothing on this shelf lets you change it.
Will 115 ml do a cappuccino?
One, just. It is the joint-smallest froth capacity on this shelf, level with its own stablemate; two frothers here do 250 milliliters and one does 160. If two people want drinks, this means running it twice.
Compared with the neighboring coffee machines
These coffee machines share the category and the price bracket. Only what each one states is shown; an incomplete column would mislead.
Auto shut-off, detachable base, dry-burn protection
The difference between the models, in coffee machines
If price decides: SIMPLETASTE 8 oz Milk Frother, at $37.
Highest Heating capacity in the table: SIMPLETASTE 17 oz Milk Frother (500 ml).
Highest Frothing capacity in the table: SIMPLETASTE 17 oz Milk Frother (250 ml / 8.45 oz).
Today’s price and availability, for coffee machines
Details checked on October 30, 2026.
This one and its buyer, among coffee machines
One milk drink at a time, from someone who wants to watch the temperature rather than trust it
Sources
Specifications: the manufacturer sheet for coffee equipment and the matching Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. Every figure on this page names its source.
A glass pitcher and a plunger. No electricity, no cleaning ritual, and foam that is genuinely decent — provided you warm the milk first and accept that it will never be microfoam.
Best for: An occasional cappuccino, a student kitchen, or a second frother for a desk.