Make sure you’re pouring the milk to one line below the standard size you would use for say a latte. When you aerate the milk, you want it to sound like a nice quiet ripping paper and you want to hold it there, slowly being the pitcher down with the milk as it expands to keep the quiet nice ripping noise until the temp reaches like 130 or so. (You can adjust based on how wet/dry you want it) and make sure you pour the foam from the side of the pitcher! Don’t pour like normal! Good luck! Practice makes perfect!

Spoon

Pouring from the side is crucial!! Also, try not to have your milk sitting while you’re waiting on shots, the longer the foam sits the more it dies down. I know it’s not routine but I usually queue the shots first and then do my milk. The milk is going to steam faster anyway so it doesn’t give the shots time to die and you get all the foamy goodness

1. pour the milk slightly below the indicated line, you're making lots of foam
2. put the steam wand in the milk ***before*** you turn it on
3. make sure you're counting full seconds if you're following the starbucks routine of 5-8 seconds. Keep in mind larger drinks take more time, and smaller sizes need less time. you also want to be paying attention to the the texture of the milk and the temperature.
4. keep gradually moving the pitcher down as the foam expands, it also helps to have the pitcher angled a little bit to have more of a swirling vortex.
5. Groom your milk if needed, then pour the milk out the side of the pitcher ***immediately*** when it's ready. If you wait the foam and the milk will separate.

practice. It takes a few dozen tries to get them to come out well.

Don't let the milk sit after you steam it, gotta pour right away, and hit it with the old sideways pour, not from the spout.

One size less milk

Airate forever, moving the pitcher down as you go

Pour from the side not the lip spout

Boom a cappuccino

I usually swirl mine a. bit and pour them through the side , not the spout so all the foam comes thru