Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

UPDATED 2/23/20 - SEE UPDATE BELOW I am an old fashioned, regular coffee drinker. Although I do I grind my own beans, I just have straight coffee, add a bit of milk and that is it. No flavors, no toppings, nothing fancy. My wife is basically the same, but she does like an occasional latte, or a cup of flavored coffee, and during the summer iced coffee. Since my wife seems to enjoy her fancy coffees when she buys them, (or has them at our nephew's house...he has a lot of gadgets), I bought the Miroco Frother for her as a gift, and I am glad I did. She said it is making her morning coffee extra special. And I am happy with my frothed coffee too, so glad that I am writing this review as I drink my second cup of coffee with foam. Yes, this regular coffee drinker likes it too! Now the nuts and bolts about the product. PROS The price was right. Not much more in cost than a hand held frother, but full of the features one would expect from an electric frother...hot soft foam, hot firm foam, cold foam and heated milk without foam. It is quick, quiet and easy to clean. The settings work as expected, and appears to be well built. It has an 18 month warranty when you register it online, and online support if you have any issues. CONS A little bigger and heavier than I would like. Skimpy manual with little information. As I indicated earlier, I am old fashioned (and OLD) and prefer the days when appliance manuals included tips, tricks, hints and recipes. The included manual (if you can call it that) included virtually no information. It had a couple diagrams of the unit, specs, cleaning info, and directions for various settings. But nothing about the pluses and minuses of using soft foam vs firm foam, no suggestions of milks that can or can't be used with product (in this day and age of skim vs whole milk and all in between, and almond milk, and half and half...it would be nice to know which will foam up and which will not...not a problem for me since I only use whole milk for coffee, but may be an issue for others). SUMMARY This was a good purchase. Both my wife and I like it. I expect to use it everyday, and experiment with fancy online coffee recipes for my wife in the future, and use it for hot chocolate for my children. UPDATE I have been using the milk frother for about two months now. I have found that it does not froth as good as when first purchased. It does a decent job at the minimum froth setting, but suddenly at the maximum froth setting only about about half the milk foams regardless of setting (firm or soft). I have no idea why this has happened. I still use it, but now I pour most of the unfoamed (is that a word?) milk into my cup, and let my wife have most of the foam.