Treat milk steaming/frothing cleaning tool with care

 

The Breville Barista Touch wand cleaning tool is fragile. Made from brittle plastic, users have reported, if dropped, it breaks where the cap attaches to the tool. The tool can also break in use. The tool is used when taking the tip apart for cleaning. A little dried milk in the wand has been known to see the tool break before the tip loosened.

Note: there are a number of variations of this tool. Different espresso machines may require tools with a differently shaped centre hole from the one in the Touch tool.

Breville sells replacements at $10 when ordered straight from the company. Save shipping charges by adding other maintenance supplies to the order. The price from Breville for the ClaroSwiss Water Filter bests the competition. I added filters to my order.

If bought from another source, other than Breville, the price fort the little tool can climb to more than $30. That's nuts!