Is it okay to add milk into coffee makers?

Don't do it!

Use the settings on the Braun to slow the drip as much as possible. Use a small amount of water in proportion to the coffee grounds. Put some milk in the pot before you start to brew. The hot, thick, strong water-based coffee will drip into the milk in the pot (which will be warming on the heater), and mix with the milk. Feel free to add sugar to the pot of milk too if you like. Just don't later use that milky pot to put water into your brewer without making sure it's perfectly clean. If it's like my Braun, you can kick up the heat of the heating unit in the base, which will help to warm up the milk while your coffee is brewing. I can't guarantee this will get it all hot enough, but I guess you can always nuke it if not.

I make an extra-strong coffee in the summer, pull it off the heat as soon as it's brewed and then pour it over ice cubes to make a nice ice coffee. If I want sugar in it, I add that before pouring over the ice, and if I want milk in it, I add the milk after the coffee has been mixed with the ice cubes. Yummy.

Oh, and if you like a sweet, cold, milky coffee, find "coffee syrup" on the web and order some. It's like chocolate syrup, only it's coffee (duh). Mix it with whole milk to make a great drink. The only place I've seen it in stores (or restaurants) is in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

It sounds to me like you need a cappuccino machine! The espresso is very concentrated and when you add the frothed milk you get a very creamy coffee drink! Sprinkle some cinnamon on top--enjoy!

ps: Should you want to try the milk, remember that it tends to boil at a lower temperature and may not go through the grounds as fast. Cleaning a coffee maker is as simple as running a batch of vinegar through it--then a few batches of water. (The smell WILL run you out of the house.)

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Well I wouldn't. But if you think about it a good quality powdered milk mixed with the grounds might work. Saving the coffee maker and and your health. If it doesn't work out you only have the filter to toss out. Who knows you might start something. I'm going to try it just for kicks. I like milk in my coffee as well.

Exactly what you are worried about will happen. I also don't think the heated milk will flow through the machine very well and will probably overheat, smell up your kitchen and clog the innards of your coffee maker. If it does flow through, I doubt if it will draw the flavor out of the grounds as well as water will.

No!! You'll ruin the coffee maker... reason why it says "WATER ONLY"

Try instant coffee bags and heat it in the microwave or on stovetop?

Hello, Don't do that. The milk will stay inside the little pipe. Don't do that. We are still trying to clean our machine. We don't know who did that!!!

no it will ruin the coffee maker!!!

a new coffeemaker? And that sounds like it would taste really good!

yes