The best gadget I bought this year is a milk frother

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA writer at The Verge says the best gadget bought this year is a milk frother, and it started with a trip to a Los Angeles coffee shop called Stagger.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorStagger is best known for its matcha, but the drink the writer got obsessed with was something else.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThat is how obsessions get you, Hank, from the side.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPro one: it makes cold foam at home. The writer says that was the drink from the cafe in Koreatown, where they stayed in February.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorCon one: it is a machine whose only job is to make air stand up.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorI do not trust anything that holds a shape for no reason.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPro two: one reviewer says the cafe serves its matcha drink in an espresso-sized ceramic cup, so a small frother matches the scale of the habit.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorCon two: a tiny cup is how it starts. By Christmas your whole kitchen is demitasses and a very smug whisk.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPro three: a review says the Double Matcha has a cacao-dusted cream top with a hole in the middle, like a donut.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorCon three: you have to buy the frother.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA hole in the middle. Even the foam has something missing. Five stars. I am furious about it.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt is the first gadget you have rated five stars, and you did not once say it was listening.

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