Every couple of months or so, I face this dilemma. If you make your own cappuccino at home, you are familiar with the wand that heats and foams the milk. Now that wand has a head in the end which looks like the picture on your left. This has 4 small holes in the end – see middle picture. This is where the steam comes out from. Now, because it gets exposed to milk, from time to time it needs to be cleaned.

The cleaning instrument is a simple, small sharp needle – see picture on the right. All you have to do is put the needle in each of the four holes, give it a good spin and then at the end, soak it in water.

Now comes the problem. Once I have given one hole a good clean, I go to the next one. Once I am done with that, I get confused which one to go to next. Which one did I already do? Remember, there are no ways to identify a hole and I certainly do not want to put any scratches on the surface. If I do adjacent ones, for all you know, I have been doing the same two all the time. Because you are spinning the head, you are not sure your final orientation is the same the original one.

What might be a couple of tricks to make sure that with only four cleans, I get each one of them only once?

See answer here…