In this Weird Recipe episode, I tried something I honestly didn’t expect to work: pulling “espresso” with milk instead of water on my Flair Pro 2. The idea was simple—change what’s coming through the coffee by changing the brewing liquid, then see what happens. I used 16g of sweet-leaning arabica, filled the chamber to the brim with milk (around 90ml), and kept the temp lower than normal (about 60–70°C) so I wasn’t just cooking the milk. I also kept the pressure profile pretty controlled: a 15-second pre-infusion, ramp up to around 8–9 bars, then taper down to about 6 bars near the end. Grind-wise, I landed somewhere between espresso and filter because milk behaves differently than water and I didn’t want an instant choke. The takeaway: it’s definitely a weird one, but it’s a fun reminder that home coffee is about experimenting—switch one variable and you can get a totally different result. If you’re into tinkering, this is exactly the kind of “try something new” recipe that makes home espresso exciting.