The best gadget I bought this year is a milk frother

<figure> <img alt="A frothy coffee drink with purple foam and toasted coconut shreds on top, surrounded by the things used to make it: a milk foamer, concentrated iced coffee, coconut shreds, and milk" data-caption="" data-portal-copyright="Photo: Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/96D2EEC6-09F7-402B-B1A3-F1030ADD0D90_1_105_c.jpeg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Back in February, I went to Los Angeles to take in some art and stayed in Koreatown. Down the street from my hotel, there was this little coffee shop - <a href="https://staggercoffee.com/">Stagger</a> - that is, I think, best known for its matcha, which is good. But the drink I unexpectedly found myself obsessed with was their cream top, an iced Americano with, yep, vanilla cream on top. When I got back to Oakland, I kept thinking about how badly I wanted one.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">For more than 20 years, I've been drinking my coffee - iced or otherwise - black. Originally this was because I knew I could put black coffee that had cooled off in the microwave to reheat it without worrying that the milk i …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/1013257/milk-frother-cold-foam-gadget">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>