I have only one thing to say to you, Little Hawk:

Cigareets & whiskey & wild, wild women,
They'll drive you crazy, they'll drive you insane!

Back on topic, I read a newspaper article which said that heating the milk makes the coffee taste better, so I just zap it for half a minute or so until it gets that warm milk smell (I can't stand drinking warm milk straight because of that smell, but in coffee it's a whole new story). Then I pour the coffee into the warm milk and it does add a little something to the taste. Making it with cold milk is different in a subtle way.

Warm milk doesn't work with tea, IMHO, because the taste doesn't work as well as it does with coffee.

It's worth trying it to taste the difference. It makes sense of why cafés push steam through the milk.

I still prefer tea over coffee, but I like do coffee.

Helen