Patent ID: 7913614

Claim:
A milk foamer which sucks milk from a milk storage section via a suction tube and which mixes the milk and air in a milker to produce milk foam, comprising: a control unit which controls the production of the milk foam; and a cleaning unit which executes a cleaning operation of a route extending from the suction tube to the milker, the control unit being configured to prohibit the production of the milk foam and instruct the cleaning unit to execute the cleaning operation, in a case where a predetermined time elapses from the previous production of the milk foam, wherein the control unit cancels the prohibition of the production of the milk foam after end of the cleaning operation by the cleaning unit, wherein the cleaning unit has a cleaning liquid storage section in which a predetermined cleaning liquid is stored, a connecting section which is connected to an end portion of the suction tube on a milk storage section side, and a suction pipe connected to the connecting section and to a bottom part of the cleaning liquid storage section, and during the cleaning operation, the control unit allows the cleaning liquid to be sucked into the suction tube from the cleaning liquid storage section of the cleaning unit in a state in which the end portion of the suction tube is connected to the connecting section.