Tag Archive 'espresso_machines'
Posted by TheShot on 09 Nov 2011 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Foreign Brew, Home Brew, Machine, Starbucks
Today’s L.A. Weekly featured an interesting bio-piece on father and son L.A. espresso pioneers, Ambrose and Guy Pasquini: Q & A with Ambrose and Guy Pasquini: L.A.’s Single Espresso Origin – Los Angeles Restaurants and Dining – Squid Ink. You might recognize the Pasquini name for some of their excellent home espresso machines. But the [...]
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Tags: caffe_trieste, coffee_milkshakes, coffee_roasting, espresso_machines, faema, la_cimbali, la_marzocco, nespresso, pasquini, sightglass, Starbucks, superautomatic_espresso_machines
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Posted by TheShot on 05 Feb 2011 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Home Brew, Machine, Quality Issues
Home espresso machines have been rated the most unreliable consumer appliance in a survey by Australia’s Choice: Brewing a great big cuppa strife | Herald Sun. Choice is akin to America’s Consumer Reports magazine — just without the bitter socialists at the Consumers Union behind it. One major contributor is likely the recent opportunistic flood [...]
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Tags: espresso_machines, home_espresso
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Posted by TheShot on 28 Jul 2010 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew, Home Brew, Machine, Roasting
This unusual, two-story café resides at the base of the ultra modern, five-star 15 on Orange Hotel. On the upper floor, it has a serving area with a two-group Saeco Steel SE 200 at a bar, a number of black tables and chairs, a branded lit display, a couple of Saeco home machines on display, [...]
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Tags: bodum, cape_town_cafes, espresso_machines, espresso_review, home_espresso, nespresso, saeco, segafredo_zanetti, south_africa_coffee
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Posted by TheShot on 26 Jul 2010 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Barista, Foreign Brew, Machine, Quality Issues
Whereas we’ve written an SF-oriented post on the common cues for recognizing a good or bad espresso, today’s WAtoday (Western Australia) features an article on how to spot a dodgy coffee: Perth’s Best and Worst Coffee. We’ll simply quote it here: Mooba Subiaco manager Hannah Cameron told WAtoday.com.au the top five ways customers can see [...]
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Tags: australia_coffee, cleaning, cleanliness, espresso_machines, milk_frothing, quality_standards, synesso
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Posted by TheShot on 10 Jun 2010 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Machine
Two curious, seemingly unrelated posts appeared simultaneously in the news yesterday. One on La Marzocco‘s new Strada machine and all its variable-pressure-control glory: Ristretto | Strada – T Magazine Blog – NYTimes.com. The other, Esquire installment #3 from Todd Carmichael, about the ridiculous MSRP/retail prices for professional espresso machines and what most people in the [...]
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Tags: Barista, coffeegeek, espresso_machines, fourth_wave, la_marzocco, scaa, strada, synesso, third_wave, todd_carmichael
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Posted by TheShot on 02 Jun 2010 | Tagged as: Barista, Beans, Café Society, Consumer Trends, Machine, Quality Issues, Roasting
If the title of this post seems like the product of a copy-editor undergoing a seizure, it is intentional. It echoes the title of a new article on Esquire‘s Web site verbatim: Worst Coffee Trends – Bad Coffee Trends – Esquire. To thicken the plot, do note that this is the second article in a [...]
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Tags: Barista, coffee_beans, coffee_roasters, espresso_machines, la_colombe, nick_cho, todd_carmichael, torrefazione_italia
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Posted by TheShot on 08 Apr 2010 | Tagged as: Beans, Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew, Home Brew, Machine
In today’s, er, tomorrow’s news from London’s The Independent, classic Italian stove-top/moka pot coffee manufacturer, Bialetti, announced that they are closing shop in Italy and moving their operations to Eastern Europe: Rivals too hot for Italy’s classic coffee pot – Europe, World – The Independent. In Italy — where the Bialetti has enjoyed decades of [...]
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Tags: bialetti, coffee_culture, espresso_machines, home_espresso, moka_pot, nespresso, superautomatic_espresso_machines
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Posted by TheShot on 12 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Beans, Home Brew, Machine
The Boston Globe published an article today (OK, technically tomorrow) about making great espresso with cheap home equipment: High-quality espresso from low-end machines – The Boston Globe. The author experimented by buying cheaper, used home espresso machines, and he claims to have achieved decent results. The key to his results were a good grind, good [...]
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Tags: espresso_machines, grinders, home_espresso, sant_eustachio
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Posted by TheShot on 07 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Local Brew, Machine
The former One World Cafe needed a serious upgrade, and this is it. Gone are the beat-up furniture and odd house plants that made this space look like a medical marijuana co-op in aging neglect. The place now looks more like a sushi bar, with clean, angular lines, dark and solid colors, nicer wood floors, [...]
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Tags: acf_cups, brightness_bomb, espresso_machines, espresso_review, slayer_espresso_machine, spro, verve, western_addition
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Posted by TheShot on 23 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: Beans, Foreign Brew, Machine
The Atlantic continues their recent spate of coffee coverage with a random nostalgia piece today on Italian espresso from food writer and Joy of Coffee author, Corby Kummer: Coffee Glamour: Italians Do It Better – The Atlantic Food Channel. Among other things, the article mentions the infamous Sant’Eustachio il caffè and how they, too, are [...]
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Tags: espresso_machines, gaggia, home_espresso, italy_coffee, sant_eustachio
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