Tag Archive 'home_espresso'
Posted by TheShot on 20 Apr 2011 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew, Home Brew, Local Brew, Machine, Quality Issues
Earlier this week, KRUPS, that bastion of great coffee, announced the winners of their National “Cup O’ Joe Awards”: Revealed: Nation’s best coffee shops – This Just In – Budget Travel. Now if only this announcement had anything legitimately to do with good coffee. Heck, if only KRUPS had anything legitimately to do with good [...]
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Tags: awards, barista_championships, blue_bottle, cup_o_joe_awards, home_espresso, krups
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Posted by TheShot on 02 Mar 2011 | Tagged as: Beans, Café Society, Consumer Trends, Fair Trade, Home Brew, Machine, Roasting, Starbucks
Over the years we’ve read a lot of coffee articles. And ever since feedback forms became commonplace on the Internet, we’ve also read a lot of user comments on these posts. At least enough for us to identify 10 common archetypes among coffee article commenters on the Internet — analogous to the ever-popular coffee shop [...]
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Tags: caffeine_addiction, coffee_costs, fair_trade, home_espresso, home_roasting, media, pid, social_networking, Starbucks, travel_coffee
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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 18 Jun 2010 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Barista, Quality Issues
Coffee talk in the mainstream press these days looks a bit like the telenovela: short-lived serials from specific writers with an individual point of view. One of said serials comes from Giorgio Milos of illycaffè in The Atlantic, and his installment today is on milk frothing: All You Need to Know About Steaming Milk – [...]
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Tags: Barista, barista_training, cappuccino, giorgio_milos, home_espresso, illy, latte_art, milk_frothing, north_beach, south_africa_coffee, world_cup
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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 22 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: Beans, Home Brew, Local Brew, Restaurant Coffee, Roasting
San Rafael-based Equator Estate Coffees has long been a major enigma for us. They have heavy distribution among high-end restaurants in town — and quite a few on the low-end. But despite the occasional accolades among tastemaker chefs, we just didn’t “get it.” Over the years, we sampled the espresso at well over 30 different [...]
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Tags: barefoot_roasters, blue_bottle, coffee_roasters, equator_estate, home_espresso, restaurant_coffee, restaurant_espresso
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Posted by TheShot on 16 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: Beans, Consumer Trends, Home Brew, Machine
A little over two years ago, we lamented the state of populist retail home espresso by reviewing what we thought was one of the better options at the time, the Nespresso C180 Le Cube: The Home Espresso Machine Blues: Rating today’s state of consumer espresso machines. Besides having a name that sounded regrettably familiar to [...]
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Tags: home_espresso, maxwell_house, mcdonalds, nespresso, sanka, Starbucks, superautomatic_espresso_machines
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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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