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Think you’re saving a small fortune making coffee at home? Do the math.

Posted by on 27 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Home Brew

We previously wrote of our annoyance with the old and ever-popular yarn spun by wannabe personal finance gurus who constantly tell us we can become millionaires by quitting our daily coffee habit — or by replacing it with home-brewed coffee. For the record, we have a lot of coffee both out (as evidenced by CoffeeRatings.com) [...]

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The Home Espresso Machine Blues: Rating today’s state of consumer espresso machines

Posted by on 28 May 2007 | Tagged as: Home Brew, Machine, Quality Issues

I’ve written both here and elsewhere on how the state of home espresso has both improved and become worse at the same time. While home espresso is mostly out of the Krups Dark Ages, its future is uncertain: super-expensive, super-disappointing super-automatics are now de rigeur for high-end home kitchen designs as a new format, coffee [...]

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Presenting the Coffee Machine That Reads Minds

Posted by on 02 May 2007 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Home Brew

Last week, JL Hufford Coffee and Tea of Indiana announced a patent for a super-automated home espresso machine that would use artificial intelligence (i.e., pattern-learning technology) to anticipate the espresso beverage needs of its owner: Presenting the Coffee Machine That Reads Minds. Artificial intelligence technologies have long suffered a reputation for being “a solution in [...]

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Make a great cup of joe with the latest makers

Posted by on 07 Mar 2006 | Tagged as: Home Brew, Machine

Since everything I learned about coffee I learned by watching NBC’s Today show, I had to share an article that came across my desk today highlighting some of their top picks for home coffee and espresso machines: Make a great cup of joe with the latest makers – Today: Food – MSNBC.com. The article was [...]

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