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Yesterday’s The Age (Melbourne, Australia) published an article on the growing business of home espresso education: Short, strong grounding in espresso - Epicure - Entertainment - theage.com.au. The author noted how cafés, roasters, and other retail locations are creating “coffee classrooms” for instructing consumers on how to “create the perfect coffee at home”. The reason [...]

Tags: barista_training, coffee_pods, espresso_machines, home_espresso, moka_pot, single_serving_espresso, Starbucks

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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 pods are [...]

Tags: home_espresso, jura, moka_pot, nespresso, single_serving_coffee, sur_la_table, williams-sonoma

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Consumer Reports published a home buyer’s guide to espresso makers this month: ConsumerReports.org - Buyer’s guide to espresso makers 3/07. As with a lot of things in Consumer Reports, they often lack sufficient knowledge or background to offer educated opinions beyond winging it with what’s on the surface. (Well, beyond that and Consumers Union’s usual [...]

Tags: coffee_freshness, coffee_pods, espresso_machines, grinders, home_espresso, moka_pot, nespresso, single_serving_coffee, Starbucks

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Decaffeinated coffee was once treated a lot like robusta: as some kind of crude, faux coffee that caters to consumers with the misfortune of a biological defect. But just as high-quality, expertly prepared robusta beans started appearing on the market from places such as India (for blending into quality roasts for espresso, etc.), decaf coffee [...]

Tags: caffeine, decaf_coffee, moka_pot, ritual_roasters, Robusta, stumptown

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Here’s an item in today’s news: Nestle reportedly to open luxury coffee shop in Brazil - MarketWatch. In some parts of the world, Nestlé’s Nespresso system, at least on the surface, appears to be making money hand-over-fist for them. Part of Nestlé’s strategy has been to open up Nespresso stores in places such as Geneva, [...]

Tags: brazil_cafes, chiado, coffee_pods, home_espresso, lisbon, lisbon_coffee, moka_pot, nespresso, portugal_coffee, superautomatic_espresso_machines

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According to an article in today’s Frederick (MD) News-Post, the coffee pod revolution isn’t exactly winning over fans en masse just yet: Users, vendors not fans of coffee pods - The Frederick News-Post.
Citing a recent NPD Group report, the article notes that beyond single-serving convenience, pods don’t exactly represent a step forward in the evolution [...]

Tags: coffee_freshness, coffee_pods, home_espresso, moka_pot, product_development, single_serving_coffee

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The May Kiplinger’s Personal Finance includes an article on how to get coffeehouse-quality brew at home: 5 Things to Ask About Espresso Makers.
As that cranky espresso guru, David Schomer of Espresso Vivace, has said for years, most machines built for the home cannot build up enough pressure or control the temperature well enough to make [...]

Tags: david_schomer, espresso_machines, grinders, home_espresso, moka_pot, Starbucks, suze_orman

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Until I create something of a “mailbag” section on this site, I’ll post some of the more interesting questions, and my replies, here.

At 03:52 PM 1/16/2006 -0600, _ _ wrote:
>Greg,
>
>I’ve really enjoyed your site. I was wondering if you had a recommendation
>for a good Moka stovetop maker. In addition, do have a recommendation [...]

Tags: coffee_sizes, home_espresso, italy_coffee, mazzer, moka_pot

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