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Cafeteria coffee sounds great. You make it by simply saying "I'd like a coffee please" and it appears almost like in Star Trek TNG.
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Pffffffttt!!! Spits coffee over keyboard moment!Originally posted by Paddy View PostI don't think it will work. It is filled up with ungrounded beans. Also it is only working on the 'cafeteria' principle. Good coffee need to be made on an espresso machine.
Do you by any remote chance mean cafetiere?
PS - Also presumably you mean unground!
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Japanese Cold Pour is a great alternative. Takes up to twelve hours to brew, and super smooth...Originally posted by Paddy View PostI don't think it will work. It is filled up with ungrounded beans. Also it is only working on the 'cafeteria' principle. Good coffee need to be made on an espresso machine.
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostNo, good espresso needs to be made with an espresso machine. Espresso is merely one way of making coffee - you might as well say red wine is better or worse than white.Espresso - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaEspresso (/ɛˈsprɛsoʊ/; Italian pronunciation: [eˈsprɛsso]) is coffee brewed by forcing a small amount of nearly boiling water under pressure through finely ground coffee beans
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No, good espresso needs to be made with an espresso machine. Espresso is merely one way of making coffee - you might as well say red wine is better or worse than white.Originally posted by Paddy View PostI don't think it will work. It is filled up with ungrounded beans. Also it is only working on the 'cafeteria' principle. Good coffee need to be made on an espresso machine.
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I don't think it will work. It is filled up with ungrounded beans. Also it is only working on the 'cafeteria' principle. Good coffee need to be made on an espresso machine.
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Well that's...elaborate.
In all seriousness though, how about one of these:
TopBrewer - Scanomat
I think Twitter have one in their UK office. About $11k IIRC.
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Contractors coffee machine
You know you want one





AKMA – a steampunk style, metre-tall, anodised aluminium, Tower Of Orthanc-looking coffee machine created by Dutch Lab with three separate coffee servers and a 3 litre water tank.
The name derives from the Korean word for ‘devil’.
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