After years of not having one, I finally got another espresso machine. Now I can make my iced mochas, what my family always called Foo-Foo coffee. The only problem? I keep spelling my name wrong on the cup.
Well, I can make Foo-Foo coffee again.
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I wish I could bring myself to spend the money on a superautomatic machine, but, for $300 difference, I can do a little bit of the work.
I worked as a Starbucks barista while going to college after I retired from the service. Pretty good gig, all the free coffee drinks you wanted while working and a free pound of beans--except for the really expensive ones--each week. This was before Starbucks went nationwide and downhill shortly thereafter. I still drop in for a hazelnut latte every now and then but have to tell them one squirt and one squirt only of the syrup or else it is sickening sweet. The stores now are just stores, not the atmosphere it originally had.
sparkyvega
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Lovely bought us a Nespresso (sp?) machine, the one with the half-spherical pods that makes pretty good Foo-Foo covfefe. I just finished one off...good stuff, and no mess to clean up.
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I had a Nespresso machine. It was great at making coffee. The unfortunate thing is back then it just used proprietary pods only available from Nestle. Was quite expensive, so I stopped using it. This one can use any coffee, no pods.
My heartbeat gets erattic when I have caffeine. Coffee is No Bueno anymore. 
Only seen expresso in movies. Now ya got me thinking. Drink coffee all day. Gonna check out expresso. Thanks.
My gf went through "the agony and the ecstasy" (much of both) to learn how to make a good latte and has triumphed. She has settled on Peet's "Major Dickason" blend.
She has an online friend who went all out on his espresso machinery. We figure he has about $5k in this :eek: If you have an itch, you gotta scratch it... if you have enough scratch.
She has an online friend who went all out on his espresso machinery. We figure he has about $5k in this :eek: If you have an itch, you gotta scratch it... if you have enough scratch.
J.S. Bach even wrote a little cantata about coffee, for the new Zimmerman's Coffee House in Leipzig. (Doubt they had lattes and espressos back then, however)
(Alas, some uncultured boor dropped a bomb on it in WWII. Who in their right mind would bomb a coffee house?)
In it Lieschen begs her fuddy old father not to be so harsh in criticizing her coffee habit:
If I can't have my llittle cup of coffee
three times a day
In my anguish I will turn into
A shriveled-up roast goat.
Cultural segment ending now as I need to get up and get my second cup of coffee :)
(Alas, some uncultured boor dropped a bomb on it in WWII. Who in their right mind would bomb a coffee house?)
In it Lieschen begs her fuddy old father not to be so harsh in criticizing her coffee habit:
If I can't have my llittle cup of coffee
three times a day
In my anguish I will turn into
A shriveled-up roast goat.
Cultural segment ending now as I need to get up and get my second cup of coffee :)
Jeff423
US Veteran
Not far off: The espresso machine is about $3600 and the grinder is about $400-$500. He probably has another $1000 in related accessories.
He works for the Federal Gov't in Ottawa, so I guess we're all sort of paying for it :) (And his wife is a lawyer.) I'm not sure if he had to fly to Germany for hands-on training to operate the espresso machine, though (!)
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Ever since I got the machine I've had a bit of the song Sugar Shack stuck in my head. "Espresso coffee tastes mighty good."
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"Black as midnight, black as pitch. Blacker than the foulest witch."
With some cream and sugar of course.
With some cream and sugar of course.
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Your roots are showing. You make chili by the pot. You make espresso by the shot. Although I do use 4 shots per drink, so, it is similar.o_O
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