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Originally Posted by bcedhk
what made you want to get an espresso machine? it is a serious/honest question. it is for the sake of being able to make it at home, or do you want to 'save money'?
if you are looking to make milk based drinks, i would honestly say, to save your 500-600 dollars and just go out to a local cafe for it. Most of the steamers in a single boiler machine are weak and will give you very airy foam.
What type of taste do you prefer? do you like starbucks or do you prefer 49th parallel/prado approach to making espressos?
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I love drinking espesso straight, my 95% of the time go to when I’m out and about is an americano, iced or hot.
We only drink good coffee at home and cycle through many different beans on a monthly basis, 49th parallel, Milano, etc but currently only make drip coffee with a pretty decent machine and grinder
The wife drinks cappuccinos and lattes but really only on the weekend as their company has a rediculously fancy machine in the office where she makes coffee during the week.
In some ways I’m eyeing machines up as a hobby, I like tinkering around with settings and different grinds etc trying to lead up to that perfect cup. I’ve never had a machine before but I like shit like that. It would kind of be a novelty but it would probably also be something I’d used every day.
An aero press I’m not going to use every day, I’m not a morning person and I don’t have the time for it.
To me the nespresso is bullshit just like most automated coffee makers the like, it’s -never- strong enough. I tried nespresso quite a bit long before it ever made the scene in North America while we were in Europe I considered it weak then and I find the North American adaptation to be even more so.
I waste money on shit all the time, but I really can’t justify spending that $1000+ on a machine quite yet, especially when I don’t really know if that’s what I want or not. At least at the price point of the Breville etc I could always just buy a better grinder then slowly upgrade my machine if I wanted