Complicated feelings about espresso
Here you see what faces me each morning as I try to restore the kitchen and get on about my day. Every two years or so my husband buys a new espresso machine in vain hope that he will finally achieve Latte of the same quality as his favorite cafe (which at the moment is Joe’s in Sebastopol). He’s also trying to avoid the $4(USD) cup of coffee which Kev talked about so eloquently. This particular model arrived at our home a couple weeks ago. The little metallic capsules on the right contain the coffee, which one loads very neatly into the top, fills it with water and VOILA! The silver pitcher on the left is for steaming the milk. I was ecstatic at first, thinking this operation would be so much neater than the previous one, and granted there are now no coffee grounds finding their way into neighboring drawers and down the sides of the trash and staining white counters, and so on.
There was one little step that was forgotten in the installation of the new equipment. No one thought to mention to 17 year old Ben, who does breakfast dishes on weekends, that the milk steamer could not be put in the dishwasher because of electrical wiring inside. And Ben, who got an A+ in Physics, never learned that practical lesson at school. So we are now on our second $100 milk steamer and those $4 Lattes are no longer looking so expensive. Personally I go for the $1 “Mini” at Joe’s whenever I get my coffee out, and have studiously avoiding learning the whole home latte scenario. Coffee should be as simple as tea I think.
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Fancy a coffee with us?
Café Crem was created by Miki and Kev Moore in 2007 with the intention of gathering like-minded artists, writers and musicians together around the coffee table to discuss and share thoughts, ideas, art, etc.
This initial desire has surpassed our wildest dreams with a myriad of collaborations taking place between the various members, creating pieces of work that simply would not exist without Café Crem.
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It looks like the bridge of the Starship enterprise! Is it meant to be in pieces?
I suppose if Bobs labouring under these conditions to get good home-brewed coffee, he’s obviously living by the maxim “Better Latte than never!”
Happy that you find your way to Cafe Krem, after all the traffic jams and complications in the cyberspace roads…
And what a mess again you left here! Do you think I will do the dishes? I won´t, I am a mess myself in the kitchen!
I might try to convince Kevin to put it all into the dishwasher, but he has a great respect for the dishwasher… you´ll see what I mean with my next entry!
Made my day. Nothing better than reading about another big dummy.
My daughter was eyeing a $800 version of a coffee maker. I think for a while she actually believed daddy would get it; he needs his money for paint supplies and cattle feed.
My god Bill, what was she thinking? You could drink at Starbucks for a whole day on $800…..
That is a good point.
Here is something I found interesting on the PBS radio program “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me”.
I don’t remember the dates but they were in something like the 1600′s -
1. At one time the Frence wine interest protested the drinking of coffee as causing the drinkers to reduce their intake of the more healthful glass of wine. (maybe Debbie Downer was correct).
2. There were a group of Engish women who protested the coffee houses of England saying that coffee left their men with the inability or desire to make love.