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At home I have been using one of these.....
http://www.breville.com.au/products_detail.asp?prod=286 At the time of purchase it was reviewed by Choice as the 'best buy' Highly recommend 'Punch' cafe coffee beans - $45 for a big bag though |
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SAECO FTW
Twin Boilers as well so much quicker. http://products.saeco.com/index.asp?...&id_lingua=ENG Last edited by Luigi; 13-02-2008 at 02:06 PM. |
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Rancilio owns j00..
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For home, I'd recommend buying and mastering a manual machine.
The results speak for themselves, you'll get a better coffee out of a $600 manual espresso machine and $200 burr grinder than an $8000 automatic. I've got a Rancilio Silvia espresso machine and Rancilio Rocky burr grinder, with a stainless base station and it cost me $1250. I will put money on my coffee bettering that of 99% of cafe's out there, as well as 100% of automatic machines. As you go up in price, you'll get more consistency between shots, and repeatability in a large number of shots...for example, I can't pull 20 shots in a row with my machine without waiting for temps to stabilise, but with a machine thats maybe $2,500 (plus grinder) and has dual boilers or single boiler/heat exchanger, it'll do it. It all comes down to the quality of the bean, the grind, the distribution and the tamp. You can own a $20,000 Synesso Cyncra PID-Controlled, rotary pump, 4 group machine, but if you use pre-ground coffee, shit beans or a shit grinder, the coffee won't even be as good as a $250 home machine. For work, automatic or drip coffee if you're not phased about espresso's. This also comes down to how many coffees a day... the more coffees, the heavier duty the equipment has to be. Simple as that Last edited by BALISTC; 13-02-2008 at 02:12 PM. |
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My coffee machine broke so I bought one of those cafetieres( or however u spell it). Nice n quick, but no lattes.
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Yeah, dad's a bad influence Try a bag of Gino's cafe beans - Take away the name and the marketing bullshit, and they're suprisingly good.
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