This is Coffee porn

[BigBoy]

Its very nice looking but as it uses pods and not the grounds / tamp method you will never be able to get a good espresso from it. have a look at www.coffeegeek.com for reasons why or have a look at the old coffee thread where my self and many others have spoken about how to produce a proper coffee.

I am no coffee expert but I guess bean is when you actually place a full bean in the thing and a pod one has already ground beans in it

Pods are like teabags there is already a measure of pre ground coffee in the bag and it has been tamped (compacted) to the so called true density to make a cup of coffee. the bean method is more complicated as you will be required to grind your own beans and tamp them yourself to the correct density.

 

[Zip]

Now why can't they say the truth?

"Ferrucio Lamborghini was a hick who got rich building tractors. Enzo Ferrari refused to sell him a car because he was a hick. Ferrucio went in a huff, stopped building tractors and started building GT cars."

*n

That's one of the more popular stories, yes. Another was that Ferrucio and Enzo were complete strangers, though Ferrucio owned a Ferrari. When he bought an oil pump for his Ferrari he found it was virtually identical to the ones he supplied for his tractors, except the Ferrari one was ten times the price. He decided to make sports cars purely for fun and profit. Lamborghini didn't stop building tractors.

You are both right and wrong. I got this from Wikipedia.

Ferruccio Lamborghini was born in a small village in Renazzo di Cento, province of Ferrara.

A wealthy tractor manufacturer before and after World War II, Lamborghini once owned a Ferrari. He soon noticed that some of the clutch components were the same as the ones he used on his tractors. He approached Enzo Ferrari with his criticism, and Ferrari, brushing him off as a simple tractor manufacturer, refused to listen. Lamborghini then vowed revenge and setup his own rival sports car manufacturer nearby the Ferrari factory. His first car, the Lamborghini 350GT, was superior in every respect that Lamborghini had criticised in his own Ferrari. His third model, the Miura, was a ground-breaking and legendary car in the mould of Ferrari's 250 GTO and 365 GTB/4 Daytona.

The crest of the company, a bull, was taken from Lamborghini's zodiac sign, Taurus. The Miura was named after a trainer of fighting bulls, Don Eduardo Miura. The famous Countach was named after a local Italian colloquialism, after someone saw the design and exclamed: "Countach!"

Ferruccio Lamborghini was an enthusiastic owner of sports cars, including a Ferrari. The standard tale goes that he took this car back to the Ferrari factory when its clutch failed. Enzo Ferrari refused to meet him, saying that 'A tractor manufacturer could never be expected to understand high-bred sports cars'. So—after fixing the clutch with surprising ease—he decided to go into business, building the perfect GT (Grand Touring) car. (Another version of the tale holds that Ferruccio was incensed when he found out that the bum clutch on his Ferrari was the exact same model that he used on his tractors, only far more expensive.)

Lamborghini died in Perugia in 1993 at age 76.

 

[Kiyoshi]

Bet that's fun to clean.

 

[fatiain]

No, this is massively overpriced, designer crap.

 

[Raymond Lin]

The machine uses coffee pods which are normally approx. 7 grams in weight & look like a round tea bag. It does not use ground coffee or beans.

That alone makes it rubbish and pointless. Anyone who like coffee and enjoy coffee would have their own grinder and beans (and their flavourite beans + trying some other beans they've just come across). Limiting yourself with only coffee pods is like getting a Porche with a limiter on it at 30mph.

I rather get a Gaggia Classic at £240, much better money spent. Plus i bet you it make better coffee.

If you want an investment, spent your money elsewhere, status does not come with a coffee maker

 

[Dr House]

That alone makes it rubbish and pointless. Anyone who like coffee and enjoy coffee would have their own grinder and beans (and their flavourite beans + trying some other beans they've just come across). Limiting yourself with only coffee pods is like getting a Porche with a limiter on it at 30mph.

I rather get a Gaggia Classic at £240, much better money spent. Plus i bet you it make better coffee.

If you want an investment, spent your money elsewhere, status does not come with a coffee maker

I know, after thinking it over last night I just cant justify spending that much on something that makes average to poor coffee. But it does look cool lol

A decent bean to cup is going to be much better.

 

[Siliconslave]

A decent bean to cup is going to be much better.

noooooo - there arguably arn't any "decent" B2C machines - the whole automated process of putting beans in the top and getting decent coffee out the bottom hasn't been perfected by a long way - your better off getting (at a minimum) a gaggia classic (you can get them for about £200 if you look hard enough) and a decent grinder like the Iberital MC2 (~£100) and taking some time to learn to make proper espresso

 

[Zip]

noooooo - there arguably arn't any "decent" B2C machines - the whole automated process of putting beans in the top and getting decent coffee out the bottom hasn't been perfected by a long way - your better off getting (at a minimum) a gaggia classic (you can get them for about £200 if you look hard enough) and a decent grinder like the Iberital MC2 (~£100) and taking some time to learn to make proper espresso

How many hours per day do you take just to make a coffee?

 

[Siliconslave]

How many hours per day do you take just to make a coffee?

it depends what you count as making.... i've got the machine on warming up for a shot i'll pull in a min, but all in all i proberbly spend about 30min making about 5 cups over the day - and considering they taste far better than that stuff the sell on the highstreet i'm happy with the time spent

i figure a pod machine would save me all of 10 min, and tbh they taste rubish, as they always will with coffee thats been ground weeks, if not longer, before

now this is proper coffee porn:

 

[Zip]

That looks a bit like baby poop :\

 

[manveruppd]

noooooo - there arguably arn't any "decent" B2C machines - the whole automated process of putting beans in the top and getting decent coffee out the bottom hasn't been perfected by a long way

Agreed, and imho a fully automated system takes the fun out of making your own cup, but let's face it, for a lot of people a fancy coffee machine with ridiculous numbers of overengineered functions and features is there not so much to make coffee but as a show-off piece, so b2c will always be popular among people with money to burn

 

[z0mbi3]

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=Jobs a good'un

 

[Freefaller]

Our Krups coffee machine cost near on £200. Worth every penny though

 

[fatiain]

Our Krups coffee machine cost near on £200. Worth every penny though

And miles better than that overpriced, designer tat in the OP. It's almost up there with the Dolce and Gabanna V3i.

 

[v2^]

£895

I'll stick to tea .

Mark

Im with mrbristol, i love coffee but not at that price

 

[Freefaller]

And miles better than that overpriced, designer tat in the OP. It's almost up there with the Dolce and Gabanna V3i.

Absolument mon ami.