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There is which is why I’m finding that the Costa machines here in the UK are consistently better than the humans are.

• stinos 7y ago
  I never had a coffee from a Costa machine, but purely from the looks of it, and my experience with similar looking machines, I wonder: does this really produce espresso (as in say 16grams of fresh ground beans in, water at proper temperature and pressure of like 6 or more bars, yielding something like 32grams of beverage) or rather something which can best be described as 'strong coffee'?
  • Plyphon_ 7y ago
    Your metrics for an espresso seem incredibly trivial for a machine to exactly reproduce, yet wildly open to human error and deviance.
    • stinos 7y ago
      Yes that's pretty much spot on. Making espresso with a manual lever machine isn't too hard too mess up, especially not in comparison with pressing one button or filter coffee. Yet it's apparently not that trivial to make such a machine, and keeping it working for hundreds of cups a day: prices of those are easily well over 10k$.
    • cpuguy83 7y ago
      Sure but espresso varies, change the bean even the age of the bean and the recipe needs to adjust. Not to mention not everyone wants the same experience every single time, and not every person wants the same exact espresso that the last person had.
  • m0xte 7y ago
    Good question. I’m not sure I care if I’m honest. It tastes pretty good and keeps me alive :)