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> Espresso machines, then and now, are gigantic, expensive, difficult to use, and incredibly inefficient from an energy perspective. They do not really make sen
by zhdc1 5y ago
> Espresso machines, then and now, are gigantic, expensive, difficult to use, and incredibly inefficient from an energy perspective. They do not really make sense for the home.
The author talks about the La Pavoni Ideale, but I don't get how they missed La Pavoni's current bread and butter, the Europiccola and Professional, both of which are more than small enough to fit in a kitchen, make great espresso, and have been sold since the 1960s.
- seg_lol 5y agoIf we are talking about efficiency, you can brew wonderful coffee w/o ever getting up to 100C. Using steam to diffuse out the essence from the grounds is one great way, but there are so many other ones as well. Coffee brewing is like a thermodynamic engine diagram, lots of different routes along the temperature, pressure, mass, flow rate, ground size and packed density dimensions.
- Lio 5y agoI love the idea of a La Pavoni hand pump machine. Such a beautiful design. Sadly though, the truth is I can barely work my existing semi-automatic espresso maker until I've had my first shot of the day! If I had a fully manual machine that first shot would end in some kind of Clouseauesque[1] destruction of my kitchen... 1. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Clouseauesque https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Clouseauesque