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"I have a "pro" $800 espresso machine " Sorry, but just had to chuckle to myself a little...

lapetitejort 4y ago
Not sure if you're laughing at how cheap or expensive it is. Your local independent coffee shop might be sporting a five figure espresso machine. Equipment gets expensive when it needs to run >8 hours straight
- JimtheCoder 4y ago
  Cheap...
  - OJFord 4y ago
    The quotes around 'pro' were as written though right, I read OP as saying 'this thing was sold to the home user as 'pro', it's expensive for the market'. I don't think someone quoting their own 'pro' is under any disillusions about how much it's used in a commercial setting... I have a Rancilio Silvia that was I think £400 (so, uh, about $400..) and it's a good thing I don't run an espresso bar. The queue out of the door would only ever shrink by people giving up and leaving. For me, it's great, but a machine that needs to make however many shots an hour all day, and peak at say 10x that, is just in a different class. Not even necessarily 'better', it just has different/extra problems to solve which would be engineering gone to waste at home; tank capacity never used, reliability never called upon.
- 0x457 4y ago
  $800 is far from "pro". It's not "cheap", but it also not expensive. That's just about entry level if we're taking decent machines that will last. Pro would probably start at 5k (Ascaso Baby T Plus). Commercial, that's 10k (La Marzocco Linea 2 Group EE ). Buf if we are talking about actually coffee shop, that's 20k at least.
  - TheHappyOddish 4y ago
    "Pro" here would be "prosumer", rather than "professional".
  - 10u152 4y ago
    Apple changed the meaning of “pro” to mean “slightly higher than basic spec”
xenadu02 4y ago
In written US English (especially online) the double quotes around "pro" imply sarcasm or that the word is not meant to be taken literally. In context it means the author knows it isn't actually a professional machine despite the manufacturer marketing it as such.

Not sure if you're laughing at how cheap or expensive it is. Your local independent coffee shop might be sporting a five figure espresso machine. Equipment gets expensive when it needs to run >8 hours straight

JimtheCoder 4y ago
Cheap...
- OJFord 4y ago
  The quotes around 'pro' were as written though right, I read OP as saying 'this thing was sold to the home user as 'pro', it's expensive for the market'. I don't think someone quoting their own 'pro' is under any disillusions about how much it's used in a commercial setting... I have a Rancilio Silvia that was I think £400 (so, uh, about $400..) and it's a good thing I don't run an espresso bar. The queue out of the door would only ever shrink by people giving up and leaving. For me, it's great, but a machine that needs to make however many shots an hour all day, and peak at say 10x that, is just in a different class. Not even necessarily 'better', it just has different/extra problems to solve which would be engineering gone to waste at home; tank capacity never used, reliability never called upon.
0x457 4y ago
$800 is far from "pro". It's not "cheap", but it also not expensive. That's just about entry level if we're taking decent machines that will last. Pro would probably start at 5k (Ascaso Baby T Plus). Commercial, that's 10k (La Marzocco Linea 2 Group EE ). Buf if we are talking about actually coffee shop, that's 20k at least.
- TheHappyOddish 4y ago
  "Pro" here would be "prosumer", rather than "professional".
- 10u152 4y ago
  Apple changed the meaning of “pro” to mean “slightly higher than basic spec”

xenadu02 4y ago

In written US English (especially online) the double quotes around "pro" imply sarcasm or that the word is not meant to be taken literally. In context it means the author knows it isn't actually a professional machine despite the manufacturer marketing it as such.