Things you hate about espresso machines

Brett H

on 1349353586:

So you had three drinks then? Siphon, long black and espresso?

Good point!  No!  I preferred the long black just as I prefer Cabernet Savignon to Shiraz. 

UNM

Derrilex, I still feel some points cannot go unchallenged. Firstly, please accept my apologies for the inference that you or anyone else here are coffee snobs. It was meant more as a caution that we don't want to be snobbish in our attitudes and not as a personal attack. I am not spouting anti espresso propaganda. When I am in the mood, an espresso is an excellent coffee. I just cannot accept it is fundamentally better than any other coffee preparation method. Even when well executed, I still believe other methods have their merits and can equal espresso for a significant number of people under many circumstances. Ergo, it is not the best. Equal perhaps, but not the best. My statement was intended in general terms, yours is extremely specific. I cannot challenge that you may feel espresso is best for you as a condiment in your milk, but that statement has limited value unless I was attempting to make you a coffee. The issue of whether there is, or is not, a single 'best' way to make coffee, is worth consideration in a coffee forum. It is a tad ironic that you are singing the praises of espresso when you don't even drink the stuff and I enjoy at least one espresso a day.

derrilex

on 1349488126:

I cannot challenge that you may feel espresso is best for you as a condiment in your milk It is a tad ironic that you are singing the praises of espresso when you don't even drink the stuff and I enjoy at least one espresso a day.

No, not ironic at all. I drink a espresso shot, with milk - ergo, I drink espresso. How one prefers to get that shot is personal preference as is what one does with that shot once it is obtained - eg drink it, add milk to it, strip floors with it etc..... :D

Kelsey

I had a coffee at my parents place the other day. I reckon you could strip floors with that.

Lacehim

on 1349490090:

I had a coffee at my parents place the other day. I reckon you could strip floors with that.

I get offered Nescafe at my inlaws & parents place.  Either that or coffee in a bag...  No thanks! There is plenty I dislike about espresso machines, maintenace is one.  cleaning up after just one coffee.  Still it's great fun making the mess so I shouldn't complain too much! I haven't found the perfect machine yet for me.  I think I'm too fussy.

GaryatGala

Losing that damn washer after taking out the shower screen to clean out the muck only to find out i had it in my hand all that time.. :doh:

askthecoffeeguy

staff who leave the blind filter in the machine with the brew switch on overnight shutting down the volumetrics of the switch involved and grinding down the bushles on the pump motor ...

derrilex

Don't ya just love staff Pat ? :D

Brett H

on 1350572899:

staff who leave the blind filter in the machine with the brew switch on overnight shutting down the volumetrics of the switch involved and grinding down the bushles on the pump motor ...

And where do you bury them?

derrilex

Put them through the grinder - with the decaf  :rofl:

askthecoffeeguy

to top that off I put half a kg of decaf through the machine this morning thinking it was the blend as the bag was unlabelled - oh well... no one complained and I got repeat orders so I guess that's saying something!