I baulk at the price of these machines, as coffee drinking is a fairly new thing for me. 5 years or so. But recently, one of the guys on my last project was a very snobby coffee drinker ( he even drinks his coffees without disturbing the coffee art foam! lol ) This lead me to a new appreciation for coffee, so I have been pondering getting myself a more manual machine than my Nespresso. The pods are annoying me, on a environment level and a gimmick / "must buy from us" level.
Not yet taken the plunger on deciding what to get though. Might ask my coffee snob friend what he thinks but I suspect I would been a new mortgage. Hehe Coffee is on topic here, right? Sent from Outlook<https://aka.ms/kr63o9> on iOS On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 6:06 PM -0700, "Greg Low (罗格雷格博士)" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Yep, the DeLonghi has been “ok”. I think it was about $2.7k at the time. I’m not necessarily after a sub 2k machine. Happy to pay for one that’s worth having. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web: www.sqldownunder.com<http://www.sqldownunder.com/> From: Bill McCarthy [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 8 April 2016 10:56 AM To: Greg Low (罗格雷格博士) <[email protected]>; ozDotNet <[email protected]> Subject: RE: Coffee snobs When my delonghi broke down(leaking water), I started looking at alternative machines. Most of the cheap machines will make a good short single shot. But I like long flat white (occasionally a long macchiato) , so it gets hard to find a machine that will do that consistently sub $2k. I use to have a cheap breville years ago, and it was good, but it was only good at short drinks, and really was a messy pain compared to an auto machine. Me, I’d go auto at the sacrifice of money and quality ?? The biggest thing to look out for, is if this is your go to machine during the day, then this will be the coffee you get use to. Most people I know that have decades of coffee drinking experience in Australia, use to find instant coffee acceptable, palatable, and even enjoyable. I was reminded of this the other weekend when I went to the timboon miniature train festival, and the only coffee was instant: sometimes spoiling ourselves everyday, spoils us. If I didn’t drink ‘reasonable’ coffee all the time, I might be able to enjoy an instant, and maybe even a macca’s coffee too ?? Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 From: Greg Low (罗格雷格博士)<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Friday, 8 April 2016 10:19 AM To: ozDotNet<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Coffee snobs Hi Folks, Given the importance of caffeine for code generation, I’m guessing there will be a few other coffee snobs on the list. Anyone got a recommendation for a serious (possibly manual) coffee machine? I’ve been using a DeLonghi automatic one but now feeling that I’d prefer something like this: BES890 or BES920: http://www.breville.com.au/beverages/coffee-machines.html The main thing that puts me off is the Breville brand. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web: www.sqldownunder.com<http://www.sqldownunder.com/>
