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  Re: Home Espresso Machines
  By: August Abolins to Kurt Weiske on Sun Mar 19 2023 12:27 pm

 AA> Anyway.. boiling water the simple way in a kettle, and letting 
 AA> gravity and a paper cone do its magic is quite good and fast 
 AA> enough.

We did most of our coffee drinking at home with 2 cone filters. My wife drinks
hers with cream and sugar, and that really cools down the coffee. Making it
with water out of a kettle is the best way to keep it warm in the cup.

 AA> I would imagine that your espresso machine would need far more 
 AA> maintenance and cleaning than a simple water-only Bosch/Tassimo 
 AA> system. I know you said that the machine "has already paid for 
 AA> itself" in a few months (keeping in mind that the cost of 
 AA> bistro coffees are overpriced to begin with), but I hope the 
 AA> machine doesn't create maintenance headaches and added cost 
 AA> down the road.

We have a reverse osmosis water filter system. Internal scale is the biggest
problem for espresso machines, so I'd hope I'm going to do OK. The mechanism
is easy to clean, open a door on the side and the hopper mechanism comes out
and you can rinse it out in a sink. Getting coffee oils out of the grinder
might be a challenge.
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