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R. has provided and instructed me in a little espresso maker. One fills the lower chamber with water that one then heats. The water rises through pipes then a layer of coffee before appearing in the upper chamber. I have no idea what coffee aficionados think of it in comparison with, say, the AeroPress® or Breaking Bad's Gabe's thinking, but I rather like the coffee that this device makes me from the Sang Tao 5 from a local Vietnamese grocery store; next I shall try their number 1.

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From:

emperor

These are moka pots, and they're pretty trad :) I used to use them quite a bit, but I found particularly the smaller ones quite fiddly to get reliable results from.

From:

thewayne

I get in to work yesterday and they replaced our Keurig with a later model that has a cold water tank for making cold coffee. Interestingly, it also has a de-scaling feature, though I have no idea if they bought any of the Keurig De-scaling Packets(tm).

The thing that immediately caught my eye was it has what appears to be a water pitcher out front. It's actually the water tank for the beastie. I thought that was cool, though a little confusing. What I thought was the tank was exclusively for the cold water.

But what irritates me is they threw away the instructions! I grabbed them from the tank and went over them to learn about the peculiarities of this thing, and I'm glad I did! While it's very, VERY rare that I use it, it does get used regularly by patrons and I need to know how it works to help them.