Good coffee tastes amazing, can be a great comfort, and is fun and easy to make well with the right tools. Coffee is also good for you, having been shown to make you smarter, help you lose weight, keep you alive longer and kickstart your exercise routine. Today we’re going to knock down coffee’s barrier to entry by telling you exactly which gear you need to get your hands on for a great brew.
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Behind the veneer of bearded hipsters that floods the world of high-end coffee lies an intricate field of science, gadgetry, and taste requiring years of experience to master. Counter Culture is at the forefront of coffee education, and their new NYC training center is the apex of techniques and technology.
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Handpresso is a small car-based espresso machine that lets you get your coffee fix during your morning commute.
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For a simple, ancient beverage, coffee has gotten pretty high-tech. Though it wasn’t long ago that we were drying cherries in the sun, roasting them in a cast-iron pan, grinding the beans with a mortal and pestle, and brewing the …
We know how important a cup of joe can be to the majority of us as it helps give us the energy we need to make it through another work day, especially if you’re the type to take numerous shots of espresso throughout the day. But getting an espresso wherever you go can be rather difficult, which is why the Nomad Go Everywhere portable espresso machine should be something right up your alley.
The only thing you’ll need with the Nomad Go Everywhere espresso machine is hot water as you won’t even need electricity in order to enjoy a nice cup of espresso at any time. You’ll just need to load up the machine with your ground up espresso beans and hot water, which we’re sure you’ll be able to produce when needed. (more…)
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Is it going to produce the best cup of espresso you’ve ever tasted? Probably not. But if you’ve got a thing for cars, or are on the hunt for an obscenely over-the-top coffee maker for your garage, Espresso Veloce’s V12 will give you the hit of caffeine you’re looking for, while gobbling up a huge chunk of counter space. More »
This system of burners, pipes, flasks and gauges looks like it came straight out of a laboratory. In fact, though, it’s a prototype coffee machine—and it could satisfy the technical desires of even the biggest coffee nerd. More »
I like my lattes with plenty of sweetener in them, but I think that I’d be fine with a dose of power pills instead of sugar or aspartame if that’s what they’re serving these days.
This Ms. Pac-Man latte was carefully composed by expert barista Andrew Alcala (aka MonkDrew), who clearly knows his way around a cup of espresso and some foamy milk.
While he hasn’t made a whole lot of other geeky lattes, he does have a nice Triforce and a couple of awesome dragons among his many other creative beverage designs. I can only imagine such artistry slows down the line at the coffee shop a little bit.
You’ve been spoiled by the five-buck cup of exotic single-origin pour-over coffee. It’s time to upgrade your home equipment. At this rate, your caffeine addiction is cutting into your cocktail budget. More »
Aside from taste, the point of drinking espresso is that in a sense, you want to blast off with all the fuel caffeine provides. And these adorable rocket espresso cups allow you to express that quite literally. More »
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