OK, not really. But somehow I'm always finding them!
(Is that a beautiful machine or what?)I'm always complaining about how product photos are way too small on the web. You'd think we were still using 1995 modems and monitors. But here I found a site which provides pictures larger than my 30-inch Apple monitor can handle. That's more like it! :)
Someone with a job like yours can afford to be geeky about whatever he fancies! :-)
ReplyDelete(Is that a beautiful machine or what?)
Downright sexy. Looks like something a dominatrix in leather might see in her dreams. ;-)
Dang, I wish you hadn't said that, now I have to buy it.
ReplyDeleteInteresting conversation this one :-)
ReplyDeleteEo I must say I very often think of your way, and I'm a still admirer.
Thanks, I guess! :)
ReplyDeleteWhich way is that?
Yeah, being a tea drinker I envy you coffee enthusiasts for all the technology involved in coffee making.
ReplyDeletePreparing tea is all about protocol. There's nothing to get geeky about. Rather, you go philosophical. The older your pots are the better. I guess introducing technology into it would be considered vulgar and aggressive.
But, Eolake, is that really the most expensive coffee machine you could find? One guy said he ordered his from Italy and as I recall it cost at least twice that much. Surely you don't want to settle with anything but the best? Granted, I don't know anything about coffee making. Maybe the apparatus pictured here is the best.
"Yeah, being a tea drinker I envy you coffee enthusiasts for all the technology involved in coffee making."
ReplyDeleteHaha! Yes indeed.
Coffee is very western, and tea is very eastern.
"But, Eolake, is that really the most expensive coffee machine you could find?"
Again haha! I don't want to buy the most expensive just for the sake of it.
Also, just as with cameras, the most expensive is also often the biggest, and my kitchen is not big.
And I think that more expensive than this (again like with cameras) is really made for heavy-duty use.
Oh, and by the way, I just fell in love with the look of the thing.
ReplyDeleteOf course I've been reading a few reviews to check it is also a good machine, which seems to be the case. (Except if you need to make for many people, which I don't.)
Those of you who saw Firefly will remember that tea was an important part of the rituals of a "companion".
ReplyDeleteTea and coffee are made the same way now. Take a bag, drop it in a mug of boiling water, wait a couple of minutes, pull the bag out, add the milk and sugar, voila....
c.f.
Folgers Coffee Bags
Tetley Teabags
I would have to say that breaking out a cafetiere or boilng a pan or milk, water, tealeaves and cardomon are about as ritualistic as each other though.
And exploring tea rituals of the world is nerdy.
That's beautiful enough for me. I think its cost too much but I would love to buy it. But when I bought it I will not use this everyday.
ReplyDeleteThanks for writing.
ReplyDeleteI have to admit that apart from looks, it was not really better than a plastic machine I bought for less than half.
Now I use a compact Krups machine with Nespresso capsules. Good quality, and much less cleaning to do. (Faster too.)