Thread: Coffee Enthusiasts

Originally Posted by Speedster

Holy crap, that mini roaster is freakin' gorgeous! Afraid to discover the price given their "Quote" button.

Originally Posted by prodigy

Looks like they start at $11,000!

I overcame my "fear", and inquired: $10,500 + S/H (with a 9-week lead time)

Originally Posted by JBHoren

I overcame my "fear", and inquired: $10,500 + S/H (with a 9-week lead time)

Plenty of time for some *serious* buyer's remorse to creep in!

Using Mike's metric of value expressed in terms of trips avoided to Starbucks, etc., that would take a looooong time to pay off...

Beautiful looking machine, though.

Originally Posted by Cangooner

Plenty of time for some *serious* buyer's remorse to creep in!

Using Mike's metric of value expressed in terms of trips avoided to Starbucks, etc., that would take a looooong time to pay off...

Beautiful looking machine, though.

Innit? For some reason, it reminds me of trains... especially locomotives (if you like "O"-gauge model trains, there's a great series on WHDT, Wednesday evenings, called Steel Wheels; yup, 30 minutes of stunning visuals and informative commentary).

Yup, the home brew coffee coefficient works out to 20$/week CDN as an unofficial justifier of spend avoidance and quality home caffeine generation.

So over a year, $1000 saved up here, or $780 USD once I stopped with the take out coffee.
That roaster would take over a decade to pay off purely in personal avoidance.
Course if selling your wares, exponentially less time involved..

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Yup, the home brew coffee coefficient works out to 20$/week CDN as an unofficial justifier of spend avoidance and quality home caffeine generation.

So over a year, $1000 saved up here, or $780 USD once I stopped with the take out coffee.
That roaster would take over a decade to pay off purely in personal avoidance.
Course if selling your wares, exponentially less time involved..

I have a friend who visits Tim Hortons 4 times a day. That works out to about $7/day or about $2500/year. He also smokes cigarettes @ $10/day or $3700/year. We won’t count beer because that’s food.

He could eliminate one vice and one indulgence and pay for that coffee roaster in under 3 years.

Had a minor tragedy chez Cangooner last week when my girlfriend accidentally broke my precious double-walled glass one-piece Bodum press. Tragedy and precious because when I bought it about a dozen years ago, it was already at the end of production. So a direct replacement will be nigh on impossible.

So, I'm thinking of replacing it with this:Espro P7

I like the fact that it's insulated (as was the late Bodum), and I seem to recall someone here had good things to say about the Espro. Did I imagine that??

Any other suggestions for a press that will last the next 12 years?

Since getting into espresso, I found myself using the press less often, but it was great to have that option when the mood struck.

Originally Posted by Cangooner

Had a minor tragedy chez Cangooner last week when my girlfriend accidentally broke my precious double-walled glass one-piece Bodum press. Tragedy and precious because when I bought it about a dozen years ago, it was already at the end of production. So a direct replacement will be nigh on impossible.

So, I'm thinking of replacing it with this:Espro P7

I like the fact that it's insulated (as was the late Bodum), and I seem to recall someone here had good things to say about the Espro. Did I imagine that??

Any other suggestions for a press that will last the next 12 years?

Since getting into espresso, I found myself using the press less often, but it was great to have that option when the mood struck.

Why don't you check out the auction sites for a comparable press? I'm guessing you'll have an opportunity to perhaps find the same as was broken?

Originally Posted by Midway

Why don't you check out the auction sites for a comparable press? I'm guessing you'll have an opportunity to perhaps find the same as was broken?

I've occasionally been keeping an eye out for years in the hope of finding a backup. No luck.

However - thanks for the reminder. It's time to look again.

Originally Posted by Cangooner

Had a minor tragedy chez Cangooner last week when my girlfriend accidentally broke my precious double-walled glass one-piece Bodum press. Tragedy and precious because when I bought it about a dozen years ago, it was already at the end of production. So a direct replacement will be nigh on impossible.

So, I'm thinking of replacing it with this:Espro P7

I like the fact that it's insulated (as was the late Bodum), and I seem to recall someone here had good things to say about the Espro. Did I imagine that??

Any other suggestions for a press that will last the next 12 years?

Since getting into espresso, I found myself using the press less often, but it was great to have that option when the mood struck.

Just bought an Espro. A bit fiddly but makes good brew. Quick clean up though.
Still learning it though. Bought on sale.
~Richard

Originally Posted by Cangooner

Plenty of time for some *serious* buyer's remorse to creep in!

Using Mike's metric of value expressed in terms of trips avoided to Starbucks, etc., that would take a looooong time to pay off...

Beautiful looking machine, though.

Avoiding Starbucks, or any of the dozens of $5 espresso drive-thrus and cafes littering my city, led me to this wonderful 6000 euro purchase back in 2010. Worth. Every. Euro. Nothing like waking up each and every morning to such an amazing work of art, ready to go. No need to drive anywhere. I savored about 2 double espressos and a double cappa before dare doing anything else to start off the day. For whatever reason, home roasting never appealed to me.

Apologies for the super crappy cell pic: