Got a free cup of coffee while shopping at Williams Sonoma, and was intrigued enough by the fancy automated coffeemaker to ask the price -- $3,700 !!!
I know I'll never love coffee enough to buy anything like it (description here) Top of the Line Coffee Maker
Although it was fun to see it in action, when we want brewed coffee we'll continue to use our drip-brew coffeemaker, and small coffeebean grinder. (Total cost about 20 years ago was an extravagant $40 or so).
Can anyone explain to me who buys such appliances and why? There must be a market since they've got variations ranging from $200 upwards.
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guruwil
Well not many people I know buy the $3,700 versions however probably most people I know have now moved away from the drip filter type coffee to either plunger coffee, or preferably to small home espresso machines or many workplaces now have the larger versions such as you have linked to.
I think in the US people are still used to drip filter coffee, but in Australia and much of Europe most people are now used to and prefer the espresso style.
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tonya001
It's not the appliance but the content.
(I make tea in a teapot - but the tea leaves are all. I'd make tea in a used but cleaned bed pan if the leaves were what I wanted over the finest china teapot if the leaves were not what I wanted).
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seppolini
A tea drinker, how quaint.
Nothing like a hissing, steaming, Wallace and Gromit type espresso machine. But a plunger/French press works for me.
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mignon
Kona Coffee, small grinder, Mr. Coffee. We are American, we like filtered coffee. My husband and I both brought plunger types (Fresh Press) into the marriage and decided that the coffee tasted muddy. However, before we got a martini shaker, we used the plunger coffee maker to make martinis and found it a very satisfactory use for the device.
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niner
I refuse to drink anything but free range civet catshit coffee. Ran through a Westinghouse coffe perolator re-wired for 220 volts.
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