How do you make coffee?

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.

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.

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).

A tea drinker, how quaint.

Nothing like a hissing, steaming, Wallace and Gromit type espresso machine. But a plunger/French press works for me.

I drink Tea as well as coffee, mostly green tea these days.

I am an erstwhile tea drinker. Tea is probably healthier.

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.

I refuse to drink anything but free range civet catshit coffee. Ran through a Westinghouse coffe perolator re-wired for 220 volts.

#6 I agree that those plungers make the coffee taste muddy. All the sediment (grounds) are floating up in there. Plus it doesn't keep the other 1-2 cups you are going to drink in the next 10 minutes warm!

#9, surely it only tastes muddy if the grind is too fine for plunger?

I don't have one but some of my friends do and it always tastes like that. Sure, it could be the grind, but I'm not the one making the coffee (only choking on it...)

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If you drink it like that then filtered stewed coffee is for you
espresso or cafetiere coffee is for one strong cup and be done with it

A man and his wife were having an argument about who should brew the coffee each morning.

The wife said, "You should do it because you get up first, and then we don't have to wait as long to get our coffee.

The husband said, "You are in charge of cooking around here and you should do it, because that is your job, and I can just wait for my coffee."

Wife replies, "No, you should do it, and besides, it is in the Bible that the man should do the coffee."

Husband replies, "I can't believe that, show me."

So she fetched the Bible, and opened the New Testament and showed him at the top of several pages, that it indeed says .......... "HEBREWS".

$3700? Sounds like it includes a whole coffee plantation.
My daughter got
this Nespresso as her birthday present. It cost a neat amount of €150, including a present box of 25 coffee cartridges. It makes superb espresso.