Clover
A new coffee maker is in town, the brand new machine from Clover, which supposedly makes coffee by some kind of vacuum principle (instead of pressure or just plain old gravity, I suppose, I haven't really gotten into it, as I don't expect to own one anytime soon).
This new baby costs somewhere in the vicinity of 11 000 USD and/so not that many own them yet. But thanks to my primary coffee (information) source -- coffee aficionado John, I happen to know that there are two such machines located in Norway, and not surprisingly they are both in Oslo.
So at Stockfleth's I tried one of this cups of some kind of Rwandan blend. And though the experience might have been a little tainted by the fact that I had never tried the coffee made by some other technique, and that 300 police-cars passed the window, I must say I wasn't blown away. I wasn't all "meh!" and I didn't feel ripped off paying 25 NOKs for the cup, but I would have felt a little un-mesmerized if I'd paid 11 000 dollars for the hunk of steel. Or to sum up like John did: "it's good. it's not $11000 good."
posted by Benjamin @ 17:18
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I tried a Brazilian made with the Clover at the new Ritual location in SF, and it was quite good, much more balanced than the Guatemalan I also tried. While the coffee is makes is good, I think the most interesting thing is the new vacuum press method. It also seems that the Clover has a number of benefits for the cafe owners, e.g. minimal coffee waste, freshly-brewed made-to-order servings, electronic logging.
Here's an article about the Clover: http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-clover14mar14,1,4322055.story
I wonder what $11000 good really would be - a feeling of etherealness and happiness arousing spontaneously from a taste that is so subtle that it make angels cry? :) My dad, who's into wines, say you can feel definite improvements up to $200 or so, then it's very difficult to feel but the smallest nuance.
I guess it's a bit unfair to compare the 11 000 dollars to the price of a bottle. After all it is production equipment, not the actual retail product.
But if you were to pay 11 000 dollars for one single cup of coffee, it'd better make angels cry.
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