D and I love coffee. Personally, caffeine does nothing to me. I can sleep right after I have an espresso or two (yeah, it’s a gift). Our first pre-date was actually in Starbucks in San Mateo, California. Yes, pre-date because I just had an annulment and he just started his divorce proceedings, so we were both gun-shy. Wow, there it is. Juicy bits from my personal life. I guess caffeine loosens up my tongue, the way alcohol does. Good to know…
We do our coffee the old school way. D uses a French press or sometimes the stove-top one. I have a milk-frother to make my cappuccino. Last ear, I got him this copper French Press from Napa Valley. It’s the prettiest thing.
Last week at Thanksgiving, D’s brother, Steve, showed us his bad-ass Italian espresso maker. It was so easy and convenient! As luck would have it, Black Friday had awesome deals on those bad boys, so we finally succumbed and got ourselves a Nespresso Latissima Pro from Wiliams-Sonoma .
It was great. Espresso was very comparable to the stove-top one that we make. The biggest plus for me was the built in milk-frother. You can remove the container and put it back on the fridge. No waste! It is also self-cleaning. When it comes to kitchen gadgets and appliances, that’s my next favorite word, the first being “non-stick”. You can also pull it apart and throw it in the washer. It goes right along with my iron-clad rule, “if it can’t get into the washer, I’m not buying it”.
The cons: It doesn’t come with a coffee-bean grinder the way Steve’s did. And you also have to buy the pods. That’s why it’s cheaper. D crunched the numbers, he said it evens out. I didn’t get to the nitty-gritty of it, something about cost-per-pod over x number of years. It made me sleepy…coffee and all. Oh, and it doesn’t connect directly to your water-line and there is no refrigerated compartment for the milk. I didn’t crunch any numbers on this. All i know is for the savings of a thousand dollars, I would be more than happy to walk across my kitchen to get water and put the milk back into the fridge. Just sayin….
