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26 Dec, 2023
flann is always a great read
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10 May, 2008
To all you non-believers and coffee-brewer wanna-bes
I am going to give this coffee maker an excellent rating. I tire of the fools who dis this machine. If the more "reliable" Mr. Coffees and Bunns were Toyotas, then the DeLonghi machines would be Maseratis. Look at it that way for a moment: Toyotas are low maintenance vehicles, efficient, do what is necessay, zzZZZzzz. Ok? Now think about the Maserati, a sleek performer, stylish and powerful --but with much greater maintenance needs. Which would you rather have? Well, that is entirely up to you. Coffee making is an art. The DeLonghi attends to the artistic side of brewing. And proper brewing is a whole lot more than popping in the filter, adding the water and turning it on. You have to know what you are doing. Did you 1st heat the caraffe with boiling water prior to sealing the lid? Did you properly grind fresh beans down to near-molecular fineness? Were you overly generous in how you heaped the powderized coffee onto a fresh PAPER filter, and then assure a proper basked close and seal? Finally, did you take time to understand just how to position the caraffe on the plate? Yes, it's a little tricky. So what? What else are you going to whine about? While the DeLonghi is brewing, you should remain close to it. Check to assure that the little dark "bead" of liquid is trickling strongly into the carafe (HINT: you should see robust movement in the "bead" of liquid, and hear it entering the carafe --if not, you can simply adjust the position of the pot until you get this result). Now you are going to have to make a few bad pots until you get the fine tuning correct, so I suggest you buy a cheap package of El Pico to practice on.
Ok ... Here is the money shot portion of this review. The coffee that this machine yields is truly wonderful. It's like Starbucks on steroids. Absolutely delicious, with all the correct aromas and flavor bursts to mist your eyes, and make you nostalgic for things you've never known. You can experiment with different blends (I am partial to dark roasts, very strong, and the DeLonghi simply excels here).
Parting thoughts: I cannot help but GLOAT OPENLY when I think about the price I paid for this unit: $18.00 plus shipping on a bid. Why? Because losers beget losers, folks. That's all of you guys, all you wussmeisters who don't want to take the time and make the correct efforts with this machine. I owe you guys for rendering this machine so inexpensive with your inane and dare I say quite philistine attitudes and complaints.
I can only hope that more losers will go out and rip other quality products to shreds (in their reviews) simply because they cannot understand concepts, and scream like little girls for a push-button convenience that is bleaching everything that smacks of QUALITY right out of our culture and by extension our lives.
Shame on all of you for dis'ing this noble little coffee maker, this wonderful DeLonghi product. Shame on you all for not taking time to understand the finer things in life.
In parting, I hope anyone who's read this far and who want to become better at discerning QUALITY's true nature: Please order yourself up a copy of Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". There is something to be learned there, something for you. It will help. It won't change the startlingly drab & downhill course that our culture has embarked upon, but at least you will come to understand something of what we have lost. Now go & make coffee
02 May, 2023
All of his novels are worth your time... this is the first one I read, and now I am re-reading.
Richard Powers rocks. Check out Galatea 2.2 for a novel written in early 2000s but has now, interestingly, become timely.