Yup; I use three of those tiny pouches to get what I wanted to taste; such that they are a waste.
Prep has gone from minutes before working hands but not head stuff to just the quickie clean and set up for the next morning stuff after my one cup of expresso.
I was privy (well vacation time) once to check out a very old place on the Pacific side of Latin America. It started initially a bit low on the WAF. Originally it was trying to get as close as possible to a volcano (Colima) It was a tour of a group of 8 of us. We did make friends with a couple touring the world (from the UK) in their 70's which upped the WAF. Dense jungle drive on some unpaved road. It was a company / family that moved there from the EU in the 1800's. Generation after generation they had stayed. The equipment there looked very old and was very functional. They did have these dogs everywhere all breed from the first generation brought over in the 1800's. Most amazing was a picture of one dog that looked identical to the dog I was petting while gazing at old pictures there. Their business and reason for their being was coffee.
Geez....listening to some afternoon news from the BBS. At the hour was mentioned "Expresso Coffee" in space.
Googling found this:
Scientists Have Worked Out How To Make Espresso In Space
Posted yesterday by Jack Lowe (Saturday, November 22, 2014)
Up until now becoming an astronaut had one major downside - good fresh coffee can't be made in space. To solve the problem, coffee giant Lavazza teamed up with the Italian Space Agency (because who else would place such importance on coffee) and Turin-based engineering company, Argotech, to design a zero-gravity ISSpresso machine that can brew delicious coffee for astronauts as they orbit.
“ISSpresso is a technological achievement that conforms to the technical requirements and ultra-strict security measures imposed on us by the Italian space agency,” said David Avino, Argotec’s director general, who helped solve the problem of getting liquids to flow at the correct pressure in zero gravity.
The 20kg machine is due to be delivered to the International Space Station this weekend.
How to make espresso in space
Funny listening to the Espresso machine in space interview the BBS reporter asked about it being natural diuretic. The answer was not to drink the Espresso before a space walk or if done having to wear a "space" diaper (which no one walking in space wants to do).
Espresso vs. expresso
Expresso started as a misspelling of
espresso, which came to English from Italian and refers to a strong, pressure-brewed coffee. But because
expresso has so often appeared in place of
espresso, we can perhaps consider it a variant. And indeed, some dictionaries now list it as such. This doesn’t change the fact that many English speakers consider
expresso wrong, however, and some will no doubt continue to do so no matter how common it becomes. So if you don’t want anyone to think you’re wrong,
espresso is the safer choice.
It’s also worth noting that
expresso is the French word for the pressure-brewed coffee, and this perhaps has had some small influence on English usage.
And a bit of humor....Nest-spresso..
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http://youtu.be/0O0ooXnyQMw
