Re: They're all in Clover

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 19:49:20 GMT, ross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (D.
Ross) wrote:

>Marshall <mrfuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>| >Nor do I see what the intended market is. Maybe Barry or Bernie can chime
>| >in with their take on the claim that one cup a minute is adequate for a busy
>| >cafe environment.
>| >
>| >- David R.
>|
>| The market is serious, busy coffee shops who want to offer a choice of
>| brewed-to-order drip coffees to customers impatiently standing in
>| line.
>
>You would need a bank of these things. If I am in a long line and the
>people in front of me require a minute/each for their coffee, I'm off to the
>next shop. This is why busy coffee shops have 2 or 3-group espresso
>machines (and airpots for the drip drinkers).
>
>One cafe I know has a rack which can hold several 1-cup drip cones.
>Customers come in, order their favorite origin or blend, the counterperson
>starts their coffee going then moves on to the next customer. This gives
>the ability to do individual cups of individually selected coffee, several
>at a time, for just the modest expense of the wood rack and the one-drip
>cones.
>
>| Press pots are too slow and difficult.
>
>Unless they're doing something fancy in the infusion chamber, by grinding
>the coffee finely enough and using enough of it you should be able to get
>*exactly* the same brew in a press pot in *exactly* the same amount of time.
>The infusion process seems to consist of coffee in free contact with heated
>water. Nothing new or magical about that.
>
>I agree with the 'difficult' part, in the sense that cleaning several press
>pots rapidly is a PITA, probably too much so for a busy shop.
>
>- David R.

All right, David. I give up. The inventors are certifiably insane, and
Tonx and Malachi woudn't know a well-brewed cup from Nescafe. Nothing
of interest here.

Marshall
.

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