Cooks Essentials 15-Bar Espresso Maker with Steam Wand
- Makes the coffee that comes in the tiny mugs
- It’s called “espresso,” not “expresso”
- Add water to make an americano, or use the steam wand to make lattes, cappuccinos, flat whites, etc.
- A pretty good espresso machine at a budget price
- Also compatible with Nespresso capsules
- Grab some condensed milk over on SideDeal
- Can it make a margarita: No, it can make espresso
Dark & Bitter
Variety. It’s important.
You eat your favorite meal every single day, you’re gonna get tired of it. Listen to your favorite band on repeat for a week, and you’ll be looking for something a little different. The same jogging route, the same bar with friends, the same hike every weekend, it all gets stale eventually.
But then, there are things you never forgo or change. Like drinking coffee in the morning. Because that would be crazy.
And yet, even if you always drink coffee, you don’t need to forsake variety entirely. You can just switch up the kind of coffee you drink.
This is why every true coffee sicko has a whole menagerie of coffee-brewing devices. Because the same exact beans can taste entirely different when they’re brewed in different ways.
Sometimes, you want the depth of pour-over coffee, where you can taste each distinct tasting note. Sometimes, you want the concentrated smoothness of Aeropressed coffee. Sometimes, you want something iced and refreshing and non-acidic, like cold brew. And sometimes, you want that totally typical ‘coffee that tastes like coffee’ flavor you can only get with a traditional drip machine.
Then there are those other days, when you desire a little more intensity, when you want an entire mug reduced to a few ounces of concentrated, bitter java lava.
That’s right: we’re talking about when you crave espresso.
This is for those days. And, priced at just about 40 bucks, you won’t feel bad buying it even if your espresso cravings come every other day, or just every now and then. (Also, it’s got a frother, so you can do lattes and stuff, if you want to cut the intensity.)
So get one, and add to your repertoire of ways to get jittery as all hell.