August 15, 2008
A portion of the pageantry that is the brewing process at this little dandy.
In this first edition of our exploration of the Organic network's many, many ways of making coffee around this great continent of ours, we start with this hulking yet techy-looking Starbucks-branded machine.
Stolen straight from the Star Trek set, this monster has a bunch of bells and whistles, but is really limited to coffee and cocoa, as far as I could tell. With Clover taking over the world, you'd think this would be a sweet machine, brewing basically two types of coffee by the cup in a very controlled setting.
And it was OK. Not as bitter as Starbucks coffee that's been sitting in a thermos for a couple hours. (After a direct comparison, this By-The-Cup machine provides a noticeably fresher cup...but not any fresher than you could get by just grinding the beans yourself right before brewing.)
Long story short, it wasn't quite as magical as one might hope for standing in front a machine for 90 seconds and listening to it buzz and whir and all that. But it was fun to do. So that's something.
Location: DET, Main Kitchen, 1st Floor
Coffee Tour: DET's Starbucks By-The-Cup Grinder/Brewer
A portion of the pageantry that is the brewing process at this little dandy.
In this first edition of our exploration of the Organic network's many, many ways of making coffee around this great continent of ours, we start with this hulking yet techy-looking Starbucks-branded machine.
Stolen straight from the Star Trek set, this monster has a bunch of bells and whistles, but is really limited to coffee and cocoa, as far as I could tell. With Clover taking over the world, you'd think this would be a sweet machine, brewing basically two types of coffee by the cup in a very controlled setting.
And it was OK. Not as bitter as Starbucks coffee that's been sitting in a thermos for a couple hours. (After a direct comparison, this By-The-Cup machine provides a noticeably fresher cup...but not any fresher than you could get by just grinding the beans yourself right before brewing.)
Long story short, it wasn't quite as magical as one might hope for standing in front a machine for 90 seconds and listening to it buzz and whir and all that. But it was fun to do. So that's something.
Location: DET, Main Kitchen, 1st Floor
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