Coffee Fetish
Looks like $20,000 coffee machines are the new food fetish objects.
I have a hard time wrapping my brain around spending that much on a coffee machine, even if intellectually I can understand how they might be really, really fantastic. Maybe. I have to think that the point of diminishing returns has to kick in somewhere well south of both these machines' price points, though. My $20 press pot brews up a pretty good cup, after all.
The $20,000 Japanese machine has touched down in SF, so I'll post a full report when I get a chance to check it out. With any luck, I can convince some comrades in Portland to send us a report of the more modestly priced $11,000 miracle machine in use at Stumptown.
Stay tuned.
