I'm really with you guys from a practical perspective. That said (and I've witnessed this BUT, will leave the door open that they were simply being "nice")
Literally ever single person who's been here....and had some coffee has said it's the best they've ever had. Grounds are from local store, nothing fancy there. We're on a well (we DO have good water and that's got to be at least a small factor) the only other variable.... is the machine.
If you don't know, what it does is take your grounds.... compresses them into what they call a puck. Then, via pressure, the heated water goes through the puck on the way to your cup.
In a nutshell, that's what it does. At the end of the cycle, it spits the wet puck out into a hopper that's held inside the machine, you pull that out from time to time and dump the pucks.
I'll take an extra cold Coke any day of the week....even in winter. I am simply not a coffee person nor, am I really, much of a hot liquids person (hot chocolate, cocoa or tea for example)
Though I personally roll my eyes a bit at this..... I look at it this way. I have some toys. I have my riding mower, large tractor, industrial backhoe/loader, absolutely killer stereo (using large cinema grade horn speakers).... AND, I'm debating on replacing my 20 gallon X? horsepower Campbell Hausfield air compressor..... with a 60 gallon two stage replacement, looking at a Quincy.
She loves her couple cups of coffee during the day.... I'm ok with splurging on it. Truth be told, she will probably claw my eyes out if I do this because SHE is more frugal than me. ONLY reason she's got this one is she got it free and I put $100 into fixing it. If I ASK her about this, she'd say no, don't do it.... she'd probably rather put said funds to creating a greenhouse for herself. My thinking is, Happy Birthday..... now, if you're still going to drag me down the chat for the greenhouse, we'll do that too, it might just be slower because you're now drinking your fancy coffee.
