This looks cool and hackable. I wonder though how much control over the pressure you can get with a vibratory pump.
DiyPresso: DIY Espresso Machine
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#12I love espresso. But I don't think I'd be interested in a DIY option. I tend to use Nespresso, especially now that the cups are simply available in the shop (and cheap aftermarket options), it's pretty perfect. I know the manual process is more environmentally friendly but when I wake up in the morning I have no headspace for fussing with coffee grinds. I just need good coffee right away. And I don't even own a car o…
Aren't these things one of the most contaminant things you can have in the kitchen? Even the inventor regrets doing it. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/k-cup-creator-john-sylvan-r... Or is this different?
Nespresso pods are readily recycled aluminium, rather than the plastic of K-Cups.
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#13The closest I've gotten to DIY espresso is EspressoForge: https://espressoforge.com/
Man I’d love to get this semi-affordably in Europe. Such a cool product. I use a Cafelat Robot for my morning brew and it’s consistently the highlight of my day. Manual espresso rules
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Aren't these things one of the most contaminant things you can have in the kitchen? Even the inventor regrets doing it. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/k-cup-creator-john-sylvan-r... Or is this different?
Nespresso pods are readily recycled aluminium, rather than the plastic of K-Cups.
How many places actually accept them though?
Also nestle is a terrible company for the environment and human rights.
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#15I love espresso. But I don't think I'd be interested in a DIY option. I tend to use Nespresso, especially now that the cups are simply available in the shop (and cheap aftermarket options), it's pretty perfect. I know the manual process is more environmentally friendly but when I wake up in the morning I have no headspace for fussing with coffee grinds. I just need good coffee right away. And I don't even own a car o…
Aren't these things one of the most contaminant things you can have in the kitchen? Even the inventor regrets doing it. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/k-cup-creator-john-sylvan-r... Or is this different?
It’s not the identical product but it’s fairly similar. Nespresso accepts their used pods back for recycling, and they are made out of metal and not just plastic, but they are owned Nestle and who knows how well they actually recycle that shit.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nespresso pods are readily recycled aluminium, rather than the plastic of K-Cups.
How many places actually accept them though? Also nestle is a terrible company for the environment and human rights.
> How many places actually accept them though?
The company itself has a recycling program; you can mail them and some stores accept them.
> Also nestle is a terrible company for the environment and human rights.
Agreed, but so's pretty much everything else we buy.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nespresso pods are readily recycled aluminium, rather than the plastic of K-Cups.
How many places actually accept them though? Also nestle is a terrible company for the environment and human rights.
The current status, IIRC, is that recycling in New York accepts Nespresso pods, and in the rest of the US, Nespresso offers free pre-paid shipping bags which you can fill with used pods and drop off at UPS, who will then return them to Nespresso for recycling. They also accept pods at their store locations.
Not sure what the deal is in other parts of the world, if Nespresso is sold there.
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#18I love espresso. But I don't think I'd be interested in a DIY option. I tend to use Nespresso, especially now that the cups are simply available in the shop (and cheap aftermarket options), it's pretty perfect. I know the manual process is more environmentally friendly but when I wake up in the morning I have no headspace for fussing with coffee grinds. I just need good coffee right away. And I don't even own a car o…
Just based on how horrible of a company Nestle is, I usually encourage everyone to investigate some other options to make espresso at home.
Side Note: Personally, making my coffee is a nice process in the morning to kick my brain out of that early fog, it's something I have to engage with, but also something you can learn and get _very_ quick at to the point where you don't need much headspace to do it, not every espresso shot needs to be 1000% perfect.
The ritual of making it in the morning almost wakes me up as much as the coffee does :)
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#19Looks like your server got the HN hug
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#20This is the precipice of fourth-wave coffee. Bringing your desktop computer to a cafe, hooking it up, and remotely brewing a cortado somewhere, in a different time zone.