Double mac

I have just swapped coffee makers.

My old system was a Rancilio Silvia with accompanying Rocky grinder. It’s retails for $1400 and derives from Italy.

It’s made from components that go into commercial machines that are surrounded by poor design and manual buttons and valves.

Using it was like using a 1960s Ferrari. Great when it worked. But much of the time it just leaked oil onto the garage floor.

Enter the Breville. Australian designed and made somewhere in Asia this machine is a combined coffee machine and grinder.

It’s fascinatingly easy to use, makes a consistent coffee, and doesn’t seem to have any maintenance issues. Using the automotive comparison it’s an upmarket Toyota.

The difference between the machines becomes very apparent at a dinner party when, on coffee duty, I only disappear for five minutes now compared to half an hour of swearing.

The only negative is brand perception. Which I don’t care about.