'Dirty Girls'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat, if you're around, insent to your gmail.
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Hello, all! We're having a good vacation in Los Angeles and my mother may not take any more phone calls from me since I called her yesterday from the beach to ask how much snow they got.
sorry to post and run, but the teenagers here want to get on the computer
I have almost got us all packed up, but mac is in the tub, so I am not allowed to leave the house to start loading the car, or to swap the laundry next door at my aunt's house.
msbelle, I forgot to bring you Tron last week! You want me to mail it?
Argh. Espresso machine produced one teaspoon of ice-cold coffee this morning and then just stopped dead. This is our third to go dead in less than two years (the first one, a Braun, lasted almost 15 years before dying, but Braun doesn't make them anymore). Does anyone have any recommendations for espresso-making workhorses that won't collapse after a couple of months?
JZ- I use a stovetop one like this (only mine was $10.00 in the ethnic food section of my grocery store).
I would say it can't die, however, I killed mine this morning by putting it on the stove with no water and starting a fire. So I, too, am in the market for a new coffee maker.
OMG, I just looked at my electric bill for December. It's $170!!! Has to be because I and/or my mom was home for those three weeks. Last December, I only used 1300 kw--this year, it's 2000.
I used to own a Gaggia Carezza (I had to lose it in the move). I used it daily in my office when I had a job and occasionally at home when I didn't. I bartered it to the producer of my album and as far as I know it's still working for him. However, it's an older model so it may be a little hard to find. I see some listings on Google Shopping but I didn't hit the links to follow through:
I have a ten-year-old espresso maker, sitting in my closet, unopened in its original box. It was supposed to be a gift for my sister who gave the same xmas list to both me and my brother-in-law.
JZ- I use a stovetop one like this
Ah! An Italian job! We have two which are our only coffee makers. Such delicious coffee! (I actually kind of like the french press better but had to stop using it after I burned myself terribly twice last year)
I'm a big fan of the Aeropress. People with better palates than mine tell me its brew is espresso-like. It won my heart by being by far the easiest to clean of any coffee making apparatus I have used.