James Hoffmann: The $20,000 Espresso Machine, The Manument: The Swiss Watch Of Lever Espresso Machines - - eviltoast
The Manument: The Swiss Watch Of Lever Espresso Machines
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Hope you all find this interesting, delighted I got the chance to have a play with the machine!The MANUMENT Leva Machine: https://manument.com/en/manument-le...
  • highduc@lemmy.mlEnglish
    94·
    1 year ago

    Fetishizes overpriced BS. At that price point it’s just irrelevant for the vaaaast majority of people. Do the extremely ultra wealthy even make their own coffee?
    If I had that kind of money I’d buy a car, wtf.

    • ElmarsonTheThird@feddit.deEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      He addresses that concern. This is no machine for you or me to “just add to the countertop”. I think of it as a big proof of concept.

      But there are two kinds of people who spend tons of money on small improvements:

      • rich people with a hobby to fill their life but don’t want starter stuff or are grown out of it
      • people neck deep in a hobby (i.e. cyclists “regularly” spend 6k on a single bike and hundreds on clothing and accessories) that can afford it.

      I know there’s overlap between the groups but it’s something I can think of.

      Also, I could think of high end offices that want to really splurge on the coffee kit. The advantage that the machine is instantly hot lends itself to office environments where people want coffee in different intervals.

      • anon6789@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        To show how much I don’t deserve the machine, I spent the first half of the video thinking you had to hand pump the thing with the giant lever! Nobody that can afford that thing is doing that kind of manual labor! 😂

        • ElmarsonTheThird@feddit.deEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          But it gives the impression of manual labor. Like the “farm village” that Marie Antoinette had to play peasant in.

    • Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      At some point it’s not about the end product. It’s about the process of making the end product and what you use to get there.

      At least that’s what I think the philosophy of coffee gear heads to be.