Everyone here is on about the luggage rule inversion.
The black coffee idea sounds pretty good at first, until you have to work on a typical espresso machine. After the 4th black coffee the next few teas, americanos or steamings are slow and crap. Unless you add water from a separate boiler, or it’s a drip coffee.
The ones I have worked with have a button or twist handle for boiling water. Since it uses it for making espesso anyway, why not have the option to pour some on top of a teabag?
(I just re-read the question: to clarify, I meant proper, large, three-group espresso machines)
I didn’t know they had a different spout on the side. I thought they would somehow want to get water from the high pressure outlet through the portafilter
Everyone here is on about the luggage rule inversion.
The black coffee idea sounds pretty good at first, until you have to work on a typical espresso machine. After the 4th black coffee the next few teas, americanos or steamings are slow and crap. Unless you add water from a separate boiler, or it’s a drip coffee.
It would definitely depend on the cafe set up, but I would love this for places that serve drip, which is pretty much all I drink.
How (and why) would you make tea on an espresso machine?
The ones I have worked with have a button or twist handle for boiling water. Since it uses it for making espesso anyway, why not have the option to pour some on top of a teabag?
(I just re-read the question: to clarify, I meant proper, large, three-group espresso machines)
I didn’t know they had a different spout on the side. I thought they would somehow want to get water from the high pressure outlet through the portafilter
It makes sense until you have to scrape off the coffee ground from the screen every time you want tea : ).