Gaggia Coffee Makers

Latest UK Coffee Machines

2005-02-11T17:46:00.000-08:00

Latest UK Coffee machines.

Gaggia Evoloution

2005-01-02T08:54:00.000-08:00

Gaggia Evoloution.

Fabulous "built like a car"....

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Jura Impressa Range

2004-10-13T07:50:00.000-07:00

Simply the best, most luxerious coffee makers.

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Senseo Coffee - New to UK

2004-10-12T16:15:00.000-07:00

These are new, simple, cheap and a great way to get real coffee with no hassle - an entirely new type of coffee machine - new to the UK.

They take Douwe Egberts coffee "pods", that are being stocked widely by UK supermarkets.

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Jura Impressa S9 coffee machine

2004-09-05T06:49:00.000-07:00

This one's got a platinum finish and is totally - automatic from bean to cup... It is a little pricy ... though excellent value for the professional machine that it is.

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Getting hold of Coffee Machines in Ireland...

2004-09-02T07:05:00.000-07:00

Click here to see the coffee machine range from Webshop Ireland.

Prices on the site are quoted in euros and delivery prices are excellent value at around €10.

Certainly looks like a great way to get the latest trendy coffee gadgets if you live in Ireland!.

Gaggia Syncrony compact 740602508 Espresso and Cappuccino maker Silver

2004-08-27T05:08:00.000-07:00

Gaggia Syncrony compact 740602508 Espresso and Cappuccino maker Silver

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About Gaggia

2004-08-25T07:36:00.000-07:00

Gaggia is an Italian company that makes coffee machines, especially espresso and cappuccino machines.

The founder, Achille Gaggia, applied for a patent (patent number 365726) for the first modern steamless coffee machine on September 5, 1938, to be used commercially in his coffee bar. The machine forced water to flow over the coffee grounds at a high pressure, producing the 'crema' that is unique to espresso.

The Gaggia company was founded in 1947. It first produced machines for commercial use. In 1977 it produced its first machines for home use, which has become its dominant area of production. The company continues to produce quality espresso machines (as well as accessories for coffee lovers) from classic manual machines to the innovative super-automatic models recently added to the line. The machines are manufactured in Milan at the Robecco sul Naviglio factory.

This above text is derived from the Wikipedia article on Gaggia. It is licenced under the GNU free documentation licence

Gaggia silver Syncrony compact digital coffee maker

2004-08-09T05:08:00.000-07:00

Gaggia silver Syncrony compact digital coffee maker

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Gaggia silver Syncrony Digital coffee maker

2004-08-03T05:08:00.000-07:00

Gaggia silver Syncrony Digital coffee maker

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Cappuccio

2004-07-27T07:43:00.000-07:00

Cappuccino is an Italian beverage, prepared with espresso and milk. A cappuccino is generally defined as 1/3 espresso, 1/3 steamed milk and 1/3 frothed milk. Another definition would call for 1/3 espresso and 2/3 microfoam. A cappuccino differs from a latte, which is mostly milk and little foam. (A "dry cappuccino" has less milk.)

In Italy it is consumed almost exclusively early in the day for breakfast; in some other countries may be consumed throughout the day or after dinner.

Besides a quality shot of espresso, the most important element in preparing a cappuccino is the texture and temperature of the milk. When a well-trained barista steams the milk for a cappuccino, he or she should create "microfoam" by introducing very tiny bubbles of air into the milk. This gives the milk an extremely velvety texture and sweet taste.

A cappuccino is ideally prepared in a ceramic coffee cup, which has far better heat retention characteristics than glass or paper.

In some places, skilled baristas create latte art when pouring properly steamed milk into the espresso, making designs such as hearts, leaves and rosettes.

Cappuccino was a taste largely confined to Europe and a few of the more cosmopolitan cities of North America until the mid-1990s when cappuccino was made available much more widely as part of the new sophisticated coffee bar chains (notably Starbucks). By the first years of the 21st century cappuccino was being served by McDonald's.

Cappuccino

The origin of the name is made clear by the fact that in France at the beginning of the 18th century a new fashion arose in Paris (though not at Versailles) for carved wall-panelling (boiseries) that were left in their natural color (almost invariably oak) rather than being painted and gilded as in the previous century. The new mode, which coincided with the height of the controversy over Jansenisme that was dividing the tout Paris in stylish religious pamphleteering, was wittily termed la capucine in reference to the brown color of the robes worn by the Capuchin order of Franciscan friars. This color-coded etymology is followed by the Oxford English Dictionary and the American Heritage Dictionary. The order of Capuchins was, in turn, named for the capucize (cappuccio), or long pointed cowl, worn by the friars. Similarly, the cream on a well-made cappuccino covers the beverage as a sort of cappuccio.

Traditionalist Catholics find the etymology mildly disrespectful, and offer a twist on a familiar coffee legend: after the Siege of Vienna (1683) was lifted, the Capuchin friar Marco d'Aviano (beatified in April 2003) invented the drink after the Ottoman Turks retreated, leaving bags of coffee beans in their tents. Allegedly, d'Aviano added milk and honey to sweeten the bitter coffee left by fleeing Turkish armies, though for a Viennese of the 17th or 21st century, coffee sweetened with honey would be an emblem of desperation. This same legend is more widely told of a Pole, Kolschitzky, in the aftermath of the Siege.

This text is derived from the wikipedia article "cappuccio", licenced under the GNU Free Documentation licence

Gaggia 74507N bright chrome Classic coffee maker

2004-07-27T05:08:00.000-07:00

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Gaggia 74884 black Syncrony Logic coffee maker

2004-07-27T05:00:00.000-07:00

Gaggia 74884 black Syncrony Logic coffee maker

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The language of Coffee

2003-08-25T08:04:00.000-07:00

Latte

A latte is one of several types of coffee beverages made with hot milk. The term is from the Italian "caffè e latte" (commonly "caffè latte"), for "coffee and milk," analogous to the French "café au lait."

As the term has come to be used in the United States since approximately 1985, a latte consists of one or two shots of espresso and about three times as much hot milk, topped with a small amount of milk froth. A latte has more milk than a cappuccino, and has a weaker, milkier taste. Lattes should be prepared by pouring milk and coffee simultaneously, from either side of the drinking vessel, which ideally should be a tall, ceramic mug.

The evolution of this term (and this particular form of the beverage) is relatively recent and probably dates from the spread of the 1980s Seattle coffee craze to the rest of the United States (and beyond) via the growth of Seattle-based Starbucks. As recently as 1980, if you ordered a "latte" in an Italian coffeehouse in San Francisco, you would expect to get a glass of milk. If you ordered a "caffè latte," you would get a beverage with far less milk in it than what has now come to be called a "latte."

Since around 2000, coffee shops such as Starbucks have started topping lattes with whipped cream.

Keep in mind, ordering a "latte" in a café in Italy will result in the barista serving you a glass of milk without coffee

Mocha

"Mocha" has two meanings in the context of coffee.

Mocha coffee is an arabica coffee grown near the seaport of Mocha, Yemen (thus the name). This coffee is known for its undertones of chocolate, although it does not have any actual chocolate in it.

Mocha, used by itself for the name of a beverage, usually means a beverage made with coffee and cocoa. (The drink is sometimes served iced.) The word is also sometimes used to describe something with the flavor of coffee and chocolate (e.g. mocha ice cream).

Cafe au lait

Café au lait is a French coffee drink prepared by mixing coffee and steamed milk. It is similar to Italian latte, but with coffee instead of espresso.

Demitasse

A small cup (normally about 3 oz.) used to serve turkish coffee or espresso. The word means little cup in Italian.Typical design in the west is a white porcilean cup (appearing similar to the cups in a child's tea set) with matching saucer, though some coffeehouses also sell brightly decorated variaties. Another type of demitasse is a glass cup set into a metal frame.

Drip Brew

Drip brew is a method for brewing coffee which involves pouring water over coffee contained in a paper filter. Water seeps through the coffee, absorbing its oils and essences, solely under gravity then passes through the bottom of the filter. The used coffee grounds are retained in the filter with the liquid falling (dripping) into a collecting vessel such as a carafe or pot.

Although paper filters are used all over the world, with the benefit of holding the used grounds for disposal, metal filters are also common, especially in India. These are made of thin perforated metal sheets, the holes being smaller than the size of the coffee grounds.

Drip brewing is the most popular method of coffee brewing, owing to the overwhelming popularity of the automatic drip brewing coffee machine. There are, however, several manual drip-brewing devices on the market, offering a little more control over brewing parameters than automatic machines.

Compared to other brewing methods such as French press or Espresso, in which the brewing water doesn't go through a paper filter, drip brewing produces clear, light-bodied coffee, which is free of sediments but also of some of coffee's oils and essences which can get trapped in the paper filter.

Irish Coffee

Irish Coffee, or so the lore would have it, was invented at Foynes, the precursor of Shannon Airport in the west of Ireland as a warmer for trans-Atlantic travellers in the 1950s.

A classic Irish coffee consists exclusively of hot coffee, Irish whiskey and sugar, with cream (proper cream, not "Irish cream") floated on top. It is made as follows:

Pre-heat coffee glass with hot water and empty. Add one ounce of whiskey to glass and fill near to top with slightly sweetened coffee. Float cream (which may be whipped, but is usually a pouring cream, added by pouring it onto the back of a spoon, resting on the coffee's surface) on top.

The sugar is necessary, or the cream will not float.

Nutmeg, cinnamon, or another spice may be added, but are not usual.

An alternative version, more properly known as "Bailey's Coffee", adds an ounce of Baileys Irish Cream, a liqueur to the mix, or may replace the whiskey with the Baileys altogether.

Risretto

Ristretto is a very short shot of espresso coffee. A normal (double) espresso shot is a 2 fl.oz or 0.6 DL extraction over 25-30 seconds. A (double) ristretto is a 1-1.5 fl.oz (0.3-0.45 DL) extraction with the same amount of ground coffee over the same period of time.

The material above is derived from the wikipedia, Articles on Coffee, licenced under the GNU Free Documentation License

Morning Coffee

2001-12-20T02:56:00.000-08:00

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