Whaddaya want from us 😅 It looks like a bare bones espresso machine, tuned to work with a pressurized basket. It has collected a couple of short reviews. The Amazon page sums it up nicely, i think: “Easy to make prefect coffee.”

Also worth noting: Cambridge Analytica did not disappear, as the author repeatedly implies. CA merely slipped the surly bonds of jurisprudence declaring insolvency, then resurfaced wearing the name Emerdata, and nothing was solved.

Most/many mid-sized roasters use a white-label manufacturer to make their instant. A company in Pennsylvania called Swift does for many. Intelligentsia and Verve use them, for example, and both get good reviews.

Booooo! ha ha this is information I didn’t know I needed and still don’t. It’s like hearing about a hotel down the street holding a concrete canoe contest: entertaining but get off my lawn.

That Fox article on the contest is offhanded, indifferent coverage by the way. Food and Wine at least names the winners here: https://www.foodandwine.com/superior-taste-awards-2026-best-coffees-12013893 and mentions two alternative contests run by competing marketing organizations, which is, after all, all this is. (The source website for this one, https://www.taste-institute.com/ is a members-only popup swamp, I wouldn’t bother.) Anyway I can rest more easily now that I know about contest conquering concrete canoe coffee.

They’ve brewed something (very slowly) that compares well to room temperature espresso? That’s dandy and all, but I wonder how it compares to a proper espresso, after spending additional energy to heat it.