The home silver coffee maker made – and makes – a very neat trick happen. Great coffee, with or without the use of fresh beans. That’s right. A home silver coffee maker doesn’t necessarily require fresh ground beans, the best Arabica, etc., to make a great tasting cup of deep black Joe. These days, a person can get a home silver coffee maker that knocks out everything from a double-dipped sweet almond macchiato to a straight black, without so much as a fresh bean in sight. All these super modern home silver coffee makers need is a selection of magic cartridges, which get pumped into a slot at one end, and from the other ... presto. Instant coffee that tastes better than the real thing.
That isn’t to say that the home silver coffee maker won’t take fresh beans, of course – the home silver coffee maker will put out awesome brew in the traditional style, too, if one so desires. In fact, the home silver coffee maker in its most whizzbang format can not only do “real” coffee, but grind and perk the beans first too. That most modern of modern drinks, with the home silver coffee maker, is treated to a technological upgrade of the best kind. The home silver coffee maker is so flash and so clever that it makes a drink that, traditionally, takes ages to get right (and is so proud of lengthiness being a part of the process by which it is made), and does it better in seconds.
Progress, then, isn’t always bad. One supposes, after all, that the two places from whence most of our ideas about coffee have come (New York and Italy), couldn’t be zippier if they tried – so it’s probably no wonder that the home silver coffee maker has injected such a turn of speed into the making of the nation’s new favourite drink. Either way, it’s brilliant – and no home should be without one.