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Making nice coffee at home
R. has provided and instructed me in a little espresso maker. One fills the lower chamber with water that one then heats. The water rises through pipes then a layer of coffee before appearing in the upper chamber. I have no idea what coffee aficionados think of it in comparison with, say, the AeroPress® or Breaking Bad's Gabe's thinking, but I rather like the coffee that this device makes me from the Sang Tao 5 from a local Vietnamese grocery store; next I shall try their number 1.
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The thing that immediately caught my eye was it has what appears to be a water pitcher out front. It's actually the water tank for the beastie. I thought that was cool, though a little confusing. What I thought was the tank was exclusively for the cold water.
But what irritates me is they threw away the instructions! I grabbed them from the tank and went over them to learn about the peculiarities of this thing, and I'm glad I did! While it's very, VERY rare that I use it, it does get used regularly by patrons and I need to know how it works to help them.
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It would appear that our better cups are probably 16 ounces.
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Goodness, yes, throwing away the instructions is a bad move! And all too common. I keep instructions even for simpler devices, it's easy enough to shove them into a file folders somewhere and sometimes one's very glad one did! Even if it's just for what to push to activate Bluetooth pairing or whatever. I have a couple of files exactly for this kind of thing, I split them into what I think of as electronics and appliances, broadly decided by to what extent it has moving parts.
At least these days, searching for a model number often brings a PDF but I typically find a paper leaflet more readable.
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