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Recipe: Sunkissed Caramel Latte - Seattle Coffee Gear
K Kat

Recipe: Sunkissed Caramel Latte

Oooooo muy delicioso! You know that we dig orange, which we usually pair up with c...
  • Jun 29, 2010
Internals of a Heat Exchanger - Seattle Coffee Gear
K Kat

Internals of a Heat Exchanger

A heat exchange boiler is not a traditional double boiler, as it doesn't maintain ...
  • Jun 28, 2010
Steam Test: Non-Fat vs. 2% vs. Whole Milks - Seattle Coffee Gear
K Kat

Steam Test: Non-Fat vs. 2% vs. Whole Milks

Silky milky! We tested out non-dairy milks to see how well they produced microfoam...
  • Jun 25, 2010
Steam Test: Non-Dairy Milks - Seattle Coffee Gear
K Kat

Steam Test: Non-Dairy Milks

Maybe the moo juice just doesn't agree with you or perhaps you've got philosophica...
  • Jun 24, 2010
Recipe: Shake Your Body and/or an Iced Coconut Cream Latte - Seattle Coffee Gear
K Kat

Recipe: Shake Your Body and/or an Iced Coconut Cream Latte

For some inexplicable reason, we're craving coconut cream pie this morning -- exac...
  • Jun 23, 2010
Field Trip: Uesugi USA - Recycling Center - Seattle Coffee Gear
K Kat

Field Trip: Uesugi USA - Recycling Center

Where do espresso machines and coffee makers go to die? Not in the landfill, if we...
  • Jun 22, 2010
Video Crew Review: Hario Pour Over a la Gail - Seattle Coffee Gear
K Kat

Video Crew Review: Hario Pour Over a la Gail

We spent an afternoon up at Hario USA (now Roustabout Products) earlier this year ...
  • Jun 21, 2010
Which is Better: 2 Hole or 4 Hole Steam Tip? - Seattle Coffee Gear
K Kat

Which is Better: 2 Hole or 4 Hole Steam Tip?

We often get asked whether or not a 4 hole steam tip is worth the upgrade on a mac...
  • Jun 17, 2010
Naked Espresso! - Seattle Coffee Gear
K Kat

Naked Espresso!

OK -- we're not naked, but the machine is! We have had folks ask us often how a su...
  • Jun 16, 2010
The Lowdown on Espresso Machine Thermostats - Seattle Coffee Gear
K Kat

The Lowdown on Espresso Machine Thermostats

A style of thermostat often used in espresso machines is an analog bi-metal thermo...
  • Jun 15, 2010
Video Crew Review: New Capresso CoffeeTEAM TS - Seattle Coffee Gear
K Kat

Video Crew Review: New Capresso CoffeeTEAM TS

Capresso re-worked their grind-n-brew drip coffee maker, the CoffeeTEAM, in 2010 w...
  • Jun 14, 2010
How to Steam & Brew with the Pasquini Livia 90 - Seattle Coffee Gear
K Kat

How to Steam & Brew with the Pasquini Livia 90

In a follow-up to the basic specification, pros and cons review we did of the Pasq...
  • Jun 11, 2010
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