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Ten Way To Get Your Fix – Coffee Machines & Kettles

As the winter sets in, more of us are going to be downing the liquid gold, just to keep out the chills. Coffee! A warm mug to curl your hands around, just as you watch the first snowflakes hit the ground. Here are Ten ways to get your fix; machines, coffee sets and kettles. I like mine instant coffee with milk and strong; how about you?

10) Birch-wood Coffee Set by Andrea Branzi

Kicking off this countdown is an elegant silver and birch-wood coffee set designed by Andrea Branzi. Made from silver dipped in acid to get the rustic look, the set is quite a collector’s item.

9) Muji Non-directional Coffee Maker by Kazushige Miyake

I don’t get what a “Non-directional Coffee Maker” is, but I’m willing to hear your opinion on it.

8 ) Kahva by Lina Fischer

Technically Kavha is the Kashmiri way of preparing tea, with saffron and cardamom; so it quite surprises me that a coffee maker has been christened thus. Any ways the Kahva is a beautiful way to brew your coffee.

7) The Barista by Patrik Pettersson

Perfect solution for multiple coffee addicts in an office, this machine dispenses many cups of coffee at one go.

6) Coffee Maker by Tom Metcalfe

This one’s for the serious brewers who go to any lengths for their cuppa java! I love the video in this post, do re-visit and check it out.

5) Cocoon by Jan König

Made of twin-spherical bowls, in the Cacoon, the water is heated via induction in the outer sphere and a pump in the handhold transports the warm water to the filter and finally the ready coffee drips into the inner sphere. The resulting cavity (where the water was before) between the both spheres, now serves as a natural insulator and keeps the coffee warm.

4) Nespresso by Jeremy Myrier

A service tray that doubles up as coffee warmers! I can pictures us warming our hands over it!

3) Enjoy It While Flying by Balazs Millete & Telekes Tamas

Enjoy It While Flying is a concept brewer of Nespresso that is to be enjoyed abord your private aircraft, as you jetset from one glam destination to another. Strictly for those with the moola; Plebs please endure the airline trash you get.

2) Pearl by Andreas Diefenbach

This Ceramic Coffee machine is refined with a gilded touch, and is quite an exquisite creation.

1) Untitled by Brice Genre Hanika Perez

Thanks to its thermo-sensitivity, artistic patterns appear on the surface of this coffee machine when hot water runs through it. Almost like have an art piece hanging up on the wall.

Touch-Sensitive Faucet Is Absolute Kitchen Genius [Appliances]

Dear Delta, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for inventing this touch-sensitive faucet. You call it “Pilar Touch-Activated Single Handle Pull-Down Kitchen Faucet with ToucH2O Technology.” I call it motherfaucet genius. How does it work, do you ask? Here’s how:

Just touch with any dry, clean part of your body to activate. Any clean body part will work. That simple. Touch to activate. Touch to deactivate. That. Is. It. Off with handles. Off with indicators. Off with any superfluous elements. If Apple made a faucet, this would be it. Just capacitive touch built in the whole body, so you don’t have to mess its metallic surface with your dirty, wet hands. And you can even detach the tip.

Geeneeus functionality, and perfect, minimalist design. Jon Ive and Dieter Rams probably have theirs already. As soon as I get $547 to throw away, I’ll get mine. [Delta Faucet via PopSci]

Kenwood Cooking Chef Makes Risottos and Meringues Automagically [Appliances]

I love to cook. I enjoy going to the market, and cooking all kinds of meat, seafood, and rice for lunch and dinner parties with my dearester friends at home. That’s why I’d never get the Kenwood Cooking Chef.

My point is: What’s the fun of using a machine like the Kenwood Cooking Chef—which can cook at temperatures between 68ºF and 284ºF while stirring at three different speeds—to cook a risotto? Where is the fun in that when the alternative is doing it yourself alongside your loved one, improvising, sharing a nice wine, music, and conversation, waiting for your friends to arrive?

I rest my case. [Daily Mail via Dvice]

Panasonic’s Eco-Navi Washer Knows Just How Disgustingly Filthy You Are [Appliances]

In the interest of conserving energy, water, and shame, the Eco-Navi washer uses light-activated sensors to detect your icky-sticky-eugh-so-disgusting stains and adjusts the wash cycles accordingly. What’s really dirty about the whole thing though is the appliance’s price: $3,000.

Even if the washer is all eco-friendly with electricity consumption dropping “from 79 watt hours to 72 watt hours and water consumption trickl[ing] down to 67 liters from 72 liters per load,” the price is outrageous and keeps us from adding it to our laundry rooms just yet. (Though one of us could use it for his questionable bedsheet stains.) [Discover]

Illy Stays Chilly

Drinking an espresso has never become more and more enjoyable as time goes on for you, has it? The first, second, and third sips are always the best because eventually your ice cubes melt. Then there is the dreaded: diluted drink! But wow have I got a doozy to be showing you. You know it’s the icecube’s fault that the drink got all watery. So it’s time to change the icecube. Presenting the espresso ice machine for Illy brand! Oh so lovely.

But what! What would happen then you might ask? What happens when these ice cubes melt? Or are they unmeltable? Nay! They do melt indeed! But as they melt, they release fantastic flavors into your drink.

Hows about that?

As with many many many ideas on Yanko Design, called the “Illy Cafe Rocca,” is not (yet) in production. It might be some day, but for now, it’s only a concept waiting to be made real!

Designer: Chapps Malina in collaboration with Fahrenheit 212

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