I love my new Flair Neo. Yes, it takes 8 minutes and dirties all the dishes to make a single espresso milk drink... but it tastes just like (or even better than) the cafe.

1) Boil water

2) Setup the frame

3) Grind 14g of coffee (Karajoz or Jed's 4 or Ebony Windy Ridge or any good dark but not burnt roast)

4) Funnel into the portafilter and tamp, putting screen on top

5) Place in the frame

6) Put metal sleeve in bowl and cover in hot water to preheat

7) Pour 250g of milk into french press, and microwave on high 1:40

8) Get a coffee cup under the machine

9) Get a second coffee cup ready to catch the drips

10) Place sleeve on machine, fill with hot water

11) Insert plunger

12) Press down lightly and leave 30 seconds to pre-infuse

13) Press hard (well, 9 bar, not crazy hard) and less hard over time until the bar is at the bottom, the coffee is now in the cup

14) Remove cup, swapping for the drip cup

15) Get milk from microwave, froth with french press screen (20 times fast, but not deep)

16) Pour into stainless milk device

17) Bang on table so I look like I know what I am doing

18) Slowly pour milk into coffee and make a nice design on the top

19) Leave the mess behind for later, taking the coffee to the computer

20) After coffee has been drunk, bring coffee back to kitchen

21) Wash coffee cup in the sink

22) Remove sleeve and portafilter from frame, and separate them

23) Separate and wash the screen, portafilter, heavy metal sleeve, and plunger

24) Fold up frame, put it back in the box

25) Remove drip cup and wash it

26) Wash preheating bowl

27) Wipe coffee grounds off of the counter

28) Wait for all the dishes to dry

29) Place all parts into the box, close up, and put away

It is so easy!

Just wait until you check out a Muvna mach m8! 😂

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I did not know about that one.

I knew about the other Flair ones (Flair 58 Plus 2 being their top), and the Cafelat robot, the Aram, and the ones with boilers like the Olympia Cremina.

I went for cheap but effective. My hand grinder that can do espresso grind has not arrived yet and my existing 15 year old grinder doesn't quite do espresso grinds. But it works anyways because the neo builds pressure by restricting output. Sure, snobs will insist it could be better, but this is so good I cannot tell the difference. And it was cheap (US $100, NZ $250) compared to that $1500 device you mentioned.

Yeah, it's great. I was laughing at the 29 steps to having coffee and imagining also needing tools and the arm strength for 100 cranks in addition to all that, for a nominal $1400 more... I'm just really bad at making jokes.

Coffee is my livelihood & the snobs are insufferable. The only bad coffee is one you don't want to drink.

Ahh, I see. Pay a bunch more and get even more manual steps!