Honestly, I've never wanted to work in the office more.
I only have a simple Breville Barista Expresso at home, and wow — this really creates gorgeous milk froth (used the regular frother on the left, not the auto-frother or w/e it's called)!
That being said, the shot I pulled wasn't the best. Even with a good amount of tamping pressure, it pulled way too fast. Guess someone needs to adjust the grind.
by marcham93
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I’m all kinds of jealous. I asked my boss if I bought an espresso machine (was going to get a semi auto Ninja) he said no. Wouldn’t cost the company anything and yes anyone could use it. He just said there wasn’t enough space in the coffee room (which isn’t true). Now I’m stuck with Keurig coffee or bringing my Outin with a hand grinder. My only problem is finding a battery operated milk heater/frother.
Yall hiring?
I recently started working in Finance and we have two LaMarzocco Linea 2-Group machines. It’s great, but I was blasting milk everywhere for a bit. Commercial, 4-hole steam wands take some getting used to.
That has the potential to go very wrong and coffee beans are expensive, but cool anyway.
The problem with setups like this is the office just orders the worst/cheapest beans, + that grinder is gonna smell like rancid ass too as I’ll bet nobody cleans it. I’d be bringing in a hand grinder and my own bag.
All I’m thinking is how few people probably know what they are doing with that set up
Those are some REALLY dark and shiny beans.. I don’t know any good roasters that sell beans roasted this dark and I’d assume these are very shitty, very cheap beans from some massive B2B distributor. Likely already way too stale to pull a good shot no matter what you do. I agree with the others here; if I worked there I’d be bringing my own beans and a hand grinder..
I remember how disgusting our break room E61 machine would get. Ppl suck
Nice.
For me it’s kind of the opposite. My employer wants us to spend more time in the office to take our Teams calls at our cubicles. But my humble Breville Barista Express blows away the crap k cup setup in the break room.
Wouldn’t last long in most workplaces that I know 😅
the CEO of my company loves coffee and goes into the headquarters pretty often. when they expanded the headquarters he got a commercial setup (la marzocco) and hired 1-2 baristas (+ beans) from a local cafe to work there for a few hours a day, and let employees use it when theyre not in. i dont work at the hq, but it’s a treat when i get to go there
** former remote employee
Who put charcoal in the hopper?
My last job had 2 big Starbucks machines dispensing 2 different coffee roasts, espresso, chai lattes, hot chocolate and many other drinks. Needless to say it was one of the big reasons I chose to work there.
I’d instantly become an in-office employee.
Damn! I’d show up to the office a few times a week to play with that. Would gladly be the in-office barista
I hope your workplace does some barista training, because almost no one will have any idea how to use that beautiful machine correctly!
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Nothing beats the cafe in the Austin GLG office. Stocked and staffed by Houndstooth so it’s actually solid.
Completely free!
I bet those beans are stale…
What line of work?!?!
Drive into work for a coffee just to drive home and work 🤣
Please make sure that portafilter is placed back into the brew head after being rinsed – there is a gasket in the brew head that will dry out quickly if the machine is hot and that is not returned. Once that gasket dries out you will have issues with consistency and some leakage.
Holy shit are you guys hiring?
That set up screams “I know exactly what I’m doing”
That would make going back to office much better then when my job tried. They offered us free water bottles