Last night on NZs TV3 Campbell Live (news style program) he featured an article on NZ coffee machine repair agents "Espresso Engineers" based in Auckland that claimed approx 1 in 4 commercial coffee machines that they get in for service / repair are infested with cockroaches.
During the program, they unwrapped a rather nice looking Vibiemme 2 group machine (was shrink wrapped), removed the rear panel and sure enough, a nice little "family" of roaches.
It was amazing the places they hid, inside switch boxes, covers etc. They were quickly dealt with thanks to a blow torch (you could almost hear the crackling) but still its pretty gross.
The machine they demonstrated with didnt look that dirty even. They showed an example of lime scale buildup (gross out stuff) as well as a machine that was obviously not loved much (looked like years of coffee dust / oil spread right throughout the inner workings of the machine).
1 in 4 seems a high number of machines to be infested. Is it similar in Aus or is it even an issue?
Sen
During the program, they unwrapped a rather nice looking Vibiemme 2 group machine (was shrink wrapped), removed the rear panel and sure enough, a nice little "family" of roaches.
It was amazing the places they hid, inside switch boxes, covers etc. They were quickly dealt with thanks to a blow torch (you could almost hear the crackling) but still its pretty gross.
The machine they demonstrated with didnt look that dirty even. They showed an example of lime scale buildup (gross out stuff) as well as a machine that was obviously not loved much (looked like years of coffee dust / oil spread right throughout the inner workings of the machine).
1 in 4 seems a high number of machines to be infested. Is it similar in Aus or is it even an issue?
Sen
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