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  • mc111
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    Originally posted by jbrewster View Post
    Remember by US standards i.e. 64 ounce soda cups and the like that IS piccolo... Maybe you'd have been better off ordering a Macchiato?
    In the end i found a shop in LA that did a Midwest Macchiato that was basically a Piccolo, although i never drank a filtered cup during my stay it was a lottery whenever ordering.

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  • jbrewster
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    Originally posted by mc111 View Post
    It arrived in a cup the size of a small bucket.
    Remember by US standards i.e. 64 ounce soda cups and the like that IS piccolo... Maybe you'd have been better off ordering a Macchiato?

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  • mc111
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    Spent a week in USA and had many horror experiences.

    This was the best when i asked if they knew how to make a Piccolo Latte, of course sir.

    It arrived in a cup the size of a small bucket.

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  • Melbroaster
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    Oh my goodness. I had the IDENTICAL experience. Weird. Sunbeam owners....😂

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  • mwcalder05
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    Went to my sister's place for something, went to make myself a coffee on her EM7000 looked alright but tasted like I'd picked up some mud and thrown it into the cup. I asked her how often does she clean it, she responded, do you have to clean it? She'd had it for 2 years....

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  • flynnaus
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    Originally posted by Roubaix View Post
    Just the other day whilst sleep deprived after the arrival of a little one, I made a shot without a glass underneath..... It was a horror to see my coffee in the drip tray.
    ..and I bet you didn't have a straw handy

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  • Roubaix
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    Just the other day whilst sleep deprived after the arrival of a little one, I made a shot without a glass underneath..... It was a horror to see my coffee in the drip tray.

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  • herzog
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    Coffee Horror Stories

    Ordered a long black at a cafe in Orange in country NSW.

    "Cup or mug?" they asked.

    I went with cup.

    What turned up was the size of a soup bowl and was excruciatingly hot.

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  • Melbroaster
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    Ordered espresso in a cafe today. Flavour was scorched beyond belief. During service they took the back panel off the machine to reveal the inside componentry was all rusted, and there was actually real spider webs spanning some of the pipework. For real. Spiderwebs. Now I have seen it all.

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  • Stu76
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    That sounds eerily similar to a Welshpool lunch bar I had the misfortune of visiting...once

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  • noonar
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    Went into an industrial estate café and ordered a flat white, I could see the twin group machine on the counter in front of me with lights on. "Yep no worries I just turned it on you'll have to wait about 5 minutes for it to warm up" No worries says me. The person then disappeared into the back kitchen whence I thought I could hear a kettle boiling but thought nothing of it. 3 minutes later the person appeared with a steaming hot polystyrene cup and presented it to me. I paid and left heading straight to the bin.

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  • joanneebell
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    I work in a cafe where my boss likes to put the portafilter handle into the group head, then prepare the milk, and only then extract the coffee shot. She's also not keen on backflushing, wiping the steam wand or purging the steam wand. She pre grinds a bag of coffee at a time, lets it sit in the grinder overnight. And to the best of my knowledge, the grinder is NEVER cleaned. She also heats milk to a good 80'C as that's the way she likes it. I'm no expert but....it makes me cringe. She's an older lady who doesn't like to be told. I bite my tongue a lot and just clean things up best I can when i work.

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  • flynnaus
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    Originally posted by 50mm View Post
    Ordered coffee at a chain shop overseas once from desperation and they forgot the coffee
    Did you mean they served you with a cup of hot water or they didn't serve you at all?

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  • sprezzatura
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    Originally posted by 50mm View Post
    Ordered coffee at a chain shop overseas once from desperation and they forgot the coffee
    They did you a favour (?).

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  • 50mm
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    Ordered coffee at a chain shop overseas once from desperation and they forgot the coffee

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