Counter top Espresso machine finally died last week, so I bought the latest incarnation yesterday @ Target.
Well, they changed the design of the steamer tube, reducing the length, but increasing the diameter and adding a plastic sleeve, presumably to introduce air through the venturi prinicple. Looks good on paper, but in operation, makes this low pitched pulsing sound, similar to a ram jet and does and absolutley absmyal job of "frothing". I'm so pissed, I dug the old one out of the recycle bin and am now going to attempt surgery to change that steam tube back to a proven operationj design.
Bastards.
Some asshole got a gold star for saving .001 of a cent per unit, yet the item sucks and if I can't adapt it, it's going back and they can eat it.
George Carlin had it right, "How can it be both NEW AND improved?"
Well, they changed the design of the steamer tube, reducing the length, but increasing the diameter and adding a plastic sleeve, presumably to introduce air through the venturi prinicple. Looks good on paper, but in operation, makes this low pitched pulsing sound, similar to a ram jet and does and absolutley absmyal job of "frothing". I'm so pissed, I dug the old one out of the recycle bin and am now going to attempt surgery to change that steam tube back to a proven operationj design.
Bastards.
Some asshole got a gold star for saving .001 of a cent per unit, yet the item sucks and if I can't adapt it, it's going back and they can eat it.
George Carlin had it right, "How can it be both NEW AND improved?"
), the list goes on. Sure some are still around but the vast majority have gone to shit.
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