Latte-froth printer
I bought a double-boiler, high-end espresso machine back in February and I'm brewing a pretty badass cuppa these days, but I can't quite perfect the art of making patterns in the latte froth (I'm pretty good at doing a flying spaghetti monster, but that's it).
Enter the latte-froth printer, which produces surprisingly hi-rez art in the top of the machine. Time to clear some more counter-space. Link (via Neatorama)
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"Oh, are you filming this?"
"Yeah."
"Did my hand get in the way?"
"A couple of times. It'll add to the whole "home grown feel" though."
Ahahaha. :D
This is hilarious and wonderful and quirky! I love it. How'd you do this???
Unfortunately the coffee was cold when the printer was done.
Hey, Jenkins, your quarterly report was both incisive and delicious.
Kudos to the designer. I've had a hard time mastering latte art. I can't imagine programming a machine to do it!
This is the stupidest kitchen gadget I've ever seen.
#3 the coffee is generally weak and cold in our local Starbucks *anyway*.
I don't know whether to applaud the ingenuity of man, who can decorate anything... or to weep over a world so decadent that people can be planning artworks on latte froth while people eat mud in Haiti.
#7 what I was thinking...
well not that bit about your local starbucks, but the rest of it.
I think you'll find desert both engrossing .. and high grossing!
Not to ignore the fancy printer thingamabob, but I can't help but talk coffee. It's my job!
The latte art will come to you if you keep practicing, which is of course a stupid-sounding thing to say, but it's true. Most people find that it doesn't work for them and doesn't work for them and then BAM, suddenly it does. Depending on the technique, of course.
Good luck, and stay away from those printers!
Soon Epson, Canon, and HP will be selling coffee cartridges, (and overcharging for them) at Staples, right next to the ink.
Hmmm ... to echo one of the comments on YouTube, I can see a possible future for discounts on retail coffee if you opt to have advertising printed in the foam...
I reckon there are marketing think-tanks debating this right now.
"The amazing Latte Printer." "What is that, uh... sugar or salt?" "It's salt of course. It's a latte printer, and as every schoolchild knows, the white layer on top of the latte is made of a floating island of pure salt. You total, drivelling idiot."
At least, that's what I'd have said.
Can I just get my coffee NOW!!!
And yet another age-old art form is mechanized and taken over by corporate hegemony.
That said, the poor espresso is cold by the time the printer finishes-but this would be amazing for cakes!
#7: I don't know whether to applaud the ingenuity of man, who can decorate anything... or to weep over a world so decadent that people can be planning artworks on latte froth while people eat mud in Haiti.
One way out of that dilemma would be for you to sell your computer and join the Peace Corps.
But that'd probably be almost as tough for you as giving up coffee would be for me. Let's both agree to stop connecting wildly-disjoint facets of reality.
I was wondering the same thing Thermidor the Lobster - what on earth was that guy talking about, salt or sugar? But I guess we all have to start our lernin' somewhere.
Anyway, I sure hope them boyz have got St*rb**ks permission for this little vid being up on the web - we all know how cuddly and caring their legal dept is.
My uncle had an old blotter printer like that that he used to print CAD blueprints. It was back in the late 80's early 90's and it cost a fortune, but I loved watching the little mechanical arm squirt ink on the paper. I wonder if he still has it...
Cute printer. But how tragic that the inventor is enough of a tool to debut it with a **Starbucks logo** !
I hope they at least paid him well...
@5 Purly: You're kidding! Ha! I wish I could do it, too. I first heard about organized latte art competitions while I was dating a barista (baristo? Oh, baristi). I guess he competed more than once, can't remember whether he ever won.
But he should have! He was able to make a really beautiful maple leaf in the froth -- hey, I just learned it is actually called a 'rosetta' -- or if it were the holidays, he'd make a nice little fir tree. I always admired his gracefulness and steady hands, a little jealous of his ability to pour and then sort of swish-swish, dragging the milk around into a little abstract picture. I also scored a lot of free coffee in this deal, always with a quick, elegant doodle on top. Sigh.
I would love to see the faces on the archaeologists when they dig this up in a few hundred years time.