Geek Out

Exploring Where Espresso Machines Are Born

Coffee in the US has a bad rep, but if you walk into a good coffee shop that serves espresso, you will likely see a machine from one of these companies sitting on the bar: La Marzocco, Synesso or just maybe, Slayer. And they basically all come from one place: Seattle. I took a trip behind the scenes a little while ago and filmed a bunch of cool stuff.


January 19, 2010
Gadgets

A Little $US18,000 Espresso Machine Called Slayer

The hand-built Slayer espresso machine is not brandspankinew, but it is still exceedingly uncommon – fewer than 20 exist in coffee shops – and this one, residing at freshly opened RBC NYC, is the first east of Michigan. It costs $US18,000.