Comments on: Oh, Stumptown, How I Love Thee (Or, The Virtues Of At-Home Coffee Brewin’)

By: Top Ten Kitchen Gadgets | Penny Luxe

Top Ten Kitchen Gadgets | Penny Luxe — Sun, 03 May 2009 18:39:31 +0000

[...] spoken of our espresso machine before, but it simply cannot be left out of a discussion of kitchen gadgets. We use it at LEAST twice a [...]

By: Sukie

Sukie — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:18:49 +0000

Hair Bender is the downright best. And I love hearing that people outside Portland know and love Stumptown as much as Portlanders do.

If you add a bit of vanilla bean, or amaretto extract to the grounds in the coffee machine, you can make your coffee “fancy” without the price. (if you want to mimic Trader Joe’s Gingerbread coffee, add nutmeg, cinnamon and allspice – that’s the only difference between it and regular coffee)

Or, you know, add Baileys and cover all addictions at once.

By: Annie

Annie — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:47:14 +0000

I’ve started buying my espresso from Ikea. I was hesitant at first but my coffee budget was too high. The packages are about 1/2 lb for $3 and taste really fresh and delicious!

I don’t have a fancy espresso maker but you can pry my mini Capresso from my cold dead hands.

Good luck with your debt! Keep up with it, you can do it!

By: tart of darkness

tart of darkness — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:46:03 +0000

Yay for no Starbucks. Their coffee is absolute crud. I’m going to get to taste Stumptown when I visit my daughter in Portland and I’m happy!

By: discontenteddaisy

discontenteddaisy — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:12:10 +0000

Yay for home-brewed coffee! I am green with envy because of your machine. My roommate and I have a single-cup percolator, and the money it saves amazing. ($12 for a pound of sumatra lasts for about 10 days; instead of spending $1.75 plus $1 tip on a house-blend daily at the coffee shop up the street).

Keep up the posts! I’ll see you on Jezebel!