Fazekas Éva: A fekete leves, a kávéfőzés története, időszaki kiállítás, 2010. április 23 - 2010. október 25, a Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum, a Magyar Műszaki és Közlekedési Múzeum és a Fazekas & Kimmel Gyűjtemény közös időszaki kiállítása (Budapest, Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum, 2010)
Éva Vámos: STEAM, WATER, VACUUM
fame by its lamps and coffee machines. 70% of their products are sold abroad. The metal, wooden and plastic parts required for them are all produced in Szarvas. There is a permanent demand for their coffee machines. They also produce "Kotyogó type" and household espresso machines. Espresso machines of the 21 s l century In our hurrying epoch you must live ever faster, while you want to live ever more comfortable. The latter wish is extended to the habits of coffee making as well, whether you crave for the life-giving drink at home or at your workplace. Among the coffee machine manufacturers - as in every field of economy - there is a keen competition. Therefore they have to provide for ever more modern and more magnificent products to amaze the public, in order to be able to remain on the market and to subsist. Fortunately engineering creativity does not seem to have upper limits, thus - within a very short time - a more recent and, as compared to those known, even more automated type of espresso machines could be brought into being and spread. In these machines you get your coffee really on pushing a button. These "wondermachines" are the coffee pod or coffee capsule espresso machines. Today they are being produced by a good many firms. In Hungary only imported machines are sold, for the time being, but - we may say - any amount or trade mark is available of them. Espresso machines with coffee pods Those who yearn for coffee need no more take pains with "portioning" the roasted and ground coffee powder into their espresso machine. The only thing they need to do is inserting a "unit package" of coffee, similar to a powder puff, in their machine. This package is called "coffee Nespresso automata kávékapszulás készülék, 21. század Nespresso automatic device for coffee capsules, 21 5 t century pod". It weighs 7 g, the amount - as we have already seen - necessary for a good strong espresso coffee. Water has not to be poured in either, as the machine stores it, as a rule, in a tank that can hold water sufficient for preparing 8 cups of coffee. And if someone wants to have cappuccino, milk coffee of any other coffee speciality, they can have it, of course, provided they insert the appropriate kind of pod or pods in the machine. Pods containing milk and coffee are available too, moreover there are devices that make the use of real milk possible. (This, of course, is not done automatically. However, it has the advantage that the consumer may choose the amount of milk he wants with his coffee). Pressure varies, according to products, within wide limits, in general 112
