As I've hinted in recent posts, I usually like a fair amount of ceremony when preparing my coffee. However, when it comes to espresso, I'm sometimes impatient with the rigamarole involved in obtaining 2 ounces or so of coffee—be it ever so delicious! Also, I have a knack for breaking things (and am completely knackless when it comes to fixing them), so I'd be uncomfortable having an espresso machine at the kind of price point that would produce consistently excellent results.
For all these reasons and more, I'd love to have a pod espresso machine like the Gaggia K111d Caffitaly, pictured here. Germany's two largest coffee outlets (I assume Starbucks hasn't caught up with them yet), namely Eduscho and Tschibo, resell these machines under their own respective brands—and, of course, offer pods. In fact, I would probably buy one when I'm over there in October and bring or ship it back, but the voltage is incompatible (as far as I know, it would have to be adjustable to 110-120 V to work here). So we can only hope that enough demand will be stirred up for Gaggia's US importer to carry them.
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