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4) Espresso Technology

The Science of Coffee

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The Revolutionary Coffee Machines

For the first time, we have a machine that makes what I today would consider an espresso. Rich and creamy, sumptuous, and most importantly, for the first time we have crema on the coffee. This machine produced that dark velvety foam that floats the top of an espresso. Carrema. So when this started, they actually called it clamour cafe cream coffee to distinguish it from what was being made before espresso. What had changed to now create carrema was that the coffee was now being brewed in a completely different way. Let me show you how. The addition of a lever has given us a lot of pressure. Because these levers create so much more pressure

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