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I don't know if I'm spelling it right, but there is a commercial coffee system called mochomat which uses a liquid coffee concentrate. We've had it at a few hotels and restaurants, and it is the absolute best cup of coffee ever.
Does anyone know if there's a home equivalent?
I don't know if I'm spelling it right, but there is a commercial coffee system called mochomat which uses a liquid coffee concentrate. We've had it at a few hotels and restaurants, and it is the absolute best cup of coffee ever.
Does anyone know if there's a home equivalent?
Back in 1977, I worked on a Mochomat television commercial that introduced the concentrate system and the machine that was being marketed to restaurants.
If you've tried it in 2007, then it went a lot further than we expected.
The original system was about the size of a floor standing soda machine and had to keep the boiling water in a chamber ready to dispense. Remember, back in the seventies, instant boil for large amounts of water was not perfected.
When we sampled the coffee, I do remember it being very good.
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I don't know if I'm spelling it right, but there is a commercial coffee system called mochomat which uses a liquid coffee concentrate. We've had it at a few hotels and restaurants, and it is the absolute best cup of coffee ever.
Does anyone know if there's a home equivalent?
No. Actually, the coffee from those machines - if kept clean - is better than anything I have ever had from a Keurig machine.
Duey Egberts used to have a system like this.. It was really pretty good..
That is correct. I believe that the Mochomat was from Europe. The concentrated coffee was refrigerated and it was generally found in locations where coffee was in demand all day long and using a Bunn unit was impractical. It was a favorite for years at airport lounges and I remember seeing one at the TWA Lounge at Lambert International in St. Louis.
I never bought one professionally as the cost per cup was twice as much as using ground coffee and the equipment, as I remember, was NOT inexpensive.
I worked for the Hobart Corp in 1988 just out of high school. I was subbed out to Mocomat (no idea of the correct spelling) working in the SF Bay Area. I installed machines at all the Bay Area Burger Kings and lots of hotels - The Fairmont Hotel got them installed as well. Coffee was in a concentrate form in an oversized juice box. I set them up using a handheld unit that would attach to the outside of the unit with magnets and allow you to change the strength. I honestly don't remember if I thought the coffee was good or not. In those days, I thought Folgers was good. :-)
They also had juice machines that worked the same way.
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