Aarke Coffee View: Shiny and Chrome

Coffee maker The goal is not to be beautiful. I have to tell myself when I look at the new Aarke coffee maker because the Aarke coffee system is beautiful. This fact can serve to distract other important things.

Aarke is Swedish, designed by Swedes in the Swedish modernist design tradition. But it also looks a bit like a complete Turkish tea service is resumed like a shiny new gas work. It fills me with a longing for a life that I do not lead: functional, pure, freed from the mess of a world marked by trivial disappointments.

Including a flat bar mill, the whole system costs north of $ 700, which is probably the cost of such a life. Aarke is part of a quiet renaissance among drip breweries that have long been away in the luxury world of espresso and pouring. But a new generation of machines aims to raise the home -made coffee game of things from true heboase, bringing the most delicate aromas from first -class grains with minimal effort on your part.

Photo: Matthew Corfhaj

Aarke is among just a few dozen brewery now Certified by the International Special Coffee Association (SCA) as a capable of maintaining enormous accuracy in any particular: temperature, time to cook, extracting coffee and probably also the purity of the heart. The number of certified manufacturers has doubled over the past half decade. But AARK, with its glossy stainless steel exterior and modern industrial minimalism, can simply be the most fantastic looking for the group.

Under his cheeky reflecting exterior, there is some very interesting engineering. Aarke also offers the possibility of any tuning of the drip coffee I tested: it promises to grind the right amount of fresh coffee beans for each batch of drop using a sensor that measures any kind of water you release into it. Wild things! More about this later.

So shiny, so chrome

At the most basic level, the aark is thoughtfully designed a coffee machine, similar to The carbonation system with which the company is most famousS Whatever his complex sensors are, it requires little effort to learn. He feels an old school. At a height of 15 inches, it is not small than any section, but its leg can also be described as strength. Aarke also has what people like to call “foods”. Brew Basket slides with a satisfactory mechanical rattling and even the only button on the device offers pleasant resistance.

When pouring water, the tank shines finely blue in response. This is a discreet way that Aark greets every morning. There are no beeps anywhere, no noises that do not grind or boil. To start brewing, simply add the right amount of ground coffee to standard cone filter # 4 to the basket. Then press the button.

Press this button quickly, it will be prepared as a standard coffee maker. Press it for three seconds until the small light is turned on and will bloom first, wetting it and waiting for the carbon dioxide to escape from the fresh grain.