Idea: a tabletop pitcher rinser
Scott Rao, Bugs and me are going on a two week EU tour, going to a different city every day by train. In such a situation, the coffee cart I've designed, isn't practical. I need to break everything down into suitcases, a max of two suitcases per person.
A pitcher rinser is extremely useful, because:
- I can knock out the coffee puck and then rinse out the portafilter basket
- I can wet the coffee cloth to clean the steam wand and group head
- I can rinse out a milk pitcher
- this workflow is really fast and efficient.
- but unfortunately the pitcher rinser we sell, is countersunk only (as are most rinsers)
One idea we had was to make a tabletop box. We might still do that.
I merged the “tabletop box” idea with suitcase foam, and cut foam out that holds the pump, internal tubing, and rinser, one one side of a Decent suitcase.
You can see the tubes if I lift up the pitcher rinser.
I can still fit a Niche Grinder on one side of the suitcase.
When I arrive at an event, I take out the Niche, place this open suitcase on a tabletop, and connect (a) clean water (b) dirty water and (c) power plug.
The two water vessels take a lot of space in a suitcase, so we're exploring using collapsing water vessels. Here are two designs we're ordering, to try out:
This is still very much R&D, though I'll be taking this setup on the road for two weeks, so it has to mostly work! I'll let you know how it goes.
-john
Update: The countertop pitcher rinser can now be bought here: https://decentespresso.com/rinser
Updated 2023/06/15