Comments on: CoffeeNate 15 : The ‘Mc’Spresso Experiment

By: Samantha

Samantha — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:25:55 +0000

McDonald’s serving mochas? Now I’ve seen everything…

By: Jill Hayes

Jill Hayes — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:50:19 +0000

LOVE the videos. I'm an audio person and I learn more watching videos. Thanks!

By: nate_s

nate_s — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:09:35 +0000

I'm quite sure that it is a maintenance issue. That, and the fact that 15 year old burger flippers don't have a clue about espresso! Thanks for relating your experience!!

By: Tyler

Tyler — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:18:58 +0000

CoffeeNate, I recreated your experiment basically, and I did notice a big disparity in my findings as well. the first one I had a much different resutlt than you, they actualy gave me about 3 times what they were supposed to because they thought they were supposed to fill up a small cup. it was very tasty and there was a lot of it, awesome. but the second one was was the right size and it tasted a little like pickles. don't ask me how. infact I'm about to walk two blocks and go try it again on this rainy day. I miss my days in Hungary when I'd wake up every day and rustle up some Forint and go to this glass coffee house and buy an espresso for the equivalent of 40 cents.

By: nate_s

nate_s — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:13:08 +0000

Cool beans dudeface! Glad I made you laugh…it was fun. Maybe I'll forward this to Ray Croc…oops…he's dead. I see McCafe is now following me on Twitter so I'll have to get with them Thanks for the insight Dave!!

By: dkars

dkars — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:01:34 +0000

Hey Nate,
Well, I just finished watching the webisode (i previously commented after only reading your article) and I have to say that you had me laughing my butt off. I've had exactly the same experiences at both McD's here in Soo, MI. I have to say that the espresso based drinks at the McD's in Newberry are really great too. I stop there every time I go to my brother's place in Escanaba and haven't been disappointed yet. I've also tried the espresso at another McD's in Indian River, MI and have to say that my experience there was great too. I'm beginning to think that this local store just seems to be the issue. Maybe we should speak out some how on the issue and bring it to their attention. But you'd think with the amazing quality control that McD's is famous for, they would have already discovered this. Obviously there are many, many variables that affect the outcome of a good shot of espresso and it is easy to get any one of them screwed up (especially when there are 50 people that use the same machine.)
Anyways, that's my $.02
–Dave

By: nate_s

nate_s — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:46:12 +0000

You're absolutely right Dave! Not sure what they have going on there, but it does show that there is a little more knowledge needed than how to push a button…which they also had difficulty with. I think their espresso blend has some robusta added…not sure, but some espresso has it added to increase the créma.

By: dkars

dkars — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:48:01 +0000

Hey Nathan,
I bet you were talking about the McD's closest to the bridge that served you espresso with the lovely "ciggy butt" aftertaste. I haven't had a good iced mocha or espresso there yet. It just goes to show you that you can still screw up an espresso made on a $20K+ superautomatic machine. Almost every drink i've had made at the McD's on the Bus. Spur has been pretty good!
Thanks for the tip about the free mocha mondays. Too bad i didn't know about it earlier in the summer. Only a couple of mondays left until aug 3rd. Hope i can get over there to get a free one before it's over.
–Dave

By: nate_s

nate_s — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:53:19 +0000

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By: nate_s

nate_s — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:51:40 +0000

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