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This week: “The studio F Cappuccino Maker”

Studio F features an original, one of a kind steam driven, coal fired “Wolf-Ferrari” Cappuccino machine. Discovered by the Weekender team whilst broadcasting on location in industrial Cape Breton, this Cappuccino maker is capable of 10,000 psi steam pressure filtered through an industrial plunger using 5 pounds of coffee for each pint of finished product. Using sea water, the resulting elixir produced from this machine has 11,256 times the amount of caffeine found in the coffee from the Halifax CBC cafeteria.

When first discovered Peter Togni was heard to remark - “that ought a do it”.

Originally designed by a team of out of work Italians in the early 1950’s, it was constructed by German industrialists hoping to establish a new market for the flagging European coal industry. Considered too big and way too overpowered for home use, the first and only unit made (a prototype) was finally sent to Cape Breton to be adapted for use in the mining industry. Finding no real use for the behemoth, it floundered in an industrial stockyard for 46 years until discovered by the Weekender team in 1997. Receiving a grant from the International Industrial Coffee Producers Association, the Weekender team was able to restore this remarkable machine, and install it into a modified studio F, where it remains to this day maintaining Panda’s massive appetite for cappuccino made in pints.