OOHH DUDE! The same thing happened to me, back in 2000. I'm an avid fan of Cuban Espresso, which is just like regular espresso, except that the froth is made by whipping a few teaspoons of sugar together with the first few drops of percolation from the espresso maker (mine's a classic stovetop).
Anyhow, back then I was using my grandmother's dime-store cheap one because my then boyfriend had taken my good one to Pittsburgh for college. And just when I was whipping the froth to a perfect peak, BANG! There's still coffee splattered all over my kitchen's cathedral cieling! I got some nasty second-degree burns to the skin around my navel, too! Not fun! The diagnosis was that the "valve was plugged"....whatever that meant. :-|
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Date: 2005-05-02 08:05 pm (UTC)Anyhow, back then I was using my grandmother's dime-store cheap one because my then boyfriend had taken my good one to Pittsburgh for college. And just when I was whipping the froth to a perfect peak, BANG! There's still coffee splattered all over my kitchen's cathedral cieling! I got some nasty second-degree burns to the skin around my navel, too! Not fun! The diagnosis was that the "valve was plugged"....whatever that meant. :-|