ah yeah we used to have to keep a jar of 43 beans for my mother in law (also in the "too much fuss" brigade). That's ok if they needed to make themselves a cuppa because they didnt know how to use "the gear", but in the main we were always here at the same time so the jar just sat in the pantry forever and a day. Although they were quite "conversant" with the bialetti stove top moka.... Which brings to mind, that if you discount pump driven espresso machines, anyone's first "espresso machine" was probably a stove top.
