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Re:Brass and lead toxicity in midrange espresso machines by defterGoose on Sunday March 18, 2018 @09:32PM (#16615600)
It may be an all-stainless chassis, but in a $250 dollar machine, my guess is you're getting a brass boiler.

Edit: nope, you're right. SS boiler apparently

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Re:Brass and lead toxicity in midrange espresso machines by c3833174 on Monday March 19, 2018 @07:39AM (#16617657)
A stainless boiler is just 2 stainless steel cups held togheter by a clamp, it shouldn't affect the price much, my 120€ delonghi has one.
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Re:Brass and lead toxicity in midrange espresso machines by defterGoose on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @02:45AM (#16626428)
Yeah, I was pretty much assuming that all the cheap machines would use standard small diameter copper plumbing rather than pay for all stainless fittings all the way through (which would be somewhat specialized from a plumbing perspective), so it wouldn't really matter much whether the boiler itself was or not.
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