My mom got me hooked on espresso from a very young age. I loved drinking the thick, lathery goodness that had a bittersweet perk to it and really made your eyes jump. Even though most of the coffee drinking world knows that espresso has less caffeine in it than a regular cup of coffee. But ever since I was a little kid, my mother always had espresso coffee machines at our home. She loved knowing that she could make a good cup of cappuccino at any time using her espresso coffee machines. In the end the addiction passed on down to me. Now as I sit here even writing this, I am sipping off a foamy concoction that I created using espresso coffee machines. The best part is that espresso coffee machines do not cost all that much anymore. I was able to pick up a really nice one that I found online for less than hundred dollars. Considering that it saves me about a hundred bucks from the coffee shop each month, it was money well spent.