https://jeltsch.org/en/tags/obh-nordica/Recent content in OBH Nordica on Michael’s DomainHugoen-usCopyright © 2002 - 2026 Michael Jeltsch.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:18:18 +0300https://jeltsch.org/en/why_are_most_scientists_coffee_addicts/Wed, 04 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://jeltsch.org/en/why_are_most_scientists_coffee_addicts/<p>Last week I went electric after perhaps 25 years of making coffee without a coffee maker directly powered by electricity. I have made my coffee with the iconic Italian-style stovetop espresso maker I bought in 1990 in Debrecen, Hungary. Or with the <a href="https://aeropress.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Aeropress&nbsp; <svg class="svg-inline--fa fas fa-up-right-from-square fa-2xs" fill="currentColor" aria-hidden="true" role="img" viewBox="0 0 512 512" overflow="visible"><use href="#fas-up-right-from-square"></use></svg></a> . 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My espresso maker is a knockoff, but it still works perfectly today; I just had to replace the seal once. The espresso maker, the Aeropress, and the </annotation></semantics></math></span> 2 coffee funnel make excellent coffee, and the OBH Nordica has therefore serious competition.The first thing that I learned was that the Swedish/Danish <a href="https://www.obhnordica.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">OBH Nordica&nbsp; <svg class="svg-inline--fa fas fa-up-right-from-square fa-2xs" fill="currentColor" aria-hidden="true" role="img" viewBox="0 0 512 512" overflow="visible"><use href="#fas-up-right-from-square"></use></svg></a> is not anymore Nordic, but a part of <a href="https://www.tefal.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Tefal&nbsp; <svg class="svg-inline--fa fas fa-up-right-from-square fa-2xs" fill="currentColor" aria-hidden="true" role="img" viewBox="0 0 512 512" overflow="visible"><use href="#fas-up-right-from-square"></use></svg></a> , which in turn is part of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupe_SEB" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Group SEB&nbsp; <svg class="svg-inline--fa fas fa-up-right-from-square fa-2xs" fill="currentColor" aria-hidden="true" role="img" viewBox="0 0 512 512" overflow="visible"><use href="#fas-up-right-from-square"></use></svg></a> . Now that is not in itself a bad thing. But whenever you buy a European brand kitchen appliance, you will mostly buy from the same company independent of the brand name: Krups, Moulinex, Rowenta, Tefal, OBH Nordica, and WMF: they are nowadays all part of the French Groupe SEB.Of course, you should buy European instead of buying from a low-priced Chinese competitor. But I still wanted to know which of these Group SEB products are manufactured &ldquo;in Europe&rdquo; versus &ldquo;for Europe in China&rdquo;. At least on this machine - the Blooming Coffe Maker - I could not find any &ldquo;Made in&rdquo; marking. When I went to <a href="https://www.obhnordica.com/blooming" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">obhnordica.com/blooming&nbsp; <svg class="svg-inline--fa fas fa-up-right-from-square fa-2xs" fill="currentColor" aria-hidden="true" role="img" viewBox="0 0 512 512" overflow="visible"><use href="#fas-up-right-from-square"></use></svg></a> , I was greeted with a &ldquo;Read more about the Blooming Coffee Maker - Choose your country&rdquo; and when I clicked the Finnish flag (since I live in Helsinki), I end up in <img class="img-fluid " src="https://jeltsch.org/img/digital_nirwana-2800x2150.png" srcset="https://jeltsch.org/img/digital_nirwana-576x442.webp 576w, https://jeltsch.org/img/digital_nirwana-768x590.webp 768w, https://jeltsch.org/img/digital_nirwana-992x762.webp 992w, https://jeltsch.org/img/digital_nirwana-1200x922.webp 1200w, https://jeltsch.org/img/digital_nirwana-1400x1075.webp 1400w, https://jeltsch.org/img/digital_nirwana-2800x2150.webp 2800w" sizes="100vw" height="2150" width="2800" alt="digital 404 Nirwana"> . So I decided to contact OBH Nordica via their web form to ask where exactly my coffee machine was assembled, and they very promptly answered that the device is made in China. So much for buying European, and I am feeling guilty now.</p>