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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (Anime)|Gundam SEED]]'', The desert tiger has many scenes where he makes coffee out of tubes and bubbling pots and whatnot.
 
== [[Film]] - Animated ==
* In ''[[Corpse Bride (Animation)|Corpse Bride]],'' Elder Gutknecht creates a sorcerous variant.
 
== [[Film]] - Live-Action ==
* In ''[[Back to Thethe Future (Filmfilm)|Back to the Future: Part III]]'', Doc Brown has this elaborate machine in his Old West blacksmith shop. Takes up most of the room its in. When he activates it, the thing huffs and puffs and shakes and finally, after all this ostentatious display, spits out two ice cubes.
{{quote| '''Marty:''' "Its... a refrigerator?"}}
** Effective for the implied humor, but also fairly realistic as creating a refrigeration unit in that time with limited materials and technology would result in a large machine.
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* Jake Stonebender, from [[Spider Robinson]]'s [[Callahan]] series, owns a Rube Goldberg contraption that looks a bit like a 50s movie doomsday device. Its sole purpose is to make the perfect cup of coffee.
* Magical version: Potion class in ''[[Harry Potter]]''. Blending exotic things in a caldron and make a drinkable mixture.
* The machine that makes the Everlasting Gobstopper in ''[[Charlie and Thethe Chocolate Factory]]''.
** Also the machine that makes the Amazing Three-Course Meal Chewing Gum.
 
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* On ''[[M*A*S*H (TV)|Mash]]'' the still in the Swamp was originally this when it was first built.
* In one episode of ''[[NCIS (TV)|NCIS]]'', after spending hours manually distilling blood samples during a power outage, Abby uses the same apparatus to brew herself a shot of nonalcoholic whiskey.
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Girl Genius]]'', Agatha makes a coffee maker that ends up being this.
* [http://www.twistedjenius.com/Snail-Factory/comic.php?id=45 Episode #45] of the webcomic ''[[The Snail Factory (Webcomic)|The Snail Factory]]'' has a gag like this, but with a more industrial take; and chocolate.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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