Has anyone tried either the Pasquini 4 Hole Steam Tip from Chris Coffee or the Marzocco 4 Hole Steaming Tip from Great Infusions? Specifically, I'm looking for someone who has used one of these tips on a machine roughly equivalent to the Quickmill Anita, so most any E61-type HX machine would probably be comparable. I'm not interested in a two-hole cheater tip like the "Gold Pro". I want something with plenty of velocity to make the milk move, and my beef with the stock tip on my machine (the one with ridges that was supposedly the "new Isomac tip") is that the two holes are angled too far apart. Thanks!

Justin

I haven't tried those tips with my Anita, but I have recently gotten the La Spaziale Vivaldi steam arm with the four hole tip, which bolts right on to the late model Anitas. It's very powerful, though it's harder to make microfoam with the new tip because it steams very fast. I would imagine the other four hole tips would be even faster, since they seem to have pretty large steam holes.

Beezer wrote:. . . which bolts right on to the late model Anitas.

And there's the rub. I guess I should have mentioned I have one of the older Anitas so it doesn't have the newer arms or valves or whatever. I saw the other thread about the Spaz arm and checked it on Chris Coffee, but looks like it would ONLY work with the newer models. Thanks, though!

Justin

I took this really low res video of the Anita blowing a ton of steam with our Marzocco tip...

greatinfusions wrote:I took this really low res video of the Anita blowing a ton of steam with our Marzocco tip...

Awesome! Thanks, Sebastian. Can you tell me what the boiler pressure is set at on that Anita so I can compare it to mine?

Justin

setting is stock - about 1.2

sebastian

Wow, that's impressive. So Anita was able to hold a decent boiler pressure even after blowing all that steam? I didn't think she'd be able to sustain that kind of pressure with so much steam being vented. I still wonder if it would be hard to make good microfoam, but I guess if people can do it on commercial machines, it's possible with Anita too.

Makes me want to try the stock Vivaldi tip on my Anita. I've got one, but I haven't used it because I figured it would dump steam too fast from the boiler, plus it would be hard to get good mircofoam. Hmmm.

I've seen her recover during steaming with the stock tip to the point where the heating element switches back off because the pressurestat has reached it's upper setting. I'm not surprised that she has that much power. I'm not certain that I need or want that much power, but it's alluring. The microfoam from my local cafe using a LM tip is better than mine. Hmmm... Maybe I can try the same tip?

Justin

It's a pretty cheap upgrade. I say try it and see if you like it. Then again, I have about five or six different steam tips in my spare parts drawer, so maybe I'm not the best person to ask.

greatinfusions wrote:I took this really low res video of the Anita blowing a ton of steam with our Marzocco tip...

I'm taking the liberty to post this here as well, in the hopes that it'll be seen by more eyes.

I'm trying to figure out why my Anita looks like this, rather than it does in the video Sebastian posted.



I'm even running at a higher boiler pressure of 1.3 BAR.

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