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by robbbby
May 19th, 2011, 10:32 pm
Forum: Tips and Techniques
Replies: 8
Views: 1867

New coffee, grind adjustment?

well i've played around with the grind and grind duration setting on my vario and I think I got it much better but I am getting very bad spraying with my naked portafilter, just gets worse and worse throughout the duration of making the shot. With my old beans it would just spray very lightly for li...
by robbbby
May 18th, 2011, 6:57 pm
Forum: Tips and Techniques
Replies: 8
Views: 1867

New coffee, grind adjustment?

I'm getting slightly frustrated, not at the testing and tuning i'm going through but at the fact i'm wasting so much coffee doing so! Anyways i've been using the same coffee for quite some time, forget the name, just some prepackaged brand that came in a foil bag with a vent. At the recommendation a...
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by robbbby
May 14th, 2011, 12:27 am
Forum: Tips and Techniques
Replies: 20
Views: 44039

Espresso spraying with bottomless portafilter?

Found a local roaster in town that the majority of the italian coffee shops use. Going to order a couple 1lb bags of freshly roasted beans and see if i can notice a difference from what i'm currently using. I'll also try freezing what I know I won't be using in the first 10-12 days. Thanks guys
by robbbby
May 11th, 2011, 10:41 pm
Forum: Tips and Techniques
Replies: 20
Views: 44039

Espresso spraying with bottomless portafilter?

Thanks guys. Roasting my own beans is probably a bit beyond what i am ready to do but i'm going to try and find a local roaster and freeze them as recommended
by robbbby
May 11th, 2011, 4:55 pm
Forum: Tips and Techniques
Replies: 20
Views: 44039

Espresso spraying with bottomless portafilter?

so the general rule is that I don't even have 2 weeks to use a bag of beans even if I get them the day they are roasted? I'm a single guy so i'm the only one drinking coffee, I usually have 2 a day (morning and after dinner), if I buy a 1 kilo bag i'm pretty much
by robbbby
May 10th, 2011, 10:19 pm
Forum: Tips and Techniques
Replies: 20
Views: 44039

Espresso spraying with bottomless portafilter?

thanks for the advice guys, guess i'll have to play with a few things like trying to perfect my tamp and make sure everything else is good. i'm using a baratza vario grinder and have not adjusted the grind since about 30-40 espressos ago. As for the roast i'll have to check and see if there is a roast
by robbbby
May 9th, 2011, 10:34 pm
Forum: Tips and Techniques
Replies: 20
Views: 44039

Espresso spraying with bottomless portafilter?

I have a single boiler lelit and have been using the oem portafilter without any trouble. i just purchased a lelit naked portafilter and noticed when I first start pulling a shot with the new portafilter coffee kind of sprays everywhere from the bottom of the portafilter for a few seconds before sta...
by robbbby
April 24th, 2011, 5:33 pm
Forum: Espresso Machines
Replies: 1
Views: 3151

Old baby gaggia portafilter size

My dad has a really old baby gaggia and I want to buy him a nice tamper since i'm ordering some parts for myself. I'm just wondering what size tamper I should buy? Does anyone know what size portafilter came on these machines? His machine looks like this.. {image} thanks
by robbbby
April 23rd, 2011, 2:05 am
Forum: Espresso Machines
Replies: 4
Views: 1406

Decalcifying and detergent?

thanks for the reply. i'll pick up some dezcal for the decalcifying and try out some joe glo detergent
by robbbby
April 21st, 2011, 5:53 pm
Forum: Tips and Techniques
Replies: 7
Views: 878

Espresso not as nice as my dads (same coffee!)

Thanks a million guys, played with the setscrew on my baratza what a world of difference. I guess the first time I turned it too much because even at the lowest mirco setting with what I believe to be a normal amount of coffee and a very soft tamp the coffee just dripped out taking about 1 minute to