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by Nate42
January 16th, 2024, 7:51 am
Forum: Coffee Brewing
Replies: 13
Views: 818

Coffee tastes bitter in the morning

If you are brushing your teeth before your morning coffee, try an SLS free toothpaste. The foaming agents screw with your taste buds. A classic trick to reset your palate is to eat something fairly simple and bland, like a saltine cracker, or better yet an unsalted one but I for one don't keep those...
by Nate42
January 16th, 2024, 7:47 am
Forum: Coffee Brewing
Replies: 6
Views: 623

New pour over technique... gyration??!!

Neat idea, and it makes sense. Overextraction is pretty hard to achieve on a light roasted coffee. Agitation generally increases extraction, but people caution against overdoing agitation because its hard to do consistently. This is a way to do your agitation evenly across the coffee bed, and repeat...
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by Nate42
December 7th, 2023, 8:12 am
Forum: Lever Espresso Machines
Replies: 46
Views: 1494

Having trouble with Cafelat Robot

I just did a quick test - after a shot of 17g coffee, yielding 36g espresso, I swapped cups and measured another 34g liquid. So 70 total. If you can only get 40 out something weird is going on. You can fill closer to the top than you think. Are you level? if your shower screen is way off it
by Nate42
August 8th, 2023, 6:42 am
Forum: Tips and Techniques
Replies: 10
Views: 594

Why no crema?

Unless your pressure is way off or you have very bad channeling you aren't doing anything wrong to reduce crema. It all comes down to the coffee and it varies widely
by Nate42
July 25th, 2023, 10:33 am
Forum: Repairs, Restorations & Mods
Replies: 3
Views: 235

Pharos voodoodaddy mod

Any luck contacting him? Just curious. My pharos is already voodood
by Nate42
July 25th, 2023, 8:45 am
Forum: Knockbox
Replies: 4
Views: 305

Drinking espresso daily may protect you from Alzheimer's: Newly published study

I saw that, pretty interesting. Just used it as an excuse to my wife to have another shot the other day actually . Espresso is unfiltered which does change the chemical makeup of the resulting beverage somewhat compared to filter/drip coffee. I suspect the primary reason for focus on espresso though...
by Nate42
July 25th, 2023, 7:26 am
Forum: Buying Advice
Replies: 21
Views: 1490

WDT vs Tamper

You should WDT and tamp. They serve different purposes. I've found that a multi-pronged WDT tool really does save time and improve consistency, but jeez that moonraker costs $475! Stick some needles in a frickin wine cork or something. Or spend $40 on the levercraft tool, that started the whole mult...
by Nate42
July 1st, 2023, 10:03 am
Forum: Repairs, Restorations & Mods
Replies: 3
Views: 235

Pharos voodoodaddy mod

Its been a while but you used to be able to reach him at voodoodaddy.mods@gmail.com . No idea if he's still doing that but doesn't hurt to try I guess
by Nate42
May 3rd, 2023, 7:57 am
Forum: Water
Replies: 7
Views: 223

Put boiler flush water back in reservoir?

If you like those lower temps I suppose that's fine. Unusually low temperatures can work well for very dark roasts I just don't use thise very often. Keep in mind Eric's thermometer shows the group temp when idle and the temp of water in hx when pump is on, and actual shot temp is somewhere in betwe...
by Nate42
May 1st, 2023, 1:05 pm
Forum: Water
Replies: 7
Views: 223

Put boiler flush water back in reservoir?

What kind of espresso machine do you have? 186F is awfully low for a grouphead temp, not sure what the benefit of that would be. Anyway, to your original question, I wouldn't reuse steam boiler water. It is likely not particularly fresh and will have an unknown mineral content