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{image} Peak Coffee Experience: Café 3 1/2 in Shanghai I was in Shanghai a few weeks ago, where I had the best milked drink of my life. I want to tell you about it. They only have two beans available, both roasted by Black Sheep. Very, very light roast: no flavors derived from

10,000th DE1 ! It's hard to believe we shipped our first espresso machine just 6 years ago:{video}Yesterday, we celebrated building our 10,000th machine. And no, we're not selling it! It'll go into our about-to-be-built fancy in house café. And $65 gift certificates to the grocery store, to everyone...

{image} Now available: optional lid for DE1 water tank The DE1 water tank slides under the espresso machine, with a few millimeters cap between it and the bottom of the machine. Usually, that is perfectly ok to prevent dust and insects from getting in. However, some places have more insects than oth...

The UI for the Half Decent Scale, based on Sofronio's firmware, has been much simplified. The weight and time is all that is shown, and the two buttons control power/tare (left button), with the right button controlling the timer (start/pause/reset-start) This is a short video from a few days ago, s...

The original spec sheet here: "Decent Espresso news" All that still applies, though we've added a few things since then (such as a temp sensor for steam auto-stop) Schedule-wise, we will be able to ship 30 beta units at the end of July. We'll have all but 3 of the parts we need two months earlier, b...

{image} EK43 meets Weber EG1 ? I was blown away by the espresso I had two weeks ago at 3 1/2 in Shanghai. Everything in their workflow made it magical (the beans, liquid nitrogen dip of the bean dose, 98mm FM grinder, and two DE1 with a custom profile for each of the two beans they

I can't comment on the latest Acaia, as I don't use it. Some things that come to mind, that they might not have: - usb and wifi connection options - running while plugged into usb (skale does, acaia does not) - open source, and thus works with a variety of apps - two cups at once

Yes, Euan already made 150pcs of his drip tray for the Half Decent Scale, and... was more than a bit worried since he was out a lot of $$$$ to make them, and it looked like we wouldn't be able to make the half decent scale to work with it. So yes, they'll be ready to ship from day

{image} I've been long writing about our "soon-to-be-released" Half Decent Scale, which has been delayed over and over. The reason: a dispute we haven't been able to resolve, with our subcontractor who makes it for me. Their quality hasn't been great (30% failure rate) and they doubled the price (fr...