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- April 19th, 2024, 4:53 pm
- Forum: Coffees
- Replies: 145
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Blueberry (or any berry) bomb coffee recommendations?
Try this one, pretty spot on with tasting notes {link}
- April 19th, 2024, 10:54 am
- Forum: Coffees
- Replies: 14
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Revel Coffee - Colombia Washed Nitro Caturra
How long did you guys let this one rest? Just got it yesterday and excited to try
- April 18th, 2024, 6:48 pm
- Forum: Repairs, Restorations & Mods
- Replies: 12
- Views: 289
Rio Lisa Junior
Nice job - pid install looks good but agree that it may not like the heat up there I did a restore on a very similar machine: "Astoria SAE Junior (CMA/Laurentis/RIO) Refurbish Log" The pid is not very useful for this machine since it's a heat exchanger You need to flush the group head before pulling a
- April 10th, 2024, 4:38 pm
- Forum: Tips and Techniques
- Replies: 26
- Views: 957
When distilled water is a good thing...
For most of us distilled water is not even an option your autofill sensor will not work without minerals in the water and as other have mentioned the flavor of the coffee will be subpar (this is a FACT) Try drinking distilled water vs. regular mineral water - the difference is not subtle. When we ad...
- April 9th, 2024, 6:00 pm
- Forum: Tips and Techniques
- Replies: 6
- Views: 217
Extraction Help
How's the taste? That's all that really matters The residue on bottom of screen doesn't tell you anything. It's just residual coffee drying when your 3 way solenoid is activated at end of shot. Why is it giving one sided appearance? Check if your machine is truly level. But it doesn't indicate anyth...
- March 28th, 2024, 11:18 am
- Forum: Espresso Machines
- Replies: 8
- Views: 213
Help me figure out this model Astoria Argenta - AEP/2N
Yes the pressure stat should just be left at regular steaming pressure 1.5 bar or so It is a heat exchanger machine (please read about this) so by definition the temperature at idle in the heat exchanger will be too hot (at boiling) so you need to do a cooling flush before pulling a shot "HX Love -
- March 28th, 2024, 7:00 am
- Forum: Espresso Machines
- Replies: 8
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Help me figure out this model Astoria Argenta - AEP/2N
That's the manual fill valve to fill the boiler The machine is a heat exchange (hx) You run the group and flush water to cool it before pulling a shot
- March 16th, 2024, 9:41 pm
- Forum: Coffees
- Replies: 145
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Blueberry (or any berry) bomb coffee recommendations?
I ordered this one based on your rave reviews and must say it was absolutely excellent!! Thanks
- March 6th, 2024, 7:23 am
- Forum: Knockbox
- Replies: 22
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New idea for avoiding WDT
Check out "IDT - technique for direct to portafilter dosing"
- February 19th, 2024, 4:01 am
- Forum: Tips and Techniques
- Replies: 414
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Blind shaker better than WDT??
It doesn't seem to matter what brand it is Look at this prior post w Weber one: "Blind shaker better than WDT??"