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Instead of a Flojet type pump, what do you guys think about food grade compressed air or nitrogen to move water to the espresso machine? Gas would be hooked up to a soda style keg and pressurized with a gas to make flow to the machine, gas will be regulated of course. I know...
I'm debating on purchasing one of the several leveling tampers on the market (specifically the 5 Star eazytamp) but am now torn. Not between brands or models, instead my indecision stems from the worry of lost skill.
I've spent a little over a year now honing a skill of...
So I was watching some youtube and started watching some Italian cafe videos. No paper cups was something that popped out to me. But one of them, I don't know which one I watched so many, mentioned that they place their cups on the warming tray facing up and not facing down. The...
I have been reading the forums for a long time now, and I got a lot of advice from you on my journey to the perfect espresso. As an engineer, I am constantly thinking about ways to improve consistency, and tools to make measuring and grounds...
First off I am not trolling. This is a question that I have been trying to find since I got to know how milk production works. To produce milk, the cow has to have given birth to a calf and taken away and to keep the cow from producing milk for a long time, I believe...
In summary here is what I do for better extractions from my equipment ( a GS/3 AV and Ceado E92 grinder)
Set my machine to 6 bar ( to avoid channeling) (originally from Matt Perger articles on this subject)
Weigh the coffee using two acaia scales ( one for 20 gm ground coffee...
I've been gathering ever since the HG-1 came out, where RDT is all but mandatory, that the crop of short or no-chute, straight down grinders have tendencies towards static, more or less with certain beans, all the way up to and including the Monolith Flat, where the fellow in...