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Hello, I am newly registered and recently upgraded my equipment (to ECM Technika IV from Faema Bella). I am having issues with muddy / soupy puck from single shots. I am still working out dose / grind (while waiting for my new grinder), and have come across this comment on the...
We're currently packing over here for a permanent relocation to Japan, and I just wanted to give a quick thank you to the many sources here that have helped me learn espresso! :mrgreen:
I'll still hang around some as a member, so you can't get rid of me that easily. Just gonna...
Can't get good info on this topic. I know what opinions are like but I'd want to hear yours. I'm stage 3 but hopefully I can regain some ground and maybe be stage 2. Anyways I have a few fetishes I'd like to hang on to and one of them is my 3 doubles in the morning. I am pulling...
I keep being told at my local coffee shops that espresso that sits dies within 15 seconds unless it is mixed with milk. But when you drink a cup of espresso you don't slam it like a shot. None of my local barista's can actually explain what this means or the taste difference, so...
One can get a distorted sense of the relative size of espresso machine manufacturers from looking at the North American prosumer market, or even the North American market in total. There are a few vids of factories on YouTube - Simonelli's is by far the largest that I have...
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Really, though, caffeine is a diuretic so it makes your body want to get rid of water. Although I seem to be able to drink as much drip coffee as I want with no real effects other than a slight buzz, having espresso seems to affect me completely...
We have been thinking of ideas of how to build an effective chaff collector, does any one here know how the commercial chaff collectors are built or have any idea as to how a chaff collector should be built?
Is there a thread that has current online sales and coupon codes at top equipment and bean distributors? I'll sometimes catch an occasional coupon code in the scrolling ad at the top of the site, but I feel like a thread where people post site-wide specials and coupon codes (for...