I hear a lot about adjusting the pressurestat to control temps. My millenium La Pavoni Pro tends to run a little high, say 1.2+ bar on the gauge. Rather than trying to unglue the pressurestat and possibly breaking it (besides the fact that I need a special torx driver to even get to it), I had another idea that I've never seen mentioned.

Why not just turn off the heater, vent the boiler with the steam wand down to ~1bar, and then pull the shot (after a flush to heat the grouphead of course). This is simple and avoids a lot of messing with the machine.

What's the downside of this?

see this

Seen that ... and many other threads commenting on broken pressurestats resulting from that approach.

I'm just thinking that venting to the desired pressure with the heater off is a simple, easy approach to the same thing.