Cafelat all-in-one Portafilters

#1: Post by **Cafelatstore** » July 23rd, 2013, 3:35 am

Our new portafilters are all stainless steel, have awesome retro bakelite handles and convert to naked/bottomless in seconds. Actually they are unlike anything else, so it is better to think of them as a new portafilter system.

What we have is a main body that has been designed as a naked handle, so you get no ugly chop marks or bits cut out of important places. The spouts are attached to a base plate that press-fits into the main body and is held very firmly in place with a food grade silicone o-ring. That's it.

There are a whole bunch of other neat features like the rim that allows you to tamp on a table edge, the comfy inclined handle, an alternative soft rubber handle, 3 different spouts, a breather notch in the top etc...

We have main bodies available for Marzocco/Synesso/Slayer, Nuova Simonelli and Modern E61 groups

All the details are on our company website http://www.cafelat.com/portafilter.html

They will be available to buy on our webshop a little later http://www.cafelatstore.com/collections ... ortafilter

A complete set is US$85 or you can build your own, Naked portafilters are $60. You can get a package discount with the new XT Tampers as well.

#2: Post by **DanoM** » July 23rd, 2013, 9:53 am

Nice system potential it looks like.

Now you need to make a 49mm version for my La Pavoni!

#3: Post by **lukeap69** » July 23rd, 2013, 11:34 am

Been waiting for this to be available.

Edit: just ordered one NS set.

#4: Post by **Clint Orchuk** » July 24th, 2013, 12:31 am

Paul, you come up with some of the coolest stuff.

#5: Post by **kitt** » July 24th, 2013, 12:51 am

They look awesome, save one for me once i get my set-up back up and running

#6: Post by **Marshall** » July 24th, 2013, 11:49 am

Damned clever, Paul!

#7: Post by **MDL** » July 24th, 2013, 12:17 pm

Very clever idea and execution.

Why did you decide to press fit the bottom on instead of threading it? I wonder if over time it will have a tendency to blow off from the pressure of pulling shots?

#8: Post by HB » July 24th, 2013, 2:05 pm

What pressure? The floor of the portafilter is subjected to the "pressure" of dripping espresso from the bottom of the basket.

#9: Post by **homeburrero** » July 24th, 2013, 2:27 pm

Nice trick, and at a reasonable price too. My order is in - now when my sisters stop by for single cappa's I can just pop the splitter on the bottom of my usual PF.

P.S.
I think Ray Johns built something functionally equivalent for his Pavoni a couple years back:

#10: Post by **RapidCoffee** » July 24th, 2013, 5:30 pm

Wow. If these are as good as they look, you just made every other portafilter on the market obsolete...