Classic. Forgiving. Attractive. Ubiquitous. These are just a small sample of the descriptions that fans of the E61 espresso machine have used in the more than 60 years since its introduction. One word that is rarely suggested? Diminutive. And that's not a surprise, since its...
I miss the before times when we had regular group taste tests at Counter Culture Coffee's training center in Durham, NC. I also miss serving a crowd to test an espresso machine/grinder combo under load as I regularly did at a local car dealership and occasionally at my regular...
Several of the HB moderators have used or tested these burrs, and in this review, they will give their views. There are some disagreements. I (Jim Schulman, aka another_jim) tested the HU, MP and the version 2 cast steel burr (sometimes called the 64mm...
The Lucca Atom 75 is the Eureka Atom 75 customized for Clive Coffee. The line of Eureka Atom grinders is a compact version of their on-demand cafe grinders, with the Atom 75 using a 75mm flat burr. The Lucca customization includes a broken in and cyrogenically hardened burrset,...
It's true, somehow three years have slipped by since the last Favorite Espressos Review . This review will be with extensive community participation -- 100 members signed up to receive three coffees in anonymous packaging:
Evaluations will be blind and reviewers will not...
The Tips & Techniques forum is filled with new and experienced home baristas alike asking questions about dosing, tamping, and grind adjustments. Posters asking for help with diagnosing espresso extraction problems come up frequently, too; often the recommendations include...
Once upon a time, I thought you made a shot of espresso by putting coffee in a basket, the basket in an espresso machine, and turning it on. That was before I owned an espresso machine. Then I learned about all the variables I had to...
The Cafelat Robot manual lever espresso machine has been eagerly anticipated since Paul Pratt began to reveal it in April of 2016. By then he had been working on it for a year. Anyone who knows about Paul would have high expectations because of his reputation as a premier...
