MOSFET wrote:Perfect solution if you mean that you spend a lot of time in your car: Bring it with you! Use an inverter. The battery power will be no problem. This is a 10-15 amp machine. My headlights alone draw 16 amps.

Now that is a sick idea!!! GS3 in your car!

aaaah Yeahh... I could write off the cost of a MiniCooper... put that sucker in the trunk... facing out... pop the trunk... INSTANT VENUE... wouldn't you buy coffee out the back of my car... it's the same as a CART...

ps... malachi... how do you get your pours so thin and and uninterrupted...

I am close but no cigar....

MOSFET wrote:This is a 10-15 amp machine. My headlights alone draw 16 amps.

just that pesky voltage issue.

malachi wrote:Now that is a sick idea!!! GS3 in your car!

one of the original ideas regarding the rebuilding of my landcruiser was to incorporate an espresso machine into the dash. the idea is still kicking around; i just haven't had time to do much on the rebuild.


--barry "maddie"

Day 7:

Wow.
Yikes.

Today was a kind of insane day - and it's only 2pm.

I started off the day with some additional measurements (yeah - I know that it's kind of irrelevant and that the machine is going to go through some serious, expensive equipment testing soon enough but it's kind of habit now) and then (about the point where I was dying for coffee) with some shots of the Olympia Coffee Peru.

Triple basket, down-dosed, 201F, 2.25oz in 28 seconds.

Really nice. Fruity and chocolatey and oh-so-sweet. Sugar bomb!!



After a quick cappuccino as well I did some cleaning (oh how I love the stainless block!). And then welcomed some friends from Albina Press. And the geekiness began!!

Tons of shots of Hairbender. Different doses, different temps - just going crazy. 197.8F, 20gram, LM ridged double, 1.75oz in 28seconds was the winner. All the fruit, all the floral, all the chocolate... but so smooth and sweet and rich!!! Incredibly coating on the palate - the aftertaste lingered forever. Wow.

They both described the shots as being both heavier and more coating - while at the same time tasting cleaner than what they were used to. It's the "density" and "clarity" that I've been describing and that I think might be related to the combination of the temp stability, the isolation from any water intake variance and the stainless.



Both Billy and Dan pulled some lovely shots.

You should have seen the big old smiles on their faces!!

And let me explain... these are jaded, tattooed PDX pro baristas.... getting excited about a 110v, reservoir single group espresso machine.

The cool-touch wands, the stainless block, the controls... and when we threw the Scace on there the jaws dropped. A quick climb to the setpoint and then it just sits there... sometimes it bumps up 1F for a few seconds... and it sits there. Shot after shot - the same pattern is repeated. Scary.

So we started whipping out the milk drinks.



At this point we'd been at it for a couple of hours and had burned through a pound of Hairbender as well as some of the Peru. And the machine wasn't even breaking a sweat. I'd refilled the reservoir 3 or 4 times and had dumped the draintray probably a couple dozen times but there was no indication that the machine couldn't keep this pace up all day. In the end, we wore out before it did.

I think Billy said it best when he said, "why isn't there a cafe version of this machine?"

So now I'm trying to relax, to stop smiling, to chill out a bit.
I guess I'm not crazy - I guess this machine really is that good.

4500 dollars....

ok I just typed that because it keeps the FEVER at bay...

looks great.... I am glad you are having fun testing... take a crap load of pictures tomorrow... I want to feel like I was there....

espressoDOM wrote:4500 dollars....

ok I just typed that because it keeps the FEVER at bay...

looks great.... I am glad you are having fun testing... take a crap load of pictures tomorrow... I want to feel like I was there....

Sissy

I already added your name to the "List'. You will own one by next summer......................

Look at it this way.........45 Tommy Bahama shirts or 1 GS3, your choice.............

Don't think $4500.
Think Cost = $4500 - $X where $X is what you can sell the MegaWega for...

barry wrote:
just that pesky voltage issue.

MOSFET wrote: Use an inverter.

An inverter converts DC power to AC.

Of course the laughing smiley should have tipped off those who thought I was serious, though there is no technical issue, especially with the pourover feature.

Maybe for the traveling salesman...

Keith

malachi wrote:Don't think $4500.
Thing $4500 - $X where $X is what you can sell the MegaWega for...

This is a good point. I sold my Six Million Dollar Expobar for $750 and bought a four group Linea for $800. I'll bet you could scrape up a bunch of junk to sell on Ebay. Put it in the upgrade fund.

Keith