yakster wrote:I can practice a lot more shots with different temps, grind setting, or mass with singles then I can with doubles. Singles effectively doubles my opportunity to practice.

Gosh!
now that's Kurt Cobain speaking...

ginalola wrote:Singles? Doubles? I'm hooked on Triples!...and loving my addiction. You guys are just a bunch of sissies

Triples? Oui! all the time? c'mon!

True! I make a triple shot cappuccino every morning, but that is all the espresso I drink for the day. Occasionally, I will make a double espresso in the early afternoon.

As the conical pattern of the single basket, more pressure is perform to extract the coffee, so you need a slightly coarser grind than for a double basket, and this is why you can't just cut the dose by half.

I like the actual black cat a normal dose for a single basket. I can't tell you the exact weight, as I don't weight too often, but it's definitely not very updose.

Can you get more in details in the flavor and mouth feel of what your getting in the single?

Keep up trying, a single is not suppose to be harder to get than a double, and in my book, it's better.