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Recently several members have reported too good to be true prices on espresso equipment. The sites I've seen looked like a generic e-commerce package and they sold a range of equipment from consumer espresso machines for a few hundred dollars to multiple-group espresso machines...
Which espresso machine should I buy? What's the best coffee grinder? I have a budget of $500, what is the best espresso machine? This post summarizes my advice in question/answer format.
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Q. There are so many choices of espresso equipment. What general advice to you...
I'm currently using a Linea Mini and a compak e10 single dose by time. Happy with everything, but it would make my morning minorly more efficient if there was a machine out there that accurately dosed to a 10th of a gram. Current process is pinching out excess and blipping the...
This question is for anyone who has used both the Nurri Leva and the Evo Leva. I am considering both of these machines as possible replacements for my Salvatore Compact Lever. My primary goals for this upgrade are:
1) direct, precise, control over brew water temperature,
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For a few years I owned an Ascaso espresso machine and grinder, and utterly failed to make good coffee with it. In the end I got demotivated and took a long hiatus from espresso. During the pandemic my spark was relit and I invested in a DF64, SSP Lab Sweet burrs...
I am not sure if these questions should have been posted here or in the section dedicated to lever machine. It's a mix between looking for buying advice and please educate me about lever machines .
It has been for at least three years that I have been looking at those beautiful...
Has anyone come across an insulated carafe which is specifically designed to work with Chemex filter paper? I have some plastic Hario drippers, but looking for something tailor made for Chemex papers.
I'm posting in buying advice because I'm not sure if I should keep this, but apologies if wrong forum.
I certainly didn't expect this when I opened up my supposedly brand new Eureka Atom 65 just now (ordered from C&P). The chrome finish has what appears to be a streaky, sticky...
I noticed an email from Piggyship claiming I had a package on my porch and I should hurry and get it. I did and there was a box, in it, very well packed was the package. Packaging at the level of Acaia and opening it up reveals a scale that at...
