Wacaco has announced a new product in line with the minpresso and nanopresso. This one is called the Picopresso . The previous model seems more akin to toys with mini plastic baskets and tampers plus pressurized baskets and promoting pods. This one seems a bit more serious the...

I have a few days of use on the Eagle One Prima and wanted to share my thoughts and answer the many questions I am getting in one place.

Initial thoughts are:

It has some drawbacks.
1: you have to drill your own hole in the drip tray to set up the drain (stainless drilling is...

Hi folks,

I have a GS3 AV.

I haven't paid attention to it for a long time, but I just noticed that the pressure continues to rise above 9 bar (about 12 bar to be exact) during extraction (with coffee).

When empty, however, at free flow the pressure remains at 9 bar.

If I...

Hi everyone

Im having trouble with my Izzo Duetto III espresso machine. It has been boiling over for over a year now, and I cant seem to figure out what the problem is.

It started spitting steam and water out of the tube from the OPV, which normally goes to the bottom and in...

Hello All,

I have a Rocket Appartamento. I've watched plenty of videos now on the E61, and finding that sweet spot...just beyond the lever's midway point where water will flow, but the pump will not activate, provide a pre-soak to the coffee.

My question is: Why not just...

I noticed since yesterday that the coffee temperature felt hot.

Today it began streaming and spurting.

I haven't changed anything. The machine is almost 2.5 years old. I make about an espresso a day.

latest edit, 29 March 2021: If it hasn't become obvious, I am dialing back my participation on HB. Hopefully this guide continues to be mostly useful to people in the superb community of BDB users. If you are having problems that cannot be addressed by this guide, or by the...

Hello All,

I'm not much of a reviewer heck for that matter not much of a writer but here goes nothing.
I was gifted this year from my lovely wife the gift of all gifts and one that I think is impossible to top She gave me the gift of more time in the form of the double boiler...

Table of Contents:
1. Why Lelit Elizabeth?
2. Using the Machine
3. Nice Quality of Life features I'm appreciating as I'm using it more
4. Things I wish were different
5. Misc. Observations.

I've had an Elizabeth for around a month now and hadn't noticed many discussions of it....

Hey everyone! Hope I posted this in the right section...

Excited to be adventure into the world of espresso. I recently bought a Sage/Breville Barista Pro and have been getting used to dialing it in.

I have noticed after pouring my shot water still runs out of my...