Bought my VBM DD v3 in 2013 from another forum member who had upgraded. It is plumbed in and paired with a Super Jolly. It sat in hibernation of a sort for the past 2 years: hot water wasn't working and turning on the steam boiler tripped the GFI so I was using it for espresso...

Considering i never provided a group head cleaning with detergent since i use the puck screen, i anyway noted an harder movement of the lever, and i frankly never had such behavior prior the use of the puck screen.
Yesterday i dismantled the group to provide a check and a...

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....

This thread is for early adopters of the Lelit Bianca

It is also for all who want to comment or Q & A about the ongoing bench review

Hello everyone,

As I sit with my double double shot latte and stare at my usual ever to be improved latte art topping. I have been thinking about present day 'manual' machines with dual boilers, pid and pressure control etc vs a machine like the Decent which is literally plug...

I have a Rocket R58. I have read the posts about the integrated vs. Saturated head and seen the video test of the LMLM which is very impressive.

I see a number of posts around HX post flush consistency .....interesting but a big a variable at play.

Also a number of posts...

I got my Breville Dual Boiler back in late fall of 2011. I was getting ready for a promotion at work that I was going to celebrate with a saturated brew group machine, probably a GS/3 because of their value in comparison to the single group Cyncra (that I really wanted) and...

I vaguely remember that when I first setup my BDB I had to test the hardness of the water and set some thing in the machine.

I followed the instructions back then. But now my house is switching to soft water. Does anyone have the instruction for what I should do? Should I...

Got the new Linea Mini home just last night after picking it up at Clive Coffee here in Portland. Clive held a nice open house event on Memorial Day where they invited customers down to the store to try out some of the new equipment and check out some of their open box buys....

Hello,
I have recently installed an ITO controller on my Rancilio Silvia.
ITO is by far the most sophisticated aftermarket control option for such machines - SBDU with vibe pump and basically enables almost everything that the industry has developped as an espresso machine...