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Has anyone tried emulating Turkish coffee using an espresso machine?
Crazy-fine grind / low pressure / low flow rate / 3-4 minute 'pull' time, followed by psychotherapy to understand why one would even want to do this.
I'm gonna skip the psychotherapy (lost cause) and...
As an old auto racer, I'm well schooled in proper monitoring, maintenance and renewal of vital organs in mechanical devices. So when I bought my Technika Profi IV in January 2017, I vowed to disassemble the group every year for inspection, cleaning, and light lube. And I...
It's been a very very long time and logon ID long lost and the E61s, Jrs, Mazzers, and Macaps are also long gone. Getting near 80 and satisfying myself with Nespresso and Hair bender. Yeah, I know...
Was wandering through goodwill as I often do and saw a near mint delonghi...
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...
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....
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...
