By beloved Rocket Giotto Andrea Premium has started behaving weirdly. I need some help with diagnosis please. I grind (Niche grinder) and tamp (The Jack leveler) as usual (20g) with the intent of getting 1 fluid oz in ~27 seconds, using a bottomless triple basket. The shot...

Just installed my FC on my ECM. One thing I found no matter where I put my FC, the reading on group head gauge is always 9bar. I did measurement for flow rate for every ¼ turn and seem fine. Was my gauge defective? Or something I miss when I was doing installation?

San Remo seems to have thrown their hat into the ring for the high end single group home machine. The design is very similar to the Cafe Racer. It will be available in 110-120v and 220v with a water tank. It has a manual paddle to pressure/flow profile real time and...

latest edit, 8 May 2022: I added a second paragraph to item 6 under the maintenance section. It is an ifixit guide to removing the group and the steam boiler. This has application if you have an older BDB and want to upgrade to the latest group with the two-piece collar inserts...

I've often read about how it's great to have a copper or brass boiler versus a stainless boiler because the copper and brass will heat up faster.

But isn't this backward--literally outside-in versus inside-out thinking?

Copper conducts heat much faster than any other metal,...

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to share with you some preliminary simulation results which I managed to obtain in my free time.

The LHS of the attached video gives the transient behavior of the temperature (degrees Celsius) both in the water and solid material, sampled using a...

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...

It seems to be officially out now:

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....

In preparation for receiving my Micra this week I've been reading a lot about water quality, plumbing, etc. I have found a few older discussions around this but thought I'd start a new thread rather than revive a long dead one.

What is everyone's experience around plumb in of...