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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....
Wacaco has announced a new product in line with the minpress 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 spent an hour and a half testing my Quick Mill Alexia Evo temperature at the boiler and grouphead, following this discussion about test methodology. Note that I flushed water to mimic pulling shots, but didn't actually use coffee. This would have been too wasteful. You can...
With great help here in the Buying Advice forum I finally bought a real espresso machine. I had a Gaggia Classic for a few months last year and it was a very frustrating experience. My new Profitec Pro 600 with flow control arrived this week.
I started my machine's pump with the portafilter off to heat up the portafilter (I usually just leave it on while the machine's warming up). Surprisingly the water came out steaming for a bit, which I thought wasn't supposed to happen with Mara X on brew priority mode. I did...
Hello, I 'm new member. Just bought an expobar brewtus iv rotary. Here are some issues:
1 this model is a plumb-in only and I dip the inlet hose into a bottle which is working fine but it doesn't do preinfusion. With lever at mid position pump starts but no water coming out,...
Hi i think i choked my DeLonghi Dedica. My father brought me some coffee ground from someone working in a cafe. The coffee looked like it is very fine grind and i had this feeling that it might cause some troubles, because Dedica uses pressurized filter baskets. However he...
I just recently upgraded my Silvia with a PID and recently I've noticed water gushing far more than what I felt is normal (going straight through middle of puck where the indent is). When I open the water tank as well I'm seeing water on top of the inside of the lid like water...
