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I finally pulled the trigger last week on a new GS/3 MP. It's scheduled to be bench tested on 6/20, and ship the following day...and let me tell you, the wait is absolutely killing me! But I figure if I can chat about it here, it might be...

About three years ago, John Buckman reached out to me wanting to chat about what was to become the Decent Espresso machine. That effort lead to his working prototype I spoke about . I've had John's latest work "mule" (his own...

So I received this email:

This is a major disappointment, considering that
(a) John originally promised that he'd take a loss for every DE1 of the original 300
(b) the original goal was a machine for less than 1000
(c) several folks put...

I'd like to decrease the flow rate for extraction of my espresso machine.
I use Marzocco FB80 EE for 2group.
I installed a 0.6mm gigleur and a rotary pump(150L/1h).
The flow rate is as follows now.

265g per 30seconds at 9bar

Are there...

Hi,

I recently moved onto the profitec pro 500 and i did a lot of reading here and on the internet including watching videos for the pro500 and the sister/brother ecm machine.

My machine came with a sirai thermostat and from factory the...

I recently received this machine, barely used, from a friend who was basically having a fire sale.

Here is the situation. The machine was used probably twice in two years, by all accounts appears to be perfectly clean and maintained. We...

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...

I just came across this video, and while I don't have one of these machines I figured I would throw this out so people are aware. It looks like ECM/Profitec have an upgrade for these machines to deliver higher steam pressure.

Whole Latte...

Hi All,

I recently bought a lightly used Astoria Compact CKX (non-programmable). I have plumbed it in, added a BestMax in-line filter. This one has the rotary pump, and it's a HX, but not an E-61.

I have it set to turn on at 5:30am each...