Brown sugar portafilter espresso. Down the road issues? - Page 2

#11: Post by **Milligan** » July 14th, 2022, 5:04 pm

Heat + sugar + water in the group head could make for a 4th wave of funky fermented espresso if left for a few days! You may be on the cutting edge of a new movement in taste

I wouldn't do it in my machine but I'm certainly up for tasting it through someone else's.

#12: Post by **Nate42** » July 15th, 2022, 7:57 am

Sugar is pretty highly soluble in water if you make it a point to give it a good rinse after you will probably be fine. The other question though is why? The high pressure extraction of espresso is needed because getting coffee solid dissolved into a small amount of water is hard. Dissolving sugar is not hard. Why not just put it in the cup? When making sugary drinks I use a rich simple syrup (2 to 1 sugar to water by weight) it dissolves very easily.

#13: Post by **slybarman** » July 15th, 2022, 9:15 am

^^ seems like the right question to me.

#14: Post by **ShotPull** » July 15th, 2022, 9:39 am

This reminds me of a video that came with a fancy, perfectly smooth glass cooktop stove I bought a long time ago when they first came out. The video talked about how strong the glass was and how much abuse it could really take ... all except for one thing: hot sugar.

#15: Post by **baldheadracing** » July 15th, 2022, 9:42 am

Nate42 wrote:Sugar is pretty highly soluble in water if you make it a point to give it a good rinse after you will probably be fine. The other question though is why? The high pressure extraction of espresso is needed because getting coffee solid dissolved into a small amount of water is hard. Dissolving sugar is not hard. Why not just put it in the cup? When making sugary drinks I use a rich simple syrup (2 to 1 sugar to water by weight) it dissolves very easily.

I found that the resulting drink tastes different, albeit when using unrefined sugar.

#16: Post by **Kaffee Bitte** » July 16th, 2022, 10:05 pm

I tried this a few times years ago after a thread about it then. I didn't want the sugar near my screen though so I ground a half dose and added the sugar to that and mixed it up. Then ground the remainder of the dose on top. The shots were interesting but they ran crazy so I never really bothered making more than a few. I decided if I needed the brown sugar I could put it in the cup and pull my shots in it.