Up until the point you reach the middle of the cup, you are doing a great job. Here's a screen shot from one of your videos, and it truly looks great. The pattern is forming in nice wide open leaves. {image} But then moments later the flow becomes too thick and the pattern gets squashed.

Price seems to only slightly more than the Mini, if you take their Instagram clue seriously

Now that I actually *have* the beast, I have some comments and questions. Is there an updated manual? The one that came with the machine looks to be for a different version. The on/off switch is next to the water tank and not on the touch display. The touch display is always on the five icon view and I

Their website says it's designed for modern light roasts if that helps in any way

When I had one I looked around too. Mine was fine, but flaking. I thought to maybe get one machined or cut out of brass, then nickel plating it. But seemed much too expensive. One place to try would be ipoktala on instagram. They make other aftermarket parts for the peppina. I bought a tamper and

That makes sense. I wonder how it is demonstrated in the above videos. I guess the water is running. I'll try it and see

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Hey Pete, I have it little tap and still bubbles, so I removed it to inspect, didn't see anything out of the ordinary? I did post a video of it and the gurgling bubbles travelling through the hoses. {video}{video}The annoying thing is it still produces a great coffee, I just need to preinfuse a little longer until water starts

The safety system only works if the group is full of water. If you pull the lever with no portafilter and release it the safety system can't work as it requires water in the group for back pressure IIRC. It is designed to work if a portafilter is not inserted fully and falls out during extraction. At least that is

Right, but steam has a certain temperature at a certain pressure... if you compress steam more it increases the boiling point of the water in the boiler... to get a higher pressure, you need more heat to boil more water. The vapor pressure of steam is tied to the temperature... so at 1.5 bar, you get about 262 degrees. It