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- 1 minute ago
- Forum: Repairs, Restorations & Mods
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Rio Lisa Junior
I was able to improve my steaming success on small volumes by plugging 2 of the steam holes and opening the steam valve more. This is probably just a crutch for my lack of skill
- 7 minutes ago
- Forum: Coffee Roasting
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Filtered coffee looks greasy oily
Thats a black coffee
- 29 minutes ago
- Forum: Grinders
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La Marzocco Swan
Well it seems that I have the first La Marzocco Swan grinder in the USA. IMO the Swan is an important advancement in espresso grinders, addressing key grinding issues with very smart engineering solutions. Grinds retention issues due to static charge are solved by passing ground coffee through an electric field that eliminates static charge, called an ion ring by
- 29 minutes ago
- Forum: Buying Advice
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New Quick Mill Pop and Quick Mill Pop Up
I realize this is a few months old but a) I'm wondering if there is any new information, and b) this unit has a boiler for coffee and a thermoblock for steam only according the Quickmill site, wondering if anyone has tried it
- 32 minutes ago
- Forum: Tips and Techniques
- Replies: 9
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Extracamundo! Temperature adjustments?
I use it about half the time as well (Adaptive the other half) with medium roast from a Weber Key. So despite what it's "designed for" sometimes it's the better recipe for me. I play with temp only a little. I was surprised it is set so low too. While not super hard to play with some
- 33 minutes ago
- Forum: Coffee Roasting
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Drum roast profile on a fluid bed
If it helps here are my 2 favorite roast profiles on my Ikawa Pro with 80 grams: {image} {image} Above profile: is always brighter and more acidic with lighter body. {image} {image} Above profile: is always a tad darker and more developed with more body. I am surprised but with 5 different coffees this has
- 33 minutes ago
- Forum: Repairs, Restorations & Mods
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Lelit Bianca, low pressure at grouphead
First post here. I've had a scan round previous posts but can't find an answer. If any of the terms I use are a bit wrong/confusing, apologies. Pretty new to all this. Bianca has been great until now. I don't change my beans, and make tiny changes to grind size batch to batch. Pressure at the group
- 46 minutes ago
- Forum: Repairs, Restorations & Mods
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La Nuova Era Cuadra - pump continuously working
You have proven that the pump is creating flow, right? If you raise the control lever, it pumps water through the brew circuit? When you lower the lever, where does the water go?
- 49 minutes ago
- Forum: Grinders
- Replies: 6
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Making the last Pharos [VIDEO]
So great. Thanks for posting!
- 51 minutes ago
- Forum: Espresso Machines
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La Marzocco Linea Mini R
Okay, thanks. So what I'm finally understanding is that it's still a black base but your camera sensor makes it look white because of the glare. I was confused by your prior "it came like that from LM" response when I asked how you modified the frame to be white. Cheers