Try Blackout and Gamma from Hatch. Best roaster in Canada as far as I'm concerned. And I've tried most of them. Including Milano. They're very expensive, no roast dates on the bags, high shipping and to be honest just nothing really great in the cup

I'd love to hear your take on using bottom papers under a puck and why the flow seems to be so different and seemingly increases extraction around the edges of the puck. You know, since you're offering

Thanks Lobin, I should have posted there. You are right, maybe I am looking at the wrong direction but also trying to be greedy to find something that has that body and providing good clarity

Why start a new thread on the same subject? Why not simply ask the question in the thread you've started a few days ago? "The best thick body 64mm flat burrs?" I notice that you've gotten many good answers and valuable suggestions, yet you didn't answer back and start a new thread. I will

Bernoulli would not agree. Sorry. "flow coefficient" of valves and orifices describes these losses well. You are referring to the venturi effect, which is also occurring and is independent of friction. Bernoulli states that as a fluid speeds up it exchanges static pressure for velocity pressure. This is recoverable. Friction losses are not, and these are the losses

I've been searching and searching but can't seem to find anyone with first hand experience comparing the SSP HU to Cast lab sweets and the stock italmill df64 burrs for espresso. I would really like to know as I am looking for more texture/syrupy body over the stock italmills

So are the true Italian roasts better at lower doses to begin with? Have you tried this in a 18g or 21g baskets with same ratio? Just curious what that might do and only asking because I do predominantly enjoy a milk drink and at the smaller ratio of an already small dose it feels like there's a

Personal opinion, reasonably unvarnished, which may not suit you and your tastes, but you asked. I've been making espresso a long time, prefer light roasts, find Italian espresso unrewarding, and am very picky. I can afford to take risks on a machine and neither go coffee-less or hungry if a $1,000 machine isn't as good as I'd hope. 1)

That's a steep shipping fee and the pudding is sold out what luck