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- 8 minutes ago
- Forum: Buying Advice
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Upgrading my Grinder Game
Thanks for the link Midway! That was perfect!!
- 12 minutes ago
- Forum: Buying Advice
- Replies: 14
- Views: 245
Upgrading my Grinder Game
Thank for the tip - I am all for Kafatek now
- 13 minutes ago
- Forum: Buying Advice
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1035
Is Heat Exchanger Temperature Stability Really That Bad?
The quote of the separate boiler in the Bianca isn't from me.. just a cut/paste typo.. but I would agree that a separate boiler for the brew water is a huge, huge improvement. The problem is one of marketing hype and flat out errors from both the manufacturers and distributors. WLL designed the Pro 500 HX restrictor and published a
- 26 minutes ago
- Forum: Repairs, Restorations & Mods
- Replies: 22
- Views: 367
Wega Mini Nova Rebuild
Mohand, The hollow bolt head is not a requirement for an E61 head. The water passage is not concentric with the bolt head. Take a look at the attached image and confirm on your machine. Do you have a way to measure thread od and thread pitch? The dispersion screw should be M10 X 1.0 threads. I'll measure the
- 36 minutes ago
- Forum: Blog
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2041
Mazzer Philos Grinder Review
A short final post on changing burrs and resetting the grinder's zero point. I swapped in the SSP MP burrs into the grinder: {image} and want to report on some of the things that came up. First off, when I tested the MP burrs in the Jolly, I hated them -- thin bodied, no sweetness, and diminished roast
- 59 minutes ago
- Forum: Espresso Machines
- Replies: 2
- Views: 87
Espresso shot - coffee appears immediately - problem?
Paul, I agree with Bodie; there's no one "right" to make espresso, including how long it takes for the soak (preinfusion) stage. That said, you can easily vary a few variables and evaluate the mouth feel and taste. Try grinding a tad smaller and you'll certainly get a longer soak. Or, you can drop your lever to the mid-position as
- 1 hour ago
- Forum: Water
- Replies: 30
- Views: 679
Water, no scale? no corrosion? For reservoir espresso machines
I'm brewing at the lowest (89 +/- 2 C) setting, medium roasted El Salvadorian and Colombian mix, usually about 6 to 14 days off roast. The mechanism seems to be right on temperature at initial start up and a couple minutes more. It then seems to climb. A longish flush has the water temp climb as high
- 1 hour ago
- Forum: Blog
- Replies: 35
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Mazzer Philos Comments
Maybe my statement was too general. But the P64 has an augur-like cap on the rotating burr. It may improve the performance. {image}
- 1 hour ago
- Forum: Cafes and Get-togethers
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Espresso Cafe Suggestions for London?
Slightly off topic but I had no idea Ozone had expanded so much! I worked in Shoreditch when they opened their first UK roastery/cafe on Leonard Street, must've been 2012 or so. Loved going in there most days and they really knew their coffee and trained their baristas incredibly well. Great to see they've done so well and