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by gscace
5 minutes ago
Forum: Grinders
Replies: 10
Views: 489

La Marzocco Swan

Do you have a compilation of that work anywhere? I'm interested in your procedure and what you define as retention. I've always taken retention to be the ground coffee that causes shot to shot dose variation, which is pretty easy to measure in single dose grinders. I've always figured that stray coffee that got packed off into
by BaristaBoy E61
10 minutes ago
Forum: Espresso Machines
Replies: 4
Views: 127

Leave espresso machine on during descaling?

Monitor & photograph your results for reference as colour is an indicator of scale present and your progress
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by mikel
18 minutes ago
Forum: Repairs, Restorations & Mods
Replies: 2
Views: 38

Short circuit La Marzocco Linea Classic AV

If the boilers aren't filled with water, and you send electricity to the heating elements, things will go pop?
by Trjelenc
23 minutes ago
Forum: Coffee Roasting
Replies: 44
Views: 1868

Hacea Coffee Impressions

Decided I would give Hacea a try. Yesterday I ordered 3 coffees, 5.5kg. Would be interested to know if anyone else has had these: Guatemala Palencia Finca La Pia La Aurora Washed {link} I love a good Guatemala and their description was very enticing. I'll be very happy if this is a coffee with chocolate notes at
by bznelson91
28 minutes ago
Forum: Cafes and Get-togethers
Replies: 17
Views: 347

General question about handling cafe drink quality

@Sideshow, I agree with you. However, there ARE places that are super dedicated to the craft of coffee. I put out a call here a few weeks ago for top coffee shops in Dallas, and someone mentioned Native Coffee. They have three different espresso choices available, grind them with a Lagom P64, baristas are definite coffee geeks etc. The places
by kaffen
36 minutes ago
Forum: Coffee Roasting
Replies: 335
Views: 19212

IKAWA Home - profiles

Sorry, saw that now. It is a long thread, but it's good. Will try both (one thing at the time though) to lower my charge temp from 145 C, and also lower the peak. I saw your comment earlier in the thread about the importance of having good circulation of the beans in a vortex. Not sure I
by jeffreylam98
44 minutes ago
Forum: Blog
Replies: 61
Views: 4094

Mazzer Philos Comments

Thx ! Your answer Helped me assess how many days should I be using the 200d burr as I bought a pair of gorilla gear burrs from my another dealer and will probably sell the 200d to him for study purposes
by bcx
53 minutes ago
Forum: Tips and Techniques
Replies: 45
Views: 1217

Latte Art Diagnosis

Couple from this morning {link} {link}
by Loth
54 minutes ago
Forum: Repairs, Restorations & Mods
Replies: 0
Views: 6

Letit Anna; steam leaking from the group head

Hi, a couple of weeks ago my lelit anna (8years old) started to leak, I changed the water tube that was fixed to the valve system and the problem was solved. Directly after, when using the steam pipe, steam leaked from the group head( also when warming up). I changed the gasket and descaled the machine. I added the
by SCANNAMAIALI
1 hour ago
Forum: Coffees
Replies: 2
Views: 84

Espresso coffee comes out worse than before.

no, they only have an expiration date. I bought the first two packages, the ones in the video, on Amazon. The next two were sent to me directly by the coffee manufacturer after having contacted them directly about this problem. Then I bought the cheap one at the supermarket. Expires February 2026, that of the supermarket April 2026