Not a coffee break, a caffeine break. A period of abstinence from caffeine.

A friend suggested this to me a month and half ago. She said I should stop drinking caffeine for a while. I'm like, Give up coffee?? No, she said: caffeine. She said I could drink decaf. There are good...

So I am beginning the downgrading portion of my espresso slope.

I went from a La Spaziale Vivaldi 2 to a gs/3 and then to a Slayer. Been very happy with my Slayer since 2017 and use it with my monolith flat. I don't drink light roasts. My current standard is Vivace Dolce. Very...

Looking for good Liberica green coffee for a friend. Any leads?

I found that S-795 Jember is a cross of C Liberica and Kent and is common in Indonesian coffee, but not so sure that the characteristics of Jember and Liberica would be that similar.

ChatGPT had this to say (with...

Anyone has any idea where I can find a rubber feet replacement for Niche Zero? I noticed a couple of days ago that my grinder is wobbly and upon further inspection I realized that one of the rubber feets (inside the wooden feet) is missing and I cannot find it. I searched in...

If it lives up to the specs it seems pretty cool with room for advanced options in the future. Any takers of the pre-order? Any naysayers have some naysaying to do?

Hi,
I recently purchased a used BDB 920XL from a small coffee shop. According to the owner she purchased back in December 2022 with an assumption that could handle the workload but after a month she realized she needs a commercial machine. She told me the machine pulled 250...

Anyone else getting frustrated with the wait for an Evo Leva? Am wondering if i should have just got an LR24, Micra, or something...

Hi folks, Enjoying my new Bambino Plus, and getting good results, but ... I came from a Rancilio Silvia with 58mm bottomless portafilter. The BP's 54mm large single-wall basket (the 2-shot one) seems comfortably full at about 14g of ground coffee. 16g can be fitted in, but some...

John Buckman here, the founder of Decent Espresso.

I'll be posting regular Decent news to this Marketplace thread.

I'm also happy to answer questions here. However, there are Decent conversations happening in various places on this forum, among regular forum members, and I'd...

I have revised this post over the years with updates as I felt necessary. Those updates, in italics and dated, have been moved to the bottom of this post. Dan/HB said something about how it plays better with Google searches that way. So my revision notes are still here. Just at...