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 of it will get there via the counter. 18g doesn't seem

Yeah, that's one consideration, but I'd say the minor one. The major one is whether a v1 (even with quirks and downsides) is worth owning and using until a revision comes along.. even if you just end up throwing it away to buy a v2 (wasteful, yes) maybe $365 is worth it if it is, say, two years until the

I determine "dry end" by visual inspection of the beans which is easiest to do by withdrawing them in the trier scoop every 10 to 15 seconds around the time when they seem to be approaching a tan color through the drum window

If you meant blind basket, we got this one: {link} If you meant bottomless (or naked) portafilter, this one works and looks great: {link}

Roy, Yes; I agree... The negative slope to TP is just the BT probe being cooled by the room temperature beans until it reaches an equilibrium of sorts... I guess another way of stating my conclusion would be that as soon as you charge and introduce the beans into a heated environment, the drying phase

Hi there, so im to do an overhaul on my ulka pump since not much pressure is being made with my espresso machine and ruled out descaling, grinds or opv. the small ball seems fine but im replacing it with a glass bead and I ordered a set of O rings. The new ones are softer than the old one

Oh, yeah, my brain turned blind to bottomless. I didn't even notice. Blind actually means a PF basket with no holes. For back flushing your machine. Breville includes a funny rubber disk that fits in the single shot basket which does the same thing

They were out in the Ceado booth at SCA. That's the only grinder that's ever made me consider buying the show special on release because of the look. No knowledge and $6500 kind of got in the way

They were very weak and brittle with milky color. Neither came out in one piece! The change only takes less than a minute and pretty simple which makes it a no brainer compared to finding other workarounds. I think my problem was actually stemming from combination of pretty bad hard water, commercial heavy use and possibly descaling. I bought this

Why don't they make with built-in grinder maybe much more interesting or too complicated/pricey?