For the last five years we have been using the Bonivita coffee brewer with an 8 cup Chemex (kone filter). Unfortunatly, the Bonivita is dead and we are looking for another brewer. We considering the following: 1. The Bonivita, does make a good cup of coffee, has good features and priced competively. 2. The Chemix

Yes! After seeing the teardowns, it would be super-unhealthy to not let the machine complete a cooling cycle before powering off. Operational temperatures in the Ikawa are comparable to the temperatures applied to solder the components on the boards

I do this. Have for a few years. I have a 1982 la pavoni pub which is hx commercial machine and can't preinfuse. I read on the decent forum that the decent staff compete in shot pulling and someone sprayed the puck to pre-wet it and got more even pulls. So I started using my rtd sprayer. It worked

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Yes, that was my plan. So I guess there's more than one way to skin a cat on the installation of the heating element. If I have an Ohm meter, is it possible to know if I've got it right before plugging it in? If i turn it on and it's not correct will it just blow the fuse? It's

Hi out there, Every evening I refill the water reservoir. Lately, water already loaded into the machine has started to flow back into the reservoir resulting in overflow and water on the table. What is the reason for that? Is there some valve I need to fix? Best Michael

These are off the top of my head: Keep the lid on while brewing to increase temperature stability, it seems like most people do these days but there's a few holdouts. On the topic of temperature don't be afraid to mess with the dial, when I first got it I set it to max and left it there but I've

I did not realize this was available for the GS3!

So that solves the mystery - there isn't a vacuum breaker so one turns on - and off - the machine the old-fashioned way. No vacuum breaker wasn't unknown in machines with vertical boilers. Two of the four old vertical boiler machines that I have here don't have vacuum breakers

I think in this moment I would lean toward the Classkia PID w flow control if only because of the looks, PID, boiler and flow control- something I haven't had the luxury of playing with. But the logical all featured machine is the Silvia Pro X but the look is so pedestrian. I would have to talk myself