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- April 16th, 2024, 6:14 am
- Forum: Espresso Machines
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1802
Understanding Brew Pressure, Flow, Valves, and "Slayer Shots"
This wouldn't work at all, since the brew boiler is saturated. Any time a boiler is completely full, the pressure in that boiler is no linked to temperature, since any thermal expansion at all will take you all the way up to the expansion valve pressure. In this case, a pressurestat would not heat the boiler beyond lukewarm. There
- April 16th, 2024, 6:08 am
- Forum: Repairs, Restorations & Mods
- Replies: 6
- Views: 116
What is this part... Fiorenzato Bricoletta
I've done a little investigating and I see that it is a plug for the solenoid. If I plug it in, the solenoid seems to work properly... but what do the wires that WERE plugged into the solenoid go?! There is a red wire that goes to F4 on the gicar box, a white wire that goes to F2, and
- April 16th, 2024, 5:27 am
- Forum: Buying Advice
- Replies: 10
- Views: 723
Downgrading from Slayer. Options sought.
A slayer is quite a machine to have at home and it is a tough act to follow. It really depends on what u r looking for for your replacement machine though if u r looking at the linea mini, I don't think the tablet touchscreen vibe of the decent is quite the type of machine that would
- April 16th, 2024, 4:17 am
- Forum: Tips and Techniques
- Replies: 2
- Views: 53
Decaf ESE pods 3 ways with Lelit Elizabeth
Thanks for the suggestion. You clearly understand using ESE pods to make the best possible espresso. If I understand correctly though, it would be a long-term, perhaps permanent conversion, at least for me. I still want to grind my non-decaf shots, the vast majority of what I pull. A fairly thorough survey of this admittedly arcane topic showed (I
- April 16th, 2024, 4:13 am
- Forum: Repairs, Restorations & Mods
- Replies: 6
- Views: 101
Breville Dual Boiler Manual Descaling
I would just focus on making good shots with the stock BDB. The slayer mod is nice to experiment with, but you're adding a lot of variables before you have the basics of espresso under control. I did the slayer mod myself, and it's not a magic thing that makes your shots good, at first it might even make your
- April 16th, 2024, 4:02 am
- Forum: Coffee Roasting
- Replies: 136
- Views: 4607
Humidity sensor on exhaust - other gas sensors ?
That is correct. In fact my graphs for 50 and 100g look totally different to my full load 190g batches, not talking about time as the roasting time is similar. Talking about airflow/power, for lower weight batches I use more airflow to push the heat in. With a "full load" in my case 190g (machine can do max 200g but
- April 16th, 2024, 3:33 am
- Forum: Blog
- Replies: 50
- Views: 2745
Mazzer Philos Comments
I can't speak for the youtube versions. The grinders Dan and I received several months ago (I call them Beta versions in the review) had a loud and vibration prone motor noise. This revised grinder has a quiet motor. However, the grinding noises are still fairly high. This is the case with all single dosing grinders used without a lid
- April 16th, 2024, 3:32 am
- Forum: Coffee Roasting
- Replies: 14
- Views: 304
Any alternative to Behmor?
This looks interesting. My Behmor is about 15 years old as well, replaced the motor, board, and afterburner. Anyone with experience of this Skywalker?
- April 16th, 2024, 3:22 am
- Forum: Grinders
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2500
Weber EG-1 noises on fine grind settings
Update about my grinder: Weber offered to pick it up back to inspection about 2.5 weeks ago. Even though I expected Weber to offer an exchange one-by-one with a new grinder, they didn't offer it and I accepted. They received it last Thursday, and I was under the impression they will easily fix the alignment issue ASAP to make sure
- April 16th, 2024, 3:05 am
- Forum: Coffee Brewing
- Replies: 48
- Views: 2729
Fellow Aiden anyone?
Perhaps the sort of aficionado who will shell out $365 for a coffee brewer is the sort who wants to pick their own grinder?