Well, except that the trend with a temperature-agile machine is to boost the initial fill temperature and decline during the high-flow extraction, sometimes significantly

Are the Pro profiles shareable with the Home? Why don't I know this...? If so, and you don't mind, I'd love to try out this profile as I have that bean as well (or similar, I think I got mine from Burman). I have settled on the M+++ for it, but know there is room for improvement

newbie here, first the questions: -how advanced are the PID controllers used for these new consumer espresso machines? examples include the Diletta Mio from SeattleCoffeeGear, or the acosco line, I don't know all of the places to look for machines I have some common hits from google,, - Speaking of temperature stability, there are

What did you use to shim it?

I recently received a shipment from miicoffee in Minneapolis Minnesota. They are real. Thought oddly a 3d printed indicator was on it. Not sure if they did that for free as a nice gesture or if it was a refurbished unit? It was perfectly clean so I think it was likely new. This includes the burr chamber which I opened

Which is about where Lavazza Super Crema comes up on the Roast Vision. Not all Italian blends are dark

Why does your inlet temperature dip at the one-minute mark - is it programmed to do that? Bean drop is T=0 on the graph?

Saka is great, and cantina is restocked pretty regularly. A couple of bits of advice from here that i found very useful with Italian espresso: a slightly more restrictive basket like the EPHQ one is good here; shorter shots are better with increasing amounts of robusta - i found that with Saka Gran Bar, i got the best results

Try Milano. Butter and Espresso Pudding are wonderful blends. {link}

Finally got the jig together to get the rest of the group disassembled. This should look pretty familiar ("Faema Mercurio 3rd Series Tall Group [Finished]") {image} {image} {image} With some compression, the fork lifted off the group and I was able to get a bearing separator in there. It didnt take much to get it apart after that. With