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- March 6th, 2024, 7:14 pm
- Forum: Water
- Replies: 7
- Views: 278
Home water softnener and RO unit
A lot of us use RO water to make a gallon or 5 of espresso water at a time thanks to Pat's direction. I think this website's instructions are nice: {link} Which exact recipe you should use? Obviously there is no agreement and some of it depends on your desired outcomes. But a nice thing is you can try
- February 28th, 2024, 10:47 pm
- Forum: Grinders
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1207
Will a flat burr grinder help me like light roasts?
Explore medium roasts with your niche first. It does a fine job with them. Keep learning to distinguish the bitter vs acidic tastes. If you don't like mediums, I wouldn't think you'd like light roasts. (And what we here call medium most places would label light, by the way). Where do you get your co...
- February 25th, 2024, 3:43 pm
- Forum: News and Suggestion Box
- Replies: 2
- Views: 108
Latte Art Forum?
Subject of a how-to? Most looking for this, I'd gather, are fairly new to the site and they may have better success finding it there than buried in a forum. We tend to also have links to popular latte artist/teachers that really do the work for us: just watch these videos (if we're alright with doin...
- February 10th, 2024, 7:29 pm
- Forum: Cafes and Get-togethers
- Replies: 43
- Views: 1322
Niseko, Kyoto, and Tokyo
Yeah, the 10a thing really prevented me from trying many places. Looking forward to hearing about your experiences!
- February 8th, 2024, 11:23 am
- Forum: Buying Advice
- Replies: 18
- Views: 675
Moving on from superauto purgatory... Lever?
Yup, you'd get to learn a lot without sacrificing results if you first got a Robot/Flair/Forge or the like while you keep dreaming about your perfect machine. Lots of cool levers out there and half seems to be what you fall in love with
- February 8th, 2024, 11:06 am
- Forum: Buying Advice
- Replies: 17
- Views: 681
Buy a 1kg Home Roast Machine
Not what you're wanting to hear, but smaller batch sizes have a lot going for them in a home environment: more opportunity to try different approaches with less wasted attempts is the main one. And if you do happen upon a roast approach you want to repeat it's only another 10 minutes to do each addi...
- February 7th, 2024, 8:32 pm
- Forum: Knockbox
- Replies: 48
- Views: 2004
How to improve coffee beyond "good enough"?
Finding and learning to follow recipes was definitely step one for me. It's all I can really do cooking and baking too, and although sometimes my wife complains that I added, say, too much salt to a dish ("But that's what the recipe said!") when I find the recipes we like and the chefs and bakers we...
- February 6th, 2024, 11:12 pm
- Forum: Tips and Techniques
- Replies: 410
- Views: 23237
Blind shaker better than WDT??
007 had it right all along... {image}
- February 6th, 2024, 12:31 pm
- Forum: Buying Advice
- Replies: 21
- Views: 809
DE1Pro - what options to choose at purchase time?
Well, I'll throw in my thoughts too! -Pro machine is the right choice. No need for XZ -I upgraded the wand too and like it, although neither really let you ghost steam without having the jug sit on something to elevate it. I really really like the ghost steaming... That said: -I'd really not do the ...
- February 2nd, 2024, 6:58 pm
- Forum: Grinders
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1427
Need an espresso grinder roadmap
I don't know your tariff question but I do think a mini would be a good start or a Niche. Personally I think 99% of new espresso people should buy a conical first. They're easier to get right and make a classic profile without much trouble. But many will move on from them as they chase clarity or fr...