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by mirceat
April 27th, 2018, 9:40 am
Forum: Buying Advice
Replies: 6
Views: 1239

Electric grinder buying advice

When you live in the EU, you could add Hedone Honne on your single doser list. It has a topic "here" on HB and some user reviews "here" on the German Kaffee-Netz
by mirceat
April 19th, 2018, 4:13 pm
Forum: Espresso Machines
Replies: 269
Views: 26277

Decent Espresso Machines Shipping

Ed, until John will incorporate a screen recorder into his app, there are screen recorder apps that might help you to simultaneously record both Decent chart and basket. No mixing and syncing work is necessary. I use "AZ Screen Recorder", for instance. The basket gets recorded in a small screen, lik...
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by mirceat
July 31st, 2017, 11:12 am
Forum: Grinders
Replies: 382
Views: 77312

New Kinu grinders

I mean to make the grinds fall like rain or like hail, if you like it. Gradually, dispersed, anything that would lead to an even distribution in the PF
by mirceat
July 31st, 2017, 9:11 am
Forum: Grinders
Replies: 382
Views: 77312

New Kinu grinders

Tolis, have you ever tried to use a funnel made from a yogurt cup? I pour the dose like rain through the funnel and this looks to improve the grind distribution. Otherwise I am doing exactly your steps, very simple and effective procedure. No WDT, no RDT or whatever. The difficult part was to find t...
by mirceat
June 9th, 2017, 6:26 am
Forum: Espresso Machines
Replies: 6
Views: 214

Menu for MeCoffee PID features?

@LatteDaddy this might be an app scaling issue on cheap devices. I noticed it on another tablet running meBarista, but didn't paid attention to it. Search on Internet for your specific tablet and how to troubleshoot apps that don't fit the screen. Something like here {link}
by mirceat
June 5th, 2017, 12:46 pm
Forum: Coffees
Replies: 9
Views: 959

Coffee - Italians do it better? A documentary

I mean third wave espresso machines should feature extensive profiling on temperature and pressure/flow rate, IMO. The traditional and even more modern machines can't do it. The Decent Espresso project shows the technology is already available to produce third wave espresso machines at decent prices...
by mirceat
June 5th, 2017, 11:36 am
Forum: Coffees
Replies: 9
Views: 959

Coffee - Italians do it better? A documentary

'Coffee - Italians do it better(?)' looks to be related to the 'Io bevo caffè di qualità' movement started by Andrej Godina and Francesco Sanapo 5 years ago. These guys are both aware of the low quality espresso prepared and served on the Italian traditional coffee shops and they have the guts to sa...
by mirceat
May 25th, 2017, 2:25 pm
Forum: Grinders
Replies: 67
Views: 8641

All this talk about 'burr alignment' and 'tolerances'

On the same note, a video on KINU prototype coffee grinder- zero eccentricity test {video}
by mirceat
May 5th, 2017, 2:24 pm
Forum: Grinders
Replies: 382
Views: 77312

New Kinu grinders

At least 3 guys had successful experiences with Kinu M38 and M47 in the hand luggage, except some extra explanations requested by the security staff. I mean this topic on the Romanian forum {link}
by mirceat
May 5th, 2017, 12:02 pm
Forum: Espresso Machines
Replies: 1388
Views: 113564

Decent Espresso Machine

I would focus on friendliness for DE1, while for DE1+ I would highlight its experimental capabilities. Something like this: DE1 - Your espresso friend, at your service. DE1+ - Your espresso experience as never before