Another potential advantage, even for those not necessarily traveling: It takes my Achille a good 15-20 minutes to get up to temp where it performs beautifully. I can do extra flushes and such to cheat a shot out prior, but my kettle has enough water for a couple of doubles boiling in well under 5 m...

Yeah, but I think Dick was referring to the butane for the burner, not the creamer cartridge for the Twist

1st-line is an advertiser here so I guess this link is ok... {link} The top one is exclusively a steamer, but out of stock... the second should steam almost as well, yet also does moka-pot style drinks, but costs a bit more. Both show up quite frequently on auction sites at about half the price of a...

The bottom of page 6 of the owner's manual states that the "pod basket" can be used to pull 7g singles if coupled with the standard shower head (there's also a shower head for pods). So here are the combinations possible: Regular shower head + standard basket = doubles, triples (14g-21g) Regular sho...

I thought the same wrt the immersion heater but in looking at how my regular mug-sized one (coil is about 1" OD) fits inside the chamber, it's far too shallow in there to avoid melting the inner plastics and even resting it against the bottom it looks like the top of the coil would stick out above t...

Couple of tips of my own: 1) When pulling bottomless shots... if you place the bottom spout piece, inverted on your countertop and the included rubber coaster immediately next to it; you can now rest the trigger on the spouts with the edge of the ring frame resting on the rubber coaster (which prohi...

I use a Pino digital kettle pro... it too does a true boil then holds at a slightly lower temp, 209... getting it back to a boil only requires a double button press and waiting a few seconds (depending on quantity of water). It lets you set temp in one degree increments (although the stat cycles wit...

Oh, wow... is that really how my post read??? If so, I apologize, but what I think I suggested, and re-reading it... insist I did, was just that a higher price might allow for one (both??) of the following: 1)Producing an even higher grade item. (No mention of country here; very few factory-built it...

While traveling cross-country on a softail, of course. I just checked my manual and it doesn't list the baskets' dimensions, but at the link below it says the tamper is 53mm. Truth be told, for being a plastic tamper it works very very well. Fits the basket perfectly, at least the double/triple non-...

Is this better than pulling the sleeve off of the original stainless wand? I know the remaining wand is quite short this way, but aside from that, is there any other advantage to the new one? Are the holes the same diameter? Thanks again!