Anyone reading this post likely understands that the flavors of coffees are extremely varied. There are hundreds of possibilities and experts have organized them for us into categories and illustrated them with graphics. If you look carefully at these systematic flavor catalogs,...

In preparation for receiving my Micra this week I've been reading a lot about water quality, plumbing, etc. I have found a few older discussions around this but thought I'd start a new thread rather than revive a long dead one.

What is everyone's experience around plumb in of...

Handheld flat burr grinder
Has anyone tried to build one
Does this still exist .

Hi,

I have been playing around with mostly blends for a while. Hayes Valley, Red Bird, Hairbender, etc. I want to try some Single Origin coffee to brew as espresso. Any suggestion and tips for pulling the shot?

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I am looking to buy a dual boiler machine like the Profitec Pro 300 or the BDB. What machine would you recommend buying for a budget of 1k? I'm leaning towards the Pro 300 . Please recommend me something! (Grinder recommendations are also welcome which matches a...

As suspected by many with the release of the DF64v featuring variable RPM, a version of the DF83 has followed in the DF83v

From 300-1600rpm, verticle burrs with quite a different aesthetic. Should be interesting!

When I visited Jim Schulman in Chicago last month, his Fuji Royale ghost teeth grinder brought back some old ideas about feeding evenly sized coffee fragments into a grinder, rather than heterogeneous whole beans. This is routinely done in the commercial world with multiple sets...

Anyone have knowledge of doing this conversion? I think I've seen it once before on a youtube video so I know it can be done. There's an HX boiler on buy/sell right now and I was thinking of trying to do this. I know it would result in a plumb in only situation which would be...

We were talking about grinders and espresso routine and that got me thinking, I probably am drinking too much caffeine for my own good even though I wish I could drink more. I might switch to Italian style 7g baskets so I can have the same amount or less but more frequent.

I...

Wacaco has announced a new product in line with the minpresso and nanopresso. This one is called the Picopresso . The previous model seems more akin to toys with mini plastic baskets and tampers plus pressurized baskets and promoting pods. This one seems a bit more serious the...