Joined the club! Day one with Zacconi Riviera - Page 2
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mherring52
- Posts: 6
- Joined: 2 years ago
Hi,
My friend has a La Pavoni, Professional Copper-Brass Espresso Machine PB-16.
It is very beautiful and also a little expensive.
How do you think this compares with the older lever machines?
Thanks,
Mike
My friend has a La Pavoni, Professional Copper-Brass Espresso Machine PB-16.
It is very beautiful and also a little expensive.
How do you think this compares with the older lever machines?
Thanks,
Mike
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baldheadracing
- Team HB
- Posts: 6289
- Joined: 9 years ago
Versions of the Pavoni machine have been around since 1959 - so the Pavoni is an older lever machine 
The thing with la Pavonis is the quality of the espresso produced is very much dependent on the skill of the operator. Your arm pulling down hard on the lever does the extraction. How you pull matters. They're really fun machines to use - in the same way that driving an Italian car from 1959 with a manual transmission is more fun than driving a minivan with an automatic.
The Zacconi here and the Micro Casa - and all larger lever machines - use a spring to deliver the extraction pressure and are thus easier to use, and easier to use consistently.
The thing with la Pavonis is the quality of the espresso produced is very much dependent on the skill of the operator. Your arm pulling down hard on the lever does the extraction. How you pull matters. They're really fun machines to use - in the same way that driving an Italian car from 1959 with a manual transmission is more fun than driving a minivan with an automatic.
The Zacconi here and the Micro Casa - and all larger lever machines - use a spring to deliver the extraction pressure and are thus easier to use, and easier to use consistently.
-"Good quality brings happiness as you use it" - Nobuho Miya, Kamasada
