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I have revised this post over the years with updates as I felt necessary. Those updates, in italics and dated, have been moved to the bottom of this post. Dan/HB said something about how it plays better with Google searches that way. So my revision notes are still here. Just at...
Hi, I am quite new to coffee (3 months) and have been doing a bit of research around making espresso and whatnot. I have a Breville Bambino Plus and use a KINGrinder K2 to grind approximately 18gm of coffee for my shots. I'm noticing an extremely varied amount of espresso...
Hi folks, Enjoying my new Bambino Plus, and getting good results, but ... I came from a Rancilio Silvia with 58mm bottomless portafilter. The BP's 54mm large single-wall basket (the 2-shot one) seems comfortably full at about 14g of ground coffee. 16g can be fitted in, but some...
My new Bambino Plus is fine, but I had to program the shot size bigger than default.
Am I right in understanding that when I get different beans, I'll probably have to recalibrate that a bit, and maybe again for the second half of the bag of beans? If so, that's a great...
Really insightful, thanks Jake! Makes sense - the needle is just limiting how quickly the headspace above the puck gets filled and of course then the system can build full pressure due to the resistance of the coffee. I've a couple of pondering q's to wrap my head around.
Hello. New to the Home Barista forum. Truth be told, I joined because I just picked up this very beautiful new (to me) old Victoria Arduino Venus Bar and this space was one of few that had any reference to a Venus family product of any kind that was made before the Simonelli...
I got the QuickMill flow control kit today and installed it in my Vetrano 2B. I then ran flow test at various settings as shown below. I looked online for some 'normal' values and could only find a set at Whole Latte Love that were a lot higher than mine. Are these values...
Talking about upgrade/pimp-up: The machines with sightglass/sight-glass often lack a backlight for comfortable / sightly view... others noticed this as well, and e.g. this post shows a good sightglass backlight upgrade on a Olympia Maximatic/Pasquini Livietta (the whole post is...
