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Hello everyone, I am writing to you from Lima, Perú. Last year I studied barista at an Hello everyone, I am writing to you from Lima, Peru. Last year I studied barista at an institute. Let's say that I still have very little experience in the coffee...
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...
Had the issue of the fill pump never stopping when not pulling a shot today. I know this topic was brought up ( Breville Dual Boiler pump keeps running after ending shot ).
I believe for me that it was a case of a pocket of air stuck at the pump since it was not pulling any...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...