Chert wrote:Bill,

Your rabbit hole is crowded with a Salvatore Lever. How are you liking that?

Flint

Hey, Flint--
Lucky Chert--For this Bill, I'm with Red Knuckles: "...I'm a One Woman Man."

D--n! I stepped in that one.

Can emoticons be exaggerated?:

Chert,

The SCL is my go to machine. It's the weekday worker. I pull four shots in the morning, 2 for immediate consumption and 2 in the thermos for the drive into work. I don't have a complaint.

The others in the menagerie are weekend warriors and usually put in about a month of service until they are rotated out for another machine.

Keeps me on my game adjusting the grind.

Bill

variety's the spice

I am already Member #499 with a '74 Europiccola, but I add another star to my membership badge with the addition of my second lever...

Profitec 800

Ladies, Gentlemen,

I'm Paul, from Sterrebeek in Belgium. In the spanish language, Sterrebeek is more intelligible as "Arroyo de las Estrellas" (hence my alias), it means "Starbrook" (or, in German, "Sternenbach", French "Ruisseau des étoiles"...what's in a name)?

After having been to Spain, some 20 years ago, I tasted what I thought was good coffee there, "cafe con leche", or perhaps even "cortado", and because I erroneously thought I needed an espresso machine to make something like that, twelve years ago I bought a second-hand ECM Giotto, then a Macap grinder, and it didn't take that long before I was roasting on the first model of the (electric) Hottop, until that broke down, around 570 roasts and ten years later. Once one has learned to roast, it's nigh impossible to go back to commercial roasts, so a year ago I ordered and received a propane-gas fired Huky 500 which, paired with Artisan, given excellent roasts.

The trusty old Giotto (loved that excellent E61 HX) has been my constant espresso companion until last Sunday, when I drove to a suburb of Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, to pick up a Londinium I lever machine built in 2014. Already, the second day into trying to set espresso with this shiny monster, I find the coffee tasting rather better than with the pump-driven ECM: more mellow, softer, less tannin, perhaps. But I have yet much to learn...however the signs are there: this is a great machine!

Now I have to find the sweet spots, some new routines, procedures... perhaps try new coffees (right now I roast a generic Brasil, and a Yirgacheffe, which I sometimes mix in varying degrees...I haven't been really adventurous in finding "magic" beans.

So, if you'll have me, I'd like to join...it would be wonderful if 911 (or perhaps 908 or, better, 917) were available, but beggars can't be choosers, any number will do!

Cheers!
Paul

Arroyo Estrellas wrote:So, if you'll have me, I'd like to join...it would be wonderful if 911 (or perhaps 908 or, better, 917) were available, but beggars can't be choosers, any number will do!

See the first post of this thread for instructions on claiming your number.

Arroyo Estrellas wrote:Ladies, Gentlemen,
I'm Paul, from Sterrebeek in Belgium.......

Hello Paul, welcome in the lever world, It took some time!

Arroyo Estrellas wrote:So, if you'll have me, I'd like to join...it would be wonderful if 911 (or perhaps 908 or, better, 917) were available, but beggars can't be choosers, any number will do!

Porsche enthousiast?

Andreas

Well, true, I'm a P-car enthusiast, even if I don't any longer drive one. I used to have a 1988 Carrera 3.2 liter, but sold it, and now I'm very pleased indeed to own and drive a ... Toyota IQ, wonderful (very) little car.
All the expensive efforts of keeping a 911 do not outweigh the pleasure of having a daily shot of espresso. For some 12 years now, I've been making my "cortado" (or "doppio macchiato") on the second-hand ECM Giotto I bought in the Netherlands (I drove my Porsche there to pick it up), and since last week I'm hands-on on the 2014 Londinium 1 I bought in ... the Netherlands. The Dutch are, generally, very reliable people to buy second-hand from, I tend to trust them. Gorgeous machine, too. Makes mellow, rich-tasting espresso, right from the beginning. Just don't lose your grip on that lever, though!

Hi All, My name is Tammie and my partner and I purchased an Elektra Mcal a few months ago. Many years ago I had a Krups espresso machine and while I enjoyed it for a time, I quit using it and it was donated. Now 10 years later, I'm ready to get back into espresso making and decided to do it the right way I have a lot to learn, but I'm excited for the adventure!