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The Newbie Introduction to Espresso series of videos was created specifically for those new to making espresso at home. In addition to watching these videos, I strongly urge newbies to spend an evening with the site's Recommended Reading outlined in the FAQs and Favorites Digest...
This past week I received a new batch of Intelligentsia Black Cat espresso beans. My other half recalled and reminded me that I had these beans some time ago and hated them. I hadn't remembered. When they came I was surpised that the beans were considerably lighter than my...
I took a few years off HB. When I left, WDT was understood to help folks having a hard time with even extraction but the general consensus was that if you can avoid it altogether your shots will be better.
These days I see a dozen brands with WDT tools and grinder manufacturers...
I am still learning so any guidance is helpful ...
I have been experimenting with Scott Rao's Filter 2.1 and Brian Quan's Sprover (both have tubes) I have gotten good cups using filter 2.1 with almost every bean I tried. I have only tried Quan's Sprover with Nossa's Full Cycle...
OK, so I am waiting on an NCD/OCD tool to arrive currently and am already using WDT. Working with a Niche and Flair 58x, and just thought an extra level of consistency would be helpful for a newbie like myself. So I have become curious as to whether doing a typical WDT routine...
Newbie here. Just got my new Breville BE. Milk steaming is great with it, but maybe a pro can explain to me the hard cooked milk that sticks (hard) to the outside of the steaming wand? Sure never saw that before on my $130 DeLonghi machine. Thats not something wrong is it?
I've recently tried making americano from my Breville Dual boiler machine. I've tried making it with a 1:2 and 1:3 ratio to the hot water from the machine and a double shoot espresso (16g in, 36g out).
It tastes nothing like the an americano from a restaurant. It takes quite...
I have a subscrption of medium roast beans that come every week. While the box is not marked with a roast date, based on the best by dates I cannot imagine that the beans are more than 5 days off the roaster. The new beans stay in the boxes they were shipped in and sit in my...
