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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...
Within the past year I have experimented with lots of different types of coffees, and to me most of them have had excessive amounts of brightness in them. Being relatively new to espresso, I mostly associate it with bad technique, until I started readying...
I've never understood what this even means: It's best to stick with the classic 1:2 ratio, so if you use an 18-gram dose, shoot for a 36-gram shot. If you measure by volume, shoot to stop the shot at about 2 oz.
How I've always made espresso was make sure I'm getting it ground...
Hello,
I purchased a Bezzera Mitica machine a while back with the intent of learning to make good (or at least decent) espresso. Milk drinks for my wife will come later assuming I can ever get the espresso to be decent. I have read numerous threads on here (and elsewhere)...
Technique: Pour from NZ into basket via the Decent funnel (not doing the upside down method to avoid compression). Stir using WDT. Tap on counter to settle grounds. OCD v3 to flatten bed. Tamp via Decent Tamper v3...
I have just gotten my amateur-ish Breville Baristo Pro a little more than a week ago and I'm getting stuck dialing in my coffee, getting the right yield and extraction.
After speaking to the roasters who roast the (medium roast) beans I...
A few months ago I bought a Solis (Breville) Grind & Infuse Compact not knowing that I was actually buying a new hobby :roll: . I immediately got some fresh beans from a local coffee roaster and started making mostly cappuccinos. I didn't have a lot of experience at the...
